Trance – Trance Blackman

The Inheritance of Wisdom: What We Do With What We Know

The Inheritance of Wisdom: What We Do With What We Know

Ancient Wisdom in the Modern World

24 October 2026 ~ 42 minute read

There’s something remarkable about the survival of ancient wisdom, the words and ideas that have travelled through centuries of upheaval, conquest, and cultural transformation to find their way into our hands. And yet, here we are, with more access to knowledge than any generation before us, still wrestling with the same fundamental questions, making the same mistakes, and seemingly no closer to becoming the extraordinary civilization we imagine ourselves to be. Perhaps the problem was never simply a lack of knowledge. Perhaps it has more to do with what we choose to preserve, what we’re permitted to learn, and what we’re willing to do with what we know.

Lux Colloquii

The Unseen Connection: Beyond Mechanistic Understandings of Life

Rethinking Life, Matter, and the Aether

21 October 2026 ~ 22 minute read

There’s more to life than what we can measure, and more to understanding than what we’ve already been taught to accept. Sometimes a curious observation opens a door to a much larger question, one that has little to do with the original story and everything to do with how we understand ourselves, the nature of life, and the connections that may exist beyond the boundaries we’ve drawn around them. The challenge is to remain open to the possibilities without losing sight of the difference between what we know, what we suspect, and what we have yet to understand.

In Memory of Germ Theory

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In Memory of Germ Theory

Look Closely, and the Story Falls Apart

14 October 2026 ~ 3 minute read

What if one of the most deeply entrenched beliefs in modern medicine rests on a foundation that deserves far more scrutiny than it receives? Despite decades of debate, mounting public distrust, and countless dissenting voices, the dominant narrative remains largely unquestioned. It’s time to revisit the assumptions, challenge the dogma, and ask ourselves what we’ve been taught to fear — and why.

Lux Colloquii

The Great Rejection: Deep Dive — Questioning the Future We’re Being Sold

Digital Dependence and the Human Experience

14 October 2026 ~ 41 minute read

There’s a familiar pattern to the way things unfold when enough money, influence, and institutional momentum gather behind an idea. What begins as a possibility gradually becomes an expectation, then an obligation, until questioning the direction of travel is treated as a failure to keep up. We’ve seen this play out across industries and generations, and the current push toward an AI-everything future seems to follow a similar trajectory. Yet beneath the promises of convenience, efficiency, and unprecedented progress, there are questions about what we’re building, what we’re sacrificing, and whether the future being sold to us is one that people actually want to live in.

The Great Rejection: Preface

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The Great Rejection: Preface

The Algorithmic Age and Its Discontents

14 October 2026 ~ 4 minute read

For all the promises of progress, convenience, connection, and liberation, we find ourselves increasingly surrounded by technologies that demand more of our attention, our money, our privacy, and our lives, while offering diminishing returns in exchange. The question is no longer whether we can build more, automate more, or connect more. It is whether any of this is making us better off — and what we stand to recover when we finally decide that enough is enough.

Author: Trance

The Inheritance of Wisdom: What We Do With What We Know

The Unseen Connection: Beyond Mechanistic Understandings of Life

In Memory of Germ Theory

The Great Rejection: Deep Dive — Questioning the Future We’re Being Sold

The Great Rejection: Preface