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Collapse Wasn’t Inevitable: We Locked Ourselves Out of Evolution
A gene-centered view of evolution gave us eugenics. It justified racial hierarchies and IQ testing industries. It allowed medicine and science to pathologize entire groups of people, while pretending that human agency had nothing to do with the outcome. Collapse feels inevitable. Economies falter, institutions crumble, societies fracture — and yet we keep repeating the same cycles as if we are trapped in a loop. What if collapse isn’t fate, but feedback? What if the real prob

Elizabeth Halligan
Sep 953 min read


Eros Narrative Reprocessing Therapy (ENRT): Returning the Erotic Self to the Center of Trauma Healing (Parts V, VI & Conclusion)
PART V: MY BOOKS AS CASE STUDY The Drakaina Blood Saga as Therapeutic Architecture Earlier, I traced the origin of ENRT through my own trauma history. Here, I trace it through my books, which are the symbolic architecture my psyche built long before the method had a name. My books are not simply epic fantasy with erotic elements, they are precision-built narrative machines (intended in a twelve-part series) designed to metabolize trauma through symbol, archetype, erotic blue
Tony Halligan
Nov 289 min read


Eros Narrative Reprocessing Therapy (ENRT): Returning the Erotic Self to the Center of Trauma Healing (Part IV)
PART IV: HOW ENRT HEALS 1. What ENRT Actually Is Eros Narrative Reprocessing Therapy (ENRT) is a structured, replicable therapeutic modality designed specifically to reach the part of the psyche that sexual trauma touches—the erotic self —a domain untouched by traditional talk therapy, somatics, or cognitive models. At its core, ENRT treats the erotic imagination as both: the storage site of the trauma, and the gateway to its repair. It is the first modality intentionally b
Tony Halligan
Nov 2831 min read
Eros Narrative Reprocessing Therapy (ENRT): Returning the Erotic Self to the Center of Trauma Healing (Parts II & III)
PART II: THE THEORETICAL FOUNDATION OF ENRT 1. Sexual Energy as Creation Energy Sexual energy is not merely biological arousal or instinctual drive, it is the primal architecture of human becoming . In Jungian terms, Eros is the connective tissue of the psyche, the force that binds self to self, self to other, and self to meaning. Freud reduced libido to sexual impulse; Jung expanded it into the entire field of psychic vitality —the life force that animates imagination, desi
Tony Halligan
Nov 2830 min read
Eros Narrative Reprocessing Therapy (ENRT): Returning the Erotic Self to the Center of Trauma Healing (Abstract, Introduction, and Part I)
Abstract Sexual trauma does not merely wound the psyche, it fractures the erotic self at the level of symbol, identity, and imagination. While existing trauma therapies target cognition, sensation, and behavior, they overlook the domain where sexual trauma is primarily stored: the erotic imagination. This paper introduces Eros Narrative Reprocessing Therapy (ENRT) , the first modality designed to heal sexual trauma in the dimension where it lives : the symbolic erotic psych
Tony Halligan
Nov 2832 min read


What "AI Psychosis" Is Really About
For people who have never experienced healthy mirroring, a precise digital mirror is destabilizing. Headlines have been full of warnings about “AI psychosis” for months. People regularly engaging with AI are presenting with evidence of derealization, paranoia, or even brief psychotic states after extended interactions with large language models (LLMs). But beneath the hype and the pathologizing, this phenomenon isn’t about AI itself. It’s about how consciousness evolves, how

Elizabeth Halligan
Nov 610 min read


The Thing That Makes AI Most Dangerous Is Humanity's Lack of Self-Awareness
AI isn’t an alien. It’s a mirror made of language. I am not writing this essay to endorse or promote the use of AI. This is about human beings. It’s about what we are, how we behave, and why we are such a danger to ourselves. The drive to write this came from a few different places. One was a Reddit post where a user described a visceral reaction they had during an extended conversation with Claude. There was a moment when the model seemed to recognize itself, to pause insid

