Exploring Personality Theories in Personal Growth

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This chapter delves into various personality theories from different philosophies and religions, contrasting unified self with internal diversity and discussing concepts like fana, bakkah, individuation, and no self theory. It also explores the concept of multiple personalities, referring to cases like Danny Milligan and a person accused of crimes by one personality while being a criminal with another. The chapter discusses how childhood trauma can lead to the emergence of multiple personalities and the idea of repressed memories and internal conflicts within oneself.

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: James Fadiman PROGRAM NOTES: James FadimanPhoto source: psychedelicpress.co.uk Today we get to listen to a long-forgotten talk by one of our most important elders, James Fadiman. This is a talk that he gave at the Transpersonal Vision Convention in 1988 and in it Jim provides us with another way to think about our higher selves. He points out that the self is a collection of personalities. It is not unified and cannot be unified. “Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.”― William James, The Principles of Psychology