What psychological personality tests reveal

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Dear et al,

I have come to appreciate the Myers Briggs inventory as a helpful tool for

self-observing the ego state one has developed over their lifetime. I don't use

it dogmatically and find it quite curious that so many people already know their

" type " as they may also already know their Enneagram number. These typologies

have developed a rather elaborate dogma around them, some of which I take with a

big grain of salt, especially as to their proper interpretation. I wonder if

Jung would subscribe to the way they have developed over the years since he

theorized their aspects. WWJD now? Like so much about Jung's later theoretical

developments, he would undoubtedly continue to prefer being Jung to being a

" Jungian. "

It is my own conviction now, especially through my life purpose coaching, that

the ego state, as such, is only part of the psychic structure and certainly not

the most important one even as it is the most easily observable. At some point

in psychic development, the real " action " seems to be going beyond studying the

ego state and moving on to an awakening to the central Self archetype (along

that dotted line about which Alice keeps reminding us). But the Self (center

and totality) must be encouraged to observe the quirky ego, out there on the

edge of things, before consciousness can dawn through Self-observation, with

heavy doses of curiousity AND compassion, one's habitual behavior - operating as

it does in the realm of time and space. Then life gets very interesting,

because we can then ask: " who is doing the observing! " I don't necessarily

expect that others see it this way, indeed I have been challenged by those in

the " helping " arts, but I have found it helpful along

the way.

Greg

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