[Jennywocky]

So, isn't that contradicting? Parapsychology, you associate with fortune telling but psychology you are associating with predicting the future? Sorry I'm confused.

I find it a little confusing too, since how can we determine realistically what is a "brain process" vs a "magic/parapsychological" process? We're just kind of lumping things into the two categories based on our preconceived understanding of them.

But maybe it is just awkwardness in terms of the language.



I consider NF -- especially the Ni approach -- to have a mystical flavor to it, overlapping with spirituality. In my experience, Ni-strong individuals tend to be the "mystics" in Christianity and other religious faiths, where there's a broad intuitive grasp of spiritual/personal truth that provides strong guidance for how to live and what might be happening (broadly) in a particular situation. My INF friends in particular are the ones who typically describe having religious visions, as opposed to other types of people. But I wouldn't say anything supernatural is happening per se, although they tend to think there might be some profound religious experience; I think their ability to perceive what sort of changes/struggles are happening within a person, coupled with their metaphorical nature, results in those struggles and spiritual realities being perceived in dreams and symbols.

(This is kind of the spiritual mysticism that Jung himself was credited with. He had a strong Ti bent, too, it seemed, but it's plausible he was INFJ. I think the two types I see presented most often are INTP and INFJ, for him.)

[Spades]

I find it a little confusing too, since how can we determine realistically what is a "brain process" vs a "magic/parapsychological" process? We're just kind of lumping things into the two categories based on our preconceived understanding of them.

But maybe it is just awkwardness in terms of the language.

I consider NF -- especially the Ni approach -- to have a mystical flavor to it, overlapping with spirituality. In my experience, Ni-strong individuals tend to be the "mystics" in Christianity and other religious faiths, where there's a broad intuitive grasp of spiritual/personal truth that provides strong guidance for how to live and what might be happening (broadly) in a particular situation. My INF friends in particular are the ones who typically describe having religious visions, as opposed to other types of people. But I wouldn't say anything supernatural is happening per se, although they tend to think there might be some profound religious experience; I think their ability to perceive what sort of changes/struggles are happening within a person, coupled with their metaphorical nature, results in those struggles and spiritual realities being perceived in dreams and symbols.

(This is kind of the spiritual mysticism that Jung himself was credited with. He had a strong Ti bent, too, it seemed, but it's plausible he was INFJ. I think the two types I see presented most often are INTP and INFJ, for him.)

You bring up an excellent point that the dichotomy might be false, and the two things I'm describing are the same. There are two possible options then:

1. Psychic powers are the same as a very well-developed intuition and thus can be measured experimentally (using brain-scanning equipment) and be repeatable.
2. Pyschic powers are not the same thing, and are unfalsifiable (can't be proven true or false) and people can claim whatever they want about being psychic with no proof.

I'm not on either side, I think intuition can predict phenomenal things accurately sometimes. I'm INTJ, and I consider myself very spiritual. I've had similar experiences as the INFJ's you describe above, but I can't conclude in any way that they are the kind of thing where you can guess out of a 1000-sided die what outcome will occur (if such power even exists).

[Dashing]

I believe, I know, that intuition is a very powerful tool. It's pretty hard to explain like a lot of trains of thought but I do think that my intuition is my life saver. In various situations where things seemed to go pretty well I notice small details, or just see how things may develop from an early stage, however I'm very 'shy' and uncertain about my intuition so when something goes wrong I blame myself for not taking action.

I would love to develop my own intuition to the point that I am comfortable with trusting it. Life goal?