PHANTOM LIMBS.

Waikato Times, Volume 101, Issue 16947, 9 November 1926, Page 8

PHANTOM LIMBS.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Referring to an interesting article entitled "Phantom Limbs," in the Times of October 30, I do not quite sec why, in the light of presentday increasing knowledge—or at all events information —about these matters, the fact that people who have had limbs, etc., amputated can still feel the lost member should be a puzzle, any more than it is a matter for puzzle that they can think about it. Just as wo do the three act, feel and think—so have we no( the three vehicles, or bodies, of action, feeling and thinking, the body with which we feel interpenetrating and extending a Utile beyond the dense physical and the mental interpenetrating both and extending still further? It is only a part of one of these bodies, the body of action, the physical, which has been amputated, not of either the body of feeling (the vehicle of emotion) or the body of thought (the vchielc of mentality) ; they are still there, complete and functioning as usual, as anyone who is clairvoyant can see. Thanks to our scientists, we are now familiar with the idea of the ether interpenetrating all denser bodies, our physical bodies included, and many of us meet people who have seen the human cthcric body of friends, in life as well as after death of the physical body; also those who have seen the body of feeling or emotion, a finer degree of matter, the next to the finest of the ethers. Some who read this will know, of their own experience, life in this body of feeling, quite apart from the physical. OC course some may feet this is "all stuff and nonsense" (vide Mr Kenah's letter of October 25), but perhaps Hie more vehemently we assert I his easy and comfortable opinion the sooner will we wear it out and arrive at Ihe next stage suggested by Mr Kenah —"there may be something in it." and then the way is paved to the third proclamation—"we never believed anything else." The "divine, urge" is carrying- us to Ihe inevitable time when we shall sec for ourselves: we can hinder or hasten Ihe day of seeing as we choose, and in Ihe meantime these explanations are welcome lo some of us, as they throw light on many of the unfamiliar posi-c lions we meet In life.—l am, etc.. "T.T." Hamliton, Nov. 8, 1920.