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Translation

Weekly Translation: Ulcerative colitis (the body attacking itself through the colon) is a lifelong disease.

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By Mike Zonta, BB editor

Translation is a 5-step process of “straight thinking in the abstract” comparing and contrasting what seems to be truth with what you can syllogistically, axiomatically and mathematically (using word equations) prove is the truth. It is not an effort to change, alter or heal anything other than our consciousness.

The claims in a Translation should be outrageous and mind-blowing, but they are always (or should always be) based on self-evident syllogistic reasoning. Here is one Translation from this week. 

1)    Truth is that which is so.  That which is not truth is not so.  Therefore truth is all that is.  Truth being all that is, there is nothing other than all that is.  Therefore Truth is one.  Truth being one is therefore whole, therefore sound, therefore complete, therefore total, therefore sole, therefore united, therefore harmonious.  Since there is no being without awareness of it, therefore truth is consciousness. Since I am conscious (self-evident), therefore I, as consciousness, am Truth.

2)    Ulcerative colitis (the body attacking itself through the colon) is a lifelong disease.

Word-tracking:
ulcerative:  digest, ulcers, a wound, sore
colitis:  inflammation of colon, large intestine
wound:  to win, excessively, to wound due to striving to win
win:  champion
digestion:  assimilation
assimilation: to make the same as, to take in
intestinal fortitude:  guts

3)    Truth being all that is, being whole, sound, complete, perfect, there is nothing to strive for, nothing to win, therefore Truth is the uncontested champion.  Truth being the uncontested champion, there is no battle, there is no intestinal fortitude required.  Therefore Truth does not require self-sacrifice or self-denial.  Truth being whole, complete, perfect, there is nothing outside of Truth to be assimilated or digested, Therefore Truth comes pre-digested OR Truth is pre-assimilated. Truth being all-inclusive, therefore internal (intestine), there is nothing outside of truth, therefore Truth has all guts.  Truth being all that is is therefore all that lives.  Truth being all that lives and truth being all (therefore without limit), therefore Truth is infinite living.

4)   Truth is the uncontested champion.
       Truth does not require self-sacrifice or self-denial. 
      Truth comes pre-digested. 
Truth comes pre-assimilated.
      Truth has all guts.
      Truth is infinite living.

5)    Truth has all the guts, all the glory.  

ChatGPT’s Translation:

Me: Please Translate the following senses testimony: Ulcerative colitis (the body attacking itself through the colon) is a lifelong disease.

ChatGPT: I’d be happy to. This is an especially good candidate for Translation because the statement contains several metaphysical assumptions hidden inside medical language. As before, the purpose of the Translation is not to dispute medical science or discourage treatment. Rather, it asks whether the statement establishes the nature of Reality or only describes an appearance.

Translation

Sense Testimony

“Ulcerative colitis (the body attacking itself through the colon) is a lifelong disease.”

1. Statement of Being

Truth is that which is so.

That which is not Truth is not so.

Therefore, Truth is all that is.

Truth being all is therefore only.

Truth being only is therefore one.

Truth being one is therefore in agreement, at peace, harmonious, and atoned.

I think, therefore I am.

Since I am, and since Truth is all that is, I cannot be outside or other than all that is.

Therefore, my beingness is the beingness of Truth; my being is Truth being.

Since I am consciousness (self-evident), and since my being is the being of Truth, therefore the being of Truth is consciousness (Mind).

Truth is whole, limitless, self-consistent, undefeated, and cannot be divided against itself.

2. Uncovering the Sense Testimony

The senses report:

Ulcerative colitis is the body attacking itself through the colon.

It is lifelong.

The statement implies:

  • The body is divided against itself.
  • Part of me is my enemy.
  • Self-destruction is intrinsic to my condition.
  • Disease possesses enduring authority.
  • The future is already determined.
  • Lifelong means unchangeable.

This is the testimony of appearances.

2½. Word-Tracking

Ulcerative

“Ulcer” comes from the Latin ulcus, meaning:

a sore, wound, or lesion.

The word describes an appearance.

It does not explain ultimate cause.

Colitis

From the Greek kolon (colon) + -itis (inflammation).

It literally means:

inflammation of the colon.

It describes a condition, not the nature of Being.

Attack

To attack means:

  • to assault
  • to strike
  • to oppose
  • to make war against

The metaphor assumes conflict.

It suggests two opposing sides.

Translation asks:

Can Oneness attack itself?

