Introverts Go Wild

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I had no idea that life was going to be this political. It is only belatedly that I have realized that just being myself is a political act. I am not talking about the politics of the Left and the Right, but the politics of living in the so-called ‘normal’ official world, whilst the soul that has its own peculiar concerns, demands and necessities as Carl Jung said. The politics of what the world wants from us and what the soul wants. Between our familiar world and the political situations we find ourselves in every day when we start living life as an adventure lived for the sake of the soul.

Sometimes I think writing is where introverts go wild(and run free like an animal in the wild untamed forest of their own imaginal life). That is where they tap into their teeming, hidden, private, unofficial life and then let themselves loose (like the woman that wrote that cookbook ‘The Enchanted Broccoli Forest’, that was an introvert going wild, and ‘Women who run with the Wolves’ that was probably another introvert going wild). Anyway, I would never say this in public, and I can’t remember Jung ever saying it, but sometimes I think that extroverts are different and often think that becoming a TV Games Show host is really wild.🙂 — Jon Wilson

When I was a child I felt inferior to extroverts. I thought they had a mysterious — and much better — grasp on everything to do with living in the world…