Why does Truth need a Revolution?

“God is Truth, Truth is God.” is a book by Mahatma Gandhi. For the past forty years my ongoing daily prayers give thanks for two things, many times a day: To know the Truth to my questions; and to Know the Presence of God. I see the Divine in every One and every Thing. I see Truth in all that I hear, see, read and know.
A dear friend and wise mentor told me of an experience giving a talk to a room full of Jesuit Priests. He told me: “I started out by making the statement that I did not believe in God. This caused a disturbance through out the large room and as gentlemen they continued to listen to me (this physicist) through to the end of my talk. I ended the lecture by saying; I don’t believe in God, I know God.”
Orest Bedrij has written and I have read (read my review on Amazon.com): “Celebrate Your Divinity: The Nature of God and the Theory of Everything”. He quotes hundreds of wise and holy people both ancient and recent who also understood that the Divine Creator, i.e. God by what ever name you call “him”, is within each of us, connects us and makes it insane to hurt, oppress or go to war with others who also have the Divine Spark within. A hope of Orest’s, and other physicists I’ve been privileged to know, is that when the math of physics discovers a Grand Unification Theory or a Theory of Everything it would prove the oneness of all and then this fact of truth, when known and understood, could stop all wars and injustice against each other and nature globally.
1983 I saw the movie “GANDHI”, read his autobiography: “My Experiments with Truth” and then found his book: “God is Truth, Truth is God”. I experienced a series of “ah haas” and “of course(s)”. I know that humanity has been given a process and a framework of principles to end conflict peacefully using nonviolence.
One of the effects of a life of health challenges with many surgeries I have been able to read thousands of books, foreign magazines and watch our Constitutional Democracy on C-span I and II. My reading focused on history, economics, the environment, governance, the spiritual teachings of all religions and to discovering the keys to achieving health in body, mind and for our health care system.
After an intense search to know God and listen for the Truth of my still small voice within I developed a discernment to know truth when I heard or read it and to also know when someone was not communicating Truth.
For decades I have known who would be President months before the election. In 2000 I was confused as I “knew” Gore would win but that Bush would be President. In January 1980 I “knew” Reagan would be President. I got active, represented Jefferson County at the State Democratic Convention. I “knew” that I had to go to Washington, D.C. to do what I could to prevent my “knowing” vision from happening. I have always been very concerned with the state of our world and have searched my entire life for the answers to our greatest challenges as humanity, in our time, faces extinction as have hundreds of thousands of species already.
The stack of untruths is huge, goes back more than a century and is so pervasive as to cause me great angst. I saw that the majority of Americans were too busy with their own lives and economic challenges to dig for the truth when fed fear and such refined lies. Tell a big enough lie over and over and it will be believed by a lot of people.
This century plus accumulation of lies created a foundation of belief systems as to be almost impossible to penetrate with just one truth about a specific issue. To accept a truth that could expose a greater body of lies seemed too overwhelming. My sister does not want to hear about humanity and earth’s major challenges and threats to continued existence even though not knowing could kill her.
A book title that gives us a clue is: “If You Meet Buddha on the Road Kill Him” Most individuals do not want to hear the truth, especially about themselves. Buddha’s Being reflects truth back to the one looking and the immediate inclination is to kill the truth speaker/revealer especially if that truth reflects a part of self that is in denial.
The past twenty-eight years it has been especially difficult to maintain hope as the stack of lies seemed to grow exponentially to climax in the loss of our principle founding documents upon which our Constitutional Democracy were founded. As the Constitution was redacted; the Bill of Rights shredded; Posse Comitates and Habeas corpus cancelled; International Treaties ignored; the Geneva Convention shredded and the gap between the wealthiest and the poorest became exponentially larger than ever before.
It was with alarm that I understood that the USA PATRIOT ACT and the Thought Crime Act* can name me as a home grown terrorist and thus an Enemy Combatant that could be disappeared upon the whim of the President or Vice President acting in his name as Dick Cheney has. My speaking truth to power by submitting official comments on behalf of salmon, Wetlands and Puget Sound to change government policies and communicating via prose, essays, letters to Editors and Congress is illegal.
The House voted 400 to 4 to approve the Thought Crime Act. I could not believe they are so ignorant of history’s lessons. Many have violated their oath of office for not defending or protecting the Constitution from threats foreign or (especially) domestic.
Impeachment is a cure our forefathers wove into the fabric of our Constitutional Democracy for just such a time when the Presidency became an all powerful Imperial Dictatorship holding its self above the law while at the same time deconstructing and ripping asunder the founding documents of our Democratic Republic.
For blocking the very process that could have restored our Constitution that has been ripped asunder I hold Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in contempt of Congress and in violation of her oath to defend and protect the Constitution from all enemies foreign and Domestic by “taking impeachment off the table”.
After Apartheid, South Africa created the “Truth and Reconciliation” process to heal past harm so as to be able to forgive and go forward as a Nation. In our Nation the Multi-National Media and other Corporations stand in the way of truth being revealed as their profits depend upon truth not being known to maximize their profits. As we all know Profit is King in so called “Free Market Capitalism”. The WTO claims a Global Constitution based on trade’s profits that cancels national, tribal and local sovereignty.
In war Truth is always the first victim. To come to peace Truth must be spoken and that is a Revolutionary Act. To replace armies with conflict mediation trained Peacemakers will take a Revolution of Truth and We the People demanding that it be so.

