Welcome to HerStory and a poem

November 19, 2006
Posted by Theresa Marie K. Gandhi

Welcome to my first blog: http://tmgandhi.blogspot.com/ that you can get to via my just launched web page: http://www.tmgandhi.com/. I hope that you will check here often. I live swing shift hours and often work on my computer after 7 PM.
On my web page are two e-books. Love’s Trails and Trials: Knowing Enlightenment! This is a compilation of poems about finding enlightenment, knowing the Presence of God, clarifying my vision and mission and sharing with the reader about how specifically you too can do the processes, i.e. trails and the get through the heartaches, i.e. the trials. After four years of college, the fifth year I did an individual contract that lasted four years being trained to become an ordained Christian Spiritualist Minister. At the time I thought it was for my own enlightenment but after meeting Mother Teresa at Oxford in April 1986 at the Global Survival Conference as the only female Religious leader out of one hundred who met with 100 Parliamentarians and 20 members of the International Press Corps I decided to go ahead and be ordained. My teacher was a Bishop with the Universal Church of the Master chartered in 1908 in Oakland, CA.
I had plans to become a United States Senator, but gave up an internship from a program at the University of Washington to work for Senator Warren Magnusson. It would have taken me across the country for a year from my children who were in grade school. I just couldn’t do that. I did get a law made in 1988 that made October 2, 1988 a National Day of Recognition of Mahatma Gandhi by getting 51% of the House and Senate to be co-sponsors.
At the time I was married to a relative of Mahatma Gandhi and worked at the Gandhi Memorial International Foundation – GMIF. Getting the legislation signed into law got us a photo opportunity with the President in the Oval Office.
Photos with Mother Teresa, in the Oval office with President Reagan and with Shirley Temple Black at the San Francisco unveiling of a statue of Mahatma Gandhi are on my web page, come and take a look.
My other e-book at this time is Truth: a Code of Being. It has a number of poems about my truth on what I see happening in the world. As my webmaster reformatted the chapbook seven poems slipped out and are not a part of the e-book. What follows is one of them, To Seek Truth is to Seek God’s Mind (most of my poems are shorter than this one and some are longer). If you buy the e-book and ask I will send you a file with the seven poems. One of them that didn’t get in is Oprah and Truth and you can find that on my web page.
My letters to the editor are published often and I post to a local list serve here on South Whidbey Island. Most often I will be posting here about current affairs and issues that threaten the survival of our seventh generation. Other e-books, articles and links will be added to my web page through time but for now my webmaster, Debra Malmos, http://www.ifull.com/ has other work she has to focus on.

To Seek Truth is to Seek God’s Mind!

A buckaroo a Texan cowboy dude
with the stroke of a pen –
with the aim of a gun
he’ll smoke ‘em out - no doubt what he’ll do.
A cowboy Prez who speaks his mind
in cowboy lingo with American pride
in reaction to reaction to reaction to need
we go to war with so many in need.
The gloves are off, the planes do fly
with American forces and British fly guys
to avenge a horror forever to live
in humanity’s mind’s eye
we crossed a bridge
from adolescent Republic to a state of mind.
Formed of images burned into mind
as thousands of people vaporized
no bones, no shoes, no bodies, no parts
for grieving loved ones to have a part
but driven deep twin boxes of trade
brought down with box cutter blades.
How to heal this state of mind
from where came the hate
that killed that day?
What is the why and how can we know
what is truth and what is lie-full?
Contradictions from the White House, our Prez
from a reading about a goat when told
his face went blank, long minutes passed
then he flew from danger a credible Prez
not headed to DC but landing at Barksdale
to step to ground to wag a tail
then to Omaha – Strategic Air Command
nuke proof with a General on hand.
Saying the “terrorists” sent threats
with copies of code
to let them know it was as it was told.
Air Force One a target that day
but wait 10 days and its spun back
no threat, no codes – not that way that day
and barely a story of how he ran away.
But on with the war I can’t be against
or my words seditious and I should hush.
Don’t criticize the Prez or his team that wars
until it’s over this thing called war.
To not speak for me is to lie down to die
I can’t stop my knowing
there’s more surprise.
A pacifist heart a pacifist mind
a Gandhi name and a state of mind.
I’ve studied wars histories
censored stories and more
always seeking truth and harmony where
there was conflict, how can we go
on to harmony before there’s no where to go
that’s not downwind of fear, rage and hate
without understanding and truthful debate
denied and shunned and truth not told.
Before courage knows which way to go
wisdom and insight based on knowing what
how and why are we hated and why it’s our biz
to figure it out, do we make it worse
or will we figure it out before it gets worse?
Suppressing truth as politically incorrect
mandating silence with force of law
to silence dissent and give no way to go
into the public to discuss which way to go
is extremely dangerous
as the ways and the means
are the nut - the kernel of which way we go.
If when we get there and we’ve lost
what we fought for then we have lost
our selves an inch at a time.
To grow as a people
each mind needs to see
that manufactured fear, rage and hate
brings death to our shores.
Find out the why, the root, the nut
of where it started and let’s re-think
our level of participation in the public rink.
Get with your community
Tribal nation and close ken
study what is and be for sure
to look for truth not from
corporate media’s gates
but through windows of media
with more than one mind.
To seek out truth is to seek God’s mind.

© Copyright Theresa Marie K. Gandhi October 22, 2006
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