You would have to be 'me' to do so!
No, I am speaking of thoughtfully considering, contemplating and savoring (eating and digesting?) every 'fruit' one experienced while monkeying (monkeys are
very intelligent, you know!) on the Trees in the Forest of Life. There is
much awareness (and consequent love and enjoyment) of "self"
and "life's meaning' to be garnered
and shared
thereby.
There
moving (linearly) from "A" to "Z"
through the Forest along some path or other, and then there's
ascending to higher and higher levels, where the sun shines 'most' and the 'best' fruit are, in the
canopy - all
by way of 'experiencing' (and learning from, i.e. intelligently 'incorporating') said 'experiences'. I 'ascension' one 'moves' ;) from "A-and-Z-ness" to "ALLness/ONEness" (
wherever ONE's one
is 
at any moment) ".
The 'self' and 'loving' said 'self' is NOT a trap, any more than a (
any) 'place' is. I suppose, one could
say that a soul is (figuratively) 'trapped', thought it isn't (literally),
if and as it was so short-sighted as to choose to
stay in the
same 'place' (or
only explore one, i.e. the
same, 'path'
)
There are
no 'traps'
really (though there
are those who cast 'nets' and those who swim/fly into them - these can
always be 'exited' by intelligently going
back the way one came and circling
around them, however). From the book I wrote:
There is an excellent Hindu parable about a great seer who, out of the goodness of his heart, informed birds of all species about a terrible bird-catcher and warned them to beware because, sooner or later, the bird-catcher was bound to try and catch them. Not really up to the task of keeping close track of and publicly declaring the many clever ways in which the bird-catcher disguised himself, fooling themselves and others that they were adequately doing their duty, the parrots in the group diligently ‘served’ to pass on the warning, “Watch out for the bird-catcher,” from generation to generation. The wily bird-catcher found this quite to his liking since all he had to do was set up his nets and yell “I see the bird-catcher coming!” while pointing away from them. Birds galore would then fly right into his trap. Needless to say, instead of preying upon the parrots themselves, the bird-catcher would place those he caught in prominence positions to make sure that other birds would hear their ‘message’. (Note: even this parable, but of course minus the gist of the last sentence, has been used to ‘catch’ flocks gullible enough to think that a person telling such a wise story must necessarily be doing so to ‘save’ them.)
As Einstein said (I am paraphrasing from memory here), "A problem
cannot be solved (in this case, a question cannot be answered) on the same
level on which it was created." In other words, I think the question you pose is the result of 'seeing'
in an 'illusion'.