What would motivate Tesla to lie about the methods that provided him with scientific breakthrough’s?

Tesla is reported to have said that some of his ideas came to him in a flash of insperation that he found disturbing and unexplainable.
Yet most are of the opinion that this is not how genius is supposed to manifests why not?
Can we simply not admit that both the mind and universe is a strange place that is at times has no rational explaination?
Is it an ego thing?

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