The day when we shall know exactly what electricity is will chronicle an event, probably greater, and more important than any other in the history of the planet. (Nikola Tesla)

April 10, 2025 marked the 70th anniversary of Jesuit-scientist Teilhard de Chardin’s passing, acknowledged worldwide by those who earnestly value and respect his basic contributions to developing an all-inclusive cosmogenic synthesis toward understanding the unity of all things. Teilhard envisioned that the nuanced details of that synthesis would one day be developed in a full-orbed way combining physics and metaphysics (science and religion) explaining how all things are one in the divine, and by what fundamental force(s) or constant(s). The full attainment of same continues to unfold in a divided world marked by binary thinking and separation consciousness in all fields.

Seven decades later, the world still awaits the fulfillment of his vision, or so it appears.

April 18, 2025 also marks the 70th anniversary of Albert Einstein’s passing, with celebrations of this renowned physicist’s genius and scientific contributions likewise following. In his own mathematical way, Einstein also dreamed of a “unified field theory” in physics, one that united the fundamental forces, particularly those of gravity and electromagnetism. He pursed that unifying vision for the last thirty years of his life, up to a few hours before his death, but was unsuccessful in doing so. Though a visual thinker, Einstein was devoid of a realized spiritual dimension that would have allowed him to see and think in larger, more inclusive wholes.

Seven decades later, the world still awaits the fulfillment of Einstein’s vision of a unified field in physics, or so it seems.

January 7, 2025 marked the 82nd anniversary of Nikola Tesla’s passing, celebrated annually at the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe, in Shoreham Long Island., N.Y. As it is annually, a modest ceremony was held near the sight of Tesla’s Wardenclyffe Tower project, part of his vision of a wireless communication system using the Earth’s natural electromagnetic energy to conduct electrical signals worldwide. As things turned out, Tesla’s Shoreham project and vision were abandoned and never realized for lack of funds. Like Einstein early on, and Teilhard prior to his death, Tesla was and still is an unrecognized and much maligned scientific genius of his time, more so even than Einstein, Teilhard, and others of scientific renown, mechanical invention, or technical know-how. So much so that it been estimated that 80% of electronic advances in the digital age are now attributed to his genius.

Practically unheard of then and now is his Spirit-Science synthesis notions, particularly those regarding the substance, identity, and consistency of the universe and its source as a pan-psychic energy and information field that religion calls God.

What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics (Tesla).

Almost a century later his vision for an environmental-friendly energy alternative remains unknown to the public, as does his theorem uniting the fundamental forces that Einstein could not. Of significance for today’s cosmogenesis and synergy groups seeking a Spirit-Science constant (singularity) for their models, was his notion that the cosmic field consists of and is held together entirely by light energy (electromagnetism), innermost and outermost, vibrating at various frequencies. Like many of Tesla’s ideas, his synthesis notions received ridicule and scoffing by the scientific establishment of his time. [See The Lost Century, by Steven Greer MD, Amazon Prime].

All truth passes through three stages: First it is ridiculed; second it is violently opposed; and third, it is accepted as self-evident (Arthur Schopenhauer).

Applicable to all three of the above geniuses is a proverb, which states, “To be a genius is to be misunderstood,” which is why decades later it is important to revisit their individual contributions along those lines, with particular attention to considering their convergent value relevant to an all-inclusive cosmogenic paradigm the world still awaits.

Below find a few significant but little-known facts about these twentieth century innovators. Taken together the facts connect a few dots which converge to form the outline of a synthesis picture, which as it turns out could only have been discovered by examining them in retrospect long after they died. Properly connected in our time, said “dots” (data points) may prove of value to those whose interest lies foremost in discovering their complementarity in an all-inclusive paradigm. The author proposes that the complementarity (convergence) of their individual pieces, if valid, completes the Spirit-Science synthesis the world has been waiting for that neither of these men alone, or anyone before or since has successfully realized.