“In an age of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
- George Orwell
© Copyright Theresa Marie K. Gandhi August 8, 2008

Yesterday's Words - Today Letter from Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s “Experiments in Truth” and life have guided me since 1983 to always “stay on spiritual truth” i.e. Satyagraha and to speak and act non-violently, i.e. Ahimsa.

“After I am gone no single person will be able completely to represent me.
But a little bit of me will live in many of you.
As you have given me the privilege of speaking to you I am laying my heart bare.
If you find me speaking without reserve, and if you think that I seem to transgress the limits that courtesy imposes upon me, pardon me for the Liberty I may be taking.
If nonviolence is to be evolved in individuals, societies or nations truth has to be told, how ever harsh or unpopular it may appear to be for the moment.
One thing is certain if the mad race for armaments continues;
it is bound to result in the slaughter such has never occurred in history.
If there is a Victor left, the very victory will be living death for the nation that emerges victorious.
There is no escape from the impending doom save through a bold and unconditional
acceptance of a nonviolent method with all its glorious implications.
Democracy can only be saved through nonviolence, i.e. ahimsa.
My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest should have the same opportunity as the strongest.
This can never happen except through nonviolence.
In nonviolence, the masses have a weapon, which enables a child, a woman or even a decrepit old man to resist the mightiest government successfully.
If your spirit is strong, mere lack of physical strength ceases to be a handicap.
A nonviolent revolution is not a program of seizure of power.
The first condition of nonviolence is justice all-around in every department of life.
If one does not practice nonviolence in one’s personal relationships with others
and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken.
Nonviolence to be a creed has to be all-pervasive.
I cannot be nonviolent about one activity of mine and violent about others.
That would be a policy, not a life force.
Nonviolence cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed or a passion.
My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness
of a single wrong or a single misery.
But it is not possible for me to mend every wrong or hold myself free
of blame for all the wrong I see. An unjust law its self is a species of violence.
There may be far more violence in the slow torture of men and animals, the starvation and exploitation to which they are subjected out of shellfish greed,
the wanton humiliation and oppression of the weak and the killing of their self respect that we witness all-around us today, than in the mere taking of life.
A man or a woman with a passion expresses it in every little act.
Therefore, he or she who is possessed by nonviolence
will express it in the family circle, in their dealings with neighbors, in business and in their dealings with opponents.
During my experience, I have not yet come across a situation when I had to say I was helpless, that I had no remedy in terms of nonviolence.
As the means so is the end. The means may be like unto a seed, the end to a tree;
there is just the same inviolable connection between the means and the ends as there
is between a seed and a tree. We reap exactly as we sow.
What you do may seem insignificant,
but it is very important that you do it.” - M.K Gandhi