Why does a renegade, independent Egyptologist imagine he can encounter terrifying ancient dangers and remain IMMUNE?

Anson Hunter - a conflicted archaeologist who warns about Egypt’s forbidden powers, yet seeks them out. Why? (Excerpt)

What was it that drove him? A desire to save the world? He recalled the same question put to him by the Egyptian man and the antiquities girl. Aren’t you afraid you’ll trigger an apocalypse? Was it simply a hunger to feel the crackle of the numinous, to find the great source of Egypt’s power heka? Heka was the power behind the civilisation of Egypt, behind every idol, every execration text and smashed jar, every sweating wax effigy in the flame, every stabbed, trampled and spat upon image, every prayer to a god, every amulet and love spell. He certainly did not want power for himself, only perhaps the power that could come from knowing that such power existed, because if that power existed and could be held in his hands, then so did another power. Where there was shadow, there had also to be the light. Yet there could be another reason, one that he had enough honesty and self-knowledge to recognise - a hunger for acceptance, sparked by an Egyptologist father who had abandoned him as a child. It would be sweet to shake up the profession and topple their ivory tower. Maybe a combination of all of these impulses. In the end, though, would it be worth taking the risk? Why did he imagine that he could encounter and experience such terrifying psychological and existential danger and remain immune to its effects? And how did he think he was going to avoid the consequences for the region and the world that others feared?