Part One Chapter 5 (Page 24)

Right Company

When you strike a tuning fork, you’ll notice how it causes the air around it to begin to vibrate.  Place that tuning fork in the vicinity of another tuning fork and the second tuning fork will begin to oscillate or vibrate at the same frequency and amplitude of the first.  In Physics this phenomenon is described as resonance. This same phenomenon of resonance is what helps to attract to us the people and circumstances that are in harmony with the dominant thoughts in our mind.  It is also what causes people to be influenced by each other.  Resonance can work either for good or for bad.

It was an innocent experiment. The year was 1898 and Tesla attached a small vibrator to an iron column in his laboratory located in New York City
. He closed a switch, and it began vibrating. He had noticed that at certain frequencies specific pieces of equipment in the room would start to jiggle. Changing the frequency would move the jiggle to another part of the room. Unfortunately, he had not taken into account the fact that the column ran downward into the foundation beneath the building. His vibrations were being transmitted all over Manhattan.

For Tesla, the first hint of trouble came when the walls and floor began to heave (ref 1). He immediately stopped the experiment just as the police came rushing through the door. It seems he had started a small earthquake in his neighborhood which had smashed windows, swayed buildings, and sent panicky neighbors rushing into the streets. The police fingered Tesla because they had frequently responded to complaints about his unusual activities. It was another of Tesla’s experiments in resonance.