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"Tesla appeared as a real-life sorcerer, depicting...the ability to tame mysterious
natural phenomena to the will of the human species." Marc J.Seifer, Ph.D.

Chapter One

THE SORCERERS APPRENTICES

Lightning flickered and thunder crashed through the mountain air as if cued
up to open the International Tesla Society's July 1986 symposium. A woman admired
the jagged streaks of light as she walked from downtown Colorado Springs to the
College of the Canyon.

The display of light and sound seemed to have a life of its own, and triggered
thoughts ahout Earth's life-protecting layers. The layers appear immensely deep to a
human looking up from a sidewalk. But the few hundred miles of depth of the
atmospheric layers are, to the planet, as a film of paint is to a student's desk globe.26
Unlike layers of paint, however, the atmospheric veils swirl and flow and interact.

She found comfort in thinking that surely no one could tame Earth's
dynamic atmosphere. Granted, nature is under siege elsewhere. Engineers straighten
undulating wild rivers and slap them into concrete flood-control channels. They
shave Earth's forests and drain unruly tidal marshes. But who is arrogant enough to
say that they own the sky?
After a brief downpour, the storm curtain opened to an electric blue sky, and
the air sparkled with vitality. "No wonder Tesla did his most dramatic experiments
here," Jeane Manning thought.

As a freelance journalist, she was in Colorado to learn more about the work
of some maverick engineers and their hero, the electrical genius Nikola Tesla. In her
research into non-conventional energy technologies, she had encountered more than
a few books about Tesla, and thought it strange that mainstream textbooks ignore
such a historical figure. In the nineteenth century he patented the alternating current
(AC) system now used to generate and send electrical power to every home along this
avenue, every building on the campus ahead and factories all over the world. His
genius did not stop there, however, and before he died in 1943 he had discovered more
radical inventions - apparently more than the tycoons of the early years of the
twentieth century wanted to see developed.

Manning was curious about the stories. Did Tesla really send electricity
more than twenty miles without wires? There was also the legend that Tesla invented a
"space energy receiver" and powered a Pierce-Arrow car in a demonstration of the
receiver. Yet he died penniless in 1943.

She expected this conference would give a broader picture of Tesla than her
impression of a would-be God of Lightning, a view that came from seeing
photographs of Tesla with bolts of light streaming from his fingertips. In front of
26 Hans J. Lugt. Vortex Flow in Nature and Technology, p. 150, John Wiley and Sons, NY 1978.