Though they were never considered scientific contemporaries, Einstein, Teilhard, and Tesla independently lived, worked, and studied at the same time on different aspects of the same unity of forces enigma in the 1930’s and 40’s. Most ironic is that during that time these luminaries never met, despite having a common interest in discovering how these fundamental cosmic forces, physical and metaphysical (mental, spiritual) universally reconcile in the created order. Einstein’s approach was to disentangle the entangled unity-of-forces riddle via physics, mathematically. By contrast, Teilhard and Tesla were scientist-mystics with a deep understanding that science was on the threshold of discovering the nexus between the visible and invisible worlds that encompass a higher, more complex order of forces beyond the limited reach of exclusive empirical ways of knowing.

For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is (Yoda, Star Wars).

A deist in the world of religion, Einstein was the only one of the three without a conscious mystical awareness of the created order. This genius hoped to discover a unified “theory of everything” (TOE) that sought to unite the fundamental cosmic forces, particularly gravity and electromagnetism. But as he was unable to accomplish that solely by empirical means, that discovery door was left open and remains open to this day in physics for others to explore along more interdisciplinary lines.

Conjecturing, had all three collaborated in their time or been informed of each other’s work there may have been some chance of one of them recognizing the connection among the individual components each held separately in order to complete the naming of this mysterious universal constant. Accomplishing same is nothing short of the “Holy Grail” of physics, to say nothing of a Nobel Prize consideration for revealing same to the world. Initially, one might think Teilhard could have led the charge in that way, as his charism intuited the organic unity of both matter and spirit (spirit-matter) and that of spirit and soul (spirit-soul) implying a panpsychic energy field or interconnecting nexus between them and all things at all scales, micro to macro. All that remained was to discover the organic nature of spirit that forms, joins and gives life to matter, its cosmic Holy Grail.

There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter. No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule (Teilhard).

Teilhard indeed had the Spirit-Science vision of their synthesis, and a general notion of its universal substance. He was gifted with an ability to analyze and synthesize in equal measure, the musical equivalent of perfect pitch. But it was not to be for Teilhard, who could only allude to same in the absence of data the others had. Nonetheless, he speculated on the nature of same with more accuracy than he realized. This achievement, after all, was to be nothing less than a religion-science Magnum Opus, the monumental discovery of the universe’s in-cohering organic component and Center of centers. Alchemists called it the “Philosopher’s Stone,” the prima materia believed to be the magical substance and source of all things. Philosophers, cosmologists, and innovators since antiquity have dreamt of discovering it, even more fervently in this day of multi-disciplinary convergence. In particular, Teilhard often mused over who would one day “give us the meta-Christianity we are all waiting for,” by successfully integrating two separate-appearing disciplines, one “hard” and the other “soft.”

Nothing is more consistent or more fleeting – more fused with things or at the same time more separable from them – than a ray of light. If the divine milieu reveals itself to us as an incandescence of the inward layers of being, who is to guarantee us the persistence of this vision? None other than the Ray of light itself (Teilhard).

Note in his statement above Teilhard capitalizes the word “Ray” implying light’s association with the divine. On the hard science end Einstein worked with light, among other things observing that it had a wave-particle duality. His philosophical view theorized a connection between humanity and the broader cosmos, humans being a tiny part (holon) of an organic whole (hologram) limited in time and space embedded in a larger cosmic wave pattern called the universe. On the religious side, he held to the notion of a distant God, a cosmic clockmaker who created the universe but remained aloof, never intervening in human affairs. He once described God’s doings in creation as “subtle,” so subtle, it appears, that unlike Tesla and Teilhard he never considered that space, time, relativity, energy, matter, and their complex matrix (milieu) of light and sound could themselves be God (Spirit) masquerading in a variety of forms at all scales everywhere. Nor could he imagine that humans, the most evolved and intelligent of all Earth’s creatures, could ever consciously “tune-in” to this energy and information field interactively via the whole person (body, soul, and spirit.)

