Integrating the Four Spiritualities

I've been impressed for a long time by the idea that our different personality temperaments predispose us toward different "spiritual paths." The four Jungian personality types can be characterized as:
THE VOLCANIC ARTISAN (Sensing Feeling)
THE TERRITORIAL GUARDIAN (Sensing Thinking)
THE OCEANIC IDEALIST (Intuiting Feeling)
THE ETHEREAL RATIONAL (Intuiting Thinking)

The corresponding spiritual paths of these four temperament are listed below:
1. The Volcanic Artisan Path of Artistic Expression
2. The Territorial Guardian Path of Ethical Responsibility
3. The Oceanic Idealist Path of Relational Harmony
4. The Ethereal Rational Path of Intellectual Unity

It seems to me that in the first half of life we move toward Jung's ideal of "individuation", of differentiation of the self from the collective. And in the second half of life, if we are willing to "do the work," we move more toward "integration", combining an inner wholeness of self-knowledge and outer engagement with the world around us, one that connects the wisdom of the sensory, emotive, rational and intuitive functions. In a sense we continue to reflect our innate temperament, but at the same time begin to transcend it (at least in part) through connecting it with the wisdom of the other types. We move from an exclusive, absolute dualist to an inclusive, relational non-dualist orientation of consciousness and embodiment.

I believe it is true that "highly creative people connect what other people segregate." The movement toward a higher order of human creative complexity means that we open ourselves to and cultivate a integral, plural, relational and paradoxical quality of consciousness and embodiment, introversion and extroversion, awareness and engagement, thinking and feeling, judgment and perception, intuition and sensuality.

What does this mean? It means that we honor the integral wisdom of the whole person, including the wisdom of the body, emotions, dreams, imagination, intellect, volition, conscience and intuition. And it means that we honor the integral wisdom of the the whole person not only in "intra-personal" relationship with one's self, but also in "inter-personal relationship" with our "significant others," including our partner, family, friends, and community. And further it means that we cultivate an integral relationship with the overlapping domains of work and leisure, time and money, culture and society, nature and spirit.

May we learn to integrate the paths of knowledge (ethereal rational), creativity (volcanic artisan), courage (territorial guardian) and compassion (oceanic idealist), and learn from the world's great exemplars and perennial wisdom teachers, ancient and contemporary.

May we learn to discern the sacred in the midst of the secular, to experience epiphanies in the midst of the ordinary struggles and joys of living with a sense of wonder and grace from day to day.

May we be guided by Nature's Wisdom and The Divine Spirit in the integral path of knowledge, creativity, courage and compassion. Shalom!