Bilocation
Bilocation describes the alleged ability of a person to be in two places at the same time.
In the Catholic Church this phenomenon is attributed to some saints, e.g. B. Anthony of Padua , Joseph of Cupertino , Padre Pio and Francis of Assisi . It explains that these people felt the desire to do good so strongly that they were doing their duty in one place and doing their destiny in another. For example, the blessed Peruvian Dominican Martin de Porres is said to have fulfilled his duties in the monastery and at the same time was seen in the hospital caring for the poorest.
Bilocation is also used in paranormology . The Swedish theosophist and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg and the Indian guru Sathya Sai Baba are also said to have had this ability.
Attempts to explain
Bilocation can be explained in different ways, for example through incorrect interpretation of events (wrong time specifications), the use of a doppelganger , hallucinations or simply through the formation of legends about famous personalities.
A psychological explanation starts with the normal ability of every person to be physically present, but at the same time to be in a completely different experience (e.g. in daydreams ). In the field of psychopathology , one knows the flashback experiences in traumatized people and the phenomenon of "dissociation" in various clinical pictures.
Such psychological approaches can offer an explanation of why people experience themselves in different places at the same time. The other case, namely that people see people in certain places while they are demonstrably staying in other places, requires a different psychological explanation: On the one hand, this can be seen in the change in perception in emotionally tense states that make one the desired ( or also feared), on the other hand in social psychological phenomena of the masses (auto) suggestion .
Individual evidence
- ↑ see G. Stemberger, About the ability to be in two places at the same time. A multi-field approach to understanding human experience
- ↑ On the transitions from normal psychological to psychopathological phenomena, see: John A. Biever MD and Maryann Karinch, The Wandering Mind. Understanding Dissociation from Daydreams to Disorders . Rowman & Littlefield 2012.
- ↑ cf. Klaus Conrad , “Occult” phenomena in the light of gestalt psychological research. Journal for Experimental and Applied Psychology, 4 , pp. 363-383.
- ↑ see: Gerd Schallenberg: Visionary experiences. Visions and Auditions in the Present. A psychodynamic and psychopathological investigation , Pattloch, Augsburg 1990.