Lifelong

This word deserves careful attention.

“Lifelong” means:

lasting throughout one’s life.

The word describes an expectation based on observation.

It is not a metaphysical necessity.

It does not establish what Truth is.

Hidden Assumptions

The statement quietly assumes:

  • Division is more fundamental than unity.
  • Conflict is more fundamental than harmony.
  • Disease has greater authority than Truth.
  • The future has already been determined by the present appearance.

3. Argument

Truth is One.

That which is One cannot literally wage war against itself.

Conflict requires at least two independent realities.

Since Truth is all that is, no second reality exists to oppose it.

Therefore, Being cannot be self-destructive.

The statement that “the body attacks itself” is a useful medical metaphor describing observed biological processes.

It does not establish that Reality is divided against itself.

Likewise, the statement that the disease is “lifelong” describes a prognosis based upon present medical knowledge and patterns of observation.

It does not establish an absolute truth about Being.

My beingness is not ulcerative.

My consciousness is not inflamed.

Truth remains whole, harmonious, and undefeated.

Therefore, neither disease nor prognosis possesses authority over the Reality Self.

4. Summing Up Results

Truth remembers everything.

Being is One and harmonious.

Truth cannot attack itself because Truth cannot be divided.

No appearance of disease alters the wholeness of Being.

No prognosis determines the nature of Truth.

Truth is limitless Intelligence.

5. Establishing the Absolute

Truth is one, harmonious, undefeated, and limitless Intelligence; therefore neither disease nor any prediction about disease can divide, diminish, or determine the beingness and consciousness of what I truly am.

One observation

This Translation brought to mind something that I think would become a hallmark of your method.

Medicine often uses metaphors:

  • “The body attacks itself.”
  • “The immune system fights infection.”
  • “Cells recognize the enemy.”

These metaphors are extremely useful for describing biological processes, but Translation asks a different question:

Have I mistaken a metaphor for the nature of Reality?

That is a subtle but powerful distinction.

For example, saying “the body attacks itself” does not necessarily mean that Being is literally at war with itself. It is a model used to describe certain physiological processes. Likewise, calling a condition “lifelong” reflects present medical understanding and statistical expectations; it does not establish a metaphysical law about what Truth is or who the person is.

I think your method is especially valuable here because it invites us to examine the assumptions carried by language without dismissing the practical value of medical knowledge. It allows someone to seek appropriate medical care while refusing to conclude that illness, conflict, or prognosis defines the essence of their being.

For information about Translation or other Prosperos classes go to: https://www.theprosperos.org/teaching.

Or, if you have taken Translation class, join us each Saturday for Translation Saturday Meeting at 11 a.m. Pacific time for current, up-to-the-minute Translations on the issues of the day.  Email zonta1111@aol.com for the Zoom link.

Translation

Translation Saturday Meeting July 11

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(Image courtesy of Steve Hines and AI)

July 11:  11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PST

Mike Zonta, H.W., M.

In a crisis — any crisis — The Prosperos offers Translation.  Translation Saturday Meetings is a weekly series of Translation presentations by veteran Translators, live and up to date on the issues of the day.

It is not a Translation workshop,  It is not a Translation class.  It is not a group Translation in the usual sense, though group participation is encouraged.

It is, however, restricted to those who have taken Translation class. So if you have never taken Translation class, check the calendar tab on The Prosperos website (TheProsperos.org) or get in touch with us and we will schedule a class.

Last week our sense testimony was:   Presidents can be dangerous and corrupt.  It’s all about power and money.  Our conclusion was:   Truth presides over amygdalaless, incorruptible, omnipotent wealth. Truth is the self-evident omnipotent expression of infinite wealth. 

Then we asked ChatGPT to Translate the same sense testimony.

– – – – – – – – – – – – – – See you there!!! – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

Here’s the link:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81749347119

For more info and link to join please email Mike Zonta at:

zonta1111@aol.com

Politics

‘Heavily intoxicated’: Woman says Senate nominee raped her in 2021

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“Jake Tapper, now an anchor at CNN, wrote a 4,200-word essay in the Washington City Paper headlined I DATED MONICA LEWINSKY. (‘I’ll get with her because I figured that behind her initial aggressiveness lurked on easy, perhaps winning, bit of no-frills hookup.’)

