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Author: Trance

Artist. Writer. Truth seeker.

Beyond the Words: The Power and Meaning of Psalm 23
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Beyond the Words: The Power and Meaning of Psalm 23

The Journey from Darkness to Renewal
26 October 2026 ~ 28 minute read

There’s something interesting about the way certain words and passages stay with us, even when we have little attachment to the traditions from which they came. Sometimes it’s the imagery, sometimes the rhythm, and sometimes a sense that there’s something beneath the surface we haven’t quite grasped. Psalm 23 is one such passage. What begins as a question about its language opens into a broader exploration of spiritual transformation, the power of words and symbols, and the possibility that their influence extends beyond what we consciously understand.

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The Entrap-and-Extract Economy: Selling Our Future, Stripping Our Past
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The Entrap-and-Extract Economy: Selling Our Future, Stripping Our Past

Monetizing Everything, Meaning Nothing
25 October 2026 ~ 6 minute read

A civilization doesn’t have to collapse overnight. Sometimes everything simply becomes a commodity, nothing is sacred, and people gradually forget what they’ve lost. A system built to serve us becomes a machine that feeds on us, consuming not only our wealth and autonomy, but the very things that give life meaning.

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

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The Unseen Connection: Beyond Mechanistic Understandings of Life
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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.

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