The Strange Mystery of Bilocation wrote:Some people are able to split themselves into more than one form and can appear at the same time to many different people hundreds, sometimes thousands of miles apart from each other. How can this possibly be? Science has been unable to solve this amazing mystery, but that does not stop hundreds of reports of such events happening.
This astounding ability to be in two or more places at the same time is called bilocation. Bilocation is the term, which describes the ability of people to appear in two or more different locations at the same time.
While some paranormal researchers feel these are only apparitions of the person, other researchers feel that the bilocating individual is actually able to divide him or herself into a number of different "selves" which simultaneously appear to people from all over the globe. Many occult researchers believe this a real fractioning of mind, body, and soul, because in recorded cases of people bilocating, they are often able to "physically interact" with people in a number of different locations at the same time. However, it is sometimes difficult to differentiate between a genuine bilocation from an apparition.
In some instances, there is a similar phenomenon known as a crisis case. A crisis case occurs when someone sees the apparition of a beloved relative or right at the time of that person's death. There are many wartime accounts of young soldiers making apparitions to their mothers over thousands of miles, letting them know in an uncanny way that they have just died, or passed over to the other side. In other crisis case instances, the apparition of the newly departed loved one is of a lighter, flimsier substance and may seem more like a movie projection or faint holographic image without words.
Doppelganger is another psychic phenomenon often times confused with bilocation. Translated from the German, it roughly means a "double walker" or an identical look-alive walking copy of the person, something like a human's psychic twin. In some instances, however, the person experiencing the doppelganger may see a doppelganger of their own self. This is especially a strange situation, because a person might report having briefly glimpsed "himself" or "herself" appearing at a distance, going through a door or walking down the street. How can this be then, when the real person is still conscious and walking in his or her own body?
Another striking aspect of the doppelganger is that it is usually associated with bad omens, sinister behavior or bad misfortune that usually happens shortly after the doppelganger is seen. A striking example of the negative nature of the doppelganger is that Abraham Lincoln saw his own shortly before his assassination. According to Noah Brooks' "Washington in Lincoln's Time" (1895), the author reported that Lincoln told him of a doppelganger experience back in 1864. Brooks records Lincoln's own words as follows:
"Opposite where I lay was a bureau with a swigging glass upon it and looking in that glass I saw myself reflected nearly at full length; but my face I noticed I had two separate and distinct images." Lincoln further relates at being understandably startled by such an event, and added that when he lay back down, the double-image reappeared once again. To make the situation even stranger, several days later, Lincoln saw this double-image reappearing for yet a third time. After mentioning it to his wife Mary Todd Lincoln, she made a chilling prophecy, as Lincoln further writes: "She thought it was a sign that I was to be elected to a second term of office, and that paleness of one of the faces was an omen that I should not see life through the last term." History records that prophecy to have tragically been fulfilled more than a year later in Ford's Theater.
St. Alphonsus Liguori was known to go into a bilocating trance a number of times shortly before saying Mass. Apparently, he was not deliberately trying to do this, but felt himself splitting into a number of bodies while traveling through the various dimensions against his will. Other prelates who have been recorded as having bilocated include St. Gerard Majella, St. Severus of Ravenna, and St. Ambrose of Milan. They give no logical explanations as to why they were able to do his, or the reasons why they bilocated.
The September 2006 edition of Nature reports that experiments in bilocation were conducted at the University Hospital in Geneva, Switzerland. Dr. Shahur Arzy and his team were capable of recreating doppelganger like phenomenon while electromagnetically stimulating the human brain. According to the report, when the left temporoparietal section of the test subject's brain was charged with focal electronic charges, the subject suddenly sensed a twin of herself, a doppelganger if you will, directly behind her. The tests indicate that electrical stimulation of the left temporoparietal junction in the brain can create a strong sensation of self-image apart from the individual him or herself. Arzy noted that this same kind of phenomenon is noted in patients suffering from schizophrenia. Even so, the results of this test do not explain who non-schizophrenic people experience dopelgangers as well as other people suddenly materializing to them in reported instances of bilocation.
Whatever the true nature of this phenomenon, one thing is certain, it has been with us since recorded history, continues to be reported, and gives no sign of going away. So next time you see your body double looking at you, do not turn away, they might be trying to tell you something.
Quite honestly, I've met myself on several occasions and usually I've tried to kill me.
