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On Thursday, April 2, 2026, at 8:00 p.m., a lecture by Tibor Hrs Pandur titled “Tesla’s Heliocentric Model of Human Progress in the Light of Unpublished Archival Evidence” will take place at Cankarjev dom (Alma Karlin Hall).
Admission is free.
The lecture focuses on initial findings of an analysis of Nikola Tesla’s model of human progress as presented in The Problem of Increasing Human Energy (1900), reinterpreted through a recently discovered and previously unpublished first chapter draft to The Problem, discovered in the archives of the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade. In this draft, using a “force diagram,” Tesla presents the progress of humanity (equated with Earth) as an orbital, complex spiral motion around an “Ideal” (equated with the Sun), determined by a dynamic equilibrium of three fundamental forces. The vectors of these forces generate secondary forces directed toward various manifestations of the “Ideal.” This heliocentric model of human progress radically transforms our understanding of Tesla’s philosophy, including his concept of “scientific philanthropy,” which underpinned his unrealized system of global wireless energy transmission. The discovery of this material may serve as a key with which to unlock several of his seemingly unrelated scientific, technological, and spiritual ideas, enabling a more precise understanding of his philosophy of energy and technological vision beyond widespread and often mistaken interpretations.
The lecture will also critically examine tensions related to Tesla’s idea of global wireless energy distribution in the context of the problem of energy centralization and energy democracy, including the religious influences through which he interpreted and disseminated his inventions.
About the lecturer
Tibor Hrs Pandur is a poet, Teslologist, translator, dramaturge, comparativist, and literary historian. He has published two scholarly monographs on Nikola Tesla: the Slovenian translation of The Problem of Increasing Human Energy with an accompanying study (ZRC Publishing House; 2nd expanded edition, 2021), and Nikola Tesla: Correspondence with J. P. Morgan & Co. (Litera, 2023), which he edited, translated, and annotated, and which represents the first publication of this material worldwide. He is currently employed as a researcher on a three-year project titled Nikola Tesla: Philosophy of Energy, Technology and Religion and Its Relevance Today (Institute of Philosophy and Religious Studies, ZRS Koper and AMEU Maribor). He is also completing a PhD at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Ljubljana (Interdisciplinary Humanities and Social Sciences).
About the organizers
The event is organized in cooperation with the Society for Comparative Religion Studies and the Institute of Philosophy and Religious Studies of the Science and Research Centre (ZRS) Koper, within the project Nikola Tesla: Philosophy of Energy, Technology and Religion and Its Relevance Today (J7-60133), supported by the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (ARIS).
