Was Tesla The Conduit Between Fallen Angels & Our Technology?

     I find it extremely ironic that Tesla Motors founder and CEO Elon Musk is escalating his warnings that our obsession with Artificial Intelligence technology (AI) is the biggest threat to our human existence.  "With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon," he is quoted as saying.
     To be honest, he is not the only pioneering whiz to sound the alarm.  Even the genius astrophysicist Stephen Hawking is on record as saying, “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.”  He warns of the consequences of creating something that could potentially become smarter than its creator.  But hasn't that been the prideful sin of every enemy of God; from Lucifer to Nimrod, to all those throughout history who have followed in their footsteps and embraced their spirit of evil?
      “[AI] would take off on its own, and redesign itself at an ever-increasing rate,” Hawking said.  “Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete, and would be superseded.”

Nikola Tesla

     But it is Musk's comments that I find the most fascinating; especially as chief executive of rocket-maker Space X.  He calls self-learning artificial intelligence “potentially more dangerous than nukes”.  And is it purely coincidental that he is the head of a company named after Nikola Tesla, the Serbian American inventor, engineer, and futurist who, by some accounts was a genius who wanted to illuminate the earth; the man who was "robbed" of the title of "Father of Electricity" by his rival, Thomas Edison.  (I really wish Glenn Beck would do his homework on this man whom he idolizes).
     To others, Nikola Tesla was a dangerous man; a man who believed that "In black holes, (what astronomers talk about), are the most powerful sources of energy and life."  He was a man who conducted experiments, trying to discover "what to do in the Universe, so [that] every being is born as Christ, Buddha or Zoroaster."  (Zoroastrianism is a pre-Islamic religion, revealed to man by a "god" named Ahura Mazda.  It is my contention that this was a fallen angel entity.)
     In an 1899 interview, from his Colorado Springs laboratory, Tesla opened up about his "other-world views": that the Light of the Universe filled his six senses; about building a machine, that by vibration, provokes a feeling of bliss; that humans once had real and visible wings.  He speaks of being aware, as a child, that there was an Energy in the Universe, and of trying to awake that energy, and figure out how it could influence people.  He told his interviewer,  "My eyesight and hearing are perfect and, I dare to say, stronger than other people. I hear the thunder from a hundred fifty miles away, and I see colors in the sky that others cannot see. This enlargement of vision and hearing, I had as a child. Later I consciously developed [it]."
     He speaks of being seriously ill during his youth, and of discovering that "The source of most disease is in the spirit. Therefore the spirit can cure most diseases ... I was cured because my father finally allowed me to study technology, which was my life. Illusion for me was not a disease, but the mind's ability to penetrate beyond the three dimensions of the earth."  Does anyone else think that perhaps this man had tapped into a force outside our human realm; and that perhaps it didn't  necessarily possess a benevolent spirit?
     In case you think I'm over-exaggerating, Tesla recounts this memory from his childhood: "Once, in childhood, I was walking along the river with Uncle and said: 'From the water will appear the trout, I'll throw a stone and it is cut.'  And, that's what happened. Frightened and amazed, his uncle cried: "Bade retro Satan’s!" ("Get back, Satan!") He was an educated man, and he spoke in Latin."  And -- if you need further proof -- later in the interview, Tesla finishes up a segment of his interview by declaring, "There are many fallen angels on Earth."
     At times, as I read his interview, his words seemed the farcical meanderings of an intellectual eccentric. But then there would be a passage that made the hair stand up on the back of my neck, such as this excerpt:  "Life is a rhythm that must be comprehended. I feel the rhythm, and direct on it, and pamper in it.  It was very grateful and gave me the knowledge I have."  (He speaks of "It" as if it was a person or entity!)  "Knowledge comes from space; our vision is its most perfect set. We have two eyes: the earthly and spiritual. It is recommended that it become one eye. The Universe is alive in all its manifestations, like a thinking animal."
     Does that creep you out like it does me?  Is he promoting the "all-seeing Eye"?  And does anyone else perceive the Prince of the Air prowling like a lion? And this Knowledge that comes from space --- could it be fallen angel technology that has been shared throughout history with mankind ... from the technology that allowed Nimrod to build the tower of Babel; to the branch of knowledge that resulted in the building of the ancient Sphinx; to the occultic knowledge possessed by Hitler and the Nazis; to the modern applications being employed in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Transhumanism?  Was Tesla trying to tell us that this knowledge is supernatural and unhuman?  What could he have possibly meant by this statement?  "The Universe has only one substance and one supreme energy with an infinite number of manifestations of life. The best thing is that the discovery of a secret nature reveals the other. One cannot hide, they are around us, but we are blind and deaf to them. If we emotionally tie ourselves to them, they come to us themselves."

