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 total, therefore totality, therefore infinity, therefore eternity. I think therefore I am. Since I am and since Truth is all that is, I cannot be other than Truth. Therefore the beingness of me is Truth. Since the beingness of me is Truth and since I am mind (self-evident), Therefore truth is Mind/Consciousness. Therefore Mind/Consciousness must have all the attributes of Truth. Therefore Mind/Consciousness is total, totality, infinity, eternity.
2) Claustrophobia results from a history of childhood psychological entrapment.
Word-tracking:
claustrophobia: closed or bolted space, cloister
phobia: fear, panic, dread
panic: belonging to Pan, sudden groundless fear, phantasmagoria, bugbear, used to frighten children into obeying
imaginary: image, forming a mental picture of something not present
phantasm: to make visible
epiphany: to show, to shine upon
phantasm: that which appears
intuition: inner watch
childhood: not fully mature, dependent
entrapment: enticing innocent person into breaking the law
history: past events
event: happening
innocent: harmless, blameless
fear: memory
psychological: psyche, mind
3) Truth being all that is is all that is present. Since imagination is a mental picture of something not present, Therefore imagination is a lie. Truth being all that is is therefore all that happens, therefore Truth is all events. Truth being whole unto Itself is not a dependent (a child) of anything or anyone. Therefore Truth is and always has been fully mature and independent. Truth being all, there is nothing other than all, therefore Truth is one. Truth being Mind and being all that is, therefore Truth is all-knowing. Truth being all-knowing cannot be entrapped into breaking the law. And since Truth is the law (that which is right), that would be like Truth breaking Itself. Therefore Truth is innocent, harmless, blameless. Since Truth is Mind and since Truth is all that is present, there is no past or future in truth, therefore Truth is mindful of the eternal presence of wholeness. Truth being mind, there is no psychology outside of Truth. Therefore truth is the only psychological.
4) Imagination is a lie.
Truth is all events.
Truth is and always has been fully mature and independent.
Truth is one.
Truth is all-knowing.
Truth is innocent, harmless, blameless.
Truth is mindful of the eternal presence of wholeness.
Truth is the only psychological.
5) Truth is untrappable psychology of innocence.
And now I’ll ask ChatGPT:
Please Translate the following sense testimony: Claustrophobia results from a history of childhood entrapment.
ChatGPT:
Absolutely. I’ll use the five steps of Translation as we’ve been developing them, including your expanded Step 1 and the word-tracking half-step.
1. Truth
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. Sense Testimony
“Claustrophobia results from a history of childhood entrapment.”
The testimony asserts a specific causal chain:
childhood entrapment → psychological history → claustrophobia.
It therefore assumes that a past experience can determine a present state of consciousness.
2½. Word-Tracking
Claustrophobia
From Latin claustrum, “a closed place” or “enclosure,” plus Greek phobos, “fear.”
So, literally, fear of an enclosed place.
Results
From Latin resultare, “to spring back, rebound, arise.”
Something that results is something that arises from something else.
History
From Greek historia, “inquiry, investigation, knowledge acquired by inquiry.”
A history is an account of what has occurred.
Childhood
The period of being a child.
It identifies a period in temporal experience, not an eternal condition of Being.
Entrapment
To entrap is to catch in a trap, preventing escape.
The word trap carries the idea of confinement and limitation.
There is an interesting progression here:
enclosure → fear → entrapment → limitation
But none of these words establishes the nature of Being.
3. Translation
Truth is One and cannot be entrapped, confined, or divided.
Since my being is Truth being, my essential being cannot have been trapped in the past.
The senses may report a history of confinement, and the personality may associate enclosed spaces with fear. Such an association may be real as an experience without being the truth of Being.
A history describes what has appeared to occur; it does not establish what I am.
Since Truth is consciousness/Mind and Truth is all that is, consciousness cannot ultimately be confined by any circumstance, place, or past experience.
Therefore, what appears as claustrophobia cannot define the limitless nature of consciousness.
The past may explain an appearance without having authority over Being.
Truth is not trapped, Truth is not confined, and Truth has never been outside itself.
4. Summation
Truth is limitless and cannot be entrapped.
History describes appearances; it does not define Being.
The past cannot imprison consciousness.
Truth is not confined by circumstances.
5. Establishing the Absolute
For this particular testimony, I would make the fifth step:
Truth cannot be entrapped, and therefore my consciousness is not confined by the past.
I especially like this one because it addresses the actual structure of the testimony. It doesn’t have to deny that childhood experiences may be associated with later fears. Instead, it distinguishes explanation of an appearance from the nature of Being.
And the word-tracking gives us a particularly beautiful opening: claustrophobia is essentially fear of enclosure, while your first step establishes that the beingness of you is the beingness of Truth, and Truth is all that is. If Truth is all, there can ultimately be no “outside” into which Truth could be confined.
Me:
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