PART 8: Our “solution” is an attack and so, like the original problem, is an attack on ourselves. * Beneath the victim level is the ego proper, which is pure, unprovoked attack. * The victim level is an excuse to attack, produced by projecting our own attack outward. * The ego promises that attack will get us safety and happiness. This simply tricks us into accumulating guilt, to which it is attracted. * The ego promises that getting will fulfill us and defending will protect us. This tricks us into accumulating lack and vulnerability. * The ego promises us joy through bodily pleasure. This tricks us into making separation real. * The special relationship is the biggest false promise of all, the one that motivates us to pursue all of the ego’s false promises. * Through our normal daily activities the ego is carrying out its ancient attack on God. * >All that the ego does is really designed to attack us.