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The moment of apparition was generally in the evening, in states of deep meditation, self-concentration, or anaesthesia. The distance varied from a few yards to close proximity. The Double generally was silent, but sometimes there was a dialogue and difference of opinion between the phantom and the self Dr. Sollier explains these experiences as hallucination due to a loss of sensibility which gives the sense of exteriorization, though such an explanation scarcely seems to cover the phantom's lapses into speech. Dr. Eugen Osty has also reported recent cases in which there has been an exchange of consciousness, the Double becoming the thinking self. Autoscopic bilocation, lies, of course, outside the scope of an inquiry into the Etheric Double. It has only been mentioned here to avoid the possible impression that it has been intentionally overlooked. Since, so far, all the spiritual implications of the Etheric Double have been avoided, a postscript on the subject by Ernesto Bozzano may be permitted. He writes in Discarnate Influence on Human Life: "These phenomena (of bilocation) are of fundamental importance for metapsychical science, since they show that animistic manifestations, although connected with the functions of the psychophysical organism of the living, have their origin in something qualitatively different from the organism itself. Hence they assume a definite theoretical value for the experimental demonstration of the survival of the human spirit. In other words, the phenomena of bilocation demonstrate that within the 'somatic body' there exists an indwelling 'etheric body'... and that the existence of an etheric body immanent in the somatic body takes for granted the