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 / vulnerability (137 Posts)

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Head of the Classes

06 November 2021 (rev. 22 March 2023) ~ 3 minute read

“They” don’t think like you. Their values are alien, and their beliefs would confuse you. Call them “elite” or whatever you wish, but they exist in another reality.

Anger

05 July 2021 (rev. 12 December 2022) ~ 4 minute read

I’m angry. I’m angry because I love you, and care about your future — rather, our collective future and our wellbeing — and I feel powerless to protect you from those strange, delusional few who are out there: those whose aim is to foment and to feed off your fears, your need for emotional expression and creative satiety, your need to be seen, to be held, and to belong…to control your every move, to make you believe you’re fragile and weak, and then to profit from your self-induced illnesses.

I’m angry because I don’t know if there’s anything I can do about it.

Urgency

17 January 2021 (rev. 30 November 2022) ~ 2 minute read

What’s the rush? Why do we believe there’s ever a need to hurry anything?

Ingroup of One

27 January 2020 (rev. 25 February 2024) ~ 2 minute read

I believe it is vital to try to understand opposing points of view on anything related to being of service to humanity, as well as to be flexible in terms of the ideals of certainty, knowing, meaning, and wisdom.

Dancing on the Periphery

19 November 2019 (rev. 28 February 2021) ~ < 1 minute read

Committing to the unusual, uncommon, or seemingly impractical life can feel like a very weird thing to do. But as you start going down your natural path, daring to enter the arena of your preference, you’ll find very quickly that there are a lot of people in there already!

Human, Present

08 September 2019 (rev. 08 August 2020) ~ 2 minute read

It’s not always easy being a human in this world. It’s always changing, and there is a lot of damage (psychic, physical, karmic, spiritual), with generations of unbalanced energies to process and recapitulate. All this complexity, unfortunately, expresses itself in how humans treat themselves, other humans, and the earth—thus creating cycles of trauma.