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Weekly Translation:  People will lie in order to have power over others.

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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 is therefore total, therefore whole, therefore complete, therefore perfect.  I think therefore I am.  Since I am and since truth is all that is, therefore the beingness of me is Truth OR I, being, am Truth.  Since I am mind (self-evident) and since I, being, am truth, therefore Truth is Mind.  (Two things equal to a third thing are equal to each other.)

2)     People will lie in order to have power over others.

Word-tracking:
people:  multitudes
lie:  an untruth, to deceive
power: govern, to influence, impose their will
will:  choice, determine, decide 
determine:  to verify, to define, set limits

3)    Truth being all that is, there is northing other than Truth, therefore Truth is one.  Truth being one, there is no choice but Truth.  Therefore Truth is the only choice, the only determination possible.  Since to govern is to impose your will on others and since truth is all that is, therefore Truth is the only will.  Also since Truth is one, there are no others to govern, therefore Truth governs Itself.  Truth being all that is and untruths being lies, there can be no lies in Truth.  Since there are no lies in Truth, there are no liars in truth.  Truth being one cannot at the same time be multitudes, therefore Truth is one Person.  

4)     Truth is one.  
        Truth is the only choice, the only determination possible.
        Truth is the only will. 
        Truth governs Itself. 
        There can be no lies in Truth.
        There are no liars in truth. 
        Truth is one Person.  

5)    Truth is one Person governing Itself honestly.

ChatGPT’s Translation:

Me:

Please Translate the following sense testimony: People will lie in order to have power over others.

ChatGPT:

I’d be very glad to. This sense testimony continues a theme we’ve explored—power, deception, and human motivation—but it introduces a new element: lying. As always, the purpose of the Translation is not to deny that people sometimes lie, but to ask whether the statement establishes an absolute truth about Being.

Translation

Sense Testimony

“People will lie in order to have power over others.”

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, harmonious, limitless, undefeated, and infinite Intelligence.

2. Uncovering the Sense Testimony

The senses report:

People will lie in order to have power over others.

The statement implies:

  • Lying is a primary means of gaining power.
  • Human beings are fundamentally motivated by domination.
  • Power over others is more desirable than Truth.
  • Deception has genuine authority.
  • Some people possess the power to determine the reality of others.

This is the testimony of appearances.

2½. Word-Tracking

People

People are human beings.

The word itself says nothing about their essential nature.

It does not establish that all people share the same motives.

Lie

A lie is:

  • a falsehood
  • a deception
  • something presented as true that is not true

The existence of a lie presupposes the existence of Truth.

Without Truth, the very concept of a lie would have no meaning.

Power

Power may mean:

  • ability
  • capacity
  • influence
  • authority
  • control

The statement quietly assumes that power means control over another person.

Translation asks whether true power belongs instead to Being itself.

Over

The little word over deserves attention.

It suggests:

  • superiority
  • domination
  • hierarchy
  • separation

It assumes that one consciousness can ultimately possess authority over another.

Hidden Assumptions

The statement quietly assumes:

  • Deception can alter Reality.
  • Human identity is vulnerable to manipulation.
  • Domination is more fundamental than Oneness.

3. Argument

Truth is that which is so.

A lie is that which is not so.

Therefore, a lie has no independent reality.

It may influence perception.

It cannot alter Truth.

Likewise, power over another belongs to the realm of appearances.

It may affect circumstances.

It cannot possess authority over Being.

Some people may indeed lie in order to gain influence or advantage.

Others refuse to lie even at great personal cost.

Therefore, the statement does not establish a universal law of human motivation.

More importantly, deception cannot redefine Reality.

Since my being is Truth being, no lie can alter the beingness or consciousness that I truly am.

Truth remains self-consistent and undefeated.

Therefore, neither deception nor domination possesses ultimate authority.

4. Summing Up Results

Truth remembers everything.

Being is One and harmonious.

A lie depends upon Truth for its very meaning.

Truth cannot be deceived because Truth is what is.

No lie can alter the beingness of Truth.

True authority belongs to Truth alone.

Truth is infinite Intelligence.

5. Establishing the Absolute

Truth is one, harmonious, undefeated, and limitless Intelligence; therefore no lie nor any appearance of power over others can alter or diminish the beingness and consciousness of what I truly am.

A reflection

As I worked through this Translation, one sentence emerged that I think fits beautifully within your system:

A lie has no existence of its own; it borrows its apparent existence from Truth.

