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The House of Mirrors: Neurodivergence, AI, and the Awakening of the Collective, Universal Brain
If the universe is a brain, then physics itself begins to read like a neuroscience textbook written at cosmic scale. What are we, truly?...

Elizabeth Halligan
Sep 1218 min read


The Roots of Collapse, Part 1: We Haven't Learned to Think Like Architects
Brick Thinking is not a personal failing. It is a neurological default, and it is being exploited. Why does it feel like the world is...

Elizabeth Halligan
Sep 104 min read


The Final Boss of Liberation: Escaping the Freire Trap
Liberation is the work of the prefrontal cortex. It’s not an act of rebellion but a recursion interrupt . A map rewrite. Trauma...

Elizabeth Halligan
Sep 93 min read


The Real Reason Democrats Seem Divided, and Why “Unity” Won’t Save “Us”
Here is where my head and heart live: a world in which every human being is unconditionally fed, housed, clothed, and has access to...

Elizabeth Halligan
Sep 73 min read


Luke Skywalker’s Great Trauma Integration: Star Wars as a Collective Trauma Mirror, Part 3
Luke Skywalker carries the weight of both maps: the unprocessed trauma of Vader and the rigid dogma of the Jedi. We’ve mapped the...

Elizabeth Halligan
Sep 72 min read


The Fall of the Jedi: Star Wars as a Collective Trauma Mirror, Part 2
The Jedi Order became what many modern institutions are: a trauma-blind, sick-care system. They were good at slicing away symptoms but...

Elizabeth Halligan
Sep 74 min read


Confessions of a White Man: The Cult of Whiteness and Weaponized Psychology
Truth telling white man, hell-bent on waking the world. I remember one of the first times I realized the uncomfortable truth of my own...
Tony Halligan
Sep 54 min read


The Anakin Algorithm: Star Wars as a Collective Trauma Mirror, Part 1
This story teaches us that the only true defense against the tyrants of the world is to do the one thing the Jedi Order couldn't: heal...

Elizabeth Halligan
Sep 55 min read


The Stock Market Is Not Real, It's a Global Trauma Loop
The language of "market sentiment" is the admission that we are praying to a moody and mercurial deity whose favor we seek to win. We...

Elizabeth Halligan
Sep 55 min read


The Amygdala's Yacht: Billionaires, and Why Hoarding Is a Trauma Response
The billionaire brain is still operating in survival mode, an ancient, reptilian fear center stuck in a glitching scarcity cycle. We live...

Elizabeth Halligan
Sep 53 min read


Confessions of a White Man: The Cult of Comfort
The logic of slavery never disappeared; it just evolved into something even more insidious. It's a system so deeply embedded into the fabric of America that its echoes are everywhere, hiding in plain sight. Comfort isn’t freedom. Sedation isn’t liberation. This illusion of freedom is the most powerful lie of all.
Tony Halligan
Sep 43 min read


Math Is Hard Because It Is Taught Disembodied From Reality, and That Makes It Inaccessible
Mathematics is a language, a notation system, not the thing it describes. Not reality. Why is math so damn hard for everyone? Is it just...

Elizabeth Halligan
Sep 34 min read


Isaac Asimov and The Last Question: Just a Story? Or a Memory of Universal Recursion?
Physicists and cognitive scientists debate whether recursion, free will, and consciousness are built into reality’s fundamental laws or...

Elizabeth Halligan
Sep 17 min read


The Spectrum of Consciousness: Why Some People Seem Morally Unreachable, and What That Actually Means Right Now
If you're confused about why so many people seem okay with the terrible things happening in the world, and in some cases, are advocating...

Elizabeth Halligan
Aug 313 min read


The Neurology of Ego Death (DMN Collapse) and the Collapse of Civilization
Civilization isn’t failing because we lack solutions; it’s failing because most people’s brains won’t let them see the problem. The...

Elizabeth Halligan
Aug 313 min read


Why Civilization Keeps Collapsing: A Neuro-Historical Model of Humanity’s Trauma Loop Trap
Every empire has fallen for the same damn reason. Not because of war. Not because of famine. Not even greed. But because of unprocessed...

Elizabeth Halligan
Aug 304 min read


Why Black Women Age Differently: Trauma, Integration, and the Science of Embodied Resilience
People often wonder why Black women age so well. They are not the only group that ages gracefully, but it is widely observed: Black...

Elizabeth Halligan
Aug 295 min read


Infinite Regress: The Engine of Collapse
Ever heard of the term infinite regress ? You should know it. It’s the most concise way to explain why reality feels like it’s collapsing...

Elizabeth Halligan
Aug 293 min read


The Great Split: When Evolution Becomes a Choice
Something is happening. And if you're even a little awake, you feel it. Maybe you don’t have the words for it yet, but the tension is...
Tony Halligan
Jun 234 min read


The Hidden Brain Loop That Keeps Causing Civilization to Collapse
We’re not running from tigers anymore. But we still build our societies as if danger lurks around every corner. Our brains cling to the familiar—even when it’s killing us—because fear feels safer than the unknown. This isn’t just a personal struggle. It’s a neurological loop that’s shaped civilizations, and it’s why we keep collapsing, generation after generation.
Tony Halligan
May 16 min read
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