This paper affords one a further opportunity to grapple with Scott's concept of the body scheme: 'a more or less conscious integrate of sensations, perceptions, conceptions, affects, memories and images of the body from its surface to its depths and of the body from its surface to the limits of the cosmos'. It is the structural representative of all experience, continuously built up and altered. The paper is not about the use of the body scheme in psychotherapy but about possible contributions to the concept from coöperative research in embryology, neurology, academic psychology, parapsychology, religion, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and poetry.