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Richard Syrett's Strange Planet

314 Edison vs. Tesla

Richard Syrett's Strange Planet

Richard Syrett & Glassbox Media

Society & Culture

4.5 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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EPISODE #314 Richard welcomes the co-author of a new book detailing the battle between the two greatest minds of the 20th century and their battle over their last invention; a device they hoped could talk to 'spirit.' GUEST: William Birnes is a New York Times best-selling author, a magazine publisher, and a New York literary publishing agent who has written and edited over twenty-five books and encyclopedias in the fields of human behavior, true crime, current affairs, history, psychology, business, computing, and the paranormal. He is the co-author of Edison vs. Tesla; The Battle Over Their Last Invention.   PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS!! Strange Planet's Fullscript Dispensary - an online service offering hundreds of professional supplement brands, personal care items, essential oils, pet care products and much more. Nature Grade, Science Made!   Paranormal Contractors - They Take Ghost and Demon Problems Seriously! 631-552-5835  paranormalcontractors@gmail.com Life Change and Formula 13 Teas All Organic, No Caffeine, Non GMO! More Energy! Order now, use the code 'unlimited' and your first purchase ships for free. Reverse Speech Radio,the only podcast in the world that is committed to bringing you "The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But The Truth." Listen and Subscribe at reversespeechradio.libsyn.com Crime & Trauma Scene Cleaners is committed to helping people when tragedy strikes. Our objective is to restore safety to an environment in the most professional and discrete manner possible. Unlock Strange Planet Premium at https://strangeplanet.supportingcast.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://strangeplanet.supportingcast.fm/

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0:00.0

This is a Last Fox Media Podcast.

0:05.0

A still life sits under a suburban street lamp,

0:10.0

three eggs, drizzled in honey, and it still smells like incense.

0:15.0

Is it magic, witchcraft, or prayer?

0:19.0

I'm Heather Freeman.

0:21.0

Join me as we meet the everyday Americans who've remixed magic,

0:25.3

religion, and spirituality for over 400 years. Listen to magic in the United States

0:31.2

wherever you get your podcasts. Richard Serrat. On this episode, the two greatest inventors of the 20th century, Thomas Edison and

0:50.9

Nicola Tesla, and their battle over their last invention, a telephone

0:56.3

that could talk to the dead. And Edison saw that market. He was fascinated by the new science of the period that we could talk about, but he saw a market, the market of the bereaved. And he thought, gee, if all this talk about quantum mechanics, that that's true, then maybe

1:19.3

these life units that make up human consciousness could be contacted after death.

1:25.0

You don't need a Ouija board, you don't need T-Lea, you need a scientific device,

1:30.0

and that scientific device is a pencil-thin narrow light beam and if I can just

1:38.3

induce the consciousness of a recently deceased person to cross that light beam, that'll register on a meter.

1:48.0

And if it registers on a light meter, I'll know that there is consciousness after death.

1:55.0

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objective is to restore safety to an environment in the most professional and discreet manner possible.

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