Talk:Eidolon (astral double)
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Not the most useful definition
Whats the difference between Eidolon and Doppelganger?
IMO - (based on several general-field books, which is why I'm not trying to cite in article atm)
Doppelganger would be a non-intended PHYSICAL double of your person. To define that sentence, if you were walking down the street in the physical realm, and passed yourself, with no conscious intent on your part to re-create your identity into a seperate incarnation, what you just saw was your doppelganger. Slight variations exist as to whose intent (your's or your double's) is valid, and the necessity of the "perfection" or "polarity" (ie your "evil twin") of the double, but a physical manifestation of your SELF in another being seems to be the gist of the concept.
Conversely, if you are dreaming, astral projecting, lucid-dreaming, conscious meditating, or are in another (non physical) realm, and you create an altered (or not) "body" (up to and including metaphysical representations of pure thought) for your SELF to present itself in, with the intent to interact with that realm, then you have created an Eidolon. A useful synonym in this sense would be your "Avatar." Again, there are quibbles regarding the "physicality" of Eidolons when crossing bands between lucid dreams, the "Dreaming" of the Native Americans and the psychic event of astral projection. The conscious re-creation of your SELF in a manifestible (in whichever realm intended) form seems to be the requisite definition.
165.166.3.170 18:40, 7 May 2007 (UTC) SCLibrarian
