Was Goethe an iNtuitive Feeler?

Insights towards “Make America KIND again”

For our time now, Goethe remains perhaps the most remarkable throw-forward of the 1700s. The “Romantic” historical period and the early German Romantics, were all characterized by a turning away from the gold rush by males towards iNtuitive Thinking. The Romantics correctly intuited deeper, more feeling-full states, were valid, accessible and valuable. Sherlock- Holmes-thinking was not the be-all and end-all, another 50% of human capacity lay outside left-brain-only thought.

If we go back in time from 1965, I believe the Romantics of the 1700s-1800s are the first forerunners of Cultural Creatives. Those less enamored about cataloguing all life, those wishing to “go deeper” into life. The “Romantic impulse” did not arise again strongly again until roughly 1970s, the rise of the Cultural Creatives; tho, not so named until 2001 by Paul and Sherry Ray.

The first modern research on these I know of was David Keirsey’s and Marilyn Bates’ updating of MBTI into Please Understand Me (1978). Their term, iNtuitive Feelers (NFs) is closely related to “Cultural Creatives.” CCs are difficult to understand without Keirsey-Bates ideas about NFs and NTs.

For going forward now, to compose and manifest practical, workable Stories of Restoration for our neighborhood and community, these ideas are very useful.

Cultural Creatives are characterized by iNtuitive Feeling values resonate strongly with the earlier “Romantics.” Both share…