"Faust Conjures Up the Spirits"
by Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein (1788-1868)

     And listen to his rendition of how he discovered the rotating magnetic field and induction motor: "One summer evening in Budapest, I watched [the sunset] with my friend Sigetijem. Thousands of fire was turning around in thousands of flaming colors. I remembered Faust and recited his verses and then, as in a fog, I saw a spinning magnetic field, and induction motor. I saw them in the sun!"  And in case you are wondering what the significance of Faust was, and how that could have played a part, contemplate this fact:  Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend. He is a scholar who is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, so he makes a pact with the Devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited universal knowledge and worldly pleasures.
     So how many champions of Nikola Tesla are aware of this aspect of his genius and the influence behind his inventions?  Would Glenn Beck still shamelessly promote his exceptional creativity if he knew to whom Tesla gave credit?  There is no doubt that Tesla possessed great knowledge and produced great results from his experimentations; he is often called the Father of Radio, Television, Power Transmission, and the Induction Motor.  Less publicity is given to his mysterious inventions, including those that caused buildings to sway, earthquakes to materialize from his electro-magnetic oscillator; and a directed-energy weapon, called a death ray.  And would it surprise you to know that conspiracy theories swirl around his death and his legacy?  Some promote the idea that he was murdered by the Nazis for the work he did on electronic devices that would have been of great significance during WWII.  Then there is the rumor that soon after his death, the United States Government (with the help of the FBI) seized all of his research materials and writings, most of which never again reappeared -- (except perhaps as HAARP; the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program.)
     But here's the bottom line:  It is difficult to know the truth about this enigmatic genius; is he a hero or a villain?  One thing is clear:  Throughout his life, Tesla asserted that he had indeed discovered a limitless power supply from a source that no one else had knowledge of, but he never revealed the source.  In fact, I think this following quote, by Tesla himself, establishes that his genius was supernatural:  "Ideas came in an uninterrupted stream and the only difficulty I had was to hold them fast ... In less than two months I evolved virtually all the types of motors and modifications of the systems which are now identified with my name."
     And now, nearly 73 years after his death, Elon Musk, the Founder of a company that bears his name, and one of the foremost entrepreneurs that have benefitted from the genius and experimentations of Nikola Tesla is announcing that we may have gone too far ... that we may be "summoning the demon."
     To make his point perfectly clear, Musk gives us this analogy: "In all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it's like, yeah, he's sure he can control the demon. [It] didn't work out."
    But who is able to stuff that genie (uh, I mean, demon) back in the bottle?  History has shown us that once man agrees to accept that Satanic power source, it becomes a race towards human destruction.  The only thing that has ever stopped the total ruination of man has been God.  But has mankind reached its full quota of evil upon the earth?  Is it nearing the time when God will no longer save us from ourselves, and finally pronounce His Judgment?  Maybe He's providing us clues; if we will only pay attention and recognize that all technology is not for our good, perhaps we stand a chance.  Tesla believed that there were certain truths we needed to learn in order to be healed in this human existence. But here's the deal ... Our survival, and our eternity, depends on whose Truth we seek.

You can read the entire 1899 interview with Nikola Tesla here, and make up your own mind.  He's a fascinating character study, and I truly believe his story is part of the spiritual battle in which we find ourselves today.

1 Timothy 4:1   "Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,"


 

WARNING: "Wearable Technology" Is 1 Step Away From Occupying You!

