Yes. The “phantom limb” is a manifestation of gandhabba, the “mental body.”
- The following is another of many videos on YouTube on “phantom limb.”
“Can you still feel a limb that’s gone?“
- As this video says, “We are born with a full map of the physical body.” That blueprint is gandhabba.
- But there is no “map in the brain,” as the video says. The hadaya vatthu (“seat of the mind”) in the gandhabba is where our thoughts arise.
V. S. Ramachandran, a neurologist, has written a book titled “Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind.” He has also conducted extensive studies in this area of research. The following is a video of an interview with him:
“V.S. Ramachandran – Does Brain Make Mind?“
P.S. The experience of an amputee:
