Bilocation

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Bilocation, or sometimes multilocation, is an alleged

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.

In ancient Greece

The ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras was said to have been capable of bilocation. According to Porphyry (writing several centuries after Pythagoras):

Almost unanimous is the report that on one and the same day he was present at

Tauromenium in Sicily, in each place conversing with his friends, though the places are separated by many miles, both at sea and land, demanding many days' journey.[2][3]

A similar story is told of Apollonius of Tyana, who was supposedly present simultaneously in Smyrna and Ephesus.[4]

In religion and mysticism

In 1774, Alphonsus Liguori claimed to have gone into a trance while preparing for Mass. When he came out of the trance he said that he had visited the bedside of the dying Pope Clement XIV.[5]

The concept of bilocation has been linked with

Theosophy,[7] Islam (especially Sufism),[8] and Jewish mysticism.[9]

Hinduism and Buddhism

It is also one of the

Sri Yukteswar,[13] and Lahiri Mahasaya,[13]
have been reported to have this ability.

Christianity

The history of

Virgin Mary in Caesaraugusta, Spain, in the year 40 AD, at a time when she is believed to have been still alive and living in Jerusalem.[14]

Other Christian figures said to have experienced bilocation include

Pio of Pietrelcina.[23]

However, some catholic philosophers disagree as to whether a person can really be physically located in two places at once, or whether the bilocations of the saints only take the form of non-substantial apparitions.[24][25]

Witchcraft

In the 17th century, persons accused of witchcraft were often reported to appear to their victims in visions, even if they were known to be elsewhere at the time. The trials at

Bury St. Edmunds and Salem included this "spectral evidence" against defendants. Matthew Hopkins
described the phenomenon in his book The Discovery of Witches.

Occultism

Émilie Sagée, a French teacher working in 1845 in a boarding school in Latvia, was supposed to have had the ability of bilocation.[26]

New Religious Movements

The English occultist Aleister Crowley was reported by acquaintances to have the ability to bilocate, even though he said he was not conscious of its happening at the time.[27]

Skepticism

Skeptical investigator Joe Nickell has written that there is no scientific evidence that bilocation is a real phenomenon and that cases are often from anecdotal reports that cannot be verified. Nickell listed self-delusion, hoaxing and illusion to explain alleged cases of bilocation.[28]

Cultural influence

Bilocation figures heavily in David Lynch's film Lost Highway (1997) and both Thomas Pynchon's novel Against the Day (2006) and Tim Powers' novel Declare (2000). Bilocation also plays a part in the Christopher Priest novel The Prestige. Additionally, the phenomenon is explored in an episode of The X-Files, "Fight Club", and several season two episodes of Alcoa Presents One Step Beyond, including "Dead Ringer".

A mystical story that involved Soviet author Yevgeny Petrov served as inspiration for the film Envelope (2012), starring Kevin Spacey.

The phenomenon is one of the main ideas in Stephen King's fiction novel The Outsider, even mentioning real-life references in one occasion.

See also

References

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  4. ^ Philostratus. "Life of Apollodorus (4.10)". Livius.org. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
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  14. ^ Peterson, Larry (12 October 2017). "Did you know the 1st apparition of the Blessed Mother was an act of bilocation?". Aleteia.
  15. ^ O'Connell, Christian E. (16 April 2015). "Rediscovering Saint Drogo of Sebourg". Crisis Magazine.
  16. ^ Da Rieti, Ubaldus (1895). Life of St. Anthony of Padua. Boston: Angel Guardian Press. pp. 47–48.
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  18. ^ Bartoli, D.; Maffei, J. P. (1858). The Life of St. Francis Xavier. London: Thomas Jones. p. 336.
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  20. ^ Muller, Michael (1888). "The Catholic Dogma". TraditionalCatholic.net. Chapter V, Part II, §8. This holy virgin ... appeared, by way of bilocation, to the savages, not less than five hundred times, instructing them in all the truths of our holy religion.
  21. ^ Harris, W. R. (1919). Essays in Occultism, Spiritism and Demonology. B. Herder Book Co. p. 64.
  22. ^ Saint-Omer, Edward (1907). Life, Virtues, and Miracles of St. Gerard Majella. Boston: Mission Church. pp. 160–164.
  23. ^ Day, Malcolm (September 2002). "Blood brother: Padre Pio". Fortean Times. Archived from the original on 2009-02-03.
  24. ^ Siegfried, Francis P. (1907). "Bilocation" . Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 2.
  25. ^ Kelly, Brian (28 September 2010). "The Miracle of Bilocation (It Isn't a Problem) and Happy Feast Day Saint Michael". Catholicism.org.
  26. ^ Robert Dale Owen (1860). Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World. New York: J.B. Lippincott & Company. pp. 348–358.
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