The Throne, the Loop, and the Lie
- Anthony Halligan
- Apr 13
- 4 min read
We are living through a collective ego death, and not everyone is choosing to evolve. Some are doubling down on illusion. Some are enforcing the loop. This piece is for the ones who feel the throne trembling and are ready to choose truth, love, and liberation over the lie...
There is a tremble in the air right now. You can feel it—subtle, electric, undeniable. The lattice of reality is shifting—threads once hidden are being revealed, and the illusions once worshipped are beginning to fray. Something deep is unraveling. Not just systems or governments or outdated institutions, but identities. Myths––the illusions people have worshipped for generations.
Fear is not evil. Trauma is not evil. Even the loops we are born into—the inherited programming, the survival instincts, the generational pain—they are not evil. They are intelligent, designed to protect, and born from the deep-rooted desire to stay alive.
At some point, though, a choice arrives; it always comes down to choice. And it is in that choice that the potential for harm is born.
Once you see the loop—once you become aware of the pattern—you are no longer unconscious. You are no longer just surviving. You have entered the space where evolution is possible. This is the sacred moment—not of punishment, but of possibility.
Will you soften, or will you harden? Will you choose humility, or will you grasp for control? Will you lead with truth, or hide behind manipulation? Will you walk in love, empathy, and compassion, or descend into hate, derision, and cruelty?
This is the moment where fear either transmutes into truth or calcifies into harm. Because when someone sees the loop and still chooses to enforce it—for comfort, for control, for ego preservation—that’s when survival becomes distortion. That’s when harm becomes habit. That’s when pain becomes law.
And when that harm is ritualized, justified, rewarded—that’s when it mutates into something darker. Not evil in the supernatural sense, but evil as the willful refusal to evolve. That’s when someone becomes not just stuck in the loop, they become its enforcer. Its high priest. A guardian of illusion.
And there is perhaps no clearer example of this than white supremacy. White supremacy is not just ignorance. It is not just fear. It is not just inherited belief. It is a loop—ancient, festering, fear-fed, power-propped. And it has been seen. It has been named, exposed, and challenged.
And yet, so many still cling to it. Why?
Because it is not just a belief system, it’s a throne. A place where identity and ego have merged with power. A place where superiority is not just a lie—it is a lifeline.
To lose that illusion is to face ego death, and ego death feels like obliteration. So instead, they double down. They recoil. They defend the lie.
What we are witnessing right now—socially, politically, globally—is a collective ego death being resisted. A myth unraveling. A throne trembling. A loop breaking.
And the power structures—governments, corporations, religious institutions, and entire cultural systems built on domination and oppression—are scrambling to maintain control. Not just through policy and propaganda, but through narrative enforcement. Through the insistence that the old story still holds value, still offers identity, still provides security.
And the individuals most entrenched in these systems—the ones who have mistaken dominance for divinity and hate for strength—are experiencing a spiritual freefall. Because to let go of the illusion is to let go of the meaning their entire existence has been built upon. That is the ego’s greatest terror: to discover that power built on separation is not power at all, but a hollow crown.
When identity is fused with power, any threat to that power feels like death, and death is terrifying. So, rather than die, they wage war—on truth, on compassion, on the people who remind them that domination was never destiny, that hate is only distortion. What looks like control is often just fear in ceremonial armor, wearing a mask of bravado designed to distract from the emptiness inside.
So, they resist. They legislate hate. They manufacture fear. They vilify empathy and compassion, masking their own fear with patriarchal buzzwords—psychological weapons carefully crafted to control perception. They mock awakening and fight not to preserve truth, but to delay the inevitable reckoning.
But here’s the thing: Every loop breaks eventually. And there is a way off the throne, but it requires rupture. Or awakening. Or both.
It takes a betrayal that cracks the illusion. A grief that shatters the ego. A mirror so clear, it can’t be looked away from.
And even then, they must choose. Because no one can be forced off the throne. The throne must be walked away from.
So, what is our role?
We do not beg. We do not chase. We do not twist ourselves into saviors.
We become mirrors. We become presence. We become frequency. We let our liberation haunt them until they remember their own.
Because some loops don’t need to be confronted, they need to be outgrown. When you do, and the mask finally cracks—when the bravado collapses beneath the weight of its own emptiness—what rises is not shame, but the opportunity for return. Not power reclaimed, but the true self remembered. Because beneath every illusion lies the soul, still waiting to be chosen.
And in choosing your very being—your softness, your strength, your refusal to harden—you create added pressure on a throne that was already hollow to begin with. So, let them call it what they will, because we know what it truly is; it is truth, love, and evolution. This is not collapse—it is rebirth, and it cannot be stopped.
Here's a few reflective questions that have helped me:
Where have you chosen the illusion over the truth?
Where have you clung to the loop instead of stepping into self-awareness, empathy and love?
How and where can you choose differently now—toward truth, toward empathy, toward the self you are beneath the mask a broken system has demanded you wear?
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