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Autoscopy
From the Greek autos (self) and skopeein (to see), it is the alleged phenomenon, or perhaps visual hallucination or psychotic episode, of seeing yourself from a position outside of your body.
This peculiar phenomenon has puzzled humankind from time immemorial and is abundant in the folklore, mythology, and spiritual narratives of most ancient and modern societies. Autoscopy is associated with astral travel, astral projection, doppelganger effect, and near-death experiences.
The word itself, dating from the Mesmeric age, was coined by neurologist Charles Féré, and originally he applied it to the vision his patients saw of their double in a morbid state. This is external Autoscopy, as contrasted by Baron du Potet to internal Autoscopy: selfdiagnosis in a trance. Dr. Sollier wrote a monograph, Les Phénomènes D’Autoscopie (Paris, 1903), on the subject. Eventually the term came to denote the power of somnambules to see their own organs and give a description of their state.
Autoscopy and out of body experiences sometimes share symptoms with pathological conditions such as schizophrenia. Some people who experience OBEs worry that they are "going mad." Modern research conducted by Dr Susan Blackmore and published in 1986 suggested that there was no proven statistical link between schizophrenia and experience of "classic" out of body experiences.
See Out-of-body Experience, Aura, Astral Projection, Casting Black Magic Spells, Commanding Spirits, The Tarot Store and Divination & Scrying Tools and Supplies.
Sources: (1) Spence, Lewis, An Encyclopedia of Occultism, Carol Publishing Group; (2) Muldoon, Sylvan Joseph and Carrington, Hereward, Projection of the Astral Body, Kessinger Publishing; (3) Blackmore, Susan, Out-of-Body Experiences in Schizophrenia, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease (1986).
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