Ego and false autonomy. Ego has us believing we are it and it is us. When really there were never any two things more opposite than Ego and Spirit. We are Spirit. And Ego is a parasite. Invading and feeding off of our power. We walk around as an empty shell of our true self. But we feel in charge of ourselves, free to do as we please when really ego has us fooled. We see this structure, holding ourselves and our true potential captive, as our true self. This is so clever of ego, because now, not only are we a slave to it, we’re also not trying to escape, or destroy it. In fact, it's just the opposite, we're actually caring for, protecting, and even loving the prison as ourselves. In this part of the text the course is trying to WAKE US UP to this truth!!!