A while back someone ask me, “Well, What sort of people do you think, would be attracted the SOLAR CULTURES series?” The following note was my response:
If you read through the Project X Solar Cultures series with only one perspective in mind: What type of person would be interested in such material and what type of person is the author addressing? you stumble upon some interesting keys.
Often times the texts begin or are interlaced with historical, anthropological, and mythological information. There are sections that include quotes from ancient texts. Solar-gazing techniques are presented and explained. Question-and-answer transcriptions are included. Stories, in both first and third person, are often parachuted into the transcribed ‘talks’. And Gene Savoy Sr. talks about the Community, its future, the type of person, and the type of attitude needed to sustain the Community.
So, what type of person is he hoping to address? What type of person is he marshaling? What type of people does he need to formulate his vision of the future?
The writings are pregnant with historical facts, quotations, and document references—but the heart of what he is relaying is often very conceptual. He appeals to humanitarians. He appeals to those that have a need to construct and create. He appeals to those who have a concern for the future of humankind in this world and the next.
These people he is looking for—Teachers, Healthcare Workers, Ministers, Discoverers, and people with an abnormal Creative Urge. They are Doers and think conceptually but rely on intuition and feeling as much or more than intellectualizing. If we understand the “building blocks” that make up these sorts of People, we understand how to reach them.
There are several ways to sort out these “building blocks,” but as Gene had a great deal of reverence for Carl Jung, we will begin with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), which is constructed directly from Jungian principles. Here is the premise of the MBTI, based on the scaling of four personality tendencies (and you can answer these questions yourself, taking into account that we have a tendency to favor one over the other most of the time, or in most situations):
FIRST: I or E? Are you usually more Introverted or more Extroverted?
SECOND: N or S? Are you more comfortable in learning/adapting iNtuitively(conceptually) or Sensually(details/particulars)
THIRD: F or T? When expressing yourself, is the content based more on Feeling or more on Thinking?
FOURTH: J or P? Do you operate more comfortable in environments that are Stuctured (J) or Free and absent of rules (P)
If your answers favored the first letter in each category your temperament would be INFJ or Introverted/iNtuitive/Feeling/Judgmental.
This is very crude example, as actual testing includes up to 290 questions for making a viable assessment. If you are interested in quickly discovering and exploring your particular temperament, I recommend taking an online test that includes at least 70 questions or getting hold of the Keirsey publication Please Understand Me, which does a pretty good job of exposing the MBTI in laymen’s terms. A fairly good assessment test is also included in the book.
Let’s take a look at the NF Type: N- iNtuitive F- feeling
The termperaments of this type include ENFP, ENFJ, INFP, and INFJ.
The NF type makes up 11{1fa2ef75e2e78439128d99df03acfe1d8ee3047374abe3d4676fe3470ff8b909} to 13{1fa2ef75e2e78439128d99df03acfe1d8ee3047374abe3d4676fe3470ff8b909} of the population (of the Western world). As there are 4 of the 16 Temperaments in the NF type, mathematically they should compose 25{1fa2ef75e2e78439128d99df03acfe1d8ee3047374abe3d4676fe3470ff8b909} of the population, but they do not and are therefore considered rare. Often seen as idealists they are described as creative, enthusiastic, humane, imaginative, insightful, religious, subjective, and sympathetic.
Here are some other characteristics of the NF:
Their goal in life is “to have a purpose in life”
Motivation: to pursue the self-reflective, to pursue—becoming.
To be happy, NFs have to be productive.
NFs pursue self-actualization in a perfect whole wherethey can still maintain a unique identity.
These idealists are hypersensitive to communication nuances, metaphorical behavior, hints of things, and symbols.
They are “Future oriented”
NFs heavily populate these career fields: psychology, psychiatry, counseling, teaching, writing, clergy
The second type we’ll look at is the NT: N- iNtuitive T- thinking
NTs make up no more than 12{1fa2ef75e2e78439128d99df03acfe1d8ee3047374abe3d4676fe3470ff8b909} of the population, although mathematically they should compose 25{1fa2ef75e2e78439128d99df03acfe1d8ee3047374abe3d4676fe3470ff8b909}. Often seen as conceptualists, NTs are utilitarian in implementing abstract goals. In this group we are going to look at only two of the NT temperament types.
The first NT Temperament is the INTP: Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving.
The one word that would describe INTP is Architect—of ideas and systems, as well as of material artifacts.
Their driving force: unlocking and organizing the keys to the universe
Their careers: mathematicians, philosophers, scientists, teachers—usually for advanced students.
They are not builders. Their talent is expressed in the unseen world. They are explorers at heart—the heart of the mind.
Examples include Mr. Spock, Carl Jung, Albert Einstein, William James, Isaac Newton.
The second NT Temperament is the ENTP: Extroverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving.
This type’s strong suit is invention.
Their driving force: to exercise ingenuity and imagination to a tangible end.
Tthey look for new ways to solve old problems (consequently they are nonconformists).
They are inspiring, enabling, contagious.
Improvising in any situation is their greatest strength.
Altogether, NFs, ENTPs, and INTPs make up less than 17{1fa2ef75e2e78439128d99df03acfe1d8ee3047374abe3d4676fe3470ff8b909} of the population as teachers, psychologists, inventors, discoverers, writers, artists, architects, humanitarians, film makers, clergy, and counselors. That’s the profile. (I can give you more details, verbiage, pictorials, or whatever so we can use specific words, triggers, and bonding signals that will attract these personality types in our outreach programs.)
Take a look around the Community and see whether this brief Profile does not match all that are here.
Michael McIntyre
01/23/14
