One thing that restricts human beings from feeling complete wellbeing is bodily ill health, a phenomenon that is both widespread and serious. Millions upon millions of human beings the world over are ill. And an extremely high percentage of these ill people die far earlier than life would normally intend them to die. They in fact die an unnatural death. But just as human beings can suffer from bodily illnesses, they can also be ill in their souls, which means that they can have illnesses in their mentality and consequently in their thinking. Just as illnesses in the body result in poor or reduced physical experience, illnesses in the mentality or thinking result in poor or reduced mental experience. A body or physical organism can be so badly damaged that it cannot be used and it is consequently removed, in other words the person dies. Similarly the person's mental body can be so badly damaged that it also cannot be used by the human being and the human being experiences a kind of mental death or the death of its soul. Whereas human beings know a lot about many aspects of physical disability, they know much less about mental disability even though it is no less widespread than physical disability. This fact will be recognised the more we realise that all physical illnesses without exception are in the first place rooted in mental illnesses. The most serious forms of mental illness manifest themselves in everyday life as total mental disability and insanity. When we are faced with these two extremely obvious types of mental condition human beings are quite clear that here we are dealing with illnesses. But there are many other forms of mental illness that human beings absolutely do not consider to be illnesses and consequently they do nothing to heal themselves of or release themselves from them. This is to a large extent due to the fact that mental illnesses in themselves do not give rise to pain. Whereas physical illnesses can often give rise to the most terrible pain, mental illnesses can often to a certain extent go unrecognised by the beings themselves. It does not hurt to be totally mentally disabled.

So what does it really mean to be mentally disabled? Well, in order to understand this you have to understand that the being's total bodily structure consists of an entire organism made up of six different sensory bodies. Of this organism we can see the physical part, and we call this part the physical body. But this body does not only consist of purely physical matter. If it did it would not be possible for the being to experience and manifest itself through it. It would be totally impossible for the being to sense at all. We cannot sense through our nails and hair. We can cut our hair and our nails without noticing anything. But it would certainly not be a good thing if we could in the same way cut other parts of our body without noticing it. What is it that causes us not to be able to cut in these places without feeling pain? It is because a new factor has entered into matter. Mentality or consciousness has entered into matter. Matter has become alive, which means that it has become day-conscious in an awake way. Through an evolutionary process lasting millions of years new kinds of matter have been introduced into mineral matter. Today we know these kinds of matter as mental matter or thought matter. They are: instinct, gravity, feeling, intelligence, intuition and memory. Eventually these kinds of matter, driven by an intelligent force, caused organisms to be formed and these became filled with or built up of these mental energies. And since these organisms reveal within themselves a directing I, each organism therefore appears as a living being or an individual.

When beings show symptoms of being mentally disabled, it means that their mental vital functioning has been damaged. They live mainly on the automatic functions of their instinct, such as for example their digestion, blood circulation and breathing. These functions can easily be unaffected by the being's mental disability. Abnormality on the other hand manifests in the functions that require will power. As the functions that require will power are those that are guided by thinking or awake day-consciousness, it becomes obvious that the mentally disabled being's will power and thinking are abnormal. It is therefore the bodies in the living being's structure that guide will power and thinking that are abnormal or ill. They do not work as they are meant to. The beings' I is unable to think clearly and logically. The being's thinking becomes chaotic, if it is possible at all. And for this reason its will and as a consequence its actions among other things become an absurd hotchpotch, if they can manifest at all. And this state is the most serious mental defect that the being can ever encounter.