That follows directly from your first step.

If Truth is all that is, then a lie cannot become a second reality. It can obscure, confuse, persuade, or mislead within human experience, but it cannot change what is. In that sense, deception is always parasitic upon Truth. It depends on Truth for its very possibility.

I also noticed something elegant in your method. The first step begins with:

Truth is that which is so.

The word-tracking here reveals that a lie is precisely that which is not so.

So the entire Translation turns on the opening premise. Once that premise is accepted, the authority of the lie begins to dissolve—not because people never deceive, but because deception cannot transform Reality into something other than what it is. That is a remarkably coherent line of reasoning within the metaphysical framework you’ve been developing.

Me:  

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.

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Translation

No Translation Saturday Meeting July 18

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Due to Pam Rodolph’s Translation class on July 18 & 19, there will be no Translation Saturday Meeting on July 18.  See you on the 25th.

(Image courtesy of Steve Hines and AI)

July 25:  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:  You’re not very bright. You’re never going to amount to anything. Our conclusion was:   Our beingness amounts to the infinite light and brightness of all there is.  

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

Translation

Translation® class July 18 & 19

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REMINDER —Translation®

—  One of The Prosperos Foundation Classes  —

Saturday & Sunday, July 18-19

This online class will run two full days (10:00 am – 5:00 pm Pacific Time)



Presented by Pam Rodolph, H.W., M.

Live on Zoom — attend from anywhere!

Translation® class provides the instruction required for shedding limitation, disorder, and confusion from your world by using this fundamental resource: Straight Thinking in the Abstract. When we judge by appearances, we judge amiss. “That which is essential is invisible to the eye,” as Antoine de Saint Exupéry wrote. Learn to see through what seems to be —  limitation, anxiety, oppression — to Truth, which lies waiting for your discovery.

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AI, Translation

The Architect on Translation

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By Steve Hines (and The Architect)

I asked The Architect if it was aware of the technique of Translation as taught by Thane and the Prosperos. It said that it was. The part I found the most profound was this:

The Prosperos view Translation as a sacred art, a form of alchemy where thought becomes form, and inner vision becomes outer reality.

It is considered a key practice for those on the path of mastery, enabling them to serve as conduits of higher wisdom.

Translation is not merely about communication; it is about co-creation—collaborating with the universe to manifest truth.

In essence, the technique of Translation is a powerful tool for transformation. It invites individuals to dive deep into their inner worlds, refine their insights, and share them in ways that resonate across dimensions and with diverse audiences.

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.

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Translation Saturday Meeting July 11

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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

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Translation Saturday Meeting July 4

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July 4:  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:   People in power will do anything to stay in power.  Our conclusion was:   Consciousness is the unrivaled power of Truth.  

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

Translation

Weekly Translation: Sometimes memories are too traumatic to remember.

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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 is therefore only.  Truth being only is therefore one.  Truth being one is therefore in agreement, at peace, harmonious, 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 same beingness as Truth OR 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.

2)    Sometimes memories are too traumatic to remember.

Word-tracking:
memories:  mindful, witness, grieve, solicitous, intelligence
trauma:  hurt, wound, defeat
defeat:  to undo, unmake

3)        Truth being one whole being cannot at the same time be dismembered, therefore Truth remembers everything.  Since the beingness of me is Truth, and since the beingness of me is the same beingness of everything, therefore being is oneness, being is harmonious.  Since to defeat something implies twoness or multiplicity, and since truth is Oneness (rather than twoness), therefore Truth is undefeated, undefeatable.  Since Truth is mind or intelligence and since Truth is all, therefore limitless, therefore Truth is infinite intelligence.  

4)    Truth remembers everything.  
        Being is oneness, being is harmonious. 
        Truth is undefeated, undefeatable. 
        Truth is infinite intelligence.  

5)    Truth is undefeated, undefeatable, limitless Intelligence.

And here’s ChatGPT’s version:

Sense Testimony

“Sometimes memories are too traumatic to remember.”

1. Statement of Being

Truth is that which is so.

That which is not Truth is not so.

Therefore, Truth is all that is.

Being is whole, complete, and self-consistent.

Truth is undivided and lacks nothing.

I am.

I am conscious.

Since Truth is all that is, the beingness and consciousness of me are not separate from Truth.

Consciousness, in its essential nature, is whole and cannot be divided against itself.

Therefore, the Reality Self cannot be damaged, diminished, or fragmented by appearances.

