EGO has been tossed around quite a bit as if it is something your not supposed to have!!!
My two cents... Our EGO is a necessary program to have in order to function in 3D. You will never get rid of it you just reprogram it!!! We are in charge of what is programmed into us and self-awareness is a new program of ego.
Once the ego is understood-reprogrammed then Harmony and Balance is the foundation of being a creator being which requires the use of ego as part of consciousness.
Each of us as a fragment of the Whole containing the potential Whole within each fragment uses ego as part of the program to create with. You'll spend the rest of your waking days trying to remove something that is a part of you naturally... it was just hijacked without us knowing about it when we were born... a synthetic ego I guess could even be descriptive like a fake ID.
The 4 systems are what created the fake ego in us... government, medical, education, and religion; a synthetic christ or anti-christ that we all are.
personal responsibility is understood through cause/effect of ones actions, learning knowledge develops self-awareness, and putting into action the 4 laws develops the creator in us all.
Who is being swallowed back into the whole?