Totenkindly
@.~*virinaĉo*~.@
- Joined
- Apr 19, 2007
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- MBTI Type
- BELF
- Enneagram
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- Instinctual Variant
- sx/sp
To the bolded, I can definitely relate.
I have posted on numerous occasions in my time on this forum whenever the mystic/psychic element of INFJ comes up, that I don't personally think it's mystical ... and I then try to explain how I believe my thought processes/perceptions to actually work. I have conceded that I can see how from the outside it might appear more nebulous and 'mystical', but I don't experience it as such at all, and I also don't gravitate towards mysticism.
I recall the last time this came up with someone on here who typed as INFJ by the end of their stint on the forum, that the person got very ... almost angry when I stated I didn't believe Ni was truly mystical. This person seemed to attach to the idea of Ni *because* of the mystical component.
TO really throw some kinks into things:
I've had FeSi and SiFe friends who have been heavily into "mystic" things like tarot cards, fantasy books, unicorns, fairies and all that stuff, to the degree I originally just thought they were N (this would be a good 15 years ago), but the more I interacted with them, then their S roots became more clear, and it seemed far more likely that N was a tertiary or inferior based on standard type theory -- they tended to believe or be into the fantastical trappings of N but didn't really operate with pattern matching and other N connection qualities on a day to day basis. I've also seen these people drift into religious beliefs and possess a "magical" quality to the belief while being somewhat literalists in their approach to the holy texts.
if it makes sense, I've seen SiFe's who were more into the trappings of mysticism but operated from a concrete basis, while NiFe's with a good sense of patterning weren't really into such things at all and could come off as more practical-minded.