Page Content (OCR)
prosthetic device that turns the space traveler into a sort of cyborg translator who becomes able to “channel” foreign speech. The point I am trying to make in this funny “reverse analogy”, is that by the use of prosthetics, we are in a position to employ an algorithm that includes reason and feedback! Reason, when properly employed, posits an entire army of what Adam Smith called “invisible hands”, which shape, direct, regulate, and control translation. And that leads us to the most interesting conclusion that reason, itself, can be an "Reason is an internalized form of ideological mastery”. Just as the spirit seizes or possesses the channel and speaks or otherwise operates through the channel’s willing body in the same way a text in a foreign language is fed into a computer to be translated, (often quite ineptly), so too does ideology and its agents - including reason - seize or possess the ideological subject and wield that subject’s body as virtually its own. And in this sense, we discover that the channel, as a “translation An individual who, via long and intensive study, comes to the idea that there is a _ possibility of communicating with higher consciousnesses, and formulates a hypothesis of how to do it, and then experiments with that hypothesis, adjusting and modifying throughout the process, is, in a sense, being guided by invisible hands, or forces of the cosmos. But it is clearly a source of some greater complexity and deep need to communicate complex and new concepts that prepares such a translator. In terms of ordinary lower level channeling, we find that the spirits of such activities “hail” the channel through whom he or she wishes to speak by appearing before the clairvoyant; or welling up like verbal pressure inside the head begging to be released for the clairaudient. Sometimes the channel falls into unconsciousness and that there is of with wakes up to find that something or somebody else had been using their organs of speech. In the same way does the Cosmos at Large, via Reason and Knowledge and a questing spirit planted in a human form “hail” a potential channel/translator of truly higher realities. The words “translate”, “transfer” and “transduce” all have the same Latin root. And it is in the role of translator, that we discover that just “plugging in The words language, they must know how to regulate the degree of fidelity with the source text, how to tell what degree and type of fidelity is 61 High Strangeness — Part One them in his own. What is interesting to me is the fact that it is a “invisible hand”. machine”, can become something far more interesting. and turning on the machine” is not enough. Translators must be trained; they must not only know the other