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 / transformation (14 Posts)

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Fire and Death

17 June 2026 ~ 5 minute read

Some ideas linger at the edge of awareness until circumstances drag them into the foreground. A distant column of smoke on the horizon. A phone call in the middle of the evening. A conversation that suddenly turns reflective. Certain realities have a way of interrupting our routines and reminding us of things we spend most of our lives trying not to think about. Fire is one of them. Death is another.

The Fight

08 June 2026 ~ 3 minute read

You don’t fight to win. You fight to prevent the psychopaths from destroying everything they touch.

True Colors

06 April 2026 ~ 5 minute read

A quiet unraveling reveals itself not in a single moment, but in the accumulation of fractures. When the systems once trusted begin to expose their nature, what remains is not only disillusionment, but a choice — to collapse with them, or to rediscover what is real.

Motion Parallax

30 March 2026 (rev. 11 April 2026) ~ 6 minute read

We’re told to be inspired by those who overcome the impossible. But what if the real story isn’t about their exceptionality, but about the distance we’ve placed between their lives and our own?

On Doing Great Things

26 March 2026 ~ 5 minute read

Those who are forged in struggle, shaped by hardship, are propelled by the friction of life itself toward a trajectory most will never know. It is in the fire of difficulty that momentum is born, and in that momentum, the possibility of greatness.

Past Lives: The Long Remembering

17 November 2025 ~ 5 minute read

A life is rarely one life. We evolve through countless small endings and beginnings — each one a quiet death, each one a rebirth. Transformation isn’t an event but a continual unfolding, a long remembering of who we truly are.