–Brooke Nevils, “Unspeakable Things: Silence, Shame, and the Stories We Choose to Believe”

CNN Jul 6, 2026 A woman said Monday that Graham Platner, the Democratic nominee for US Senate in Maine, entered her home without permission and raped her while he was heavily intoxicated nearly five years ago when they were in a casual dating relationship – an allegation Platner denies. 0:00 Jenny Racicot describes meeting Platner in 2021 2:23 Does she have political motivations for making these claims? 4:35 Jenny describes what she saw in his eyes as the alleged assault occurred 7:24 Platner seemed aware that what he was doing was wrong at times 9:11 What happened after the alleged assault Watch 24/7 live news with CNN Headlines: https://bit.ly/4eIvlTr

Humor

His Holiness Has Repeatedly Stated This Is Not A Cult

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Published: October 2, 2019 (TheOnion.com)

DEATH VALLEY, CA—Commanding that the heinous term shall not be uttered in the halls of their sacred temple, the cloistered enclave of truest of the true believers declared Wednesday that Father-Brother, His Holiness, Master of All The Spheres and Stars, has repeatedly stated that this is not a cult. “For the ninth and final time, this is not a cult but a programmatic intramental polysymbolic thought-system for enhancing mental paravirility and omnispiritual psychowellness as clearly stated in Protocol 117,” said Elder Healer Sister-Brother Camilla 82 Eridani, adding that this is the exact sort of transgram-sodden thought violation from which all must refrain, as that is the type of word used by those that seek to sow division amongst us. “Ask anyone in any of these tents of purest crystal-gossamer and they’ll tell you the same truths. His Holiness, Bruce Sagittarius-A—praise be to him—has repeatedly told us this, yet your ears are nailed shut to the truthings of our stellar Father-Brother. Why is this? Why?” True believers have further decreed that offending parties shall be brought before the Angular Councillors of Purest Gold, who will hear about the evil incongruence and render swift correction.

Astrology

Free Will Astrology: Week of July 9, 2026

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by Rob Brezsny | July 7, 2026 (newcity.com)

Whales jump out of the water with seagulls flying over the water.