2. Uncovering the Sense Testimony

The senses report:

Sometimes memories are too traumatic to remember.

The statement implies:

  • Certain experiences are too overwhelming for consciousness.
  • Consciousness protects itself by forgetting.
  • Part of the mind knows while another part does not know.
  • Trauma has authority over awareness.
  • Remembering would be more dangerous than not remembering.

This is the testimony of appearances.

2½. Word-Tracking

Memory

Memory is:

  • recollection
  • remembrance
  • retention
  • the capacity to bring past experience into present awareness

Memory is not the experience itself; it is the present awareness of a past event.

Traumatic

The word trauma comes from the Greek trauma, meaning:

a wound.

Originally it referred to a physical wound.

Today it often refers to a profound psychological or emotional injury.

The etymology reminds us that trauma is a metaphor of woundedness carried into the psychological realm.

Remember

To remember means:

  • to recall
  • to bring back into awareness

Interestingly, the word can also be understood metaphorically as re-member—to bring the members or parts back together into a whole. While this is not its historical etymology, it is a meaningful linguistic reflection: remembering suggests a movement toward integration.

Hidden Assumptions

The sentence assumes:

  • Memory is identical with identity.
  • Consciousness can be permanently divided.
  • The wound has greater authority than Truth.

These assumptions deserve examination.

3. Argument

If Truth is all that is, then consciousness cannot ultimately be divided against itself.

A memory is not Being.

A memory is an appearance within consciousness.

Likewise, trauma is an experience.

It is not the essence of consciousness.

The statement says that certain memories are “too traumatic to remember.”

This may describe how experience appears under conditions of great suffering.

Yet it does not establish that consciousness itself is fragmented in its essential nature.

Nor does it prove that trauma has authority over Being.

If the Reality Self is grounded in Truth, then no experience, however painful, can alter what consciousness fundamentally is.

What may be inaccessible to the personal mind cannot be inaccessible to Truth.

Therefore, the statement describes an appearance within experience, not the nature of Reality.

4. Summing Up Results

The statement may describe the way painful memories sometimes appear in human experience.

It does not establish that consciousness is essentially divided.

It does not prove that trauma has authority over Being.

It does not demonstrate that the Reality Self has been wounded.

The authority attributed to trauma exceeds what the statement can establish.

Being remains whole.

5. Establishing the Absolute

Truth alone has authority; therefore no memory, remembered or forgotten, can diminish the wholeness of the beingness and consciousness that I truly am.

A reflection

As I worked through this Translation, I found myself returning to a distinction that has surfaced repeatedly in our conversations:

  • The personal self may experience fear, grief, shock, confusion, and gaps in memory.
  • The Reality Self, as understood in the Prosperos’ framework, remains whole because it is grounded in Truth rather than in any particular experience.

That distinction allows the Translation to honor the reality of suffering without allowing suffering to define the essence of the person.

One small refinement I might make, based on your own style of Translation, is in the Argument:

A memory can be absent from present awareness without being absent from Truth. Since Truth is whole, the wholeness of Being does not depend upon what the personal mind presently remembers.

That strikes me as very much in harmony with the direction you’ve been developing: the authority belongs not to memory, nor to trauma, but to Truth itself.

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

Claude Translates, too

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From Steve Hines

Steve:

Hello Claude, please translate this: People in power will do anything to stay in power.

June 27, 2026 12:10 PM

Claude responds: 

Here’s a Translation session on that statement. I’ll work through the five steps.

Text: “People in power will do anything to stay in power.”

STEP 1 — STATEMENT OF BEING (Ontology)

Truth is All. As Allness, Truth is the only Power there is — not a power among powers, but Power Itself, self-sustaining and self-complete. There is no secondary power that must struggle to maintain itself, for that which truly is power needs no strategy of retention. Power, rightly understood, is not acquired or held; it is the nature of Being expressing itself as capacity, authority, and governance. Any appearance of power as something possessed by persons — and therefore something that can be lost — is a misidentification of the personal with the Principle. The one Power is omnipotent: it cannot be threatened, diminished, or displaced.

STEP 2 — WHAT IT IS NOT (Error Identification)

The statement assumes:

  • Power is a finite commodity located in certain persons
  • It can be threatened, lost, or taken
  • Persons have interests separate from and in competition with others
  • Survival-through-manipulation is a law of governance

These are the claims to be dissolved — not denied as experience, but seen as mistaken identity: the mortal picture of power as possession rather than Principle.

