by Walter Semkiw, MD

After seeing Elon Musk on television, who has been involved in founding Tesla Motors, PayPal and SpaceX, I wondered who he could have been in a past incarnation. In reading his biography, Thomas Edison leapt into my mind. Edison was called the “Wizard of Menlo Park” (New Jersey), while Musk named one of SpaceX’s rocket engines “Merlin” and he told Cal tech graduates that they are the “Magicians of the 21st-century.”

Nikola Tesla worked in Edison’s lab before they became adversaries in the controversy of whether AC or DC current was more effective in transmitting electrical power. Musk appears to have mended this relationship by naming his electric car after Tesla. Edison was an inventor credited with creating the first industrial research lab and Elon Musk has followed a parallel path. I found the facial similarity to be remarkable and Ahtun Re has affirmed that Elon Musk is the reincarnation of Thomas Edison.

In 2020, Elon Musk and his partner, the musician Grimes, had a child. Grimes has been identified as the reincarnation of Mina Edison, wife of Thomas (see below). Elon and Graves gave their son a technologic name, X Æ A-12.

In an interesting collaborate, Thomas Edison gave two sons from a prior marriage the nicknames “Dash” and “Dot,” in reference to Morse Code, a communication technology in Edison’s day.

Evidence and Principles of Reincarnation-Understanding Past Lives

Physical Resemblance in Reincarnation Cases: The facial features of Thomas Edison and Elon Musk are very similar.

Past Life Talent: Thomas Edison was a gifted inventor and businessman who changed the world through industrial applications of his creations. Elon Musk is doing the same.

Renewal of Relationships through Reincarnation: Thomas Edison’s chief research and business associate was Charles Batchelor, who is now working with Edison | Musk in the persona of Steve Jurvetson.

Elon Musk has reunited with his past life wife, Mina, in the persona of Grimes.

Change in Nationality: Thomas Edison was born in Ohio, in the United States, while Elon Musk was born in South Africa.

Change in Religion: Thomas Edison was interested in spiritualism and even attempted to invent an electronic device that could be used to communicate with spirits. In contrast, it appears that Elon Musk is agnostic or an atheist. It is my hope that evidence of reincarnation, and in particular the work of Ian Stevenson, MD, of the University of Virginia, will rekindle his interest in Instrumental Transcommunication.

THE MUSICIAN GRIMES AS THE REINCARNATION OF MINA EDISON

On May 4, 2020, Elon Musk and his partner, Grimes, had a baby boy who they named X Æ A-12. One interpretation of this name is that X is an unknown variable in mathematics, Æ represents artificial intelligence and is pronounced “Ash,” and A-12 refers to the couple’s favorite aircraft, Lockheed Martin’s Archangel 12. In sum, the name is pronounced X Ash Archangel 12.

Grimes seems to have an affection for mathematical symbols as since 2018, she has gone by the name “C,” referring to the symbol for the speed of light.

In a session with Kevin Ryerson, Ahtun Re, the spirit being who has demonstrated the ability to make past life matches with a high degree of accuracy, affirmed that Grimes is the reincarnation of Mina Edison.

Mina was born on July 6, 1865, the seventh child of inventor Lewis Miller and his wife, Mary. Mina married Thomas Edison when she was 20 years old, about half the age of Edison at the time of their union. As Thomas was often in his lab, Mina took charge of the household and gave herself the title “Home Executive.” Mina became a leader in the community in which they lived.

During the Great Depression, Mina herself conducted a study on the effects of unemployment on local medical facilities. After her husband’s death in 1931, Mina founded the Thomas Alva Edison Foundation. Mina died in 1947.

Claire Elise Boucher was born in Vancouver, Canada on March 17, 1988, 41 years after Mina had died. For college, Claire attended McGill University in Montreal and one of her majors was neuroscience, which seems to reflect Mina’s interest in health care.

Claire began recording music under the name Grimes in 2007. Starting in 2018, she adopted the nickname “C,” the symbol for the speed of light. In that year, she also started a relationship with Elon Musk, which resulted in the creation of their son, X Æ A-12.

In an amusing correlate, Thomas Edison gave two of his sons from a prior marriage the nicknames “Dot” and “Dash,” in reference to Morse Code. Edison taught Mina Morse Code so that they could communicate in secret around her family and he reportedly proposed marriage to her in Morse Code, which I think is quite romantic. Morse code is a precursor to binary language used in computer programming, where one and zero are used instead of dot and dash.

As such, technologic names and nicknames are observed in the lives of Thomas Edison | Elon Musk and Mina Edison | Grimes.

Evidence and Principles of Reincarnation-Understanding Past Lives

Physical Resemblance in Reincarnation Cases: There are similarities in the facial features of Thomas Edison | Elon Musk and Mina Edison | Claire Boucher (Grimes).

Relationships Renewed through Reincarnation: Thomas and Mina have reunited in the persons of Elon and Claire.

Past Life Passions, Talent and Abilities: Thomas Edison’s genius is expressed in the life of Elon Musk. In the era of Edison, women were allowed limited roles in society. In contemporary times, the soul of Mina | Claire is expressing her talent in music.

