What Are The Benefits Of Veneration?  People's behavior is
driven by either restoring some physical or emotional
homeostasis or by the stimulation of the pleasure center in the
brain.    In short, the results of the behavior are subjectively
experienced in some way as beneficial.  I am puzzled about the
psychological benefits of veneration and I have not found an
answer by googling.  What are the subjective benefits of putting
a real life person, not only an imaginary god, upon a pedestal
and venerate and revere him as a guru and kind of superior
being?  I do not mean the respect for the superior knowledge of
a teacher or the achievement of some specialist, when the
respect and appreciation is limited to the knowledge and the
achievement.   I am wondering about the blind devotion, that is
considering the person on the pedestal as perfect and
infallible, when even criticizing is considered a sacrilege.  I
am very interested in the philosopher Epicurus and a lot of his
philosophy coincides with my own inclinati