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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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 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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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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Elizabeth Leuenberger
35 / Culture and Cultural Typology / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: America, anger, anima/animus, culture, Elizabeth Leuenberger, ENTP, Eternal Child, extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), inferior function, INFP, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), John Giannini, marriage, Switzerland, Trickster
July 11, 2018

Individuation calls us to fight the dragon head-on. The struggles of relationship—whether with another person or within a culture—are opportunities. We can flee and seek a quick-fix, taking what my husband calls “tequila shot” flights to numb the discomfort until the next situation arises. Or we can remain within the oyster shell and endure the uncomfortable rubbing.
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Carol Shumate
34 / Archetypes / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: anima/animus, bipolar disorder, Carol Shumate, Cervantes, conscious competence ladder, Don Quixote, eight-function/eight-archetype model, enantiodromia, ENFP, Eternal Child, extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Gargantua and Pantagruel, Hero, inferior function, inferiority, introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), judgment, perception, possession, Rabelais, Sancho Panza, Trickster, Ulrich K. Goldschmidt
April 4, 2018

To have to spend a year in one’s inferior function is like a yearlong time-out for a toddler. I got so bored and desperate with my inferior introverted sensing (Si) function, required to gather and document the data, that I spent many hours asleep in the library. I could have asked Dr. Goldsmith for help, or maybe a mercy killing, but I was too proud to admit difficulty.
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Casey Winter
34 / Archetypes
Tags: alexithymia, anorexia nervosa, Casey Winter, complex, death, Demonic/ Daimonic, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, eating disorders, Eternal Child, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Hades, inferior function, INTJ, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), Persephone, Puella Aeterna, rebirth, suicidal, Trickster
April 4, 2018

Anorexia nervosa can be understood as an archetypal death-rebirth process. A typological analysis shows a psychological syndrome based in archetypal possession resulting from the dynamic configuration of INTJ preferences. The individual with anorexia undertakes her own heroic psychospiritual journey through the underworld to transform personal and collective consciousness.
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Kiley Laughlin
33 / Organizations, Teams, and Career Development
Tags: Carol Dweck, CIA, cognitive bias, confirmation bias, Department of Defense (DoD), extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted thinking (Te), force multiplier, growth mindset, intelligence analysis, interpretation, INTJ, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), ISFJ, judging functions, judgment, KFOR, Kiley Laughlin, Kosovo, leadership, military intelligence, NATO, operational environment, Richard Heuer, type bias
January 10, 2018

Military intelligence is a personality-centric career field because of its reliance on the subjective factor, which tends to creep into every intelligence assessment regardless of how analytically rigorous it attempts to be. To help reduce bias, intelligence professionals have developed brainstorming analytic techniques so that an analytical cell can offset individual biases.
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Teresa Nowak
33 / Counseling, Coaching, and Psychotherapy
Tags: Animus, archetypal ego, archetypal psychology, Beebe, collective unconscious, Demon/Daimon, dream imagery, dream interpretation, dream tending, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), guided imagery, Hero, images, INTJ, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), James Hillman, Mother, Opposing Personality, personal unconscious, personality spine, Puella Aeterna, Stephen Aizenstat, Teresa Nowak, Trickster, Witch
January 10, 2018

“Interpretations” of dreams must be filtered through a layer of consciousness. One contribution of dream tending as an effective tool for Jungian dream work is the value it places on the sensing function as an imaginal way of knowing. Thus, it de-emphasizes the intuitive and thinking functions many Jungians use in traditional dream analysis and brings sensing and feeling to the fore.
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