     Well, Apple has done it again ... the opening weekend sales of its newest iPhone 6 model topped 10,000,000 units.  People who cannot wait to become more integrated with the latest "smart device", swamped the tech giant with online sales; some even slept on the cold, hard ground in front of Apple stores to be the first in line.
     Me, I have never been one to jump into a trend because it's "the latest and greatest".  Perhaps it's the nonconformist in me, or that I simply detest the marketing scheme that makes your latest expensive purchase obsolete within months of its acquisition.  In fact, you can call me old-fashioned and out-of-touch, but I actually loathe the intrusion in my life that the cell phone represents.  I am not one of those zombies that you see with a cell phone in their hand 24/7.  I have opted for the least expensive and less invasive model I can find.  I don't update the Google maps application, or the GPS, or any of the social media apps that constantly try to upload to my phone.  I don't need to be that "connected", and I can gain access to that information whenever I decide.  (However, I am not naive enough to think I can avoid detection from the information-seekers).

     But enough of my personal rant, I really want to make you aware that with each new "innovation" of your can't-do-without mobile device, technology is taking you one step closer to truly "becoming one" with it.  Let me explain ...
     The NowTheEndBegins (NTEB) website ran a series of articles on our culture's rapid descent into "wearable technology."  The site points out that it has been a mere 20 years since the personal computer came on the scene, and the three-fold sales pitch of this new technology is in full swing.  STEP ONE:  Get computers in front of us and create an addiction for them; an "I can't live without them" mentality.  We've gone from clunky desk models to laptops to iPads and iPhones... Mission Accomplished.  
     STEP TWO:  Shift the location of computers from being in front of us to being on us.... "wearable technology".  With the advent of Apple Watch (coming to a location near you in early 2015), you will never need to be away from your "smart device".  You can wear it as a watch or a nano-shirt; it will be an experience that "blurs the boundaries between the physical object and the software that powers it" --- those are Apple's words, not mine.  Mission On Target.  
     STEP THREE:  That takes us to the next and final step; the last boundary to be crossed ... "Smart" technology that will live inside us.   NTEB points out, "Your pulse and venous system will act as the active recharging elements, and all functions now carried out with mouse and keyboard will be done via eye motions and voice commands."  Ultimate Goal of the Mission.  Does that creep you out like it does me?
     As the site points out, this kind of device, as in the Apple Watch, is a paradox ... it will give you control by letting you know not only what time it is, but when the inevitable apps begin surfacing, you will be able to tell how many miles you walked that day, how many calories you absorbed, and your heart rate during exercise.  But here's the conundrum ... you will also have to give up some personal control.  
     These same amazing apps will be designed so that your phone will "start telling you what you should and shouldn’t eat and how far you should run...  Wearables will make your physical self visible to the virtual world in the form of information, an indelible digital body-print, and that information is going to behave like any other information behaves these days. It will be copied and circulated. It will go places you don’t expect. People will use that information to track you and market to you. It will be bought and sold."
     As NTEB notes, with this new technology development, we will have changed the dynamics of the human-computer interface.  Our physical bodies will no longer be in a separate place from our computers; that line is being erased.
     In reality, that line has already been crossed with the news that Ben Slater, of Brisbane, Australia had a microchip implanted under his skin so he can control electronic devices with just a wave of his hand.  As the NTEB site disclosed, "He hopes the new generation of Apple’s smart phone will have the capability to read the microchip implanted in the webbing between his thumb and forefinger."  This is just the inescapable evolution of technology ... in 2004, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave the green light for its use to carry information about people’s medical conditions.  Why are we surprised that it is being interfaced with smart technology?
     Apple Pay is just one of the new apps that will be available on the iPhone 6.  Here is Apple's marketing ploy:  Apple Pay will change how you pay with breakthrough contactless payment technology and unique security features built right into the devices you have with you each day.  So you can use your iPhone 6 or Apple Watch to pay in an easy, secure, and private way.  This technology is called "Touch ID" and registers your unique fingerprint with your credit card information.  Whether you use this app on your iPhone or your Apple Watch, you receive a gentle vibration against your skin and a beep to let you know your payment was received.
     But how long will our dependent culture be satisfied with this?  How long before they are clamoring for an even easier application?  I can hear it now ... "I don't want to be bothered with carrying a device ... just chip me and let me handle my payment transactions with a show of my hand."  Hmmm, where have I heard that before?

