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BILOCATION AND   SPIRITUAL TRAVEL Alternating Perception of Inner and Outer Realities

The way of leaving the body that I am least familiar with involves the subtle shift in attention away from the senses and concentration on some non-sensory image or state. The thing that distinguishes this from normal imagination is the uninterrupted or continuous nature of the inner experience and its clarity or three-dimensional quality. In this kind of spiritual travel, the experiencer can instantaneously shift back to the physical senses with no resistance or time required to regain normal waking sensory experience.

This kind of spiritual travel is perhaps a more advanced form since it allows for integration of inner and outer experience. Here the line between spiritual travel and normal waking experience becomes less firm. The shift between the two can take place anywhere. This is perhaps the least dramatic form of spiritual travel, but also the most useful for the purpose of bringing the knowledge of the inner world to the outer world.

This ability the shift back and forth between two completely separate existences, one in the body and one out of the body is sometimes called bilocation. I do not use bilocation to mean having two physical bodies as some authors do, but only to describe the ability to perceive two separate worlds.

Bilocation at the end of a Spiritual Travel Experience

This experience illustrates bilocation in the form of only partially returning to the body while mantaining an awareness of the inner world.

Bilocation at the beginning of the Experience

This experience shows the difficulty of discussing bilocation. It describes the contradictory feeling of being "in the body" while also being "not in the body".