This book makes a compelling argument that all institutions are the real-world manifestations of our mental "ego boundaries." Hence any allegorical glitch living within the human psyche has a parallel and tangible existence outside the mind and within the institution. The book also describes a few of the mental mechanisms related to "ego boundaries." For example, the book to some extent answers the question of how the transmission of ego boundaries occurs, e.g. projection. (A good projection example being scapegoating...the allusion here being the one where Aaron from the old testament confesses all the sins of Isreal over the head of a ceremonial goat and then sends it into the wilderness)
Though this reader gives few psychological theories much weight (believing nearly none in the realm of scientific knowledge, i.e., the sorts of ideas whose basis can all too easily be refuted), the notion of institutions as manifestations of ego boundaries is something that this reader finds highly probable. It's something that could be well-tested if it hasn't already.
Logically, one could deduce that any brilliant wonder (faith, spirit, etc.) from the human psyche would also have a parallel and tangible life within the institution. This particular author does however argue--more or less--that only an actual relationship could ever manifest something such as faith or spirituallity since institutions are inherently weak no matter how carefully someone orders or improves upon them.
After all, what is an institution? It isn't your mother nor your father nor your brother nor sister, not even your friend. It's not clear that this author believes the following, but it's logical that he should: The institution, if it is to exist and be competitive, must be secondary to relationships. Otherwise, the wonders of the human psyche can never manifest themselves in the real-world and the institutions without the healthy attitudes about relationships will die.
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