' The Creation of the Ego '...

“As a man is taught,, so he believes... Thoughts being things,, they may be planted, like seeds in the mind, of the child and completely dominate his mental content... Given the favourable soil, of the will to believe,, whether the seed-thoughts be sound, or unsound,, whether they be of pure superstition, or of realizable truth,, they take root and flourish,, and make the man, what he is mentally.” ................... W.Y. Evans-Wentz