Devoid of an awakened spiritual consciousness little did Einstein know in the deepest way that the universe was entirely at One with all things at all scales in this bundled field of energy. Nor could he know that every particle and wave was intimately connected to a sprawling cosmic network and swaddling presence like wave to ocean, or brain to every neuron. God is indeed “subtle” and hidden, inconspicuous as a hummingbird clearing its throat atop a giant sequoia. However, Einstein did recognize the nature of light and sound waves as the very constituency of matter, referring to its mass as “frozen energy;” so much so that at life’s end he regretted not having given more detailed attention to the study of it.

We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos (Einstein).

In his Dynamic Theory of Gravity written in 1938 at age 81 Tesla contested Einstein’s theory of gravity, instead arguing that one hundred percent of the visible universe is electromagnetism including gravity, thus uniting the two forces that had eluded Einstein. (Within conventional frameworks science still does not know the fundamental reason why this force exists, or how it works as the most basic level). Sadly, his thesis went unpublished, and Tesla went generally unrecognized despite having invented Alternating Current and the Tesla Coil, whose innovations ushered the 1900’s into the twentieth century’s Industrial Age and well into its Electronic/Information Age.

Underestimated as a scientist known for his unconventional views, Tesla was further along than either Einstein or Teilhard when it came to understanding the integration of science and spirituality, having identified light (electromagnetism) as their universal nexus and constant. Unknown to most Tesla had ALREADY put the religious and science pieces together in a grand synthesis, allowing his intuitive/mystical and analysis/synthesis talents to take the lead. But the world was not ready for it. (for a basic understanding of Tesla’s Spirit-Science notions click onto the “Resource” box top of the page).

The world was not prepared for it. It was too far ahead of time. But the same laws will prevail in the end and make it a triumphal success (Tesla).

Ironically, Tesla, Einstein, and Teilhard all lived in the U.S. at the same time, the latter two having died within days of each other in 1955. Unknown to each all three were working on aspects of the SAME energy and information field that Teilhard called the ‘noosphere,’ Einstein labeled the ‘unified field,’ and Tesla named ‘luminiferous akasha.” Later in his career, Tesla fully realized that what he named “akasha” was indeed light energy (electromagnetism). Jesus had called it the ‘Holy Spirit’ two millennia prior, referring to himself as “The Light of the World” incarnate, having taught that God’s energy was everywhere, common property invisibly present in space-time like air or wind. Said Jesus, “the kingdom of heaven is spread upon the face of the earth and men do not see it” (Thomas, saying 113). And confirming same the apostle Paul also referred to Jesus as the embodiment of this energy, “He in whom all things consist and hold together” (Col.1:16), and “He fills all things” (Eph: 1;23), and “Christ is all and in all” (Col. 3:11), not all in some. Spirit is hidden in creation’s implicate order, said Jesus, “like leaven in bread” (Matt. 13:33).

Filmmaker George Lucas, best known for creating the Star Wars and Indians Jones series is our contemporary myth maker, calling this cosmic energy, The Force, depicting it as a cosmic energy field having components of darkness and light in conflict and balance. Balance within the Force is not about an equal mix of Light and Dark, but rather about the Light side reigning supreme with the Dark side tempered by and subordinate to it. A universal energy and information field by any other name is still the same.

One can see the synthesis picture evolving by the convergence of several key components, their mention in holy writ, in the synthesis hypotheses of Teilhard, in the scientific discoveries of Einstein, in their depiction in sci-fi film, and foremost with Tesla’s integral claim that EVERYTHING is the light (electromagnetism). Such confirms the ancient theological tenet that God is in everything, and everything is in God (panentheism). There you have it by serendipity, a physics/metaphysics paradigm fueled by a universal constant (light), the substance of all created form, Camelot’s Holy Grail, and nature’s greatest mystery revealed in a single stroke of collaborative genius. As Tesla foretold the twenty-first century would indeed belong to him, lest both science and religion remain estranged in separation consciousness obtuse to his discovery.

God is not what you think .  .  . So astounding are the facts in this connection, that it would seem as though the Creator, himself, had electrically designed this planet (Tesla).

