A Review Of `Doppelganger Events’
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As you can see from today’s title - the subject is Doppelgangers - with a dictionary definition of: 1) a ghostly counterpart of a living person 2)a-double - 2)b - alter ego 2)c - a person with the same name as another. The definition is a good start, but, unfortunately, all definitions are not found in the dictionary - and - terms take on new meanings as `examples’ of doppelgangers - and what they might be - increases. You will find out what I mean by that in a moment.
Now, my life, perhaps like some of you out there - has had definition number 1 seemingly happen to them in some manner. Frankly, without too much of a deep mind review - I can think of two instances in my life of a variation on definition number 1.
I guess the purest form would have been a time when I walked into a place of business that I rented a business post office box. The folks in the shop were used to seeing me as I came in nearly daily and chatted while picking up my mail and making copies and using mailing services. And, one day I came in and the lady at the counter, who I knew well, looked at me astonished - almost a ghostly white in color (and I am not exaggerating) and said that a man `who looked exactly like me and who came in and left without a word’ (which she knew would be very odd) - had JUST been in the store a minute or two before myself’. I assured her it wasn’t me as I could tell she was a little shaken, but, it was a little unnerving.
It makes me wonder if somehow I had indeed projected an aspect of my space `ahead’ of me in a sense. That said, it doesn’t really fit definition number 1 because the `doppelganger’ didn’t have a ghostly form - it was a seemingly `living’ person. And, that said, this is the ONE AREA that we will find the definition of doppelganger is NOT complete. I will explain more shortly.
But, first, another time I had a seemingly personal `doppelganger’ event - that many many folks have had - is when a complete stranger walks up to you (this has happened once to me) and tells you that they had to come up to you because you look so so much like Mr. Whoever. Indeed, one time while having a meal with my wife a woman walked up and said that and told me the name of her (I believe) dentist or foot doctor `who looked exactly like me’. Indeed, she was going to say hi until she realized she was wrong.
Now, once again, this doesn’t meet the definitions above - but - is the thing that most folks think or as a doppelganger experience. Indeed, when one is told the literal name of the person who looks exactly like oneself - it also is a little unnerving. That said, I should have looked up this guy and gotten a picture with him. Obviously, it is not unusual for folks to look like one another - just google `separated at birth’. And, most of us have been told we look like such and such person or celebrity. I guess this is indeed dictionary definition 2 - a double - except that our phenomenology based `reality’ will stretch that even more as you will read.
But, obviously, we are still a long way from the dictionary definition or the more esoteric side of the definition. Don’t worry - the woo woo factor is just around the corner.
So, lets finally get to the REAL definition number 1 - ghostly counterparts to living persons.
Now, perhaps unbelievably, my wife has proof in old family writings passed down to her now - from the 1800’s originally (it’s kind of a family diary started in the 1800’s and continuing from one person to another into the early 1900’s) that talked about her relatives doing EXACTLY that - exactly doppelganger definition 1. As, one of her relatives, on the voyage to America via boat - died - and around those same days of death on the ship (I have no confirmation if it was concurrent or not) - his doppelganger was seen in his hometown village in Europe.——- This, while in my own extended family - is not a single account — this is the number one definition for a reason - `ghostly’ doppelgangers, living in the flesh, have been seen in a bi-location space event - both as `ghosts’ and other times flesh and blood - as `the real double’.
Indeed, for the definition of doppelganger to actually be full and correct - it would say a doppelganger could be — a `living in the flesh double’ of a DEAD person.
Now, these `double’ `projections’ at death or near death also have their own nuances to flush out esoterically - as - some examples of `after death doppelgangers’ push the envelope about as far as any esoteric idea available to contemplate. Such as doppelgangers that seem to be filling out `intentions’ from the `other side’ with `real flesh doubles’.
Let me explain and perhaps turn you onto a great example if you are not aware (however, my regulars have read this before). I have posted before of one of the best known MODERN ERA cases of this `real flesh’ doppelganger event(s) happening - that of the Ghosts of Eastern Flight 401 of which a book and even a made for TV movie occurred. (If you hit the doppelganger tag at the bottom of this post you will find all my doppelganger posts but this is the one about the Eastern Flight 401 pilot doppelgangers http://theheavystuff.com/?p=17 `titled - Going To The Light - Part 2′).
And once, a story about pilot and adventurer Steve Fossett surfaced that he had made a similar `in the flesh appearance’ to his wife http://theheavystuff.com/?p=46. The thing that `separates’ the `immigrant’ doppelganger events - and the pilot doppelganger events - is that the pilot events didn’t happen very close to the time of death but a significant time afterwards. Indeed, up to years, and even at impossible locations - such as on a flying jet at 35,000 feet.
Indeed, this `years after’ - months after - doppelgangers - brings to mind the one `days after’ possible doppelganger event that seemingly has changed history and certainly changed some peoples lives - such as - the reported `appearance’ of the in flesh Jesus - 3 days after his death.
However, even Jesus’s `in the flesh’ counterpart - was not a permanent feature of our common space reality and eventually vanished. Just as the pilot doppelgangers have been reported to - just as the immigrant doppelgangers did also during Bi-Location (in the case of time of death doppelgangers we may be talking of Simultaneous Bi-Location - one of the heaviest ideas in all esoterica).
Finally, to wrap up today’s post on doppelgangers - it is important to re-state that the Eastern 401 pilots and one would speculate Jesus - reappeared seemingly `upon their own intentions’ with an in the flesh `double’ - after death. The immigrant doppelgangers may have been more `projections of space’ (at death) oriented than - the `intentional’ spaces well after `death’.
BTW, I’ve written a `companion’ post to this right here - http://barfstew.blogspot.com/2010/01/doppelgangers-elvis-and-jesus-sightings.html. Check it out. Also, check out my new THE HEAVY STUFF food apron on this page on the sidebar on the front page.
Thanks for reading today - If you are interested in this Concept of Doppelgangers - here’s a fiction book covering the theme - The Walls of the Universe
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