25 posts · 5 participants · started Jul 30, 2014, 1:17 AM
“…an isolated personality is an extinct personality.
BB
Do you think personality ever could come out of ‘extinction’ if it regains self-consciousness?
No, once extinct, forever extinct. But you should realize that the personality is absorbed into the Supreme. It’s the identity of the personality that is never again expressed. (2:3.4)
Also do you recommend any psychiatry books for the general public that could enhance one’s understanding of personality?
No. Neither psychiatry nor psychology will help you understand personality. Psychiatry is the study of human behavior resulting from thoughts, emotions and feelings. Personality is none of those things. All of those things are part of mind. Don’t confuse character and personality. They are not the same thing. Psychology is about character, not personality.
Personality is an individual pattern from the Paradise Father applied to an energy system. It represents the arrangement of those energies.(0:6.12; 42:12.2) The personality also never changes (0:5.11), once a certain arrangement of energies is created, that specific arrangement remains the same regardless of the energy level it is manifested. It is the character which changes, not the personality (140:4.8). Our goal is perfection of character. Our personalities, being direct from the Father, are already perfect patterns.
No, once extinct, forever extinct. But you should realize that the personality is absorbed into the Supreme. It’s the identity of the personality that is never again expressed. (2:3.4)
No. Neither psychiatry nor psychology will help you understand personality. Psychiatry is the study of human behavior resulting from thoughts, emotions and feelings. Personality is none of those things. All of those things are part of mind. Don’t confuse character and personality. They are not the same thing. Psychology is about character, not personality. Personality is an individual pattern from the Paradise Father applied to an energy system. It represents the arrangement of those energies.(0:6.12; 42:12.2) The personality also never changes (0:5.11), once a certain arrangement of energies is created, that specific arrangement remains the same regardless of the energy level it is manifested. It is the character which changes, not the personality (140:4.8). Our goal is perfection of character. Our personalities, being direct from the Father, are already perfect patterns.
Understood. Thanks.
BB
You’re welcome. I don’t know if this is something that will help you or not. Years ago I compiled a paraphrased list of descriptions of personality from Paper 112. I don’t have time right now to look up all the page numbers, but you’ll recognize them.
What is Personality (Taken from Paper 112)
You’re welcome. I don’t know if this is something that will help you or not. Years ago I compiled a paraphrased list of descriptions of personality from Paper 112. I don’t have time right now to look up all the page numbers, but you’ll recognize them. What is Personality (Taken from Paper 112)
There is is one part of you that remains absolutely unaltered, and that is personality-permanence in the presence of change.
Personality may be bestowed upon any living energy system which includes mind or spirit.
When personality is bestowed upon evolutionary material creatures, it causes spirit to strive for the mastery of energy-matter through the mediation of mind.
Personality, while devoid of identity, can unify the identity of any living energy system.
Personality may survive mortal death with identity in the surviving soul. The Adjuster and the personality are changeless; the relationship between them (in the soul) is nothing but change, continuing evolution; and if this change or growth ceased, the soul would cease.
Personality can make a gift to God-dedication of the free will to the doing of the will of God.
Personality is characterized by morality-awareness of relativity in its relationships with other persons. It discerns conduct levels and choosingly discriminates between them.
Personality is unique in time and space, in eternity and on Paradise. There are no duplicates; it is unique in relation to God.
Personality responds directly to other personality presence.
The type of personality bestowed upon Urantia mortals has a potentiality of seven dimensions of self-expression or person-realization.
The finite dimensions of personality have to do with cosmic length, depth and breadth. Length=meaning, Depth=value, Breadth=insight. Insight means the capacity to experience unchallengeable consciousness of cosmic reality.
The personality imparts value of identity and meanings of continuity to this organismal-environmental association.
It is through the mediation of mind that the organism (self) and the environment establish meaningful contact. The ability and willingness of the organism to make such significant contacts with environment (response to a drive) represents the attitude of the whole personality.
Personality cannot perform in isolation. Man is dominated by the craving of belongingness.
Personality unifies all factors of reality as well as coordinates relationships. Three or more relationships constitute a system. In a cosmic system the individual members are not connected with each other except in relation to the whole.
In the human organism the summation of its parts constitutes selfhood-individuality-but such a process has nothing whatever to do with personality, which is the unifier of all these factors as related to cosmic realities.
In the human system it is the personality which unifies all activities and in turn imparts the qualities of identity and creativity.
Definitely makes it easier than shuffling back and forth through TUB. Much appreciated.
BB
