interior soul neglects exterior world

• the calling does not have to be away from the world or rest upon a theory of self-enclosed individuals. Soul-making and care of soul do not have to be identified with introversion and the spiritual denial of the world of matter, objects, things
• Cartesian split between inner and outer—good soul inside and the world, the flesh, and the devil outside—reformulated as introversion and extraversion
• self-centered. It still focuses on one’s personal destiny or, as they now call it, “journey.” The exterior world’s value is simply utilitarian, for the sake of soul-making. It provides obstacles, pitfalls, monsters to be met in order to make one’s interior soul … neglects the world, even while finding a soul use for it …
• extending individuation into the world of things