he 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,
we might question whether its presence was not a _sine qua non_ for the
action of the etheric vibrations. I will therefore pass on to a class of
examples which show that very curious phenomena can take place without
the physical body being on the spot. There are numerous well verified
cases of the kind to be found in the records of the Society for
Psychical Research and in other books by trustworthy writers; but it may
perhaps interest the present reader to hear one or two instances of my
personal experience which, though they may not be so striking as some of
those recorded by others, still point in the same direction.

My first introduction to Scotland was when I delivered the course of
lectures in Edinburgh which led to the publication of my first book,
the "Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science." The following years I gave
a second course of lectures in Edinburgh, but the friends who had kindly
entertained me on the former occasion had in the meanwhile gone to live
elsewhere. However, a certain Mr. S., whose acquaintance I had made on
my previous visit, invited me to s