posted February 06, 2003 11:04 AM
from Star Signs...******
EXT. THE DIVIDE -- A MOUNTAIN PASS BETWEEN COLORADO SPRINGS AND CRIPPLE CREEK, COLORADO. SPRING 1970. -- AFTERNOON
INT. THE CAR OF FINBAR O'MALLEY, LOCAL REAL ESTATE AGENT.
FINBAR O'MALLEY is driving, and chatting with his passenger, LINDA GOODMAN. As a favor, he is taking her from Colorado Springs to the house she has rented in Cripple Creek because the owner-landlord of the house was out of town at the time.
LINDA
All the great composers were "overshadowed" in channeling the Music of the Masters, as they themselves believed...chorded fragments of the "Music of the Spheres"...to the degree that Earthlings were ready to receive these harmonic frequencies. Humans today would be in even worse shape than they are had it not been for the great symphonies which have touched the souls and moved the hearts of millions.
LINDA
One of these Avatars indisputably used as a channel was Yugoslavian Nikola Tesla. Many people even quite seriously believe that Tesla was an extraterrestrial. He's part of the haunted setting of Cripple Creek, where I was, myself, channeled with the star signs in this book. And so, this is yet another experience in the mountains I should share with you. This one began before I even walked into my haunted house for the first time...on my first trip up the winding road from Colorado Springs to the miniature Tibet or Shangri-la called Cripple Creek.
FINBAR
Cripple Creek is almost two miles high, straight up toward the sky. On some days there, the clouds hang down so low you can actully reach up and touch them - if you jump a little. Where you're going to be staying is ten thousand feet above sea level.
LINDA
(to Finbar)
Just the right altitude for miracles...
LINDA
...I replied spontaneously, then wished I hadn't, because I could see my remark aroused the curiosity of this man I hardly knew, and had no desire to know better. No reflection on Finbar O'Malley, as he is an agreeable and likeable sort of chap. But it was, after all, the me-of-me I had traveled to "God's Country" to become better acquainted with, not more strangers. There are enough of those in New York.
FINBAR
(curious, yet guarded)
What kind of miracle were you expecting to happen up here?
LINDA
Oh, just any old kind I might find buried somewhere near a Bristlecone pine tree, unnoticed for centuries or longer. I'm not fussy about miracles.
LINDA
I needed a subject-changer. The weather. It usually worked.
LINDA
Someone told me the sky bursts open frequently in the mountains with violent electrical storms. Is that true?
FINBAR
Oh, maybe once a month or so, sometimes more often, especially in the Summer. It depends on the atmospheric conditions. This is only the second week of April, so you'll probably see quite a few of them before the Fall. Now and then there's an electrical storm in the middle of Winter up here. While it's snowing. Damnedest thing. Gives you an eerie feeling. Folks don't ordinarily associate the thunder and lightning of an electrical storm with snow. But it happens up here in the mountains. They say that's why Nikola Tesla came up here to conduct his experiments. Because of the electrical storms at ten thousand feet...and higher. Pike's Peak, where they say he pulled off some of his light shows, is closer to fourteen thousand feet.
LINDA
Nikola Tesla. I'd noticed the name on some kind of commemorative plaque in the park near Colorado Springs airport as we drove by and stopped for a minute or so for a stalled car ahead of us.
LINDA
(curiously)
Who was he?
FINBAR
Some kind of scientist or inventor. Folks claim he was a genius. I even heard somebody say once that he believed Tesla was a Space Man, like Spock and those characters on TV in Star Trek.
LINDA
Finbar chuckled at the very idea of anything so far out, then continued.
FINBAR
He sure had a lot of peculiar habits. Real eccentric, he was. Somethin' funny about his inner ear, they say - whatever that is. Thing is, his ears were so sensitive, he could even hear a fly light on a table, and it sounded to him like an explosion. They say he could hear a clock ticking two or three rooms away. He was in pain a lot of the time because of the sensitive ears, you know. Then there were the visions.
LINDA
(her curiosity growing)
Visions?
FINBAR
Yep. He invented all kinds of electrical devices. Drew complicated blueprints for electric- and solar-powered cars and planes, stuff like that no one had ever even thought about. But he didn't draw the blueprints for his electric cars and spacecrafts and planes and so on the way most of those guys do. He claimed he had visions - that each time he had one of these visions, the whole thing just popped up in his mind like it was a screen or something. And his 'mental pictures', as he called 'em, were complete right down to the smallest detail. Weird.
(shaking his head)
He was psychic or a mystic or whatever it's called, they claim. He could sort of see things before they happened. Like the time lots of folks heard him tell a friend to take a certain train. The friend listened to Tesla and didn't get on. A few hours later the train ran off the track and killed everybody on board.
FINBAR
Tesla's the one who discovered AC - or alternating current, not long after Tom Edison discovered DC - direct current, you know. Edison didn't like it much, I guess. Took out big ads in the New York newspapers warning everybody that their houses might catch fire if they used Tesla's alternating current. Old Tom claimed it was unsafe and a dangerous hazard, whether it was used outdoors or indoors. Tesla was working for Edison for a while, but that caused a split between them. Finally, George Westinghouse and J.P. Morgan backed Tesla's crazy ideas, and Tesla came out here to Colorado Springs to build a laboratory for his experiments. Later, he proved his AC current was safe. That's all they use in homes today, of course.
LINDA
I waited for Finbar to continue, fascinated...yet troubled by the sense of "this happened before"...kind of a deja vu flash.
FINBAR
They say Tesla was all upset when they split the atom. He said it would bring on nuclear power, which could end the world. He kept trying to convince J.P. Morgan and his money backers that the world would run out of energy in the near future, and that nuclear energy would destroy it - but that his method was safe and pure. He said it would give everybody all the energy they needed without polluting the air, which he predicted in the early 1900s would be a big problem before the end of the century. Sure is a big problem. Especially in Denver now. Just like Los Angeles and New York, maybe worse.
LINDA
Finbar was quiet for a moment, then went on.
FINBAR
Tesla was a strange one, for a fact. Looked a lot like Howard Hughes. Acted a lot like him too. Kinda brooding and moody. He wouldn't shake hands with anybody. Something about mixing up auras, but I'm not really sure what an aura is. They say Tesla climbed Pikes Peak alone more than once. That's it, over to the left, the one with all the snow on it. I guess he wanted to try some of his crazy experiments with lightning. Climbed right to the top, he did, in the middle of the worst storms you can imagine, according to what they tell around here. He used to pull in lightning with the tower he built, with J.P. Morgan’s money, down in the Springs. Then, after a storm, he'd run out with his helpers and screw lightbulbs right into the ground. They'd light up, just as if they'd been screwed into a lamp that was plugged in an electric outlet. Just screwing them into the dirt. Isn't that wild?
(shaking his head in a gesture of combined respect and disbelief)
Tesla said it had something to do with the Earth's magnetic field.
LINDA
...then it happened. Suddenly, without warning, we were enveloped in a velvet-like cloud of heavy silence, that grew...and grew...seeming to wrap itself around the car like a smothering blanket. Even the hum of the car's engine sounded muffled...somehow distant, far away. For a measureless time the silence remained, until it became uncomfortable. Finbar said nothing, his eyes fixed, staring ahead, unblinking. I tried to think of something to say to break the silence between us, and I found I could not.
******
Love,
Carlo
Lindaland
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What an observation! Love it!
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