What Is The Personality?

[Shemaya]

Still, there are many questions on my mind. What is the exact function of the personality? What part of the Self would persist if it were completely stripped away? I am not my personality, yet when I reach beneath it in meditation I find things that cannot be put into words. Things my mortal mind is simply incapable of fully grasping. It’s easy enough to think there’s a higher “me” there- an essence that persists through change, but to actually feel and attempt to comprehend it is another matter entirely. Could one have an identity without a personality (would the Creator have any actual autonomy or sense of self?), and how far can a personality be stretched before it ceases to be? 

I suppose it all comes down to the “who am I?” question that seems to define everything. Is it possible to truly transcend the personality within the physical form, and if so, would this be linked to contacting Intelligent Infinity? Can one pass through the gateway with their personality in tact, or would an understanding of its transience be necessary to even do so? It gives me much to consider in the discovery of my Self.

 Great questions, Yera.  

I think almost all aspects of personality can be stripped away, ie. Likes, dislikes, preferences, conditionings both in the present lifetime and others.  Our personality is a sum of all we have experienced and how we express ourselves in relation to that.

But there are things in 3d that we cannot strip away by nature of the material world such as our gender, the color of our skin and hair and eyes, our body type.  These aspects reflect to others and would elicit their biases and so I think in being part of a collective, there will always be an aspect of personality, little " i" that is present in our current incarnation.  

I think when we identify with our big "I", the Self, it is a more expansive identity based on awareness , existence, and beingness but less confined by the physical.