A random genetic combination followed by specific organism-environment interactions generates a distinct personality very early in the life of each human being. Each of us can transcend our personality only if the potential for transcendence was present from the beginning and also if that potential is strong enough to overcome mental inertia and the psychological self-defense mechanisms of the personality.
Inertia and self-defense are unconscious and conscious levels of resistance to change. However, existence is interaction between change and resistance to it. Much change and transcendence have occurred and more can. On the other hand, deep personal change is rare.
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteAnd, I think it usually needs some drastic event EXTERNAL to a person to cause really deep personal change. An example being when Saul of Tarsus met the Risen Christ on the road to Damascus.
Sean