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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Jonathan Elias
43 / Counseling, Coaching, and Psychotherapy / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: Eros, extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted thinking (Te), individuation, inferior function, INFP, INTJ, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), James Hillman, Jonathan Elias, marriage, Opposing Personality, projection, Psyche
April 25, 2021

Couples often wonder whether they are “ready” for such a commitment. I look for situations when each person’s “sore spot” is activated. When a couple is able to hold the tension of the activated inferior function and find a way to make their relationship a vehicle for the development of personality, then they are “ready” for marriage in one of the most crucial ways.
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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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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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Soha Al-Jurf
41 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: Animus, archetypal father, Cassandra, Cronos, Demonic/ Daimonic, dominant, dreams, ego, ENFJ, ENFP, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensing (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), feminine, Hero, individuation, inferior, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensing (Si), ISTJ, Mother, Saturn, shadow, Soha Al-Jurf, superior, voice, Witch
September 16, 2020

Cassandra represents the difficulty of expressing one’s own truth in a way that is persuasive and influential in the world, particularly a truth that is not androcentric. The weakening of the voice of the dream ego represents the suppression and repression of the feminine that results from continuing to rely on old ways of exerting influence.
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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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Christopher Ross
38 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: anger, Christopher Ross, control, demonic, ENFJ, ENTJ, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted thinking (Te), Hero, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), John Beebe, negotiating, parent archetype, parenting, past lives, reconciliation, tone
July 3, 2019

Later, I reflected that my tone, out of awareness at time of utterance, was the element to which she was reacting as a feeling type, and that my insistence on staying on topic showed up in her experience as my controlling her. Such was my first conscious application of Beebe’s sobering formulation of the monster-in-play when our eighth function breathes fire at another’s dominant function.
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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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