Lux Esoterica (Nifiluz)

He never married. He never accumulated wealth despite generating it for others on an almost incomprehensible scale. He died alone in room 3327 of the New Yorker Hotel in January 1943, in debt, having given away most of what he had invented and been systematically stripped of the rest. The pigeons he fed daily in Bryant Park were, by the end, his closest companions. And yet Nikola Tesla remains, more than eighty years after his death, one of the most mythologized figures in modern history — not only among engineers and physicists, but among mystics, spiritual seekers, conspiracy theorists, free energy advocates, and anyone who suspects that the official story of human progress has major chapters missing. The mythology is not entirely wrong. Tesla was, in fact, stranger and more extraordinary than the standard biographical account admits. He was a scientific genius of the first order — responsible for alternating current, the AC motor, radio, the Tesla coil, and discoveries that still...