We have been putting emphasis lately on the higher mental body and the lower mental body. Nobody came up with the brilliant idea of wondering if there is a lower physical body, a higher physical body, a lower astral body and a higher astral body, etc.
mental body
The vibratory peaks of the astral and mental body [IF63.1focus]
We have previously seen how the matter of the astral body, when the physical body is stimulated in a particularly intense way on an emotional level, emits a sort of vibratory "protuberance" that we had defined as a "peak", connected and dependent on the intensity of the emotion experienced. .
The origin of thought is not in the mental body [IF62focus]
If you remember, we had pointed out that desire does not arise on the astral body, but it manifests within it, right? And its genesis was placed in another portion of reality.
Mental body and language [IF56-7focus]
From what I have explained to you up to this point, one could easily deduce what the various functions of the mental body are, however perhaps it is worthwhile to make a slightly more structured discussion on them, in order to provide you with an overall and organic picture and thus facilitate a more unitary and logical vision of what I have said fragmentarily.
Consciousness and the creation of the mental body [IF56-6focus]
From what I said earlier it appears that io attribute a minor role to culture. You could not think anything more wrong: culture is an important acquisition for every human being because it provides him with the tools to better understand, through the appropriate use of his mental body, what he lives.
The mental body does not think only through words [IF56-4focus]
Among the gifts that the Great Architect bestowed on that phase of theevolution which is represented by the human being, there is one that can be considered the main instrument for the relationship of man not only with himself but, especially, with what is external to him. This gift is the word.
Telepathy: communication between mental bodies [IF56-3focus]
Listening to your discussions it seems to me that I have identified a misunderstanding of the words of the teaching or, at least, an imperfect understanding of what is the relationship between the mental body of the individual and his living being within the physical plane.
The brain is not the producer of thought [IF56-2focus]
Let's go back to what has been said about the astral plane for a moment, trying to underline how much it is also valid for the mental plane and how much, instead, is peculiar only to this plane.