Journal – Trance Blackman

Here you’ll find my philosophical meanderings in the form of articles, essays, and occasional poetry. My interests and curiosities are broad, but the central focus remains the pursuit of what is authentic, real, and true.

Lux et veritas

Journal Entries / compassion (51 Posts)

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Infernal Conflict: Cycles of War

02 March 2022 (rev. 17 February 2024) ~ 3 minute read

It’s fascinating to see how quickly the West has descended into manic hysteria over Russia, almost as if on cue. On whose cue? The CCP, naturally, among others. These are long-term, military-level psychological operations. Everything is cleverly orchestrated…

Polarizing Figures: Divide and Conquer

06 January 2022 (rev. 16 February 2024) ~ 2 minute read

Today’s society is governed by a generation of “leaders” who seek to cultivate hatred. It’s no coincidence that we have the most ridiculous, feckless morons in the highest offices of the land.

The Heaviness and the Light

30 December 2021 (rev. 02 April 2023) ~ 2 minute read

When there is no agreement about what is a valid source of fact, persuasion cannot bridge the divide. Besides, as the saying goes, you cannot…

Be Where You Are

13 December 2020 (rev. 06 November 2022) ~ 3 minute read

We can waste an awful lot of time, energy and resources going through and abiding by cyclical mental processes, based almost entirely on our imagination.

Do It Today

06 December 2020 (rev. 17 October 2022) ~ 2 minute read

This strange, infuriating, exhausting, personally expansive, psychologically challenging, emotionally maturing and character alchemizing year has been one for the books. Perhaps you can relate.

Personhood

03 November 2020 (rev. 10 August 2022) ~ 2 minute read

Our identity (idem, the same; identidem, repeatedly; we recreate ourselves as we perceive ourselves, until we do otherwise) and our individuality, or individuation (in-divisible expression of duality — quantified as the apparently physical, and the etheric, elemental, energetic, conscious constituents of which it is constructed) may be usefully encapsulated as a “person”.