This is an interview with the spirit of Nikola Tesla. His answers are given through Speaker Gerald A. Polley, and the interviewer is Speaker Linda J. Polley. Our thanks to Irene Hamlen Stephenson of The Mini-Examiner (No longer exchanging.) who sent the questions for this article.

1. Did Thomas Edison bring you to this country to pick your brains?
A. First of all, Mr. Edison did not bring me to America. I came on my own accord with a letter of introduction in hopes of being employed by him, and learning his ideas on the electrical field, and to try to interest him in some of my ideas. Unfortunately, Mr. Edison was committed to using one form of electricity, where my expertise and ideas were turned toward another form. We simply could not come to terms with each other over the issue, so we simply parted our ways. If any brain picking was done, I think I would have been the guilty party. For I availed myself of much of Mr. Edison's knowledge which he might not have been totally aware he possessed. I hope this is a satisfactory answer to your question.
2. Do you feel he could have invented the light bulb without your ideas?
A. Mr. Edison developed the light bulb long before he ever heard of me. There was little way my work could have contributed to his efforts. He was already producing light bulbs and supplying electricity when I became employed by him.
3. How do you feel now about Edison using your ideas and taking credit for it?
A. I think you are very unfair to Mr. Edison. I will not say he was a perfect man; like all of us he had his faults, but I do not think there was ever a time that he was deliberately cruel or unfair, even to those persons he did not like. He could be very rude and discourteous, but he was never knowingly unjust. I believe I have answered this question already. All scientists borrow ideas from one another. That is the whole idea of science- to add one idea to another and come out with something enitrely new. That is the name of the game.
4. The powers in charge destroyed your information and people have been searching for it ever since. Can you tell us how to do it?
A. I would say, my dear lady, that you have many misconceptions. My wireless transmission system would have been a total failure. Most scientists of today would easily tell you this. Alternating current works. It is the cheapest and easiest way to make electricity available at this present time. Perhaps in some future age my ideas will be able to be put to some practical use, but not at the present moment. You see, I was drawing from remembered knowledge, from long-passed lifetimes, of power sources that mankind are not ready for, and will not be ready for for some time.
5. Is there someone alive who could do it?
A. Yes, there are some that could continue my work, but for the same reasons I failed, they will fail. I do agree, however, that safer ways should be sought for generating power. You have the sun and the wind, the tides and the rushing water, why do you invite disaster by creating piles of death on the edges of your cities? To me this is insanaity.
6. Have you reincarnated with the same talents?
A. Not as of yet. I am looking forward to a new journey and have already selected the locale and the preparance of that vessel that I need is being arranged. I do not wish to miss The Coming Age, The Age of Many Awakenings, the Age of Growth when the superstitions, prejudices and shortsightedness of the past will fade away, and The World will be led at last, by those with True Wisdom!
7. Will you be available for more questions in future issues?
A. Yes, for the next five years! That is how long it will take to complete the arrangements for my new vessel!

The article in our January issue will be with Marie Antoinette. If you have any questions, kindly get them in quickly. When we have enough questions for Nikola Tesla they will be put in a future issue. Let us know who you'd like to hear from, and what questions you'd like to ask. We will try to get those most requested for interviews.