was lunching at the house of Lady ---- in company of a well-known mental
healer whom I will call Mr. Y. and a well-known London physician whom I
will call Dr. W. Mr. Y. mentioned the case of a lady whose leg had been
amputated above the knee some years previously to her coming under his
care, yet she frequently felt pains in the (amputated) knee and lower
part of the left leg and foot. Dr. W. said this was to be attributed to
the nerves which convey to the brain the sensation of the extremities,
much as a telegraph line might be tapped in the middle, and Mr. Y.
agreed that this was perfectly true on the purely physical side. But he
went on to say, that accidentally putting his hand where the amputated
foot should have been he felt it there. Then it occurred to him that
since there was no material foot to be touched, it must be through the
medium of his own psychic body that the sensation of touch was conveyed
to him, and accordingly he asked the lady to imagine that she was making
various movements with the amputated limb, all of which he felt, and was
able to tell her what each movement was, which she said he did
correctly. Then, to carry the experiment further, he reversed the
process and with his hand moved the invisible leg and foot in various
ways, all of which the lady felt and described. He then determined to
treat the invisible leg as though it were a real one, and joined up the
circuit by taking her left foot in his right hand and her right foot
(the amputated one) in his left, with the result that she immediately
felt relief; and after successive treatments in this way was entirely
cured.

A well authenticated case like this opens up a good many interesting
questions regarding the Psychic Body, but the most important point
appears to me to be that we are able to experience sensation by means of
it. In this case, however, and those mentioned in the preceding chapter,
the physical body was actually present, and if we stopped at this point,