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nologies also have exciting prospects in water treatment, medicine, industry and transport—where a combustion device has already undergone successful trials. Technologies like these are the way of the future, now, and by all accounts they can greatly benefit our lives and our world. APRIL - MAY 1997 nologies also have exciting prospects in tends! As for when, well, at the time of WIZARD: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF water treatment, medicine, industry and writing, Comet Hale-Bopp is bearing down NIKOLA TESLA—Biography of a Genius transport—where a combustion device has upon us, and by all accounts it's more than by Marc J. Siefer already undergone successful trials. just your average comet. Yet, there is Publisher: Birch Lane Press/Carol Technologies like these are the way of the —_ always a Greater Comet to come... Publishing Group, NJ, USA, 1996 future, now, and by all accounts they can These perspectives and more are given a ISBN 1-55972-329-7 (540pp h/c) greatly benefit our lives and our world. discerning critique by Tom Kay in When the Price: AUD$60.00; STG£ poa; Comet Runs. There's an urgency about his USD$32.00; CAN$41.95 WHEN THE COMET RUNS: The connections, such as in his analysis of the Available: Aust—Cameron Books, ph Prophecies for the Millennium prophecies of Mother Shipton, Edgar Cayce (047) 58 7676, fax (047) 58 9047; UK— by Tom Kay and the Grail Message, that demands atten- Counter Productions, PO Box 556, Publisher: Hampton Roads, USA, 1997 tion—lest it all be too late. Reiterating the London SE5 ORL; USA—Carol Publishing ISBN 1-57174-059-7 (239pp s/c) messages of modern-day seers like Aron Group, 120 Enterprise Ave., Secausus, NJ Price: AUD$26.00; NZD$29.95; Abrahamsen and Gordon-Michael Scallion, | 07094; Canada—Canadian Manda STG£10.99 + £1.10 p&h; USD$12.95 Kay takes us to where ‘end times' become Group, Toronto, Ontario. Available: Aust—Cameron Books, 68 ‘new beginnings’. These times may be soon- Exactly 101 years ago, genius inventor Winbourne Rd, Hazelbrook, NSW 2779, er than we think. Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) announced to the ph (047) 58 7676, fax (047) 58 9047; 7 world through the New York press that, "If NZ—Peaceful Living, ph (07) 571 8105; WY HEB MS TD Hi Bo there are intelligent inhabitants of Mars or UK—Airlift Book Co., ph 0181 804 0400; USA—Hampton Roads Publishing Co., 134 Burgess Lane, Charlottesville, VA 22902, ph (804) 296 2772, 1-800 766 8009, fax (804) 296 5096. We are indeed poised at the crossroads, millennially speaking. Here we are, with the possible fulfilment of the prophecies upon us—many more than had to be contended with the last time around, a thousand years ago. As author Tom Kay demonstrates, so many of these prophecies point to the same thing, the same time of reckoning, similar fiery events in the sky, travesty upon the lands and oceans, and times of spiritual transformation. By raking these prophecies on board, we ‘_ it i risk their eventuality; by ignoring them we some rather rare photographs. may be doing so at our peril. But if the Siefer treats his prodigious subject with Great Comet does come, we may be power- sympathy and realism, for Tesla was an less to deal with the effects of its presence. T qC) A K A VY eccentric with grand, achievable visions It's hard enough dealing with what it por- : whose tumultuous path often saw him féted any other planet, it seems to me that we can do something to attract their attention..." Indeed, he had been working on just that in his spare time, for this man was a modern Leonardo da Vinci with a string of patented inventions, including the AC motor, already to his credit. This new Tesla biography, Wizard, is seri- ously researched and utterly absorbing, with chapters charting all the stages of Tesla's life. Author Mark Siefer, a psychology lec- ture and graphologist, has been delving into Tesla's life, times and inventions since the late 1970s, and though several other biogra- phies have since been written, this treatise does draw on never-before-published docu- ments, letters and interviews and contains TOM NEXUS - 81