The Man in the High Castle

by Philip K. Dick

their egos have expanded psychotically so that they cannot tell where they begin and the godhead leaves off. It is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate—confusion between him who worships and that which is worshiped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.

Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure.