spirituality – Trance Blackman

The Devil We Feed: Fear, Attention, and the Creation of Reality

The Devil We Feed: Fear, Attention, and the Creation of Reality

The Observer Becomes Part of the Story

26 September 2026 ~ 40 minute read

There comes a point in any investigation when the thing being investigated is no longer the only thing worth examining. We can follow the names, institutions, documents, networks, symbols, patterns, and apparent connections as far as they will take us, but sooner or later we have to turn the question back upon ourselves. What happens to the observer who spends enough time looking into the machinery of power, control, fear, and hidden influence? And what happens when the search for an explanation becomes part of the very environment we are trying to understand?

Lux Colloquii

The Language of Illness: From Symptoms to Systems

The Living Terrain of Body, Mind, and World

21 September 2026 ~ 23 minute read

There’s something about the simplest questions that can open into much larger territory. A cold, a symptom, a restless night, a shift in mood, a change in the weather: none of these things necessarily exist in isolation. They happen within a living system, within a particular person, at a particular moment, in relationship with everything surrounding them. And perhaps some of what we have forgotten begins there, in the relationship itself.

Journal Entries

The Poverty Program: The Operating System We Inherited

The Construct and the Self

19 September 2026 ~ 6 minute read

Perhaps the hardest programming to recognize is the programming that masquerades as virtue. It doesn’t arrive announcing itself as a limitation; it arrives as common sense, responsibility, humility, morality, even wisdom. We absorb it so completely that eventually we defend the very boundaries that keep us inside the smallest version of ourselves.

Journal Entries

The First Principle: The Body, the Story, and the Self

What If the Body Only Heals?

17 September 2026 ~ 11 minute read

There are some ideas that seem almost too simple to notice until, once noticed, they begin to rearrange everything around them. Perhaps this is one of those ideas. Perhaps the body has been telling us the same thing all along, in a language older and more immediate than anything we have constructed to explain it.

Lux Colloquii

Beyond the Rabbit Hole: Discernment in the Age of Suspicion

The Limits of Looking Behind the Curtain

06 September 2026 ~ 19 minute read

There are rabbit holes that are worth entering, and there are rabbit holes that seem to exist primarily to keep us digging. At some point, the question changes from What are they doing? to something far more useful: What am I doing with what I now know? This conversation lives somewhere in that territory, between discernment and obsession, suspicion and certainty, awareness and the freedom to simply walk away.

Tag: spirituality

The Devil We Feed: Fear, Attention, and the Creation of Reality

The Language of Illness: From Symptoms to Systems

The Poverty Program: The Operating System We Inherited

The First Principle: The Body, the Story, and the Self

Beyond the Rabbit Hole: Discernment in the Age of Suspicion