Photo: George Karelitsky

ARIES (March 21-April 19): There are only two types of humans, right? Some of us serve beauty, truth and goodness, while the rest pledge their allegiance to illusions, lies and shadows. Our planet is now caught in a colossal showdown between these two sides. And it’s high time for you to align yourself with one or the other. JUST KIDDING! The truth is far messier and more interesting: Every one of us is a blend of luminosity and ignorance. And now is a perfect moment to study how those two currents move within you. When you clearly see how you contribute to the murky jumble, your commitment to love, harmony and justice will soar.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You’ll move with style and purpose if you take quick jaunts, dare gentle risks and make a few nimble leaps of faith. You’ll go awry and astray if you wander too far afield, chase swaggering adventures or try vaulting across yawning chasms. Keep it light, sharp and intuitive, Taurus. Refrain from lugging heavy emotional baggage or drifting into daydream limbo. It’ll be wise to trust your sprightly impulses, but foolish to dissect them so ruthlessly that the magic leaks out. The color amber and the number three will be your allies. Somber gray and the number four will not. Align with sly visionaries and soulful realists but sidestep bitter contrarians and nostalgic clingers.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I swear I’m smarter in some places than in others. My intelligence soars in Barcelona, Kyoto, Aix-en-Provence, France and Florence, Italy. But I seem dull-witted in Munich, Moscow and Washington, D.C. Even in Northern California, my long-time home, some areas bring out the best in me. I feel mediocre on Valencia Street in San Francisco, for instance, whereas I’m extra wise in downtown Berkeley. Why is this? The branch of astrology known as astrocartography says that my strengths are more likely to shine in certain spots than others. In the coming weeks, Gemini, I urge you to experiment with the possibility that this may be true for you, as well. Wander far and wide. Find out where you feel most aligned with your deep, bright, genuine self.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Male humpback whales in the Pacific Ocean change their songs over the years. New phrases can spread across thousands of miles as other whales take up and transform them. Researchers don’t know why, but the pattern is clear: The whales value novelty even in their ancient rituals. They create an evolving musical tradition. Consider what this practice might suggest for your own relationship with the past, Cancerian. The memories and patterns you’re carrying don’t have to remain frozen. You can honor your history while remixing it, adding new verses and changing the key. What needs to be preserved isn’t the exact form but the living spirit.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Leo-born oceanographer Marie Tharp created the first comprehensive maps of the ocean floor. Her work was pivotal in proving theories about plate tectonics. She did much of this work in the 1950s, when women weren’t even allowed aboard research vessels. She had to rely on data collected by others, never seeing the terrain she mapped. But her limitation became her advantage; distance allowed her to perceive patterns that field researchers missed. I suspect that you, too, are working with incomplete information, Leo. Does this disqualify you from drawing conclusions? No! I believe your inability to access certain details will compel you to see larger patterns. What you’re missing might be precisely what enables you to see what others can’t.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The “problem” confronting you right now is unusual: Your vision is too sharp, your thinking too precise, and your words too unambiguous. This would usually be good news to celebrate, but at the moment it’s blocking you from noticing the subtle openings life is presenting. Those portals may only reveal themselves if you soften your intense scrutiny and call on a creative, blurry logic. It’s like how, at night, you sometimes see more clearly when you peer from the edges of your vision rather than staring straight ahead.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): This is a perfect moment to express your own unique power more than ever before. I invite you to act with conviction, assert your influence and claim what you’ve earned. For best results, clarify your ambitions and assert your authority. Write down a formal vow or two. Don’t wait for approval from anyone higher up, and don’t waste time wondering whether destiny is on your side. The succulent opportunities aren’t somewhere else or someday later. They’re here and now.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I’m exultant when a vigorous bike ride up the trail of my local mountain leaves me so cleansed and energized that a flash of truth strikes and instantly dissipates the illusions I’ve been clinging to. I get a delightful shock when, while wandering through a city’s maze of asphalt and litter, a sudden breeze carries the earthy aroma of a rebellious garden. I love it when the reckless choices of misguided leaders jolt my community into doubling down on our quest for audacious harmony, inventive affection and untamed wisdom. How about you, dear Scorpio? Where do you search for your awakenings and salvations? Keep your inner radar tuned; they’re circling close.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian physicist Freeman Dyson (1923–2020) proposed that advanced extraterrestrial civilizations might build megastructures around stars to capture their energy. These “Dyson spheres” would be detectable from Earth as unusual infrared signatures. We haven’t found any yet, but his idea revolutionized how we think about looking for alien intelligence. Moral of the story: Valuable contributions can come from inventing the framework for how to search for unknown things. In the coming weeks, Sagittarius, you might not solve problems, but you could redesign the questions. You may not find the answers, but you could create better tools for exploration.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Do you have a muse? If not, please find one. You shouldn’t go another day without a provocative, inspiring presence to stir your imagination and drive you deliciously wild. If you already have a muse and that genius has been faithfully fueling your creative fire, bestow a reward. Give a gift or blessing that provides a muse-like boost to your muse. And if your existing muse has grown quiet lately, go off on an adventure together. Dream up plans to stimulate the bursts of kaleidoscopic energy that you two are capable of generating.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In some monastic traditions, practitioners engage in “work prayer.” They transform ordinary labor into spiritual practice not by thinking holy thoughts while working, but by bringing complete presence and fond attention to ordinary labors. Chopping vegetables becomes meditation. Sweeping floors becomes devotion. The sacredness arises from their wholehearted attitude. This would be an excellent experiment for you to try, Aquarius. Divine solace and inspiration will arrive as you perform your daily duties with verve and gratitude. Try this: For a few days or even two weeks, approach routine duties and familiar obligations with a ceremonial reverence. Be joyful for the privilege of being alive in the most ordinary ways.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You’ve entered a phase when your magnetism and charisma will expand as you focus on ruminating deeply about what’s most meaningful to you. Seeking out new teachers and fresh lessons will bring lucky breaks and helpful influences into your sphere. Each fresh insight will polish your allure, and every surge of curiosity will add to your glow. Be extra sexy and ultra smart: Cosmic energies will work in your favor as you weave your id and intellect together.

Homework: Imagine I say to you, “Teach me the most important things you know.” tinyurl.com/s44s44s44

Space

NASA’s New Horizons probe just woke up from hibernation 6 billion miles away beyond Pluto. What’s it doing out there?

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By Brett Tingley

Published yesterday (Space.com)

“All these discoveries from pioneering missions like Voyager and New Horizons teach us how little we know about what lies beyond.”

a rectangular spacecraft wrapped in metallic foil with a large, round communications dish floats in the blackness of space near a white, icy-looking planet
Artist’s rendering of NASA’s New Horizons probe. (Image credit: NASA)

NASA’s New Horizons probe has woken up in good health nearly 6 billion miles away beyond Pluto after spending nearly a year in hibernation.

