Stephanie Marshall
45 / Archetypes / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: Demon/Daimon, double bind, dreams, egodystonic, egosyntonic, extraverted feeling, extraverted sensation, extraverted thinking, inferior function, INFJ, introverted feeling, introverted sensation, Parent, Stephanie Marshall, Trickster, Witch
April 19, 2022

I was in the grip of my own unconscious, projecting the shadows I was grappling with onto the work environment around me. I felt compulsively gripped by a desire to “fight the evil empire.” At my darkest point, I disregarded the fact that I did not have all the details and simply projected my personal beliefs and limited perceptions onto every decision made.
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Sheila Newsom
45 / Archetypes / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: Anima, auxiliary, Demonic/ Daimonic, dominant, dreams, dysphoria, extraverted feeling, extraverted sensation, gender transition, Hero, identity, inferior function, INFJ, Introverted Intuition, introverted sensation, introverted thinking, LGBTQIA, nigredo, Parent, Puer, Sheila Newsom, transgender, Trickster
April 19, 2022

The constant tension and accompanying fatigue in my waking life might be seen as the price I paid for the maintenance of a persona that had outlived its utility. The executioner lurking in the demonic position grew potent in the shadows, but the inferior function was rising. Energetically, a talisman was constellated, signifying a burning away of an inauthentic outer mask.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Lori Green
33 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: Amy Adams, Arrival, Beebe model, Dave Eggers, Demon/Daimon, Denis Villeneuve, Eternal Child, fifth essence, Good Parent, Hero, inferior function, INFJ, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted thinking (Ti), Jeremy Renner, Lori Green, oceanic, quintessentia, Trickster
January 10, 2018

The film is arguably an example of INFJ art itself, providing a window into the awakening INFJ nature essential to the culture’s efforts to address power imbalances and welcome a new consciousness toward that which is deemed “other.” This paradigm shift ultimately requires humans to become active participants in an awakening consciousness.
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Stephen T. Weed
31 / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: Beebe model, function couplings, function pairs, function-attitude couplings, INFJ, ISTJ, John Beebe, John Giannini, Robert McAlpine, Stephen Weed, Trickster, type development, type research
July 6, 2017

Giannini’s model differs importantly from Myers’ in that it does not restrict us to just one predominant function pair associated with one’s preferred perceiving and judging processes. His model provides a greater degree of flexibility in the developmental expression of type-related behaviors as well as enhanced adaptive power for engaging and responding to our various environments.
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Diana Arias Heñao
31 / Archetypes / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: ballet, Barbara Hershey, Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky, Demon, Diana Arias-Henao, Eight-Function Model, ESTP, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), inferior, INFJ, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), Mila Kunis, Natalie Portman, Swan Lake, Trickster, Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder
July 6, 2017

The black swan represents those aspects of the inferior function that evoke surprise, spontaneity, and freedom from control and rigidity. It is here where the interpretation of the black swan requires an open mind, not to play the role merely, but to embody what seems foreign and necessary to us from a more authentic and personal place.
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