Revelation 13:16-17    “And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”

The Scariest Interview I've Ever Heard

     They appeared calm, cool and collected; attempting to reassure the TV audience that were simply benevolent purveyors of freedom; the ticket to free information to those who lived under despotism.  But Executive Chairman, Eric Schmidt, and Director of Ideas, Jared Cohen, --- arguably among the most powerful men in the world --- are the at the helm of Google, and their appearance on The Blaze was both chilling and menacing.
     I'm not sure if they simply think the American people are so dumb that we can't see behind the innovations, or that they are so arrogant; knowing that their power and those same innovations cannot be stopped.  Frighteningly, I think it's probably both.

     When asked about the possibility that their monitoring of our lives could turn sinister, they kept repeating adnauseum their mantra that it could never happen because the environment and soul of the company centered on making the world “a better place for each and every citizen” -- an ideal embraced by senior executives and every employee at Google.  They kept insisting that they operated under the social code of "Do no evil."  Awww, isn't that nice?
     But they cannot deny that being the most-used search engine in the world has catapulted them into a class of their own; and a very powerful and influential one at that.  They dismissed any concerns that their collection of our personal data -- emails, phone calls, texts, internet searches, spending habits, credit card information, passwords, videos and all other private personal information -- might infringe upon our freedoms.  Instead, they kept insisting that their search engine and data collection delivered the opportunity for an unlimited supply of information and the lofty prize of freedom to those whose freedoms have been suppressed.
     But consider these prescient words from Edward Bernays, the sinister Father of modern day Public Relations and Propaganda:  “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of."
     And guess who is the Keeper of those "organized habits" and "opinions"?  Google! I am not denying that Google has contributed in positive ways to the explosion of information and technology over the past few years.  It has given us the opportunity to discover anything that our imaginations can conceive, and that applies to the web giant, itself.   Consider their recent hire of futurist and transhumanist advocate, Ray Kurzweil.   Anyone who has followed his career has to be a little nervous about his alliance with the some of the most powerful men in the world.

     Both Schmidt and Cohen attempted to downplay Kurzweil's recent prediction that, within 15 years, robots will be smarter than humans.  Does that mean a robot/computer will possess consciousness, i.e. an awareness of its own mind and the world?  And doesn't that present all kinds of social and moral problems?  They insisted that consciousness was "many, many years away", and seemed to liken Kurzweil to a crazy uncle in the attic, working away on his fanciful inventions.  Yet that is exactly what they hired him for!
     Regardless of all the ethical questions that I feel are paramount -- such as, "What is your ultimate goal in integrating humans and computers?"  (They can't deny that this is Kurzweil's dream.)  Or, "Where does personal privacy fit in this equation?" --  I keep coming back to God and how He views us messing with His creation.
     My husband, Peace-Loving Warrior (PLW), is currently reading a book originally written in 1876 by George Pember, an English theologian.  In his book, titled Earth's Earliest Ages, Pember wrote for our age, when he left us with these wise thoughts to ponder:
1.  Knowledge in this life is a gift fraught with peril ... unless it be accompanied by a mighty outpouring of grace, it causes undue elation.  When our human pride begins to tell us that our aspirations are more important than God's will, the weight of that power will lead to our downfall.
2.  In our own days the leaders of science are too often the leaders of infidelity, the despisers of God, and of prayer.  This was written in 1876!  Just think how far down that slippery slope we have come!  Search my past posts on Kurzweil and the Global Congress 2045 and their campaigns for transhumanism, and you can see the personification of Pember's thesis.
3.  And the law of Satan is this:  That we seek all our pleasures in, and fix all our heartfelt hopes upon, this present age over which he [Satan] presides; and that we use our best endeavors -- by means of various sensuous and intellectual occupations and delights, and countless ways of killing time which he has provided -- to keep our thoughts from ever wandering into the Age to Come which will see him a fettered captive instead of a prince and a god.  
     If you understand nothing else from this post, please grasp this truth:  the Age of Computers is a tool in the hands of the one who would separate us from our Creator.  But only if we let him!  Can anyone dispute that their iPhone or iPad occupy "countless ways of killing time" -- ways that keep us from engaging with God?  And can inventors such as Kurzweil, or executives such as Schmidt and Cohen, deny that they are immersed in such "intellectual occupations" as to not only change who we are as humans, but to deny us the liberties of personal privacy?
     I fear we are way past the time for philosophical discussions on "consciousness" and "personal privacy issues".  Google has already surpassed those milestones.  The scientists/inventors now conceive of themselves as their own god.  The tragedy is that they have enticed far too many of us to take our eyes and hearts off the true Creator, and we now lust after the designs of the one who will soon be "a fettered captive instead of a prince and a god."
     Just like Nimrod and the folks at the Tower of Babel, our modern-day technological geniuses want to become famous by displacing the need for God.  Motivated by pride and arrogance, they have made a name for themselves.  But perhaps they should revisit that section of the Bible and learn of the destruction that was the result of such conceit.  God will not allow His Sovereignty to be usurped; and not only did they not achieve the greatness they sought, but they suffered His Divine Judgment.  Watch and see ... history is going to repeat itself.

