In this reflection I attempt to explain a state of knowing (or feeling) everything and nothing all at the same time. I relate this state to being an Ni dom and call it "The Abyss".

Supporting themes: Consciousness and awareness; Attention and recognition; Meaning making; Sleep; Science fiction; the Soul; Disconnect; and Intimacy.

Typology: Introverted Intuition

In this reflection I walk through faith as a rational experience.

Supporting themes: Sum- total decisions; Business; Non-negotiables; Spirituality as irrational; Truth; Schema formations; and Healthy living.

Text: Hebrews 11:1 ( The Bible) and Social Psychology (Bordens & Horowitz).

Typology: Introverted intuition and INTJness.

In this reflection I explore what it means to make life decisions that have a sum- total (equal and simultaneous) impact on different domains of our existence.

Supporting themes: Expertise; Race and Gender; Instruction, Power and Leadership; Abusive Relationships; Siblings and birth order expectations; and Schemas.

Text used: "Gifts Differing" (Briggs Meyers) and " Social Psychology (Bordens & Horiwitz).

Typology: Introverted intuition and INTJness

In this reflection I explore what it means to thrive as an INTJ Black Woman.

Supporting themes: Surviving versus thriving; Intuitive thinkers; Blending; Being vulnerable; Anti-blackness; Capitalism; Labor; The validity (or not) of stereotypes; and Four stereotypes used against Black women.

Inspired by: "Navigating Relationships and Career as an INTJ Woman" by Antonia Dodge and Joel Witt (YouTube)

Typology: Intuition; Thinking; Sensing; and Feeling

In this reflection I consider my spirituality and my struggle with it as an irrational part of my being. I also contend with several scriptures to help make plain the hidden laws and principles of greatness. Finally I challenge myself to rethink my current struggles as spiritual -- and embrace it ultimately as irrationally rational.

Contributing texts: Proverbs 18:16; Romans 12:2; Ephesians 6:12; Matthew 25:14-30.

Typology: Ni; Te; and Si.

In this reflection I identify a missing piece to a puzzle I've been struggling with.

Supporting themes: Good math; Leadership; Employment; and Entrepreneurship.

In this reflection I think through a morning impression that I had about white supremacy. This episode is Part II to the previous episode entitled, "The Impression".

Main themes: Instruction; Law and order; and Red herrings.

This morning, I awakened to a grand impression relating to white supremacy. I used this reflection to lay the ground for that discussion. Please understand that I never actually discuss white supremacy in this episode. Instead, I spend half the time talking about impressions as related to introverted intuition. The second half is then about the work space when irrational behavior is presented as rational. I conclude the reflection with a question about the irrational (especially since it's presented as rational). Note: I plan to answer this question in the episode that follows as a Part II. Additional themes: Delimited power; Behaviorism; Adult power; Trauma scores and abuse; Black on Black relations; and Supervision. Typology: Intuition and Sensing

In this reflection, I consider four philosophies as a frame for existential meaning making.

Supporting themes: Determinism; Indeterminism; Free will; Plato's allegory - The Cave; Second half of life; bell hooks's writings on black womanhood; Racial caste system; the Racial elite; and white as a political designation (not as an ethnicity).

In this reflection, I confront the absurdity of trying to change the system and, at the same time, rank up in it. I also acknowledge that some growth points are so substantive that the lesson must be repeated until we truly get it. Finally. I confess that I'm just not there yet. Hence, the lesson continues.

Supporting themes: Systems theory (I will upload the notes within one week of this post at yournidom.wordpress.com); Faith; and Self- narratives.

Typology: Enneagram 3 and 4s; Tritypes; Ni/Te conflict; and Intuition/ Sensing conflict.