{"id":2572,"date":"2026-06-04T09:02:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adriankezele.com\/?p=2572"},"modified":"2026-06-04T09:02:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:02:25","slug":"the-purpose-of-personality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adriankezele.com\/en\/the-purpose-of-personality\/","title":{"rendered":"The Purpose of Personality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among the most intimate and intuitive aspects of our experience is the sense of being \u201csomeone\u201d\u2014of being \u201cme.\u201d This sense of self is a recurring subject in discussions of how consciousness develops. But is the \u201cme\u201d truly the center of our existence? What becomes of it in higher states of consciousness? And as that strong sense of identity we call \u201cme\u201d begins to loosen its grip, how are our relationships with others affected\u2014and what does it even mean to function without it? This lecture grew out of experiential questions raised by practitioners of Integral Meditation. Originally delivered in Croatian, the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the most intimate and intuitive aspects of our experience is the sense of being \u201csomeone\u201d\u2014of being \u201cme.\u201d This sense of self is a recurring subject in discussions of how consciousness develops. But is the \u201cme\u201d truly the center of our existence? What becomes of it in higher states of consciousness? And as that strong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"slim_seo":{"title":"The Purpose of Personality - Adrian Kezele","description":"Among the most intimate and intuitive aspects of our experience is the sense of being \u201csomeone\u201d\u2014of being \u201cme.\u201d This sense of self is a recurring subject in disc"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adriankezele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adriankezele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adriankezele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adriankezele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adriankezele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.adriankezele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2573,"href":"https:\/\/www.adriankezele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions\/2573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adriankezele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adriankezele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adriankezele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adriankezele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}