Luke 1:51     "He has shown strength with His arm; He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts."

How Technology Plans To Change The Human Race

   

     I have written many posts on the advancement of a science called "Transhumanism".  The official definition of this trend is "is an international cultural and intellectual movement with an eventual goal of fundamentally transforming the human condition by developing and making widely available technologies to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities.".  Whew!  That's a fancy way of saying they're going to integrate humans with computers, and change the condition of humanity.
     But perhaps the most disturbing aspect of this movement is their claim "that human beings may eventually be able to transform themselves into beings with such greatly expanded abilities as to merit the label posthuman".  If that term doesn't disturb you, it should.
     These same people who call themselves "transhumanists" (proponents of the more palatable term "singularity") have a vision of redesigning the human organism (that would be us) by a variety of methods.  One way would be through advanced nanotechnology.  Another would be by radical enhancement using some combination of technologies -- such as genetic engineering, psychopharmacology (mind-altering drugs), life extension therapies, neural interfaces, advanced information management tools (another way of saying using robot parts), memory enhancing drugs, and  wearable or implanted computers.
     But we can't forget their assumption that these technologies will render us with such expanded abilities as to usher in a "posthuman" era.  That doesn't mean that humans will cease to exist on the planet; it simply means that both humans and the technologically advanced forms of ourselves (posthumans) will continue to exist together, but the latter will predominate in society over the former because of their abilities.  That's their goal!
     And it is explicitly demonstrated in the trailer for the new movie Transcendence, starring Johnny Depp.  You will recall that I have often suggested that our movie industry predicts what the Powers that Be are sending our way, if we will just pay attention.  Well, in this movie, it's pretty much in your face!

     The trailer shows us the evolution of human/artificial intelligence (A.I.), and Depp's character is heard to say, "Imagine a machine with the full range of human emotions.  It's analytical power will be greater than the collective intelligence of every person in the history of the world."  Think that's just movie hype?  I'll say it again ... that's their goal!
     Depp's character is proud of his involvement in this science, claiming that the development of this artificial posthuman will start to evolve and to influence the entire world; and because of the world wide web, it will be able to go everywhere.
     But here's the fly in the ointment, so to speak.  Depp's character warns that "an A.I. is like any intelligence ... it has needs."  And as we find out, it "needs more power."    In other words, this "more intelligent race" will dominate the world!
     But here's where every Christian should feel the hair on the back of his neck standing up!  The opening line of the movie trailer says this:  The path to building super-intelligence requires us to unlock the most fundamental secrets of the Universe.  Isn't that what the Serpent in the Garden of Eden was really temping Eve with?  Because it's just a small jump from posthumanism to becoming a posthuman god.
     Follow me --- it's the idea that posthumans, being no longer confined to the parameters of human nature, might grow physically and mentally so powerful as to appear possibly god-like by present-day human standards.  Just like the Serpent said, "you will be like God."  Technology has been just as cunning as the serpent in the Garden.  And we have become addicted to the forbidden fruit that is leading us to our own destruction.
     So go ahead --- continue to consume the latest in technology.  Buy the Google glasses and insert the RFID chip.  It will make you smarter and bring you closer to immortality.  You can become a part of recreating humanity while becoming your own god, and have the satisfaction of transforming the one true God's image of Himself.  Congratulations, mankind!  You've secured your own destruction!

Revelation 4:11    "Worthy are You, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and because of Your will they existed, and were created."