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Old 16-04-2021, 08:18 AM
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Is spirituality biased towards certain personality types?

I'm thinking about modern spirituality in particular, which is very much catering to individualism and a solitary life, all about ''going within'' and doing your own practice (say meditation, prayer, yoga, etc.) by yourself. Mainstream religion on the other hand has always been more communal. The spirituality there cannot really be separated from the shared rituals.

Using the Myers-Brigg personality types, I think there is a bias in modern spirituality towards certain personalities, in particular the INFP personality. I stands for introversion (in contrast to Extroversion), N stands for intuitive thinking (in constrast to S: sensing / practical thinking), F stands for feeling (in constrast to thinking/intellectual knowledge) and P stands for perceiving (in constrast to J: judging/orderliness). It could be argued that P and J are a close tie, as doing a spiritual practice in a rigorous manner at certain times does smack of structure and an orderly personality type, so I would say there could be a tie in modern spirituality between INFP and INFJ.

I believe modern spirituality - catering a lot to singles, housewives, voluntary celibates and highly individualistic people - has an inbuilt arrogance in that it assumes it is the most spiritual, when in fact, it is just one path amongst many others. The arrogance returns every time self-proclaimed 'spiritual' folks ridicule and bash ''religion'', whereas their own spiritual path is presented as more genuine. But as I see it, it isn't worse or better than other paths. A spiritual or religious path is merely the result of a number of variables that allow it to thrive within a given context. It is a reflection of where someone is in life.
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