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mseifer@cox.net;
http://www.netsense.net/tesla/frames.html
We thank Marc
Seifer for this letter answering our enquiries about Andrija Puharich.
In 1988 Reality Hackers Magazine ran an interview with Puharich. It is
available on http://www.sirbacon.org/4membersonly/puharich.html
Thanks, Colin.
I knew Andrija
quite well. We had interviewed him for Gnostica in 1978 at his home
and I had spoke with him at a few conferences and so he had told me a
lot about his link to Tesla. He was Croatian and he knew John O’Neill,
the fellow who wrote Prodigal Genius the first major Tesla bio.
Through Puharich I learned that there was an important link between
John Hays Hammond Jr. and Tesla. Hammond’s father was a major
industrialist who funded some of Tesla’s work in telautomatics (remote
control robotics) at the turn of the century.
His son, JHH Jr., studied at Yale and worked with Alexander Graham
Bell. JHH Jr. was interested in building radio guidance devices to
control torpedoes and dirigibles and he needed Tesla’s patents on
selective tuning. Tesla had invented the fundamental idea behind
cellular technology, that is, the ability to produce a virtually
unlimited number of wireless channels to distribute pictures and voice
by means of wireless. It was Tesla’s continuous wave technology that
lay behind radio and TV, not Marconi’s apparatus which at this time,
circa 1909, was pulsed frequencies for sending Morse code.
Tesla’s idea was to multiply the frequencies. If you had, say 10
different frequencies to work with, then you could have only ten
separate channels. However, if you combine the frequencies, then you
could have, say 10 x 10 channels with ten frequencies, or 100
channels. With 3 frequency combinations you could have 1,000 channels.
That was his great discovery and the key as to how everyone on the
planet can have their own cell phone. Tesla told this to J. Pierpont
Morgan about 1901, that he had the means to create an unlimited number
of wireless channels. Hammond Jr. used this idea to do top secret
work for Woodrow Wilson in radio guidance systems at the Castle that
he built in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Puharich was good friends with John Hays Hammond Jr. In the 1950’s,
Hammond, who himself had hundreds of patents, worked with Puharich to
study the psychic Eileen Garrett. She would be housed in a Faraday
cage to screen out electromagnetic waves and still she was getting
hits in telepathy tests. Thus, Hammond and Puharich proved that ESP
transcended what we normally think of as electromagnetic frequencies.
At the Hammond Castle I studied Hammond’s private papers which
included a good amount of correspondence with Tesla. They were
business partners circa 1910-1914. They were building turbines to go
into torpedoes and also working on the radio guidance systems. The
were selling these to the Japanese and Germans. Keep in mind this was
before WWI, so this was totally legit, and they were also working for
the US government.
Once WWI broke out and the Germans sunk the Lusitannia, Tesla cut all
ties to them. Even though he was on their payroll helping them build a
wireless plant at Sayville, on Long Island, circa 1915.
Tesla was in debt at this time to the Waldorf Astoria. John Jacob
Astor, his benefactor and owner of the hotel, had died on the Titanic
in 1912, and the manager, Mr. Boldt wanted payment. Tesla owed about
$20,000 in back rent. So Tesla gave the Waldorf the Wardenclyffe
tower and property as collateral.
Once it was learned that the Germans were using Sayville to send
secret messages to submarines right before the USA entered the war,
1915-1916, President Woodrow Wilson created an edict banning the use
of such wireless towers.
Tesla made a plea through the NY Times that his tower could be used
for star wars technology in an amazing article in 1915. He could
supposedly direct electromagnetic beams to stop through electronic
means, incoming flights of enemy planes. However, Wilson and the rest
of the world thought this was not credible.
Meanwhile, Boldt decided to sell the tower for scrap. It was 187 feet
tall and 120 feet into the ground, so there was a considerable amount
of steel that could be sold, and so Boldt had the tower detonated and
taken down.
Tesla couldn’t believe that Boldt had destroyed a property worth
potentially millions once completed as it would be a world wireless
station, so he took off to live in Chicago to work through this
terrible time for him. The year was 1917 and he was now working on a
steam turbine which he hoped would replace the gasoline engine in
Ford’s cars. He wanted to raise the capital to re-capture his
property. But after it was destroyed, he still planned to build
another Wardenclyffe.
Tesla had parted company with Hammond about 1914. They had money
disagreements and I think Tesla was also not happy that Hammond was
friends with Marconi.
One way or another, Andrija Puharich put me on the trail of a lot of
this. I also studied the Hammond correspondence at the Tesla Museum in
Belgrade. Puharich also suggested that the reason why J. Pierpont
Morgan eventually pulled the funding from Wardenclyffe was because of
something Benard Baruch said to him. “How can you bill customers if
they don’t have wires attached to their homes?” Baruch asked. This was
supposedly told to O’Neill who did not put it in his book, but he told
this to Puharich.
Tesla was trying to tell Morgan that revenues would come in by
different means, such as in the sale and licensing of the equipment.
Tesla also planned to set up great wireless towers at various nodal
points around the globe and from each tower, some of the power could
also be distributed through conventional wires from these towers. So
he planned to combine wireless and wired technology.
I think he had to build a receiving tower, say in England, and get it
all up and running before he completely figured out how all the energy
would be distributed.
Then Puharich showed up at the 1984 Tesla conference in Colorado
Springs and unveiled for the first time Tesla’s star wars paper that
had been hidden for 50 years. It was all very exciting....
You might mention to readers that we have a 9 minute short Tesla
documentary on the site narrated by the late great actor J.T. Walsh (A
Few Good Men, Breakdown, Back Draft, Pleasantville, The Negotiator).
http://www.netsense.net/tesla
Best regards,
Marc
The enclosed image has the book title and short reviews on a different
picture of Tesla than the actual cover which can be seen at Amazon.com
or BarnesandNoble.com.
You are free to use as you wish!
Please let me know when the book arrives. I know you will enjoy it.
Best,
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