" Spiritual inflation, a perfect example of which is the frenzied-ness of Nietzsche’s Zarathustra, is a typical Western development carried to extremes. Behind the overaccentuation of consciousness, ego, and reason—sensible enough in themselves as the guiding aims of psychic development—there stands the overwhelming might of “heaven” as the danger which goes beyond the heroic struggle with the earthly side of the dragon and culminates in a spirituality that has lost touch with reality and the instincts. "

― Erich Neumann , The Origins and History of Consciousness