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.
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