“Transcendence” connotes rising above or beyond the limits imposed by certain conditions. With respect to the present topic, those conditions may be the disability itself, societal expectations related to it, or emotional reactions to either or both. Transcending disability requires one, first, to escape from the mind-body trap, the Cartesian duality that eliminated spirit from common-place consideration. As indicated earlier (see Chapter 2), overlooking or denying a spiritual aspect of human life is particularly subtractive to people whose minds and/or bodies are disabled. Once a spiritual component has been admitted to consciousness, then the components vulnerable to disablement are placed in a less potent, more favorable perspective. It becomes progressively easier to say, and mean, that disability doesn’t matter much most of the time.The accompanying perceptual mechanism is illustrated by a passage from Beisser (1979).