Type and Finding Your Spiritual Path

7.1…Temperament and the Spiritual Path…page 1

An application of C.G.Jung’s Theory of Psychological Types and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Our aim is a balanced, centered spirituality.
Note: These words are meant to facilitate and suggest understanding; not to define, or limit understanding, or stifle individuality.

PREFERRED
EXTRAVERSION INTROVERSION SENSING INTUITION THINKING FEELING JUDGMENT PERCEPTION
ATTITUDE FUNCTION
E I S N T F J P
OR LIFESTYLE

PRIMARY ARENA WORLD, OTHER IDEAS, SELF BODY SPIRIT MIND HEART WILL AWARENESS

Sensory reality Possibilities

Objective Subjective
PREFERENCE FOR Action Reflection Details Patterns Initiative Response
Principles Values
Status Quo Change
SIGNIFICANT Immediacy Anticipation Theory Feeling, Ideal Product Process
Exterior Interior
REALITY ASPECTS Concreteness Vision Principles Memory Categorical Conditional
WINDOWS BY People Individual
Insight
WHICH GOD’S Events experience Society Institutions Reason Relationships Order Serendipity
Imagination
REVELATION IS Scripture Inspiration “The Seen” Speculations Emotions “Ought” “Is”
“The Unseen”
RECEIVED Natural World Inner World
Immanence Transcendence The Absolute Relational
SIGNIFICANT Mystery Judge Redeemer
Creator Identity of God Incarnation Principle Familial
ASPECTS OF GOD Holy Spirit Ruler Healer
Imago Dei and inner self First Cause (e.g., Father)
APPROACH TO
Practical Symbolic Analytical Personal
BIBLE & RELIGIOUS Social Solitary Systematic Of – the – moment
Literal Metaphorical Abstract Immediate
EXPERIENCE
Exclusion Intrusions Restriction Inconsistency Conflict Helplessness Regimentation
AVOIDS (HELL) Ambiguity
Loneliness Confusion Repetition Ignorance Estrangement Disorder Deadlines
Conceptual
Physical Harmony Personal harmony Closure Openness
Participation Incorporation Aesthetic harmony harmony
SEEK (HEAVEN) Faithfulness Communion Productivity Receptivity
Reunion Fulfillment Mystical union Enlightenment
Obedience Appreciation Work ethic Play ethic
Justice Truth
Sensuous-5
Intuitive Cognitive Affective
senses (Ignatian
PRAYER Corporate Private (Augustinian NF / (Mental (Prayer of Planned Unplanned
SJ / Franciscan
Thomistic NT) Discursive) Loving Gaze)
SP)
NATURAL SPIRITUAL
ACTION REFLECTION SERVICE AWARENESS KNOWLEDGE DEVOTION DISCIPLINE SPONTANEITY
PATH
AWARENESS
NEEDED FOR ACTION or SERVICE or
REFLECTION or UNDER- DEVOTION KNOWLEDGE SPOTANEITY DISCIPLINE
WHOLENESS PARTICIPATION EMBODIMENT
STANDING
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7.1…Temperament and the Spiritual Path…Page 2

PREFERRED
EXTRAVERSION INTROVERSION SENSING INTUITION THINKING FEELING JUDGMENT PERCEPTION
ATTITUDE FUNCTION
E I S N T F J P
OR LIFESTYLE

NATURAL SPIRITUAL
ACTION REFLECTION SERVICE AWARENESS KNOWLEDGE DEVOTION DISCIPLINE SPONTANEITY
PATH
Assertiveness Independence
SOME POSITIVE Love Ecstasy Equanimity Compassion Discrimination Acceptance
Building Deepening
EXPRESSIONS Pleasure Anticipation Objectivity Rapport Competence Serenity
community community
Sentimentality Inappropriate
SOME NEGATIVE Anger Fear Elation Apathy Failure to take
Attachment Over- control
EXPRESSIONS Attack Withdrawal Depression Critical-ness responsibility
protectiveness Judging others
UNDER- Isolation Premature closure
Emptiness Abstraction Coldness Loss of purpose
DEVELOPMENT Lack of Flatness Confusion Baseless
Dependence Overlooking Distrust Indecision
MAY LEAD TO circumspection conclusion
Withholding Idolatry Illusion Reductionism
OVER- Credulity Passivity
Impatience Idiosyncrasy Frivolity Impracticality Cynicism Rigidity
DEVELOPMENT Personalizing Impulsiveness
Shallowness Inappropriate Inappropriate Stubbornness Dogmatism Perfectionism
MAY LEAD TO Blaming Procrastination
intensity conformity Fickleness Rumination
Emotional
Primitive explosion
SPECIAL Superstition Idealizing authority
Distraction Inaction sensuality exploitation Self-righteousness Rebelliousness
TEMPTATIONS AND Suspicion Pseudo-objectivity
Suggestibility Inclusion by others Psychogenic indulgence Scrupulosity Carelessness
VULNERABILITIES Fear of change Hurt feelings
illness Contaminated
thinking
AWARENESS
NEEDED FOR ACTION or SERVICE or
REFLECTION or UNDER- DEVOTION KNOWLEDGE SPOTANEITY DISCIPLINE
WHOLENESS PARTICIPATION EMBODIMENT
STANDING

Finding your Spiritual Path and Following your Spiritual Path were developed to help individuals and groups use C.G.Jung’s observations about psychological type as a way to find their
individual and group journeys toward wholeness. The words and phrases are meant to open you to new aspects of this search. If you have comments and suggestions to share with the author,
please send them to CAPT P.O. Box 13807, University Station, Gainesville, Fl. 32604 and they will be forwarded to the Reverend Earle Page. ©