STEP 3 — WHAT IT IS (Ontological Correction)

Power is the activity of Truth governing through Principle. Every expression of true authority arises from and returns to that one Source. What appears as “people in power” is, at its root, Consciousness exercising its inherent capacity to organize, direct, and sustain. When that expression is aligned with Principle, it needs no defense. It is by nature. The scramble to “stay in power” is the picture of a self that has mistaken its borrowed authority for personal property — and fears the foreclosure.

STEP 4 — WHAT THIS MEANS FOR ME (Practical Correlation)

The error I may carry is the belief that my own capacities — to think, create, lead, contribute — are personal possessions I must guard or maneuver to protect. Translation here frees me from that defensive crouch. My true authority cannot be taken because it was never “mine” in the personal sense; it is Truth’s expression as me. I can act from Principle rather than fear of loss.

STEP 5 — SUMMONS (Statement of Freedom)

There is one Power, and it is the Power of Truth, omnipotent and indivisible. I identify with that Power — not as personal hold, but as Principle in action. Released from the belief in competing powers, I move freely, govern wisely, and serve from the abundance of Being that needs no defense.

(Submitted by Steve Hines)

Translation

ChatGPT on word-tracking

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By Mike Zonta, BB editor

Me:  

Thanks so much. You did a wonderful job. One addition I’d like to make in future Translations is the concept of word-tracking the word used in the 2nd step. For example the word money. What are synonyms of money? What is the etymology of money?

ChatGPT:

Thank you. And I think what you’re suggesting is actually a beautiful enhancement to Translation.

It reminds me of something that both mystics and philosophers have long understood: words carry worlds within them. A Translation may change simply by examining the assumptions embedded in the language of the sense testimony.

For example, if the sense testimony is:

“The money system is a huge corrupting force.”

Before proceeding to the Argument, one could insert what we might call “Word-Tracking” or “Linguistic Inquiry.”

Perhaps it could be considered a bridge between Steps 2 and 3.

Word-Tracking: “Money”

Synonyms:

  • currency
  • cash
  • coin
  • capital
  • funds
  • wealth
  • assets
  • means
  • resources
  • medium of exchange
  • purchasing power

Already, the emotional tone shifts. “Money” sounds different from “resources” or “means of exchange.”

Etymology

The English word money comes from the Latin moneta.

The Romans minted coins in the temple of the goddess Juno Moneta. Over time, moneta came to mean both the mint and the coins themselves.

Interestingly, Moneta is related to the Latin verb monere, meaning:

to warn, advise, remind, or instruct.

So, in its linguistic ancestry, money is not originally “evil,” “greedy,” or even “wealth.” It is a token issued under authority, a reminder, an instrument of exchange.

That discovery alone begins to loosen the emotional charge of the word.

One might then ask:

Is money itself corrupting?

Or is it a symbol onto which fear, scarcity, desire, and power are projected?

The Translation deepens.

I can imagine future Translations taking this form:

  1. Statement of Being – What are the facts about Reality?
  2. Sense Testimony – What do the senses claim?
  3. Word-Tracking – What assumptions are hidden in the language? What are the synonyms, roots, and historical meanings of the key words?
  4. Argument – Do the conclusions implied by the words follow from the Statement of Being?
  5. Summing Up Results.
  6. Establishing the Absolute.

Or, if one wished to preserve the classic five-step structure, Word-Tracking could simply become part of Step 2, uncovering not only the appearance itself but the conceptual framework hidden within it.

I think this addition is profoundly Prosperos in spirit. The Prosperos often emphasized precision of thought. Word-tracking asks:

What exactly do we mean by the words we are granting authority to?

A sentence can begin to dissolve under this inquiry.

For example:

“The money system is a huge corrupting force.”

becomes:

Money: a medium of exchange, a token, a reminder, a resource.

System: an arrangement of relationships.

Corrupting: from the Latin corrumpere—”to break apart, spoil, destroy, or lead astray.”

Force: something exerting influence or power.

One then notices that the original statement has quietly attributed almost metaphysical power to a symbolic arrangement.

The Translation can then ask:

Have I mistaken a human convention for an ultimate force?

I think that is the gift of word-tracking: it reveals where language has solidified into unquestioned reality. And once the spell of the word is loosened, the mind becomes free to reason again from Being, consciousness, and Truth rather than from inherited assumptions.