Mal12345
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Yep that totally makes sense, it's just that Fi/Se (or Se/Fi) tends to appreciate aesthetics in general or at least sensory impact, so I'm pretty sure with many ISFPs that goes beyond nature.
You mean, metaphysically beyond nature? No. You must mean "other things besides nature," just as the ISFP also appreciates things beyond art. But if you also look at their taste in art, it is not of the abstract but more natural kind of depictions.
It is easy enough simply to describe the ISFP as attracted to the beauty in things, whether they involve artistic animal expressions or live examples of natural products. It is more than an attraction, it seeks a primal attachment involving a sense of unity with the object being appreciated. The ISFP seeks out (sometimes by creating) that which invokes this sense of oneness expressed inwardly as a feeling-state.
Some might call this a natural high. And that's another reason for choosing the double rainbow guy video as an example, as he is obviously experiencing an altered or "higher" state of consciousness in a very authentic sense.
I like this ISFP description, which is a mix of Keirsey with input from several other sources, and it pretty much makes ISFP sound like what one would call "the artistic temperament" in an old fashioned sense of the word i.e. a very emotional, passionate, sometimes too impulsive or reactive person who is strongly aware of their senses.
Very much into the senses, although the external senses only provide the input. The primary goal of the ISFP's psychological life is the inner feeling-state of merger, unity, oneness. They seek this in various ways. Some, like double rainbow guy, go out into the wilderness; some become beach bums in hawaii; some turn to artistic expressions; and oftentimes, getting stoned is a vector for furthering this feeling of merger.
The Exuberant Personality. I very much relate to this description, more than any I've ever read.
The name "Exuberant" sounds too extraverted, whereas the page describes them as more ambiverted. But the traits listed do match up well with the ISFP description.
On the other hand, I'm sure many t.v. watching couch potatoes are ISFPs too, and since there are SO MANY ISFPs, obviously they're going to have different levels of intelligence and education.
I like the nature child thing, though, don't get me wrong. It's one of the primary things I like/resonate with about non-cognitive ISFP descriptions.
I don't know what cognitive ISFP descriptions look like. Fi/Se? A playful-P nature is necessary to break free of the routines of daily existence which always tend to detract from the feeling-state of unity with nature and beauty. So that's one reason not to give up the MBTI altogether, it provides certain reasonings that aren't found in analytical explanations.