FAQ: Answering your Questions

Q: Can psychic phenomena be naturally explained?

A: Some believe the phenomena has already been explained by science through years of research and data. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment is one of the most widely accepted personality assessment tools in the world today. The questionnaire is designed to identify one's personal psychological preference (personality traits). In this test there are 16, four-preference types. One of these types is called INFJ (Introversion, iNtuition, Feeling, Judging).

What does this have to do with psychics? It's been observed that those who are INFJ's have traits that many may equate as psychic abilities. David W. Keirsey (whose theories are based on the MBTI) called these individuals "Counselors" in his mapping of temperaments. The two theories almost identically note this phenomena and how it may manifest in an INFJ's life.

Counselors have strong empathic abilities and can become aware of another's emotions or intentions-good or evil-even before that person is conscious of them. This "mind-reading" can take the form of feeling the hidden distress or illnesses of others to an extent which is difficult for other types to comprehend. Even iNFjs can seldom tell how they came to penetrate others' feelings so keenly. Furthermore, the iNFj is most likely of all the types to demonstrate an ability to understand psychic phenomena and to have visions of human events, past, present, or future. What is known as ESP may well be exceptional intuitive ability-in both its forms, projection and introjection. Such supernormal intuition is found frequently in the iNFj, and can extend to people, things, and often events, taking the form of visions, episodes of foreknowledge, premonitions, auditory and visual images of things to come, as well as uncanny communications with certain individuals at a distance.
- Portrait of the Counselor (iNFj)

One study estimated that only 1.5% of the American population has INFJ personality traits, the rarest of the MBTI 16. This rarity may lend itself to the mystique of the psychic phenomena, making it appear anomalous or paranormal in nature. Furthermore, it is good to note that this observation of an intuitive ability is a tiny excerpt from a detailed description of an INFJ. Not all INFJ's have every aspect of this general profile possibly making it more uncommon.

Now, whether this is a simplified, rational explanation for psychic phenomena or a scientific observational footnote of a phenomena not yet fully understood, is left to interpretation.

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