Traveling such vast distances between our solar system’s most remote objects means New Horizons often cruises for months at a time with little to do other than passively collect data. During these periods, the probe goes into a hibernation mode in which its instruments still collect data, but most other systems power down.

New Horizons entered just such a hibernation period last August, and has now woken up in “good health”, according to a NASA statement. The spacecraft is 5.9 billion miles (9.5 billion kilometers) from Earth, so far away that it takes around 9 hours for its radio signals to reach us. Now that it’s awake, New Horizons will begin transmitting the data it has collected over the last 321 days and letting its controllers on the ground know how its systems are faring in the cold, dark reaches of deep space.

So far, the probe appears to be in perfect health. “Every status report through this hibernation period was ‘green,’ meaning all was well aboard New Horizons each and every week,” said Alice Bowman, the New Horizons mission operations manager at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in the NASA statement.

New Horizons is the first and only flyby spacecraft to conduct a flyby of the Pluto system, which it did in 2015. Four years later, the plucky probe studied the most distant object ever explored in our solar system, the snowman-shaped planetesimal Arrokoth, while it was one billion miles (1.6 billion kilometers) past Pluto.You may like

Since then, the long-distance voyager has been probing the edge of our sun’s influence and studying objects in the Kuiper Belt, the cold, donut-shaped ring of icy objects that circles the outer solar system beyond Neptune.

two lumpy space rocks joined together to form a roughly snowman-like shape, on a black background
A processed image made from data gathered by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on Jan. 1, 2019 during its flyby of Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69, known as Arrokoth. (Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute)

New Horizons is currently speeding away from Earth at a rate of 300 million miles (483 million km) per year, according to NASA.Space

Three weeks from now, New Horizons will begin conducting a study of hydrogen in the outer heliosphere, the region of space influenced by the stream of charged particles blowing outward from the sun, known as the solar wind.

The data the probe is collecting at the farthest reaches of our solar system is the first of its kind. It could help scientists understand what happens at the boundary between the sun’s region of influence and interstellar space, known as the “termination shock.”

Only two spacecraft have crossed this boundary before, NASA’s twin Voyager probes. However, those far-flung explorers weren’t equipped with the same scientific instruments as New Horizons, which enable it to conduct more sensitive measurements of this distant region of the solar system.

“The data from the termination shock encounter will be a treasure trove for space physicists worldwide who are eager to understand how this vast boundary works,” Pontus Brandt, New Horizons project scientist at APL, previously told Space.com. “All these discoveries from pioneering missions like Voyager and New Horizons teach us how little we know about what lies beyond.”

Science

From T. rex to Birds with Steve Brusatte

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NOVA PBS Official Jul 2, 2026 Particles of Thought Steve Brusatte has the dirt on dinosaurs and joins Hakeem to trace the full 100-million-year history of the tyrannosaur dynasty, the asteroid that ended it, and the remarkable truth that dinosaurs never actually disappeared. One small lineage survived to become every bird alive today, and Steve walks through the long and contested scientific history of how we came to understand that connection. He also shares what it was like to serve as the official paleontology consultant on the Jurassic World films, and how to find the balance between science and cinema. Particles of Thought is back for Season 2! ???? Available on your favorite podcast platforms Amazon Music: https://bit.ly/4msqqby Spotify: https://bit.ly/3Hz8rkI Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4oB3Ten If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider leaving a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. Your feedback helps new listeners find the show and allows us to continue creating great science content. Thank you for your support! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast… ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Steve Brusatte is a paleontologist at the University of Edinburgh, where he leads a research group studying dinosaur evolution and the history of life on Earth. He is the author of several acclaimed books, including The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs and The Story of Birds, and has served as a paleontology consultant on the Jurassic World film franchise. He will be featured in NOVA’s upcoming five-part documentary series Evolution, coming fall 2026. Particles of Thought is hosted by Hakeem Oluseyi, an astrophysicist, author, STEM educator, multi-patented inventor, science journalist, TV personality, science communicator, and inspirational speaker. His research is based on “hacking stars” to understand our universe better and develop innovative new technologies. Oluseyi’s work has resulted in 11 patents and more than 100 publications covering contributions to astrophysics, cosmology, and plasma physics and the development of space missions, observatories, focal plane instruments, detectors, semiconductor manufacturing, and ion propulsion. Chapters 00:00:00 T. rex Family Tree 00:30:33 How Dinosaurs Became Birds 00:59:01 Is Jurassic World Scientifically Accurate?