Terence McKenna MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Terence McKenna? Terence McKenna is an INFJ personality type in MBTI, 5w4 - so/sx - 548 in Enneagram, RCUAI in Big 5, ILE in Socionics.
He is an obvious introverted intuition user. Read Jung’s description of the type. He is obsessed with archetypal thinking, dissident and far-out ideas, and the recherché patterns between them. A lot of people interested in typology have this idea that if you are interested in learning and playing with concepts then you are inherently an Ne user. Extroverted intuition is about external possibilities and discovering the direct connection between them and other possibilities. Whereas McKenna takes in vast concepts and learning and knocks them around looking for archetypal patterns and lateral uses of them from his inner storehouse of odd and created patterns. He is internal possibilities personified. If you want a brief illustration of his Ni use, listen to this ten minute video (the whole thing, but especially from the 2:50 mark on) https://youtu.be/QJBOMwsGsYs?si=tJ68A5iKttZ_FjbV
Biography
Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16, 1946 – April 3, 2000) was an American ethnobotanist, mystic, psychonaut, lecturer, author, and an advocate for the responsible use of naturally occurring psychedelic plants. He spoke and wrote about a variety of subjects, including psychedelic drugs, plant-based entheogens, shamanism, metaphysics, alchemy, language, philosophy, culture, technology, environmentalism, and the theoretical origins of human consciousness.
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