Kevin Kell
43 / Counseling, Coaching, and Psychotherapy / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: active imagination, adolescence, auxiliary function, ENFP, ESTJ, extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted thinking (Te), Hestia, individuation, inferior function, introverted feeling (Fi), James Hillman, John Beebe, Kevin Kell, Lenore Thomson, one-sidedness, panic attacks, phobias, power complex, tension of opposites, transcendent function
April 25, 2021

Many clients enter treatment because their psyche is “failing” to accommodate itself to their one-sided will. They are cut off from the self-regulating functions of their unconscious and the resulting symptoms have induced so much suffering that they are forced to stop their plans, enter therapy, and work through the blockage. The power complex wants a better hold on the psyche.
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Gelareh Khoie
42 / Archetypes
Tags: active imagination, Artemis, auxiliary, axis mundi, Demonic/ Daimonic, dream, ego, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensing (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), feminine, Gelareh Khoie, goddess, Hero, inferior function, INFJ, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensing (Si), lunar, moon, myth, ocean, shadow, somnambulism, superior function, Trickster, yin
December 16, 2020

I’ve discovered that the functions express their unique influence through the tao of the Greek goddess Artemis—an archetypal propensity richly endowed with autonomous power, fierce agency, determined focus, profound self-sufficiency and capacity for self-care, and enormous ability to maintain a connection with the purity of a thalassic and lunar soul.
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Chanti Tacoronte-Perez
41 / Archetypes
Tags: active imagination, Chanti Tacoronte-Perez, coronavirus, Covid-19, Demonic/ Daimonic, dominant function, dreams, ego, extraverted sensing (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Hermes, inferior function, INFJ, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensing (Si), Pan, Panacea, pandemic, Pandora, serpent, snake, Trickster, Zeus
September 16, 2020

Humanity is being summoned to change its perspective in an assortment of ways. When a pandemic wipes the calendar clean, the heroes are not the rich, successful, and scholarly; the heroes are those at the bottom of the economic hierarchy, the people who are risking their health to maintain normalcy during isolation and self-quarantining.
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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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Which functions do we use when we engage in Jung’s favorite form of internal reflection? Jung conceived of this unique form of meditation as a vehicle for building a bridge between consciousness and unconsciousness, and for connecting our personal unconscious with the collective unconscious. Introverted intuitives seem to embrace this exercise …
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Jennifer Soper
21 / Archetypes / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality / The Red Book
Tags: active imagination, Ammonius, Anima, C. G. Jung, collective unconscious, extraverted sensing (Se), Hero, individuation, INTJ, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensing (Si), Jennifer Soper, mandala, personal unconscious, The Red Book, the Red One
October 1, 2014

First comes the development of the Hero; next is the “fall,” which brings awareness that something is missing, leading to the rejection of the heroic inflation and the longing for more. Then comes the real “journey,” holding the tension between our highly conscious dominant/superior function and our much less conscious inferior function.
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