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Originally Posted by Strangerthanfiction
If the personality is unique to every incarnation then do you think the brain itself has a personality or do you think the interaction between the spirit and the body creates a unique personality to the incarnated?
If the personality comes merely from the brain then we should expect to not carry it with us. However if we do carry it with us then people with alzheimer's who's personality changes logically take their alzheimer personality with them. However it just isn't logical to take personality with you if it comes from the brain merely. However if the "composite person" as you called it creates a unique personality, that is, the synergy of the brain and soul creates a unique personality then when the brain is shut down certain aspects or the full aspect could carry on in a way we don't know about.
I personally think we have a spiritual personality. There is a fact that some who are reincarnated carry over aspects of their previous personality like certain behaviors. So a child who previously were born higher up in a hindu caste and in the next life is born in a lower rank may refuse to live like the ones in the lower caste.
I don't know about the brain's personality. If there is a synergy between the brain and the soul which creates a distinct personality then maybe we take that personality with us but then it means people with brain damage to the brain will carry their personality with them. There are ghosts who were ill in life with for example mental problems and then they carry these aspects with them and haunt the surrounding areas. I think this happens because they get stuck in their earthbound energy. So in my view we may take all aspects with us but we may also abandon some aspects depending on our spiritual level. In the end we all will be stripped of the parts of our personalities that belongs to the earthly body and then we will only have our spiritual personality left unless we choose not to advance enough to leave those aspects behind.  |
This comes down to our ideas about the nature of a human being. You seem to consider a human being as having two components, a spiritual soul functioning through a physical body via the brain. Somehow the two combine to create a personality.
Other schools of thought consider a human being as having several bodies. Consciousness (the Soul) functions through a mental body, an emotional body, an etheric energy body and the dense physical body. Personality is the combination of our mental and emotional patterns expressing through the etheric/physical body.
So after the death of the physical body, the etheric energy body also dissolves as it no longer serves a purpose. Personality (as the combined mental and emotional bodies) continues to exist, functioning on the astral planes (except in those cases where someone is reluctant to leave behind the physical plane).
Eventually the emotional body is also abandoned and consciousness shifts to the mental plane, functioning through the mental body. Finally the mental body is also abandoned and the personality ceases to exist, although the memories are stored in consciousness. At some stage consciousness will take on new vehicles for a new incarnation - the nature of these vehicles will depend on the previous mental/emotional/etheric development.
This approach seems to provide a satisfactory explanation of the (temporary) survival of the personality after death, and also explains why personality in one life usually has no recall of personalities in previous lives.
And if someone has Alzheimers then it may be simply that the physical brain is no longer functioning effectively. The personality exists intact and unchanged but can no longer express itself through the physical body - some connections have been damaged.
Peace.