Franz Simm:
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A phenomenon which I have returned
to many times in my books, especially in my book, Lucifer
Morningstar – a Philosophical Love Story, is the Faust-syndrome. It is a
syndrome which characterizes most Westerners: it is the dangers of ego-inflation
in combination with spiritual practice. Ego-inflation is at the same time based
on a great denial of our own collective shadow, or painbody, which are rooted
in original sin. It is a kind of compensation.