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