Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them. - Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 - 7 January 1943).
He was the champion of the invisible forces of nature. He dwelled in the mysteries from where the logical and rational prowess of science emerged, leaving behind trails of abysmal wonder. Beyond, hovered the magnificent backdrop of oceanic infinitude - a buzzing pleroma of activity in an altogether strange realm of nature.
Imagination appears to form a link with these hidden dimensions, which exist beyond the default constrains imposed on ordinary levels of consciousness. Indeed, human imagination connects the mind to the very edge of observable reality. At this point there are few who make the choice to dive into the eternally fluctuating yonder. Fear is but natural. After all a vast terrain of uncertainty looms in the great lofty depths of the Unknown.
Information and Entropy play puzzling tricks on the minds of those who venture to explore deeper, question further, and think wilder. Only a few manage to walk the fine line between insanity and the profound vistas of kaleidoscopic realities, spread out so charmingly by the alluring Natura.
Nikola Tesla was amongst the brave who precociously managed to bring back precious gems of genius from journeys embarked upon into the subtle, hidden, and articulately labyrinthine logos of nature. The ideas that developed in Tesla's mind embodied his inventions with the uncanny impetus of Space. He often emphasized with great passion that emptiness was pregnant with energy and a fertile source of infinite potentialities. Here is an example of what this means in his own words:
"A single ray of light from a distant star falling upon the eye of a tyrant in bygone times may have altered the course of his life, may have changed the destiny of nations, may have transformed the surface of the globe, so intricate, so inconceivably complex are the processes in Nature."
The life of this enigmatic personality is a message that still lives on through his legend. He probably epitomized the image of the mad-scientist. He rummaged in the contrasting and slippery regions of science and spirituality to bring about fantastic designs of instrumentation to life. He conjured images of machines that would plug into the omnipresent energy of the universe and forever solve humanity's problems of perpetual paucity and avarice. He used to say that our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.
In a fittingly strange way the circumstances in which Tesla was born somehow heralded the ineffable synchronicity underlying the unfolding of such an extraordinary life. Tesla was born 156 years ago, on a midnight while heavy lightening and thunder struck outside in the Serbian skies.
"He'll be a child of the storm," said the midwife who assisted with his birth.
His mother replied, "No, of light."
