We all spend a significant portion of our lives engaged in the hopeless pursuit of happiness in a world that was made to preclude happiness. We persist in our seeking, never allowing ourselves to accept the impossibility of the goal we have set for ourselves, hoping and believing, despite all our failures, that elusive happiness is right around the corner in some relationship, situation, or accomplishment. Kenneth uncovers the deceptive ego strategy behind what has actually been a series of deliberate decisions we have made with the ego to deny our true happiness and ensnare ourselves in a descent, step by step, into a trap of unsatisfying specialness. Our only hope is to recognize the trap so that we can begin our ascent back up to the happiness that is our right and our reality, reflected in each of the steps we take on our return.
