Transcending the Personality Embodied in this Life

In this article I discuss why it is necessary to transcend the personality embodied in this life.

Every human being on Earth has lived millions of lives since the first incarnation in the world of form.

In those lives, we have all created countless selves to cope with the conditions in the world of form. We need to recognise and overcome those selves, especially those created after entering more deeply into dualistic consciousness.

When people encounter the spiritual path and the teachings of the Ascended Masters, they become aware of the need to disidentify from all the selves created in the past in order to grow spiritually.

However, people usually do not focus on their current personality and the roles it plays in this lifetime.

This is natural, since it is of the utmost importance to look into the subconscious selves that limit our awareness as spiritual beings before we address the ‘present time’.

However, there is also a good reason to focus on the present personality, because the roles it performs act as veils that hide our spiritual identity. Furthermore, we identify so strongly with our personality that we simply ‘don’t see it’.

Why should we see it? If we consider the meaning of 'personality', we will find that its root meaning is 'persona', the Greek term used to designate the masks worn by theatre actors to perform their roles.

In each of us, this persona is the name and the roles with which we identify: I am the daughter, the spouse, the sister, the teacher, and so on.

In everyday life, we all perform roles. As social scientists say, we are 'social actors'.

We take these roles so seriously that even if we have been on the spiritual path for a long time, we feel imbued with them in our core sense of identity.

However, if we think about it more closely, we realise that we have performed countless of different roles in every lifetime we have lived. We really aren’t any of them.

We can also see that these roles are important because they enable us to experiment with the experiences we choose to have and set out in our divine plans.

They also contribute to our real identity in the form of the lessons we keep in our causal body and dynamic memory in our 'I am' presence.

The roles we play allow us to experience what it is like to be this or that possibility, adding complexity and richness to our spiritual identity.

However, it is limiting and does not help us grow spiritually to assign an 'absolute' value to the roles we play in each life, such as thinking that if we don't fulfil a desire of the incarnated personality, our lives will have no meaning.

I believe that being aware of these aspects can help us to relativise the 'bad experiences' we may have in a given life.

Some of us may think that if we don't achieve certain goals in our everyday lives, our lives will be meaningless or incomplete. But this is just an illusion created by the ego and has nothing to do with our spiritual goals.

We come to Earth to grow and experiment as much as possible, expanding our awareness until we reconnect with our spiritual source as spiritual beings.

So, does it matter if we don't achieve certain goals in the physical realm?

There is another reason for us to disidentify with our incarnated personality. Please note that I am not suggesting that we should become completely disconnected from our mortal personality.

We live in a world of form and need to be able to perform the actions that allow us to sustain ourselves materially.

If we are not born rich, we need to have a job. We also need to perform actions as members of society. For that to be possible, we need to have some identification with the roles we perform on Earth.

Otherwise, we would become totally aloof and unable to sustain a temporary identity on Earth.

However, I am suggesting that we can gain a different perspective on our life on Earth if we shift the centre of our identity away from the roles we perform in this life and stop taking them so seriously.

The truth is that we are more than just the personalities we have incarnated in this life and the roles we have played. We are spiritual beings, not just the personalities we have performed in the world of form.

When we recognise this, we can adjust our behaviour and enjoy the internal peace that comes from centring our sense of identity in our spiritual source.