Serbian president unveils Nikola Tesla monument in New York

President Tomislav Nikolic spoke to the crowd at Tesla's former Wardenclyffe laboratory in Long Island

theguardian.com, Adam Gabbatt and Nadja Popovich in Wardenclyffe, New York, Tuesday 24 September 2013

'I am convinced that the standing of Nikola Tesla ... has hugely aided Serbia's
image,' said Serbian president Tomislav Nikolic. Photograph: Ivona Katic

The president of Serbia unveiled a monument to Nikola Tesla in New York state on Monday, marking the latest milestone in a long-running campaign to raise the profile of the cult scientist and inventor around the world.

Tomislav Nikolic told the crowd at Tesla's former Wardenclyffe laboratory in Long Island that the scientist was a man whose "ideas were larger than his time", in a ceremony that also served as an opportunity for the Serbian president to remind the world of Tesla's nationality.

"The strength of Tesla's vision – because you can't forget he died more than 70 years ago – is what influences how the public speaks about Nikola Tesla: with respect," Nikolic told the Guardian, following a ceremony attended by several members of the Serbian cabinet and a large number of Serbian diaspora.

"In turn, the public will also speak about Serbia with respect."

Tesla was born in modern-day Croatia in 1856 to Serbian-Orthodox parents and went to university in Graz, Austria before becoming chief electrician for a Hungarian telephone company. He moved to Paris and then to New York in 1884, where he began to work for Thomas Edison.

The pair's relationship soon soured, however, eventually becoming a bitter rivalry. Notably, the inventors clashed over whose method of delivering electricity was more efficient and effective. Tesla's alternating current (AC) was widely adopted over Edison's direct current (DC), but Tesla never made significant money from this success and Edison remained the better-known inventor for most of the 20th century.

Photograph: RememberTesla.com

The unveiling of the three-quarter length statue of Tesla – showing him with arms outstretched, seemingly engaged in some sort of scientific endeavour – was not just a proud moment for the inventor's homeland, however. The Tesla Science Center had lobbied for 20 years to turn Wardenclyffe, in the tiny town of Shoreham, on the north shore of Long Island, into a museum. It finally managed to acquire the site this year, after a high profile Indiegogo campaign run by Matthew Inman, founder of the popular web-comic The Oatmeal and avid Tesla enthusiast.

Inman – described by Nikolic as an "enthusiastic young man" – was at the ceremony, and praised the "geeks" who had made the Tesla museum possible.

"Nikola Tesla was this man where [if you knew who he was] ... It was like you were in this club," Inman told the crowd of around 100 people. "I fell in love with Tesla because of his character," Inman concluded, to nods of approval. "He was a geek at heart. When I started this campaign to try and buy Wardenclyffe I think that's who funded it. People who were geeks."

The campaign – "Let's build a goddamn Nikola Tesla museum" – had aimed to raise $850,000 through the crowdfunding website Indiegogo on behalf of the Tesla Science Center. The state of New York promised to provide matching funding, which would enable the Center to buy Wardenclyffe laboratory for the asking price of $1.6m with money to spare.

The $850,000 fundraising goal was reached within days of the launch of the campaign, however, with supporters eventually contributing $1.3m. The sale was completed in May 2013, but the laboratory is not close to reopening yet. The tumultuous history of the site – including use as a dumping ground for highly toxic chemicals while it was owned by a photography company – means the project is a huge undertaking. Volunteers had worked to improve the grounds over the summer, however, and with the Tesla statue now standing at the end of a lawn looking back at the iconic laboratory the site is beginning to take shape.

On Monday the crowd huddled together on the lawn in front of the former laboratory, as a cold autumn wind blew across the site.

The ceremony began with a Serbian singer belting out a sterling rendition of The Star Spangled Banner. She barely paused for breath as she launched straight into the Serbian anthem, taking many of the Serbs in the crowd with her. Two women in traditional Serbian dress flanked the statue of Tesla as the gentle murmur of the singing drifted across the lawn.

With the monument unveiled and blessed, Nikolic and many of the crowd decamped to a private reception at the nearby Shoreham Country Club, overlooking the Long Island Sound.

After a lunch of traditional Serbian meats and cheeses, and some handing over of flags, the Guardian spoke to Nikolic on a bench overlooking the rough waters of the bay.

The president, who will attend the UN general assembly this week and had a drinks reception with Barack Obama and other heads of state planned for Monday night, was unabashed about his hopes that Tesla becoming more recognised could also serve as a boon for Serbia.

"I am convinced that the standing of Nikola Tesla – as well as the standing of some contemporary Serbs who are achieving great things – has hugely aided Serbia's image [internationally]," Nikolic said. "I look at that image today, compared to a year ago – not to mention 20-or-more years ago – and I see a world of difference."

The president admitted that he had initially been lobbying for the Tesla statue to be placed in front of the United Nations, rather than the Wardenclyffe laboratory site.

