On managing a transpersonally inflated ego. On Managing a Transpersonally Inflated Ego Craig Chalquist, M.S. Power doesn't corrupt.
Power attracts the corruptible.
It is probably even more difficult to de- liver oneself from good than from evil. You've seen them in action. They are all inflated without knowing it. And because spiritual issues have tremendous psychological power, it's easy to get a big head by identifying oneself with them, like a branch mistaking itself for the whole tree or a wire for the current pouring through it. Of course, the psyche, a self-correcting system, will compensate for such an unbalance by setting itself up for a fall gauged to deflate the inflation.