| Bilocation is the ability to exist simultaneously in two | | | | accounts describe Saint Alphonsus Maria de'Ligouri |
| separate places. The double may appear in physical or | | | | appearing at the bedside of dying Pope Clement XIV, |
| spectral form, usually acts in a strange manner or | | | | when in fact Saint Alphonsus was confined to a prison |
| somewhat mechanically and does not respond when | | | | cell at a location a five days journey away. |
| spoken to. Bilocation differs from out of body | | | | In mythology the notion of the doppelganger or double |
| experience in that a physical and spiritual double exists | | | | involves the existence of an evil twin. This ideas |
| which interacts with other people and objects and is | | | | seems to parallel the concept of bilocation. |
| witnessed by others, whereas an out of body | | | | Doppelgangers were believed to have been switched |
| experience involves the consciousness exiting from | | | | at birth, the good child being replaced with the evil. It is |
| the physical self without manifesting a physical form or | | | | said that if the two should meet, then they will both |
| viewable spiritual entity. | | | | perish. |
| Although uncommon, the phenomenon of bilocation has | | | | Bilocation is also a mental state described by some |
| been historically recorded. It is claimed to have been | | | | practitioners of remote viewing. In this context it is |
| experienced, and in rare cases, practiced by will, by | | | | believed that the remote viewer's attention or |
| gurus, mystics, saints, monks, and magical adepts. | | | | awareness is split in two so that half of the viewer's |
| Several Christian saints and monks were believed to | | | | conscious attention is trained on a remote location and |
| have experienced bilocation such as Padre Pio of Italy, | | | | the other half is focused on the immediate |
| Saint Anthony of Padua, Saint Ambrose of Milan and | | | | environment. |
| Saint Severus of Ravenna. In 1774 historical witness | | | | |