psychology – Trance Blackman

Beyond the Rabbit Hole: Discernment in the Age of Suspicion

Beyond the Rabbit Hole: Discernment in the Age of Suspicion

The Limits of Looking Behind the Curtain

06 September 2026 ~ 19 minute read

There are rabbit holes that are worth entering, and there are rabbit holes that seem to exist primarily to keep us digging. At some point, the question changes from What are they doing? to something far more useful: What am I doing with what I now know? This conversation lives somewhere in that territory, between discernment and obsession, suspicion and certainty, awareness and the freedom to simply walk away.

While We’re Still Here

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While We’re Still Here

Fear, Fiction, and the Human Story

04 September 2026 ~ 8 minute read

Perhaps the first thing worth questioning is not what we have been told about the world, but why we have been taught to fear it in the first place. So much of what passes for certainty seems to depend upon our willingness to accept the premise before we ever examine it, and so much of what follows becomes inevitable only because we have agreed, consciously or otherwise, that it must be. Somewhere beneath all of it remains a simpler possibility: that we have far more agency than we’ve been led to believe, and that the story is not yet finished.

Causation

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Causation

03 September 2026 ~ 8 minute read

At some point, we have to stop asking what the world expects of us and start asking what we are actually here to do. Not in some grand or abstract sense, but right here, in the middle of whatever is presently unfolding. Beneath the noise, beneath the accumulated assumptions and inherited stories, there remains a quieter position from which we can see, choose, and move differently. Perhaps that is where causation begins.

Lux Colloquii

The Deeper Journey: Biology, Culture, and Consciousness

Reflections on Trust and Human Nature

02 September 2026 ~ 22 minute read

There are conversations that begin with a particular question and, somewhere along the way, reveal that the question was never quite the point. What begins here with biology, paternity, relationships, and the often-confounding dynamics between men and women eventually turns inward, toward the more fundamental question of how honestly we can perceive ourselves and the world around us. For me, that inevitably brings the conversation back to trust: not blind trust in another, but the deeper trust that comes from becoming someone who can face reality without needing to look away.

Lux Colloquii

The Body Remembers: Fascia, Healing, and the Shape of Experience

Adaptation, Injury, and the Search for Wholeness

23 August 2026 ~ 28 minute read

There are times when the body seems to be speaking in a language we only partly understand, and yet we feel, instinctively, that it is telling the truth. Not merely in pain or stiffness or fatigue, but in posture, in tension, in the subtle ways we compensate, endure, and carry ourselves through life. What begins as an inquiry into fascia soon opens into something wider — into memory, habit, injury, emotion, and the strange intelligence of a body that is forever adapting, and perhaps, when given the chance, trying to restore itself.

Tag: psychology

Beyond the Rabbit Hole: Discernment in the Age of Suspicion

While We’re Still Here

Causation

The Deeper Journey: Biology, Culture, and Consciousness

The Body Remembers: Fascia, Healing, and the Shape of Experience