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 / meaning of life (10 Posts)

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Soul, Spirit, and Purpose, Part V: Union

10 March 2025 ~ 6 minute read

For as long as humans have pondered existence, we’ve been fed conflicting answers about who we are, why we’re here, and what it all means. Religions, philosophies, and spiritual movements have twisted fundamental truths, leaving people searching for something they were never separate from in the first place. The soul, spirit, and Source have been fragmented into confusing, often contradictory ideas — but in reality, they are one seamless whole. This is not about salvation, ascension, or evolution. It’s about recognition — seeing through the illusion of separateness and remembering what has always been true.

Navigating the Chaos

15 November 2024 (rev. 19 November 2024) ~ 5 minute read

In a world dominated by illusion and control, we find ourselves trapped in a system that distorts reality, while the true freedom of an awakened individual remains beyond our grasp. Hidden in the chaos and complexity we must navigate each day, we struggle to find meaning, peace, and a way to cope with the absurdity of it all.

Pattern Break: Accidents on Purpose

01 November 2024 ~ 8 minute read

30 years ago, I died. It was mid-March of 1994, as I recall. I was 18 years old, and this may or may not have been about the 5th or 6th time I had been in a situation where I could have been over and done with this life — and yet, I decided to remain, or to come back and keep on keeping on.

You Are Who You Are

25 September 2024 (rev. 21 May 2026) ~ 12 minute read

For years, I’ve wrestled with the uneasy tension between who I am and who I believed I needed to become. Like many people, I’ve chased reinvention through new environments, ambitions, routines, and ideas, convinced that the next pursuit might finally quiet the underlying sense of restlessness. Yet no matter how far I wandered, I always found myself returning to the same essential nature — the same instincts, curiosities, rhythms, and creative impulses that have followed me my entire life. Perhaps the real challenge was never becoming someone else, but learning to stop resisting who I already am.

Grand Illusions: The Reality Game

03 May 2024 (rev. 14 January 2025) ~ 7 minute read

Many curious and truth-seeking explorers, including myself, have spent the majority of their life writing about, scrutinizing, researching, analyzing, extrapolating, exposing, and attempting to make sense of the nature of our world.

Drilling to the Core

24 January 2020 (rev. 25 February 2024) ~ 4 minute read

There are probably as many ways to achieve success and happiness in life as there are philosophies, ideologies, values, and belief systems. This is the beauty and complexity of the human experience: you can be who and what you want to be, or at least try and then choose something completely different. Even in the darkest places and during the most chaotic times, we are adaptable and capable of transcendence.