HERE’S a question about bilocation from a male reader whose name he requested to be withheld:

“On two separate occasions, my officemates had seen me in the office during times I was absent.

“I did some research and found it may be described as bilocation. Based on my readings, this is characteristic of the phenomenon. The scary thing is that it could herald death. Can you please enlighten me on this?”

Bilocation means “being seen in two places at the same time.”

It is not as rare a phenomenon as many people think, and it does not necessarily herald death.

Bilocation happens when one’s astral body detaches itself from one’s physical body and travels without the person being aware of it. The astral body is sometimes called the “desire body” because it goes to where the person wants to go, either consciously or unconsciously.

Many saints of the Catholic Church have been known to bilocate. There was, for example, the story of a saint who was at that time in jail. At the same time, many miles away, he was seen officiating Mass in a church with two other priests.

Psychic dreams

Here’s another letter from a reader about psychic dreams:

“Is it normal for a person to dream of things to come? I dream of incidents and events, either good or bad, and after a day or two or sometimes a week, these dreams happen in my waking state.

“When I dream of these future events they are so vivid, as if I were really there. My husband always tells me that I murmur in my sleep. I hope you can enlighten me.”

CLAIRE

Dreams are the language of our subconscious mind. And our subconscious is a vast repository of knowledge of past, present and even future events. Under certain circumstances, we can tap the almost unlimited knowledge of our subconscious mind.

Australian aborigines believe that before anything happens in physical reality, it is first dreamed of. Therefore, your dreams are normal. Many people dream of future events that come. That’s part of their psychic gifts.

Psychic power can manifest not only when we are awake, but also when we are asleep. Psychic or “precognitive dreaming” is one of them.

So we should never ignore them even if they do not at first make sense to us.

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