Vicky Jo Varner
43 / Counseling, Coaching, and Psychotherapy / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: chaos, coaching, Conques, COVID, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), inferior function, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), mandala, pandemic, tympanum, Vicky Jo Varner, Wheel of Type, Z-model of decision making
April 25, 2021

We harken back to the Conques tympanum’s division of cosmos and chaos as Jung thereby affirmed the value in engaging with all four functions so as to address our human challenges and set matters in order. Just as Christ was the arbiter of human souls on the Conques tympanum, we may engage our inner self to negotiate the chaos within our own psyche.
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Vanessa Jankowski
42 / Archetypes
Tags: adolescence, archetypes, Beebe’s eight-function model, childhood, competition, Demonic/ Daimonic, ESFP, ESTP, extraverted feeling (Fe), Extraverted Intuition, extraverted sensation (Se), Hestia, inferior function, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), ISFP, ISTP, Kevin Dubrow, numinous, religion, teaching, Vanessa Jankowski
December 16, 2020

Much of the depth psychology literature has been written by and for intuitive types and introverted types, which means that those with an extraverted sensing (Se) preference are a rarity in the field. This in turn perpetuates a subtle bias against extraverted sensation. Yet, contrary to popular opinion, sensing types do have access to the archetypal realm.
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Suzanne Cremen
42 / Archetypes
Tags: Aphrodite, Ariadne, Dionysus, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensation (Se), goddess, inferior function, INFJ, INTJ, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted thinking (Ti), madness, mythology, sexuality, shadow, superior function, Suzanne Cremen, Theseus, virgin, Witch
December 16, 2020

Many women, and not least women with dominant Ni, intuitively know that their spirituality, their creativity, and their sexuality arise from the same source. The priestess may be found in all walks of life; she is the woman who mediates between matter and spirit, between the human and divine realms, who “will always honor sexual energy as a link to the source of life itself.”
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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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39 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: Demonic/ Daimonic, distorted types, ENFJ, ESTJ, Extraversion, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Good Parent, Hero, INFJ, Introversion, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), judging functions, Khrystine Kelsey, love, Trickster
October 16, 2019

Being married is easily the hardest thing I have ever done. Marriage is an all-consuming project that requires energy, commitment, and sustained effort. Unlike my other projects, I can’t just ignore my marriage until inspiration strikes. Mostly, there’s no faking it. As an introvert in an extraverted world, faking it is a lot of how I survive.
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Tamara Walker
38 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: A. Minghella, Animus, Cave of Swimmers, Daimon, Demon, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Heroine, INTJ, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), László Almásy, Michael Ondaatje, mirrors, Opposing Personality, Parent, Puella, S. Zaentz, Senex, Tamara Walker, The English Patient, Trickster, Witch
July 3, 2019

The more I fell apart inside, the more I needed outside structure and order. One night I dreamed of an interior colorless and noiseless explosion that was followed by a voice that boomed, “You have the courage to let your interior world be chaos; there are no walls where there should be walls. You are a crab, and you need an exoskeleton.”
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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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Carol Shumate
36 / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: archetypal possession, authenticity, auxiliary function, Bruce Willis, collective, complex, Die Hard, Donald Trump, election, ESFP, ESTP, extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Hamlet, Han Solo, Hillary Clinton, individuation, inferior function, INTJ, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted thinking (Ti), ISFP, ISTP, Jax Heller, Johnny Depp, judging function, judgment, leaders, leadership, Mafia, mob, perception, persona, persuasiveness, Pirates of the Caribbean, Polonius, presidency, president, projection, Robert Boozer, Sons of Anarchy, spontaneity, Star Wars, The Godfather, The Matrix, The Sopranos, Tony Soprano, type bias
October 4, 2018

Often extraverted sensing leaders are considered more authentic than other types. Trump’s supporters viewed him as trustworthy (“honest,” “outside of the political corruption,” and “not a liar”) while they viewed Clinton as untrustworthy (“belongs behind bars,” “cannot be trusted,” and “nothing but lies”). Even Clinton’s own supporters expressed concern about her trustworthiness.
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Cash Keahey
36 / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: Andrew Jackson, Bernie Sanders, Cash Keahey, democracy, Donald Trump, elitism, ESFP, ESTP, exclusive populism, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), inclusive populism, inflation, INTJ, introverted intuition (Ni), leadership, Lyndon B. Johnson, mob, populism, presidency, president, shadow, Theodore Roosevelt, type development
October 4, 2018

Populism has acquired a negative reputation, and this is especially true now with the presidency of Donald Trump, but many other political leaders have used extraverted sensation tactics and policies to rally the cause of the common man. This is true not only of Andrew Jackson—in whom extraverted sensation (Se) seems to be dominant—but also of Lyndon B. Johnson and Theodore Roosevelt.
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Van T. Bui
35 / Culture and Cultural Typology / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: anger, culture, Demonic/ Daimonic, ENTJ, extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), inferior function, introverted sensation (Si), ISFJ, marriage, Van Bui, Vietnam
July 11, 2018

Igniting the spark of opposites produced during conflict can provide an opportunity for holding the tensions between the one-sided attitudes. The process requires confronting and embracing the forces of unconscious qualities, along with holding the tension and uniting of opposing forces, in order for the full expression of an individual’s potential to be revealed.
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