... perhaps through a relation with the archetypal hero myth and identification of the ego with the hero, who always archetypally symbolizes consciousness, ...
Art and the Creative Unconscious - Google Books Result Erich Neumann - 1999 - Psychology - 252 pages
Mother T, had intense psychological 'identification' with her historical Jesus and her Catholic cult. We all have 'spiritual' 'identification's to different things, to infinite degrees.
Jonathan Swift said, "May you live all the days of your life!"