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the worthless word for the day is: entheomania

[fr. L, entheos, divinely inspired + -mania]
a passion for divine inspiration; religious mania
cf. demonomania

""Before the Beginning"!.. its very vastness
prevents its doing injury to a mind not already
unhinged from some other cause. This fact, coupled
with a saving sense of humor, is sufficient to
keep any normal person safe from entheomania."
- William Wooten, The Planetarian Apocalypse (1956)

"[The psychiatrist] is often much more aware of
the pathological forms of religious involvement,
such as entheomania, scrupulosity, asceticism,
fantasy, denial, etc., than the wholesome forms
of religious participation."
- Eric G. Swedin, Healing Souls (2003)