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 / time (18 Posts)

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Total Presence

26 March 2026 ~ 2 minute read

There are moments when everything you’ve ever learned, practiced, or endured quietly waits beneath the surface, ready to be called upon. What if presence isn’t about effort, but about remembering how to bring all of yourself into a single moment?

Trash or Treasure

13 March 2026 ~ 6 minute read

Time is the only resource we truly spend without knowing the balance. Most of us were trained to accumulate information, credentials, and distractions, yet very few of us were ever taught how to recognize what actually matters. In a world overflowing with noise, the real skill may simply be learning how to tell the difference between trash and treasure.

Time in a Bottle

14 September 2025 ~ 6 minute read

We like to think we have time — that tomorrow or next year we’ll finally sit down and give life to the things that matter most. But time has never been ours to control. This piece is a reminder, to myself as much as anyone, of what’s lost when we wait, and what’s possible when we stop waiting.

Just Passing Through

13 May 2025 ~ 5 minute read

In a world obsessed with outcomes and productivity, it’s easy to overlook the quiet victories — the inner work, the subtle shifts, the moments of clarity that come without fanfare. This is a reflection on what it means to create for the sake of creating, to live deliberately, and to navigate the paradoxes of modern life: progress that often feels like distraction, freedom that still depends on screens, and a sense of purpose that resists being monetized.

On Time: Calendars

19 January 2025 (rev. 01 February 2025) ~ 8 minute read

The calendar we use is chaotic and inconsistent, yet most of us rarely question it. We rely on devices to track time, adjusting for leap years and daylight savings without a second thought. But what if this flawed system is causing confusion and disconnection from nature? Perhaps it’s time to reconsider how we measure and experience time.

General Intelligence

19 February 2023 (rev. 19 April 2024) ~ 21 minute read

The times, there are a changin’. And quickly. Our individual and collective human expression, our story, is adapting, as it always does, but many are feeling disillusioned and disenfranchised by all the madness. The plandemic, fraud decades in the making, threw much of the modern world for a loop, the repercussions of which are still rippling out in all directions. AI is now suddenly in our face, in our phones, in our wallets, our offices, and our homes. Health and wellness is seemingly always under threat, by ourselves, and by manufactured extrinsic means, as disease, mutations, variants and epidemics are ubiquitous in the media. In this article, I delve a little into some of the main themes and concerns for our time, and explore perspectives, opinions, ideas and directions that may help to reframe aspects of our lives in a different light.