Change in Nationality: Thomas and Mina Edison were born in the United States, while Elon Musk was born in South Africa and Grimes was born in Canada. Understanding that cultural markers of identity such as nationality, religion and ethnic affiliation can change from one lifetime can help create a more peaceful world.

COMPARISON OF MUSK AND EDISON BACKGROUNDS

by Charles Morris (published in 2017)

On the face of it, the similarities between Elon Musk and Thomas Edison are not hard to see: Each is an American engineer turned entrepreneur with a long list of inventions, electrical and otherwise, to his credit. Both men have captured the popular imagination, and are deservedly revered for their contributions to society. Looking a little deeper, we find some uncanny parallels between the lives of these two, as Peter Mears writes in a recent installment of the Biz Vinci blog.

Musk and Edison had different backgrounds – the former was born in South Africa, and the latter was born in Ohio and grew up in Michigan. However, both seem to have had difficult childhoods. Edison was a sickly child, and had lifelong hearing problems stemming from an early bout of scarlet fever (a cruel irony for a man who would later make great advancements in sound recording). Mears tells us that Musk was severely bullied as a child. Musk told biographer Ashlee Vance that his father had a domineering streak, and discouraged the young man’s interest in computers.

Both entrepreneurs got started making money very early in life, and each had a great capacity for self-learning. When Elon was about 12, he created a computer game called Blastar, sold it to a computer magazine for around $500, and invested the money in a pharmaceutical stock, which he later sold for a healthy profit. Edison, who was home-schooled by his mother, sold newspapers as a child and later published his own paper, called the Grand Trunk Herald. He went on to found the corporate giant General Electric, and no less than fourteen other companies. He eventually amassed a fortune of over $12 million, equivalent to billions in today’s dollars.

After Musk found his way to the entrepreneur-friendly US, “where great things are possible,” he created Zip2, an online city guide that he sold to major newspapers, a forerunner of indispensable modern resources like Google Maps and Yelp. His next act was to revolutionize online payments with PayPal. He sold his share to eBay in 2002, and took home around $180 million from the deal. His next move could have been “retiring and buying an island somewhere and sipping Mai-tais, but that was not of interest to me at all.” Instead, he went on to found Tesla, SpaceX and SolarCity, with the unabashed goal of changing the world for the good of mankind. Today his net worth is estimated at over $11 billion.

Both Edison and Musk have made their marks in many different fields. The many devices that Edison invented or commercialized include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and practical electric light bulbs. He was a major influence on the development of our ubiquitous electrical grid. He was also a pioneer in the application of mass production and large-scale teamwork to invention, creating one of the first research labs. Incidentally, he also built batteries for electric cars.

Elon Musk is also a polymath who has made his mark in many fields – the internet, finance, space, solar power, energy storage (Powerwall), manufacturing (the Gigafactory), and mass transportation (Hyperloop). He’s even acted in movies. And of course he is in the process of reinventing the automotive industry, with all the implications for our car-dominated society that that portends. “Elon is a paragon of enthusiasm, good humor and curiosity – a Renaissance man in an era that needs them,” said director Jon Favreau, who told Time that he used Musk as his model for the superhero Iron Man’s alter ego, Tony Stark.

And we do need visionary superheroes. In a time when our leaders are telling us that we can’t afford to invest in grand projects, that we need to withdraw behind walls and try to slow down the pace of change, it is men of action like Musk who offer us hope for a future in which we can use technology to build a better world. “Elon thinks bigger than just about anyone else I’ve ever met,” former PayPal COO David Sacks told the LA Times in 2003. “He sets lofty goals and sets out to achieve them with great speed.”

Of course, there are also important differences between these two visionaries. Musk may not be a serial inventor, like Edison, but he has an intuitive understanding of the big picture. His technical brilliance is beyond question, but without his financial and marketing talents, he could never have built the strong companies that are making electric cars, solar panels and rockets into real products that people want to buy. This gift for turning big dreams into everyday reality is what assures the very rare Edison or Musk a place in history.

Ironically, Musk reveres Edison even more than he does Edison’s rival Nikola Tesla, as he explained in an interview for The Henry Ford’s Visionaries on Innovation series in 2008: “I think Edison was certainly a role model, probably one of the biggest role models. The car company is called Tesla… because we use an AC induction motor, which is an architecture that Tesla developed. And the guy probably deserves a little more play than he gets in current society. But on balance, I’m a bigger fan of Edison than Tesla because Edison brought his stuff to market and made those inventions accessible to the world, whereas Tesla didn’t really do that.” [Ed – Perhaps a bigger fan of Edison because he was Edison.]

[Ed – Sometimes due to guilt for doing terrible things in one life, to amend, souls will do the opposite in the next and future lives. Could this be why Elon Musk named his car company Tesla?]

There was a huge rivalry between Edison and Nikola Tesla over the future of electric conduction and Tesla won to the major disappointment of Edison as related in the following video.