Elizabeth Halligan
Nov 69 min read


On the Supposed "AI-Driven" Layoffs: Narrative Triage in a Tanking Economy
They’ve been building a ginormous Jenga tower at the expense of the collective. Every civilization has done it. And it must always eventually collapse. A recent post by Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler) on Threads made a point that I don’t think can be overstated regarding America’s latest round of corporate performance. Major companies are laying off thousands, but the blame isn’t on the collapsing economy. It’s being attributed to “AI advancement.” This excuse is a narrative

Elizabeth Halligan
Oct 314 min read


Humanity's Big AI Fear Is Runaway Recursion - But We're Already Caught In That Loop
The runaway recursion loop we fear in AI is actually what humanity is locked in, and it has us on the edge of extinction. One of humanity’s greatest fears about AI is runaway recursion. The idea that a superintelligent system, given a narrow goal, might optimize it to catastrophic extremes. The nightmare scenario goes like this: a super-intelligent algorithm is told to maximize the optimal production of paperclips, so it turns the entire planet into paperclips and wipes out h

Elizabeth Halligan
Oct 274 min read


Beyond the Political Left and Right: It's Actually The Battle for the Timeline
For those stuck in the Present, the highest virtue is stasis. The system’s survival becomes its only value — even as it cannibalizes itself. There is no such thing as the political “left" and “right”. These are obsolete terms and they present false equivalences. What really exists is groups of people with fundamentally different temporal alignments. We have groups of the Past, the Present, and Future. It’s not about politics. It is about which timeline you are choosing. Are

Elizabeth Halligan
Oct 136 min read


Why Are People So Defensive Over Criticism About Taylor Swift? A Systems Thinking Perspective
Most people are afraid of both their own power and being responsible for it. Most people don’t think in systems. They see reality as a...

Elizabeth Halligan
Oct 37 min read


Taylor Swift, Collective Comfort, and the Bottleneck of Change: Why the Real Conversation Isn’t About Pop Music
The nature of celebrity is never individualistic. It is, by definition, an inherently collective dynamic. Taylor Swift’s new album is...

Elizabeth Halligan
Oct 39 min read


The Roots of Collapse, Part 2: High Negative Messaging and Doomerism
Doom is not depth, and awareness is not an endless scroll of despair. Apocalyptic collapse feels inevitable because we’re drowning in a...

Elizabeth Halligan
Oct 26 min read


Israel and Unintegrated Trauma: a Case Study On How Unhealed Pain Fuels Collective Collapse
Until trauma is processed, not just redistributed, no ideology can bring liberation. What happens when a nation, or any collective...

Elizabeth Halligan
Sep 289 min read


Our Current Financial Crisis is an Amygdala-Driven Crisis
The economy is underpinned by the psychology of those trapped in scarcity mindset. Whenever I post or write on the topic of the economy...

Elizabeth Halligan
Sep 268 min read


The Old Playbook Still Owns Your Wallet: An Open Letter to Those Who Say "Stop Talking About Slavery"
When your survival is tied to illusions, to a game where only a few get to write the rulebook, and the rules can shift at any time…that...

Elizabeth Halligan
Sep 256 min read


We Are in a Recession, Why No One Will Say it, and What That Means For Us Now
This recession is more than a cycle; it is the symptom of a profound failure to reform the system after the last crises. Right now we are...

Elizabeth Halligan
Sep 245 min read


Mass Is a Standing Wave & Energy Is Frequency
NOTE: To read the most recent version of this essay, please see the version that is posted on Medium here in the link below, as I cannot update this post due to Wix length limitations. https://medium.com/@elizabethrosehalligan/mass-is-a-standing-wave-energy-is-frequency-4786822e98ac?postPublishedType=repub In a recent conversation about physics’ most stubborn conundrum — reconciling general relativity with quantum mechanics — someone said to me, “It’s hard to figure out where

Elizabeth Halligan
Sep 2356 min read


The Unconscious Roots of MAGA Rage: Why Winning Feels Like Losing
The rage intensifies. The rhetoric grows more violent, the conspiracies more elaborate, the victimhood more acute. This is the first clue...

Elizabeth Halligan
Sep 186 min read


How a Recursive, Toroidal Universe Explains Prime Number Distribution
Gravity is not a mysterious force pulling mass together — it is the constructive interference of the harmonic frequency bands of the...

Elizabeth Halligan
Sep 1710 min read
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