Hello Everyone in Depth Typology.

I enjoyed so very much listening to the recording of last week's class on Intuition. Once again, I cannot attend tonight's class live, (darn it all!!!!) and so I wanted to post my Intuition homework here. I so appreciated the questions and discussion last week, and look forward to participating with all of you next week and beyond.

All best

Willene

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Here is the homework, and I have also attached a file in case that is the preferred method:

Willene Jaqua McRae

HOMEWORK Week #3

INTUITION

1. Introverted Intuition is my Dominant function.

On the MBTI assessment, I scored 30 Intuition, 0 Sensation. It is an extreme preference.

2. I enjoyed last week’s lecture very much and took note that Intuition is the function that “most stands in need” of being moderated by a judging function. I have been pondering this. I relate to the role of “flashes of insight” in my intuitive experience. I write in a journal daily because I know that as the words pour out on the page something else will eventually visit me in the spirit of what Shyrl calls an “A-HA realization.” My favorite relationships are with Ideas, and I capitalize that noun in order to emphasize the living nature I feel in IDEAS, perhaps something like the tradition of Plato. For me, Ideas are beings who visit me. Dreams are an image form of these Idea-visitations, and I greatly value the insights that are granted me through dream experience - for me, dreams are the most precious boon given by the gods. I love the multivalence of symbols.

3. Extroverted Sensation represents the complementing balance for my psyche. I have already shared how, as a young child, my pediatrician suggested to my parents that I enroll in a dance class to help my under-developed coordination/motor skills. At first, I could only clutch the ballet barre in terror. I was unable to take a single step with the rest of the class. But when my mother took me to a performance of Swan Lake and I saw the dancers moving in lyric unison to a tale of love and loss, I just knew that this was what I wanted to be - a dancer. I studied dance throughout my childhood and majored in Dance in college. I never had natural talent for movement, but I’m grateful for the experience of working in this physical sensation mode. Despite my awkwardness, I was hungry for the motion of dance and it is still one of my greatest thrills to watch a company of dancers move in perfect unison. I was never able to dance professionally myself - after college I moved to NYC and tried to earn a place in one of the modern dance companies there, but I simply did not have the talent.

4. Intuition is my dominant. So I have been considering not so much about how to develop intuition as how to moderate it with Thinking or Feeling. My T-i and F-e are quite balanced in the MBTI assessment: I scored a 2 on Feeling, so it is not much of a preference. I believe I use both thinking and feeling fairly equally in their auxiliary and tertiary roles. Perhaps my dream-life is a good example of this. Every night, I write a note to the Dream Maker, declaring my desire to experience a dream and my commitment to remember and work with the dreams that are given. It’s not a formula of any kind; I simply write a note from my heart (feeling) to the Dream Maker. In the middle of the night, I usually partially wake with the dream in full swing and I remember (thinking) to keep my commitment. My dream notebook is open to the page with my last love note to the Dream Maker and, in the pitch dark, I write key words of the dream on that same page, before falling back asleep. I often can’t remember doing this the next morning, but there are my key words on the page, and the dream floods into my consciousness as I read them. This is a practical way in which my thinking and feeling functions assist my intuition by grounding Intuition’s hunger for relationship with inner image-ideas in a practical daily ritual.

Homework - Intuition.docx