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bearing their rosaries and telling a tale of a lady in strange garb who appeared to them mysteriously
from time to time with her messages of faith and redemption, only to disappear just as mysteriously.
Excitedly, they pointed to an oil portrait of a Franciscan nun and identified the habit as that of their
saintly stranger.
When Father Benavides returned to Rome with his remarkable tale he was directed to Agreda, where
the abbess had had ecstasies and visions of missionary trips to the depths of Mexico. After his visit he
was convinced, through veridical information she was able to provide of the locale and the natives,
that Maria and the strange missionary lady were one and the same. Maria herself felt she might have
been hallucinating - until she checked her supply of rosaries and found them unmistakably depleted!
The above are classic tales of bi-location, but for practical purposes we prefer to dwell more on
examples of bi-location which have occurred in our own times. Time and distance diminish the
credibility of certain events, so we will devote our further examinations to phenomena of this type that
have occurred within the memory of people now living.
There are many living witnesses to the feats of "Padre Pio," a Capuchin monk of Pietrelcina, who has
been extensively researched. There are many stories of his appearances as a "ghost of the living," but
one of the ones best documented is an astral journey he made to Uruguay to be near a dying friend.
For many years Padre Pio had been close to Monsignor Fernando Damiani, the Vicar General of
Salto, Uruguay; their friendship dated from the time Padre Pio had cured the Vicar General's stomach
cancer.
As he grew old, Damiani returned to Italy stating that he was reluctant to leave his life's work, but at
the same time he felt the approach of death and wanted to be near his dear friend when the end came.
Padre Pio urged him to return to Uruguay, and promised faithfully to be with him when the time came
for him to die.
In 1942 the Archbishop of Montevideo was awakened in the dead of night by a mysterious stranger in
the garb of a Capuchin friar, who asked him to go at once to Monsignor Damiani and administer Last
Rites. On a table by the bed of the now unconscious Damiani, the Archbishop found a note, feebly
scribbled, but legible: Padre Pio came.
Seven years later, when the Archbishop met Padre Pio in Italy, he recognized him at once as the
mysterious Capuchin friar who had summoned him to the dying Monsignor's bedside.
Padre Pio, hale and hearty, well into his eighties, died only recently. According to numerous
eyewitnesses he even showed up at his own funeral, where he was plainly seen and identified by
friends and associates who came to mourn.
Lest it appear that bi-location only happens to saintly people in religious orders, there are numerous
secular cases that could be drawn out of the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research or
from the files of scientists of the paranormal.
Writer John Otto, having been separated from his wife and family for a period of time, was one night
seized with an overwhelming loneliness and homesickness. He closed his eyes and made a very vivid
trip halfway across the country to his Chicago apartment. Entering it, he noted that his son's bed was
empty, then proceeded to his wife's bedroom, noting his own reflection in the hall mirror and his own
shadow cast on the floor by the light of a street lamp outside.
Back in his hotel room, in Niagara Falls, N. Y., he was not sure whether the whole adventure was a
dream or an hallucination until he questioned his wife later. She confirmed that he had indeed visited
her in the night. When he questioned her about the son's bed being empty, she explained that he had
gone to spend that particular night with a friend.
Sometimes bi-location takes place without the traveler being aware of it. Contemporary psychic writer
Harold Sherman, relates a tale of a visit made to his apartment by a friend, Harry J. Loose, during his
absence. Loose left a note with the apartment desk clerk, a Mr. Cousins; but when Sherman phoned
him to express his disappointment at missing the visit, Loose emphatically denied making such a visit.
Sherman checked with Cousins and got a complete description of the clothes the visitor was wearing,
and this description tallied with that of the clothes Loose had actually been wearing that day...but he
had reliable witnesses to attest that he not only was not out of his own house that day in question, but
spent most of the afternoon sleeping.
Later, when he visited the Sherman apartment "in the flesh," the desk clerk, Cousins, recognized him
and greeted him by name!
Experiences such as these leave the researcher pondering just what is the true nature of time and space
and material existence.
9 - Clairaudience
Joan of Arc, as a teenage peasant girl in her native Domremy, heard voices purporting to be those of
St. Michael, St. Catherine and St. Margaret, exhorting her to help the Dauphin, Charles, who, because
of the English claim to the throne of France, had not yet been crowned king.
Dressed in armor and carrying a white banner she led the French to a decisive victory and when the
Dauphin was finally crowned Charles VII of France, she was given a seat of honor beside her king at
the coronation in Reims Cathedral.
Later she fell into the hands of her enemies, who gave her over to an ecclesiastical court to be tried for
heresy and sorcery. She was condemned and burnt at the stake in the market place at Rouen.
The "sorcery" of the Maid of Orleans was her early experience with Clairaudience. Literally translated
as "clear hearing," this phenomenon involves the perception of voices imperceptible to the normal
hearing organ.
As in all other psychic phenomena, tales of this sort of experience abound in the Bible, and have been
recorded down through the ages. In I Kings 6, we may read: "The prophet that is in Israel telleth the
king of Israel the words the King of Syria speaks in his bedchamber." The British poet William
Cowper regularly experienced news of events told to him audibly before they actually occurred.
Clairaudience is somewhat rare, but there are many documented cases of its appearance in the past,
either spontaneous or intentionally induced. Mediums with whom this is a specialty often can induce
the advent of voices by holding a seashell to their ears, in much the same manner as clairvoyants get
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