My Dead Father Taught Me What Tesla Already Knew: How Grief Unlocks Psychic Genius

The untold story of three certified geniuses who proved your nervous system on grief is actually a consciousness technology

By Megan Ham

My life was already a dumpster fire when my father died. I was sick—the kind where your body stages a full rebellion and you can't remember what normal felt like. My marriage was imploding. I was solo-parenting four neurodivergent kids, each needing more than any human has to give. My siblings? Strangers, thanks to family drama with my mother. And my mother? Let's just say there's no Hallmark card for "I feel nothing for you but obligation."

My dad was different. He was the one adult who gave a damn, who showed up, who saw through all my masks and loved me anyway. My kids and I orbited around him daily. He was proof that unconditional love wasn't just something therapists talked about.

Then he died. And my already-shattered nervous system did something I didn't have language for.

I started hearing him. Not in that "feeling his presence" way people use to comfort you. I mean hearing his actual voice delivering information I had no way of knowing. When I touched objects, other people's memories would download like I'd plugged into their hard drive. Complete experiences that weren't mine. My desperation for connect was opening my mind to what we usually don't allow ourselves to sense.

The Western medical model would call this "grief psychosis." But I knew a woman from my childhood—practical, grounded and who started giving dead-on psychic readings after her mother passed. We couldn't be the only ones. Two random women discovering impossible abilities after loss? The pattern was too obvious.

So I did what I was trained to do: I researched the hell out of it. And found three men whose stories made my jaw drop. Not mystics or mediums. Scientists so legitimate their work shaped modern civilization. And every single one discovered that grief doesn't break your consciousness—it jailbreaks it.

The Scientists Who Refused to Pretend Death Was Final

In the gap between heartbreak and healing, three extraordinary men found themselves face to face with the impossible. Each had the kind of resume that makes skeptics shut up: groundbreaking inventions, Nobel prizes, knighthoods. Each encountered phenomena during loss that shattered their materialist worldview. And each chose to document rather than deny.

Nikola Tesla transformed modern civilization with over 300 patents, yet spoke openly of receiving complete inventions from sources beyond his own mind. His extraordinary abilities emerged during a period when his entire support system had collapsed—when everyone he loved had died or abandoned him, when his body staged its own revolt against existence.

The year was 1881. Tesla's older brother Dane had died years earlier in a riding accident—a golden child whose death left Tesla swimming in survivor's guilt. His father was gone. As he watched his mother die, a mysterious illness hijacked his nervous system. Light felt like acid. A watch ticking three rooms away sounded like sledgehammers. A fly landing on a table sent shockwaves through his entire body.

Classic nervous system dysregulation, we'd say now. But in that special hell, Tesla started experiencing what he called "luminous phenomena"—blinding flashes of light that arrived with complete blueprints for inventions that didn't exist yet. Not ideas. Finished technical specifications he could examine from every angle.

Here's where it gets properly wild: Tesla discovered he could build these inventions entirely in his mind, run them continuously for weeks, then mentally disassemble them to check for wear. When he finally built physical versions, his assistant was shook. The machines worked perfectly on first try, zero adjustments needed. Tesla wrote to his friend, "It's as if the universe itself had become my drafting table."

Sir Oliver Lodge stood at the pinnacle of British science. Co-invented radio, pioneered electromagnetic theory, collected a knighthood. Then September 14, 1915 arrived with a telegram during breakfast. Second Lieutenant Raymond Lodge, 26, shot through the head by a German sniper near Ypres. His wife collapsed. His daughters sobbed. But Lodge? He went eerily calm. Later wrote that he felt Raymond insisting he wasn't gone, just "relocated."

Lodge the physicist decided to science the shit out of his grief. When a medium claimed to have a message from Raymond, Lodge showed up under a fake name, provided zero information. The medium's first words: "He's showing me roses—Honora's roses." Honora was Raymond's pet name for his mother. The roses were a private family joke about her terrible gardening.

But Lodge needed more than feels. On September 25, the medium described Raymond in a group photograph—holding a walking stick, friend leaning on his shoulder. The Lodges knew of no such photo. Lodge went full detective: contacted the regiment, searched military archives, found nothing.

Two months later, a package arrived from another soldier's mother. Inside: group photographs including one of Raymond holding a walking stick, his friend Billy leaning on his shoulder, exactly as described. Taken August 24, just 21 days before Raymond's death. No living person outside the regiment knew it existed.