Such indeed makes “the facts in this connection astounding” in a truly unspeakable way toward Tesla’s vision of world peace, and the proper understanding and wise use of Earth’s sacred energy at all scales vibrating at different frequencies, innermost and outermost in physical, mental, and spiritual form.

From a synthesis perspective all three innovators channeled something of light’s simple and complex nature (its “simplexity”). Light was being understood as the vibrational architecture and energy of the entire universe permeating the physical realm, bringing it into human awareness for the first time scientifically, realized in our times.

By anchoring to a particular facet (beam) of that cosmic light unknowingly, Teilhard, Einstein, and Tesla contributed to collapsing the old paradigms of binary perception and thought (dualistic thinking) which for centuries in the Western world placed a premium on the development, exclusivity, and separation of perceived contraries: mind from body, head from heart, spirit from matter, spirit from soul, and sacred from secular. As with the invention of radio, Tesla also got there first by scientifically identifying the energy and information field (Spirit) that rendered all things One and undivided.

Thanks to the posthumous collaboration of this twentieth century trio who never met, a unified field theory consonant with all disciplines including the arts is available to ponder. Tesla’s synthesis notions will likely gain slow acceptance, especially from the sedate scientific, academic, and religious communities who might otherwise be leading the charge. Colleges disdain genius the way convents disdain saints.

No specialty in the theoretical sciences is infallible, particularly theology, susceptible to the “domino effect” when proven obsolete, and in need of updating. Once certain foundational principles collapse nothing will remain the same, particularly if its paradigm is Copernican in magnitude and scope. Yet the converging of disciplines is gaining more widespread acceptance outside mainline science and traditional religious circles, embraced as hardwired into the Source Code of the universe permeating all of existence.

There are no longer fixed walls of partition, no subject/object or spirit-matter splits, God and the entire created order are sacred by virtue of being one and undivided, with all persons deemed equal and sacred by virtue of a single organic component embedded in each one. This mystery element is the cosmic singularity once referred to by Teilhard as the “third nature” of Christ, the “sacred heart” of creation. Such makes divine presence universal in a unified cosmic field whose gravity (gravitas) holds all things to their center from within, the place of convergence Tesla and Teilhard pointed to. If the universe is indeed an interconnected whole, and manifestation of the Infinite Invisible (eternal), then it follows that the Infinite cannot be binary because they are all manifestations of a single, fundamental energy.

The universe has a single substance and a supreme energy with an infinite number of the manifestations of life (Tesla).

Lest we forget, the transcendentalists were among history’s fore-sighted who lived prior to any of these three scientists. That contingent was led by Ralph Waldo Emerson who in the mid-1800’s stated profoundly, “There is one mind common to all men. Of the works of this mind history is the record.” Poetically, Emerson caught on to all these transdisciplinary names as being imposters, an interface masking for a single organic component hidden in matter. Exploring the limitations of language in the mid-nineteenth century, and the importance of individual experience in gaining wisdom and knowledge, Emerson called them,

.  .  . quaint names too narrow to cover this unbounded substance, an ineffable cause which every fine genius has essayed to represent by some emphatic symbol, as, Thales by water, Anaximenes by air, Zoroaster by fire, Jesus and the moderns by love, and the metaphor of each has become a national religion (Emerson, “Experience,” 1844, p.75).

Upon further musing, Emerson later continued by sharply naming this common universal element expressed as only an inspired poet-mystic can.

It is one light that burns out of a thousand stars. It is one sun that illuminates all men. From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all (Life of Emerson, Vol. II, pgs. 39,54).

Identifying light as the universal element in which all things consist and cohere returns the Christian tradition (and all religion and science) to the heart of its message, reframing it as a spirituality of the whole, placing it within the context of a truly universal energy field. As a common cosmic denominator, light (which in Tesla’s view includes gravity) is the only universal constant and only element that levels the playing field, reconciling conventional divisions and corresponding tensions of everything that exists including race, ethnicity, and gender. As the primary element in creation light forms, animates, and connects all things from within, transforming itself into various forms of life in an integrated Spirit-Science cosmology.

