Seminar 9
PERSONALITY STUDY
OUR POWERS
and their applications
By Moussa Ndiaye
PERSONALITY STUDY
We see that every human being has a God-given personality. The individuality of human beings necessarily entails the existence of a personality insofar as each individuality is autonomous and is also the manager of its own being. Human beings have a mind (consciousness) and a personality which is endowed with powers.
Personality is that by which the human exists in reality; it is what determines the choices of the individual, guides his behavior and evaluates his actions. Body and mind operate only on the basis of voluntary acts. These acts are designed at the personality level. It is therefore the latter that makes possible the relationship between body and thought (adjuvates). In the same way, to become aware of the reality of his creatures, God placed in each his own personality (that of the creature). It is the means by which God becomes aware of the life of the human being. And likewise, it is through his personality and his conscience that man can know God.
The human personality consists of 7 aspects or 7 powers, which brings the individual his power.
1. The power of emergence
Humans have the power to formulate new, potential things. He is able to think about a problem until an explanation or solution emerges. These things do not arise from the personality, but the personality has the power to bring them out of the individual. Emergence is the result of reflective activity and can subsequently lead to creative activity.
2. The power of agency or choice
This choice is the specific mark of beings endowed with personality. It gives meaning to freedom because those who are not free have no choice. This choice appears constantly in everyday life. Man can stay at home, go to work, do one job rather than another… But to make a thoughtful and relevant choice, man must show discernment. And this discernment also emerges in him because it too is the fruit of his reflections.
3. The power of judgment
The power to judge allows humans to appreciate the value of their actions in relation to the order of things. Judgment is in fact both about method and about meaning, about how and about why, about rightness and justice.
4. Decision-making power
Each individual has the power to make a decision for the realization of something under his own authority. Humans can thus freely condition themselves to a choice. The decision allows the human to mobilize all the potential powers required for the execution of his choice.
The decision coordinates the being of the individual and the experience. As long as a decision is not firm in the will of the individual, his being is not oriented. Decision is the key to change, the secret to evolution, the key to self-perfection.
5. The power of experience and/or execution
Before engaging in an act, the human conceives the project in his mind. The project is lived by the conscience before being committed in the facts. The power of experience is actually taking ownership of the change involved in the decision. The human being relies on his firmness, his constancy, his loyalty, his courage and his effort until he obtains the desired result.
This power thus allows humans to implement all the necessary means to achieve the intended goal by relying on their courage, tenacity, firmness and to fully assume all that will result from their choices and decisions.
6. The power of evaluation
This power allows humans to evaluate their experience in order to possibly go further, to continue further or not. This is how humans can at any time evaluate their life course and question their meaning: what has they done with their life, what has their life brought them? It is during these questions that humans are led to wonder about life after death. The human being evaluates his life once he has lived through all the stages of development of his being. He evaluates his life horizontally and realizes that there is a vertical dimension: the relationship to transcendence. He realizes that his life cannot end with his death.
7. The power of cooperation, of love
Each individual is capable of establishing with another personality a consensual relationship of collaboration or cooperation. In brotherhood, for example, it is the pooling or interrelation of specific aspects of two or more personalities for the purpose of mutual engagement, expansion of thoughts, or amplification of the powers of different personalities together. It is in fact the basis of the coexistence of beings and of their unity. It is also love in the service of others; it is to put oneself at the service of others.
The personality that God gives to every human is destined to be eternal, but the human must want it and ask for it! The personality is endowed with the powers adapted to the living environment in which the human lives. Personality powers are not static, they evolve as needed for human survival.
The possession of a personality identifies the human as a spiritual being: the self-consciousness unity of the personality is a gift from the supra-material world. The very fact that a mortal can deny the existence of supermaterial realities demonstrates that spiritual synthesis and cosmic consciousness are present in his mind and are at work there.
The human is responsible for the gifts made to him; he is responsible for the use he makes of it.
The more we ask to understand our powers, the more they become obvious to us and the more we use them consciously. From then on, our actions have a new meaning and we become fully aware of the value of life. The more we are aware of our powers, the more we act in a conscious and voluntary way, the more we manifest God.
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