Mark Ransom
37 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: archetypal, balance, demon/daemon, dialogue, ENFP, extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Feeling, individuation, INTP, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted thinking (Ti), Mark Ransom, Self, soul, The Mostest, vocation
January 22, 2019

The dynamics of creative process and psychological wellbeing are such that creative artists are often overcome by the demonic. From Nietzsche’s Zarathustra to Curt Cobain’s Nirvana, there is an artistic star swallowed by the unconscious every week. But the arts can also be a type of savior—a place for us to process our darkness and not become it.
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Mark Hunziker
37 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: dream work, empathy, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Feeling, fight, flight, freeze, INFJ, INTJ, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), Mark Hunziker
January 22, 2019

She could not compete with me in the extraverted thinking mode that I (and our culture) insisted upon, so my well-meant out-reaching felt like attacks to her, and my peace offering of objective discussion was like a Viking’s looming battle-axe. Rather than take part in a Te confrontation that she couldn’t win, she had changed the rules, initiating an introverted feeling battle of attrition.
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Shirl Terrell
37 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: addiction, Animus, auxiliary function, ENFJ, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensation (Se), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted thinking (Ti), ISFP, midlife, opioids, paranoia, parent archetype, possession, puer/puella aeternus, schizophrenia, Shirl Terrell, Trickster
January 22, 2019

My sister’s life illustrates the impact of a lack of positive parental guidance on the development of personality and what happens if the inner parent fails to develop. Family tragedy deprived Christin of a compass with which to navigate psychic turbulence during midlife. While few people succumb to such crises, many lack the tenacity to face them.
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