As the irreducible substance of all created form light is their polestar, holding all things together in integral cohesion. Known by many names worldwide this ambient light evolves, joins, directs, shapes, orients, and reconciles all created things from their innermost magnetic still-point (zero-point field vortex). In its highest vibrational expression this light is pure consciousness become aware of itself in humans. Acting in push-pull tandem with gravity it holds the tension of matter and spirit together as the sun’s gravity anchors the planets, or as a bike wheel anchors to its central hub via spokes, lending the whole strength, balance, and overall tensional integrity (tensegrity).

Tesla’s views on God were more scientifically complex and nuanced than those of Einstein and Teilhard because he believed in the fundamental nature of energy in the universe, and the laws of physics as inseparable from the divine, emerging from them as Source. He also emphasized the importance of scientific inquiry as a way of understanding how the laws of physics and metaphysics manifest God’s design in the universe in “as above, so below” fashion. He often attributed his creative abilities and insights to a divine source and the power of divine inspiration persons could tune into. For that reason, he never married, devoting full attention to the inspirations he received as creative “down-loads” in his mind. Tesla saw the mind as an avenue of awareness to a divine power, manifest in all creative endeavors.

My brain is only a receiver. In the universe there is a core from which we attain knowledge, strength, and inspiration .  .  . if you want to know the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration (Tesla).

Tesla’s father was a Greek Orthodox priest who learned from his mother that the key to all knowledge and truth was revealed in Scripture. As a scientist working among religious skeptics, he never publicly avowed his religious beliefs, though privately thought there was no conflict between religion and science. On occasion he publicly inferred that religion was merely the physics that had not yet been discovered, and that Jesus was privy to a divine storehouse of those secrets and powers as evidenced in own teaching and self-identity as “The Light of the World.” Said Jesus,

Therefore every scholar and interpreter of the Sacred Writings who has been instructed and trained .  .  . is like a steward who brings forth out of his storehouse treasure that is new and old – the fresh as well as the familiar (Matt. 13:52, Amplified Bible).

Ancient wisdom traditions reveal that approaching mystery without reverence and enlightened spiritual consciousness only results in partial vision, eclipsing the whole of it. This Quest of quests requires a healthy blend of the soft and hard sciences in that order, including the arts. Only by being lifted above the empirical fray by interdisciplinary means and the grace of God positions one as equal to the task. Until then, science and scientists will not have entered their wisdom phase, nor will religionists embrace their empirical one, leaving the synthesis riddle unsolved. In the incarnation, God became man that man might become God (spiritually alive), that science might become religion and conversely, restored to seeing, thinking, choosing, reconciling, and loving accordingly.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience (Teilhard).

Summarizing: (1) The ability to see and think in a full-orbed way is the foremost ingredient to attain full-access knowing toward an all-inclusive cosmogenic synthesis. (2) The secrets of the universe are often found where least expected hiding in plain sight. (3) Divinity by any other name is still the same and One with all things. (4) Nothing is more natural than the supernatural or more supernatural than the natural, seamlessly co-present everywhere. (5) The intellect is an avenue of awareness in service to the senses, which by themselves can only experience a portion of reality as it is until duly weaned by a higher order. (6) Physics and metaphysics, outer and inner worlds operate from the same cosmic energy and information field and principles seeking conscious reconciliation with all souls, transforming them into light beings and light workers.

Among history’s many unknowns in service to the highest of these unified energy fields stands modest inventor Nikola Tesla. Checking all the “least expected” boxes, he was unjustly shorn of the Nobel Prize for inventing radio, ignored for his theorem linking gravity and electromagnetism, used by profiteering robber barons Edison, Westinghouse, and J.P. Morgan, undervalued as a scientist in his synthesis efforts, and died penniless and alone in a Manhattan hotel room. As if these humiliations weren’t enough, immediately upon news of his death his blueprints for anti-gravity propulsion and developing alternative energy systems to replace fossil fuels were illegally confiscated from the hotel safe by the FBI which only recently were declassified (with redactions.) The latter a welcome boon to the oil and coal consortiums, and their lobbyists in big government. Nowadays, that would include a billionaire rocket enthusiast scavenging Tesla’s name to sell electric cars whose motor bears little resemblance to the one he invented.