Charles Richet won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Medicine, then spent 40 years mathematically proving consciousness does impossible things. Started as a skeptic trying to debunk table-turning at a colleague's country estate in 1884. Instead, the table accurately tapped out symptoms from his unpublished research and solved equations faster than the humans could calculate.

Richet's scientist brain said "absolutely not" but his data said "absolutely yes." So he did what badass scientists do: designed ever-stricter protocols. Tested subjects claiming to read cards without seeing them. Expected success rate: 25%. Actual rate: 35-40% over thousands of trials. The probability of his results happening by chance? Less than one in a million.

For four decades, Richet refined his methods, invited hostile observers, published raw data. When the French Academy received his massive "Treatise on Metapsychics" in 1922, they couldn't debunk it—the methodology was too clean, the author too respected. So they pretended their Nobel laureate hadn't just mathematically proven consciousness transcends the brain.

Here's What Should Terrify You (In the Best Way)

How many people are having these experiences right now and suppressing them? How many are medicating "hallucinations" that might actually be expanded perception? How many will never know their grief gave them a gift because no one told them it was possible?

We live in a culture that treats grief like a disease to cure rather than an initiation to honor. We pathologize the exact experiences that these three geniuses proved were gateways to enhanced consciousness. We're literally medicating away the upgrade.

Imagine knowing:

• That presence you feel? It's real, and there's scientific framework for understanding it

• Those impossible knowings? Tesla used the same ability to invent our modern world

• That overwhelming sensitivity? It's not breakdown—it's your nervous system recalibrating to perceive more

• You're not losing it. You're expanding into capacities that have always existed in human potential

The Methods That Changed Everything

What separated these three from everyone else who glimpsed beyond the veil wasn't their experiences—it was their response. They developed systematic approaches that turned grief-activated abilities from random occurences into reliable tools.

Tesla created specific practices for accessing his "cosmic database." Lodge developed protocols for spirit communication that yielded verifiable information. Richet built statistical frameworks that transformed "that's weird" into "that's data."

Their methods weren't woo-woo—they were practical. They didn't require belief—they required practice. They didn't promise escape from grief—they offered transformation through it. Even if your loved one passed years ago your ability to open your consciousness and connect is still very possible for everyone. Grief is what makes us aware it isn't a final requirement to develop a higher level of consciousness and discover your natural psychic ability.

Your Invitation to Learn More and a Higher Level of Consciousness

Look, I could try to cram their decades of research into a blog post, but that would be like explaining quantum mechanics through TikTok. These aren't party tricks—they're consciousness technologies that deserve proper transmission.

If you recognize yourself in these stories—if grief has opened doors you didn't know existed, if you're tired of pretending you're not experiencing something real—I'm teaching what they discovered.

In this deep-dive webinar, you'll get:

✓ My modern day improved and proven Tesla's exact 3-step mental laboratory technique (fair warning: it's weirder and more specific than you think) ✓ The Lodge Protocol for distinguishing real communication from projection (this alone will save your sanity) ✓ Richet's statistical framework for tracking your abilities (because data beats doubt every time) ✓ My nervous system regulation hacks for handling expanded perception without losing your shit ✓ Integration practices for living with abilities in a world that doesn't believe in them ✓ The verification methods that shut up your inner skeptic AND your outer critics. Plus so much more. This is a mind blowing experience but more importantly it is mind opening. This can change your life as well as the others that you help. 💖🧘‍♂️

The Details:

• When: August 21st, 2025 @ 6pm

• Duration: 3 hours of concentrated teaching (no fluff, no "journey work," just methods/ I also give a PDF of the process. All students get my personal phone number and a knew like minded friend (my favorite part💖)

• Investment: $137 (because transformation should be accessible but also valued)

• Limited to 33 people (this keeps the group small enough for me to give additional support after the class if needed)

Reserve Your Spot Now

You're not broken. You're not delusional. You're experiencing what three of history's greatest minds documented with receipts—consciousness doesn't end where we were taught it does.

Your grief may have already opened the door. Ready to learn what Tesla, Lodge, and Richet discovered about walking through it?

Because sometimes the worst thing that happens to you is also the thing that shows you what you're actually capable of.

💖In memory of all those whose love transcends absence.💖