JANE MULLIKIN
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anon | princess m | audra | kati | meg
You definitely have me thinking ....
I also remember questioning at the beginning of my school experiences. I let it go when firmly admonished, "it's just that way, that is the way it's always been." I questioned words, numbers, everything presented to me, as fact, for a very short time. Since I started out in a one-room country school, the pressure from the older students, grades 3 and up, quickly brought me in line with the rote learning process. (I was born before Sesame Street).
Reading your essay, puzzling over "one", brought back memories that were tucked away a half century ago. If you can take it a step further and teach us how to lead our youngest children so they do not lose their innate reasoning abilities, what an awesome jump over the moon that would be....might even solve most of the attention deficit disorders.
You definitely have me thinking.........
Jane Mullikin
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See other articles in the series:
- In the Absence of Good and Evil by Audra
- Good and Evil by Princess M
- The Elf Rose by Anonymous
- Vision for Healing by Kati
- Good and Evil in an INFPs Childhood by Meg
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Complete definition of the infp type introvert from Keirsey.com Please visit www.keirsey.com for more complete information about all personality types, including the eight different types of introverts. Keirsey calls the infp, "The Healer".
"Healer Idealists are abstract in thought and speech, cooperative in striving for their ends, and informative and introverted in their interpersonal relations. Healers present a seemingly tranquil, and noticiably pleasant face to the world, and though to all appearances they might seem reserved, and even shy, on the inside they are anything but reserved, having a capacity for caring not always found in other types. They care deeply -- indeed, passionately -- about a few special persons or a favorite cause, and their fervent aim is to bring peace and integrity to their loved ones and the world.
"Healers have a profound sense of idealism derived from a strong personal morality, and they conceive of the world as an ethical, honorable place. Indeed, to understand Healers, we must understand their idealism as almost boundless and selfless, inspiring them to make extraordinary sacrifices for someone or something they believe in. The Healer is the Prince or Princess of fairytale, the King's Champion or Defender of the Faith, like Sir Galahad or Joan of Arc. Healers are found in only 1 percent of the general population, although, at times, their idealism leaves them feeling even more isolated from the rest of humanity.?
STATEMENT IN REFERENCE ABOUT GOOD AND EVIL
"Healers seek unity in their lives, unity of body and mind, emotions and intellect, perhaps because they are likely to have a sense of inner division threaded through their lives, which comes from their often unhappy childhood. Healers live a fantasy-filled childhood, which, unfortunately, is discouraged or even punished by many parents. In a practical-minded family, required by their parents to be sociable and industrious in concrete ways, and also given down-to-earth siblings who conform to these parental expectations, Healers come to see themselves as ugly ducklings. Other types usually shrug off parental expectations that do not fit them, but not the Healers. Wishing to please their parents and siblings, but not knowing quite how to do it, they try to hide their differences, believing they are bad to be so fanciful, so unlike their more solid brothers and sisters. They wonder, some of them for the rest of their lives, whether they are OK. They are quite OK, just different from the rest of their family-swans reared in a family of ducks. Even so, to realize and really believe this is not easy for them. Deeply committed to the positive and the good, yet taught to believe there is evil in them, Healers can come to develop a certain fascination with the problem of good and evil, sacred and profane. Healers are drawn toward purity, but can become engrossed with the profane, continuously on the lookout for the wickedness that lurks within them. Then, when Healers believe thay have yielded to an impure temptation, they may be given to acts of self-sacrifice in atonement. Others seldom detect this inner turmoil, however, for the struggle between good and evil is within the Healer, who does not feel compelled to make the issue public." [the end]
Most infps I talk to relate to these statements immediately? How about you? What do you think? Please express your opinion, anonymously or in an essay or article.
