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 otherless, therefore one, therefore united, therefore whole, therefore complete, therefore perfect. I think therefore I am. Since I am and since Truth is all that is, I cannot be other than all that is, therefore the beingness of me is Truth. Since I am mind (self-evident) and since I am Truth (or the beingness of me is Truth), therefore Truth is Mind/Consciousness. (Two things being equal to a third thing are equal to each other.)
2) Lung capacity reduced maybe due to tumor.
Word-tracking:
lung: light, rapid
breath: odour (odor), breed, to keep warm by breathing on, life, spirit, anima/animus comes from to breathe, prana, life force, Atman, expire vs. inspire.
Catch your breath.
Breath easy.
Take my breath away.
tumor: growth, cancer, mass
mass: accumulation of matter
matter: mother
3) Truth being all that is is therefore all that lives. Therefore Truth is life. Truth being life is therefore living, is therefore breath, is therefore spirit. Therefore Truth is Spirit. Since Truth is Spirit and since there is no lack of Truth in an infinite Universe, therefore there is no lack of spirit in an infinite universe. Therefore Truth is infinitely spirited. Truth being infinitely spirited and Truth being all there is, there is nothing other than all which could block or get in the way of Truth. Therefore Truth is the unobstructed/unobstructable spirit of infinite Mind/Truth being. Truth being all life and truth being infinite (without limit, therefore infinite), there is no beginning or ending to life, therefore Life has no parents, therefore Life has no mother.
4) Truth is life.
Truth is Spirit.
Truth is infinitely spirited.
Truth is the unobstructed/unobstructable spirit of infinite Mind/Truth being.
Life has no parents,
Life has no mother.
5) Breathe easy: the pathway is clear for the unobstructed expression of Spirit.
And now I’ll ask ChatGPT:
Me: Please Translate the following sense testimony: Lung capacity is reduced maybe due to a tumor.
ChatGPT: Certainly. I’ll follow the form we’ve developed, including your expanded Step 1 and the word-tracking half-step.
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, 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
“Lung capacity is reduced maybe due to a tumor.”
The testimony reports an apparent physical condition and then proposes a possible cause.
There are actually two claims here:
- Lung capacity is reduced.
- A tumor may be responsible.
The word “maybe” is significant. The second claim is explicitly uncertain—it is a hypothesis rather than established fact.
2½. Word-Tracking
Lung
From Latin pulmo, “lung.”
The lungs are organs associated with breathing, respiration, and the exchange of air.
Metaphorically, breath has long been associated with life and animation.
Capacity
From Latin capacitas, from capax, “able to contain.”
Capacity means:
- ability to contain
- ability to receive
- maximum amount
- potential
This is interesting metaphysically because capacity describes a measure or limitation of function; it does not describe the nature of Being itself.
Reduced
From Latin reducere, “to lead back, bring back.”
Reduced means:
- made smaller
- diminished
- lessened
Again, it describes degree, not identity.
Maybe
An expression of uncertainty:
- perhaps
- possibly
- it may be
The testimony itself therefore acknowledges that its proposed explanation is not known.
Tumor
From Latin tumor, “swelling,” from tumēre, “to swell.”
The original word describes a swelling or enlargement; it does not itself mean cancer.
That distinction is useful: the word tumor describes an appearance or physical condition, while the testimony assigns it a possible causal role.
3. Argument
Truth is all that is.
My physical body is an expression within experience, but my body is not the totality of my Being.
Lung capacity may appear to be reduced, but a measurement of physical capacity cannot establish a limitation of consciousness or Being.
The word “maybe” acknowledges that the proposed cause has not been established.
Therefore I need not translate an uncertainty into a certainty.
A possible physical cause is not an absolute statement about Reality.
Since my being is Truth being, and since Truth is consciousness/Mind, my Being cannot be reduced to a physical measurement or to an assumed diagnosis.
Whatever the physical circumstance may be, Truth remains whole, harmonious, and unlimited.
Therefore the appearance of reduced capacity does not establish reduced Being.
4. Summing Up Results
Physical capacity does not define Being.
An uncertain cause is not an established fact.
Reduction of physical function does not reduce consciousness.
Truth is not limited by physical measurement.
Truth is infinite Intelligence.
5. Establishing the Absolute
For this testimony, I particularly like:
My Being is not limited by the capacity of my body.
Or, if you want it more explicitly in terms of Truth:
Truth is unlimited, regardless of the capacity of my body.
I think the first is stronger as a personal fifth step because it directly addresses the hidden identification in the testimony: reduced physical capacity = reduced me.
And there is an important distinction here that I think makes this Translation stronger than simply saying “I am healthy”: Translation doesn’t require us to deny a physical fact in order to establish Truth. A person’s lung capacity can genuinely be reduced while their Being remains unlimited.
Also, because this particular testimony mentions a possible tumor, I would be especially careful not to let the metaphysical Translation become a substitute for medical investigation. The word-tracking of maybe actually gives us a useful protection against that: possibility is not certainty.
Me: Thank you very much.
ChatGPT: You’re very welcome. I really enjoy doing these with you—the word-tracking step in particular keeps opening up surprisingly rich paths into the testimony.
Me:
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