Whenever people visit a beautiful, impressive church building, invariably there are two things they want to do: they want to go up to the pulpit and see how things look from this perspective; and then they want to go up in the balcony, if there is one, and look down on everything.

And isn't that typical? There's something inside of us that needs to climb to the top and get the view from above.

When we were children, we'd climb trees and build secret houses for ourselves up in the branches and spy down on the world below. When we were older we'd climb to the top of a skyscraper and gaze upon a vast city below.

Why do we need to do that? What's inside of us that makes us want a view from above?

Psychologists have an answer. They say there's a sense of power that comes when we stand above…