DOPPLEGANGERS
Author: Lisa
The word Doppelganger derives from Doppel (double) and Ganger (walker), meaning someone
who is acting/walking the same as another person.
Doppelgangers have been described as having glimpsed oneself in peripheral vision, in a
position where there is no chance that it could have been a reflection. They are generally
regarded as harbingers bad luck. In some traditions, a doppelganger seen by a person's friends
or relatives means impending illness or danger, while seeing one's own doppelganger is an omen
of death. Supposedly, they cast no shadow and have no reflection. Often, once someone sees
their doppelganger, they are doomed to be haunted by their own ghostly image.
Being closely related is the term bilocation, or multilocation, and is defined exactly as the name
suggests: the ability/instance in which an individual or object appears to be located in two distinct
places at the same instant in time, and which is said to be involuntary in most cases. This,
however, should not be confused with astral projection, which is pereceived to be the spirit or
astral body leaving the physical body to travel into other planes of existance and time. While
closely related, these terms are distinctly different, and each have been reported throughout
history.
What is probably the most famous reported case of a person seeing his/her own doppelganger
is Abraham Lincoln after he was elected as President for his first term. It is said that, while
relaxing on a sofa at home, he looked at a bureau mirror across the room and saw his reflexion in
full length, with two faces, one paler than the other. He saw this several times, then it disappeared
and he never saw it again. He told his wife about it and she determined that its meaning was that
Abe would not live to see the end of his second term.
Saint Padre Pio, a priest and mystic who also was a stigmatic for the last 50 years of his life,
was known to bilocate, most famously during WWII. Padre Pio had promised the citizens of San
Giovanni Rotondo that their town would be spared, and when American bombers were dispatched
to attack the city, Padre Pio was seen by pilots to be suspended in air in front of the bonbers,
impeding them of dropping their bombs in some mysterious way. Later, one of the pilots traveled
to see Padre Pio and confirmed that he was, indeed, the same figure he saw suspended in the
sky that day.
Cases of conscious astral projection are well documented in the writings of ancient Greek
philosophers such as PlatoHerodotus, as well as in the Bible (the Apocolypse of John 1:10-11
and Corinthians 12:2) and is well-documented as far back as the ancient Romans over 4000
years ago.
who is acting/walking the same as another person.
Doppelgangers have been described as having glimpsed oneself in peripheral vision, in a
position where there is no chance that it could have been a reflection. They are generally
regarded as harbingers bad luck. In some traditions, a doppelganger seen by a person's friends
or relatives means impending illness or danger, while seeing one's own doppelganger is an omen
of death. Supposedly, they cast no shadow and have no reflection. Often, once someone sees
their doppelganger, they are doomed to be haunted by their own ghostly image.
Being closely related is the term bilocation, or multilocation, and is defined exactly as the name
suggests: the ability/instance in which an individual or object appears to be located in two distinct
places at the same instant in time, and which is said to be involuntary in most cases. This,
however, should not be confused with astral projection, which is pereceived to be the spirit or
astral body leaving the physical body to travel into other planes of existance and time. While
closely related, these terms are distinctly different, and each have been reported throughout
history.
What is probably the most famous reported case of a person seeing his/her own doppelganger
is Abraham Lincoln after he was elected as President for his first term. It is said that, while
relaxing on a sofa at home, he looked at a bureau mirror across the room and saw his reflexion in
full length, with two faces, one paler than the other. He saw this several times, then it disappeared
and he never saw it again. He told his wife about it and she determined that its meaning was that
Abe would not live to see the end of his second term.
Saint Padre Pio, a priest and mystic who also was a stigmatic for the last 50 years of his life,
was known to bilocate, most famously during WWII. Padre Pio had promised the citizens of San
Giovanni Rotondo that their town would be spared, and when American bombers were dispatched
to attack the city, Padre Pio was seen by pilots to be suspended in air in front of the bonbers,
impeding them of dropping their bombs in some mysterious way. Later, one of the pilots traveled
to see Padre Pio and confirmed that he was, indeed, the same figure he saw suspended in the
sky that day.
Cases of conscious astral projection are well documented in the writings of ancient Greek
philosophers such as PlatoHerodotus, as well as in the Bible (the Apocolypse of John 1:10-11
and Corinthians 12:2) and is well-documented as far back as the ancient Romans over 4000
years ago.
