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THE TRANSCENDENCE DIARIES are celebrating their 19th year online and ever since the very first post in 2001 the site has been 100% funded through subscriptions and donations from non-profits and readers like you. With the readership The Diaries have amassed over the years, if every person who stops by to read a post subscribed or donated — just once a year, we could guarantee that The Transcendence Diaries will be up and thriving for another twenty years to come. Donations and subscriptions pay the salaries of all the super cool people who work on the Transcendence Diaries project everyday to make them what they are today. If you aren’t yet a subscriber but love the site, please take a moment to do so now.

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Subscriptions offer you the benefit of receiving each new post directly in your inbox whenever they are posted. If subscribing isn’t your thing, but you still want to contribute, please consider donating instead. Any amount you feel is fair is more than appreciated. Use the handy buttons below.

 

Over the years we’ve received a steady flow of questions from readers about THE TRANSCENDENCE DIARIES, how they came to be and how they are funded. Many wonder how The Transcendence Diaries first came about, who is involved in the project, and how the hell we manage to keep such a large project funded and running without pages full of pop-ups and ads. The origin of and day to day mechanics of maintaining the Transcendence Diaries can be found by heading to the About page here.

Others have asked how they can subscribe or donate. Subscriptions are easy. Simply use the Subscribe buttons on this Page or anywhere on the site and each time a new post, or batch of posts, is uploaded, you will be notified via a simple email. It’s that easy.

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Since their inception in 2001 The Transcendence Diaries have always been a non-for-profit labor of love, originally intended as an intellectual and literary pursuit and a social experiment. Advertisements have always been a non-consideration. There are numerous possible boxes all over a modern blogs’ design templates that allow for ad placement and pop-ups in contemporary blogs. Mainstream blogs and social networks are chock full of them. They are clunky and distracting. Their primary purpose is to generate revenue for owners and shareholders — rather than increase the enjoyment of the user experience; which is not necesarily a bad thing. It’s just not our thing. 

Every time we’ve attempted to monetize the Diaries by placing ads on the site through the years, they have quickly been deleted to make room for more content AND more clean space to allow the site to breathe more. For whatever reason advertising creates an immediately different vibration and user experience. The world one finds oneself in changes. The purity of the art and intellectual intention gets lost quickly.

So with the Transcendence Diaries, the goal remains the same, to make the site 100% ad-free and generate a thought provoking, engaging and moving experience for the reader. Foundational support, trusts, and donations help achieve this goal. In fact subscriptions and donations are the ONLY way this is made possible. And YOU play a vital role in this noble goal. In more ways than one. Even your consistent visits and reading the Diaries helps. Take pride in that. Subscribing helps even more. Donations help even more.  

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Hopefully The Transcendence Diaries will be up and running for another 20 years. At least. Hell, who are we kidding? In reality we’d like to see them still around long after we are all gone from this earth. By simply continuing to log in and read from time to time, along with subscribing and donating, we all help in this endeavor. 

The amount you choose to donate and how often you do so, is completely up to YOU. You may decide to donate once, monthly or annually. That decision is yours. Regardless of how much or how often you choose, any contribution is greatly appreciated. Each and every one goes a long way to assure that The Transcendence Diaries will continue to post regularly for years to come. Use the handy buttons above or below. And as always, thank you for stopping by and being a loyal reader.