"I thought the statue should sit in a location where thousands of people pass by daily to see it," Nikolic said. However, "once the Wardenclyffe land was bought, it was surely the right idea to establish this monument here," he added.

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“…  Tesla the Man

There was a point in time when humanity almost stumbled, by the way. You were having a hard time with electricity. So a man came along who was way ahead of his time and was available and his name was Nikola Tesla. He gave you a principle that today you call alternating current. Dear ones, I challenge you to understand this principle. Most of you can't, because it is not in 3D. The attributes are still considered "genius-level thinking" to this day. The whole idea of the kind of electricity you use today comes from this man's quantum mind.

That was all he was allowed to do. Tesla himself was a kind of time capsule, delivered at the right time. He had more, but alternating current was all that was allowed to be given to the planet at that time. Oh, he tried to give you more. He knew there were other things, but nothing was able to be developed. If I told you what else he had discovered, you might not be aware of it at all, since it was never allowed to get out of the box. Earth was not ready for it.

Tesla discovered massless objects. He could alter the mass of atomic structure using designer magnetics, but he never could control it. He had objects fly off his workbench and hit the ceiling, but he couldn't duplicate or control it. It just wasn't time yet. Do you know what else he was known for? It was seemingly the failure of the transmission of electricity. However, he didn't fail at all.

There are pictures of his tower, but every time a Human Being sees a tower, there is a biased assumption that something is going to be broadcast through the air. But in the case of Tesla, he had figured out how to broadcast electricity through the ground. You need towers for that because they have to pick up the magnetics within the ground in a certain way to broadcast them and then collect them again from the nodes of the planet's magnetic grid system. We talked about this before. He was utilizing the grid of the planet that is in the earth itself! He was on the edge of showing that you could use the whole grid of the planet magnetically to broadcast electricity and pick it up where you need it, safely, with no wires. But the earth was not ready for it.

Tesla died a broken man, filled with ideas that would have brought peace to planet Earth, but he was simply not allowed to give any of them to you.

Now I'll tell you why he was stopped, dear ones, and it's the first time we have ever told you – because these inventions were too easy to weaponize. Humanity just isn't ready for it. You're not ready for massless objects, either, for the principles are too easy to weaponize.

"So," you might say, "when will we be ready for it?" I think you already know the answer, don't you? At the time when Human consciousness reaches a point where that which is most important is unification and not separation, it will happen. A point where conquering and power are not desirable ideas or assets. A point where humanity will measure the strength of its population by how healthy they are and not by economic growth. A point where coming together with your neighbor is the main objective to social consciousness, and not conquering them or eliminating them. That's coming, dear ones. It's a ways away, but it's coming. Look around the planet at the moment. The old energy leaders are obvious, are they not? It's like they are relics in a world of thinking that is passing them by.  ….”

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“…. The Revelations to Come in Physics

Now, let's talk physics because we now can reveal some things, beautiful things, that are starting to occur in science and are starting to be seen and partially understood. What you have before you, the gentleman sitting on the floor, is Yawee. I know him well. 

[Kryon is speaking now about Dr. Todd Ovokaitys, M.D., DNA researcher and member of the Kryon team, who sits on the floor in this live session. Dr. Ovokaitys has been identified by Kryon in the past as a great Lemurian scientist and keeper of the truths within the Lemurian Temple of Rejuvenation, discussed in 1994 in Kryon Book Two.]

It's interesting, is it not, what the Akashic memory banks bring forward within a Human? Your Akash is soul memory designed to release information about your Akash as the energy of the earth changes to a measurement where it's appropriate to begin a process of revelation. Nikola Tesla created massless objects in his laboratory - what you would call anti-gravity. He knew how to transmit electricity wirelessly (by the way, through the ground, not the air), through the earth (not the atmosphere), and he was frustrated he could not prove it better. The technology was not there, but more than that, the energy of the planet, consciously, was not ready for him. He could not get past the barrier of the belief of others. By the way, he's back and so is Einstein and you'll know them when you see what they're up to.

The energy of your time is now appropriately ready for some of the theories that were before their time, which were just as accurate then as they are now. Watch for entirely new science to suddenly erupt with solutions for problems that you have been working on for years, solutions where you say, "Why didn't they think of that before?"

Expect cold fusion, by the way. I've told you this before. The experiment with cold fusion was accurate [speaking of the much-discounted Ponds and Fleshman experiment in the past]. The experimenters could not repeat their discovery because they were not aware of the attribute of magnetics that was influencing their experiment [which was done in a basement with the electric utility panels around them]. They thought it was simple chemistry. It wasn't. It was an accidental discovery of physics that remains a mystery at the moment, but that combines chemistry with magnetics, which few are trying. The same thing happened to Tesla, where he was actually able to observe an object fly off the bench, but really didn't know why. He knew it had to do with the design of magnetics, but couldn't begin to do the design with the tools and technology of the day. Can you imagine such a thing? Now you understand his depression. Such is the way advancement often happens on the planet. …”

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