Unlike Edison, Westinghouse, and financier J.P. Morgan, profiteering was not foremost on Tesla’s mind. Rather, as per his scuttled Wardenclyffe project, it involved making the earth’s free, clean, abundant alternative energy available to the entire world cheaply, thereby eliminating hunger, poverty, and the use of fossil fuels that have led to poisoning the environment and climate change.

When once asked what it was like to be the smartest man on the planet, Albert Einstein quipped, “I don’t know, you’ll have to ask Nikola Tesla.” A fitting tribute, one genius to another. There is no need to reinvent or the complete the cosmic cosmogenic model that Einstein sought by mathematical theory, and Teilhard via religion. Nor is there a need to discover what fuels its engine. Just begin to thoughtfully consider what humanity was unprepared for a century ago, and why he went unrecognized.

Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe (Tesla).

Of note, Tesla was born at the stroke of midnight during a fierce lightning storm whereby the midwife at bedside wrung her hands and declared the lightning a bad omen. “This child will be a child of darkness,” she said, to which his mother sternly replied: “No, he will be a child of light.” Legends and prophecies are just as well founded in the future as in the past. Visionary Tesla died alone fully aware of his plight in 1943, promising a comeback return in this century. Nothing can stop an idea whose time has come, gone, and circles around once more.

Aside from his genius, its character that makes Tesla history’s standalone candidate equal to the task of discovering nature’s greatest secret. His discoveries were not along theoretical lines, but experimental ones aimed at harnessing the power of nature and the mind to create a better future for all. Look no further for the Grail Legend’s worthy knight. According to the myth, each questing knight is asked, “Whom does the Grail serve?” Following his Master, he intuited that one’s gifts were to be nobly given for the world, and with a passion marked by unreserved devotion, sacrifice, and suffering. Qualifying in this way unlike any other in his field he answered, “It serves the Grail King.”

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter – for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes .  .  . the future, for which I really worked, is mine (Tesla).

As he anticipated prior to his death Tesla may yet have his day in the sun, and in this century. Come January 7, 2026, consider raising a glass of your favorite beverage to the man credited with making the complex simple and bringing light to a darkened world in ways that went scoffed and unrecognized. May a more complete understanding of his contributions and the vision of their completion, along with those of cohorts Teilhard and Einstein, be realized in our time.

Joe Masterleo

 

About the Author

Joseph C. Masterleo, LCSW-DCSW, is a clinical social worker in private practice in Syracuse NY, and Rockledge FL. His half-century of service in the mental health care field includes faith-based counseling, with an emphasis on psycho-spiritual integration. His subspecialty involves developing a novel paradigm for the synthesis of science, religion, and psychology, identifying the energy and geometric patterns that connect the quantum world with space-time. His model explains how spirit and matter can co-exist as two facets of one reality in a unified field, dissolving the walls of partition between previously siloed disciplines. Inspired by the writings of Thomas Merton (ecumenism), Teilhard de Chardin (synthesis), Thomas Berry (ecotheology), Nikola Telsa (electromagnetism), and others, his objective is to tell a new, future-looking story for the Ecozic Age, one that forms a connecting bridge between the biblical story of creation, modern science, and ancient cosmologies. His columns on these and related subjects have appeared on websites such as The Center for Christogenesis, Progressive Christianity, and in newsprint via The Goodnews Paper, the Syracuse Post Standard, and the Syracuse Sports Magazine, where he comments on sports as reflecting the best and worst of American character and culture. Further information about Joe and his Spirit-Science model can be found in his book, The Ambient Christ, the Untold Story of God in Science, Scripture, and Spirituality, listed on Amazon Books, Barnes & Noble, and on his website www.joeknowsgod.com