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Originally Posted by leadville
You - your spirit form who is eternal - animates whatever physical body you presently live in.
What you think of as 'me' right now can be thought of as a 'composite person' made up of your spirit and the body it is giving 'life energy' to. Your body will eventually stop working and die but your spirit is eternal and may choose a further life at some point. If that happens you will animate another body and 'me' will be a different 'composite person' but still animated by the 'real' you, your spirit.
The personality of any particular incarnate is unique to that incarnate although some of a former personality may be 'carried over' to become part of a new one.
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Nicely put. I made a post previously about the personality. 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?
I really don't know what to think about this. 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.