M. Scott Peck...

"... But while consciousness is the whole cause of pain, it is also the cause of our salvation, because salvation is the process of becoming increasingly conscious. When we become increasingly conscious, we go further and further into the desert instead of burrowing into a hole like the people who choose not to grow up.  As I said above, the word salvation means "healing."  It comes from the same word as salve, which you put on your skin in order to heal an area of irritation or infection.  Salvation is the process of healing and the process of becoming whole. And health, wholeness and holiness are all derived from the same root. They all mean virtually the same thing.  Even old atheist Sigmund Freud recognised the relationship between healing and consciousness..."-Consciousness and the Problem of Pain-p.25 of the Sequel to the Road Less Travelled.