Sentence:  When consciousness is open to understanding and experiencing the values and mysterious meanings of masks, it will shun all the dangers accompanying their powers of mimicry (in the persona and its capacity for imitation) and <WSD>ilinx</WSD> (the overwhelming influence of numinous archetypes). 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The sensation or altered state of consciousness that is so created, called by sociologist Roger Caillois, the “strange excitement” of wanton destruction.