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Last Post 10/12/2014 2:43 PM by  Serena
Tesla, sungazing, and AC electricity
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Wayne
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10/10/2014 6:58 PM
    I just read an interesting story in a book I am editing about how Nikola Tesla discovered alternating current electricity after sungazing. I'm not sure about the source because the author didn't cite it, but here it is in Tesla's words: "At that age, I knew entire books by heart, word for word. One of these was Goethe's Faust. The sun was just setting and reminded me of the glorious passage:

    The glow retreats, done is the day of toil;
    It yonder hastes, new fields of life exploring;
    Ah, that no wing can lift me from the soil
    Upon its track to follow, follow soaring!
    A glorious dream! though now the glories fade.
    Alas! the wings that lift the mind no aid
    Of wings to lift the body can bequeath me.

    As I uttered these inspiring words the idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams shown 6 years later in my address before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and my companion understood them perfectly. The images I saw were wonderfully sharp and clear and had the solidity of metal and stone, so much so that I told him: "See my motor here; watch me reverse it." I cannot begin to describe my emotions."

    In that moment, Tesla discovered an original design for a motor that would generate electricity using alternating currents. [End of quote from edited book]

    I have read accounts of inspiring moments in the lives of other inventors, writers, and composers that involved sungazing. I truly believe that some of the greatest achievements in technology, like electricity, and literature, art, and music, like some of Mozart's sun-gazing-inspired symphonies, have their source is the intelligence of the sun, which we can tap into when we sungaze. The sun is the catalyst of civilization.

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    10/11/2014 9:09 AM
    Here's the source for the Tesla quote: http://www.teslasautobiog...f_telautomatics.html

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    10/12/2014 11:14 AM
    Thanks, Wayne. This is totally awesome! As a community of solar gazers I expect many more inspired works to be coming forth in the future within the Eternal Now! Maybe in our elder years we'll even be called "solar geezers!" LOL!
    Serena
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    10/12/2014 2:43 PM
    Thanks Wayne. I didn't know about this. It would make a great article to hear about all the different people who used sungazing for major inspirations!
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