Tarrin McDonald
40 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: anima/animus, auxiliary, body, depression, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensing (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), God, Grizzly Adams, Hero, inferior function, INFJ, INTJ, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted thinking (Ti), ISTJ, King James Bible, parent archetype, Puella Aeterna, religion, surrender, Tarrin McDonald, Trickster, vision, Wile E. Coyote
March 19, 2020

The beauty, of course, comes with surrender. When we surrender to the gifts of the inferior function, allowing it to walk beside us hand in hand rather than dragging it behind us like some burdensome weight, consciousness shifts, a new view opens before us, and the world becomes a different place because we have allowed ourselves to become different in its presence.
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Ellen MacGran
40 / Archetypes / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: active imagination, Animus, conflict, dreams, Ellen MacGran, ENTP, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted thinking (Te), introverted feeling (Fi), introverted sensing (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), Trickster, Witch
March 19, 2020

When I first learned about typology in the mid 1990s, I set out to conquer the inferior function. After all, I wanted to develop in every way possible, and surely that meant quashing anything inferior! More recently, however, I have come to appreciate the power of this gremlin to draw me closer to the middle realm of dreams and imagination, where wisdom rises from the depths.
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Lori Green
40 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: Cloud of Unknowing, Demonic/ Daimonic, dreams, extraverted sensation (Se), identity, image, individuation, inferior, INFJ, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), Lori Green, Paul Levy, Quantum Revelation, Self
March 19, 2020

I suddenly noticed all the bright, beautiful one-inch tiles lining the pool. How had I not seen them before? Each of these little cobalt blue squares bore witness to my laps through the water. I decided, in the spirit of play, to imagine that every one of these tiny tiles represented $5000. For the time in which I swam, I engaged this unexpected image.
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