Impact of Spiritual Power

People who have never experienced the raw impact of spiritual power find it hard to understand that it could be dangerous. An experience of the impact of spiritual power can be compared with the experience of sexuality. People are never quite the same following their first sexual experience. A change has taken place in the way they see and will henceforth experience themselves, their world and other people. Nor is the change necessarily for the better. In fact it has equal potential for good and evil. All we can say is that a change has occurred. So it is with the experience of divine power.

John White, When The Spirit Comes With Power, p. 121