Back when I was still living in Japan, I sometimes attended workshops by a teacher of Eastern medicine. He was, you could say, avant-garde. He would do things like use acupuncture to “blast away” stagnant blood that had built up around painful areas, discover new acupuncture points that no one had ever talked about before, or even have patients hold a gold stick and place it against a paper diagram of the human body to locate tumors.

I later learned that he had continued treating Sony’s chairman, Akio Morita, almost until the very end of his life. Everything he said or did was fresh and surprising to me at the time.

One of the things that shocked me most was his story about shoulder pain in people who had lost an arm.

To put it simply: when treating the shoulder pain of someone missing an arm, inserting needles into the visible physical body doesn’t bring much relief. Instead, the pain improves only when treatment is directed at the space where the missing arm used to be. That story stayed with me for a very long time.

If you think about it in ordinary terms, it sounds absurd. How can you treat an invisible body? In today’s materialistic Western medicine, such an idea makes little sense. The science actually thinks that it is caused by whole body image remaining in the brain, the gap between this image and the reality cause this phantom pain and prescribing Anticonvulsants, Antidepressants, Opioids are the common treatment for this symptom.

But in vibrational medicine and many forms of alternative healing that work with the concept of “energy,” it can be explained.

In Theosophy, Anthroposophy, and other Western traditions, this is often called the etheric body, while in Eastern medicine it is referred to as qi. It’s understood as a subtle energetic substance existing on different frequencies, beyond the range of ordinary human perception. This “invisible body” is thought to consist of multiple layers, all interconnected, exchanging energy across dimensions, and influencing the visible physical body.

There is also something called Kirlian photography, said to have been based on the Corona discharge explored by Nikola Tesla, and later elaborated by Mr. and Ms. Kirlian, which is said to capture the glowing energy field of an object when exposed to high-frequency voltage. If you cut a leaf in half and photograph it this way, the missing half of the leaf still appears as a glowing outline. Here’s a YouTube video about it. Though it has not been scientifically proven this phantom image is an aura or energy visually exposed, this experiment may offer a clue to understanding why treating an “invisible arm” could work.

Whether we call it “energy” in the West, or qi or prana in the East, becoming aware of this invisible body is essential if we are to reclaim our original human capacities and potential. And this doesn’t just apply to human bodies—it extends to matter, plants, food, and everything that sustains our life.

Research on these topics is not limited to the New Age movement. Serious scientists and medical practitioners—especially in Russia and Europe—are studying these invisible layers, learning to read, diagnose, and even treat them.

As we transition from the Newtonian worldview into one shaped by Einstein, quantum physics, and vibrational science, it’s becoming clearer that we must see ourselves not only as physical matter, but also as beings with an “invisible body.” Or rather, we must turn our awareness toward it.

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