Anne Wilson Schaef PhD DHL - There Will Be a Thousand Years of Peace and Prosperity, and They Will Be Ushered in by the Women – Version 1 & Version 2: The Essential Role of Women in Finding Personal and Planetary Solutions

There Will be a Thousand
Years of Peace and
Prosperity, and They
Will be Ushered in
by the Women

The Essential Role of Women in Finding
Personal and Planetary Solutions

Version 1

Anne Wilson Schaef, PhD, DHL

author of

Womens RealityAn Emerging Fem ale
System in a White Male Soc iety

Meditations for Women Who Do Too Much

New York Times best seller When Society Becomes an Ad dict

and others

There Will be a Thousand Years of Peace and Prosperity, and They Will be Ushered in by the WomenVersion 1

The Essential Role of Women in Finding Personal and Planetary Solutions

Copyright 2016 Anne Wilson Schaef, PhD, DHL.

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CONTENTS

First, I want to thank the great Lakota spiritual leader Frank Fools Crow for the title of this book. He was my teacher, my mentor, and one of my dearest friends.

In the early 1970s, Fools Crow said the following to me as he presented me with a Lakota pipe to carry / be responsible for and gave me my Lakota nameand so very much more.

Your name is Sacred White Eagle Woman (Wian Wambliska Wakan).

The core of the name is Sacred White Eagle. The eagle flies higher than any other animal, has an encompassing perspective, and sees more. This is very important for you because you need to see the much larger picture. And it is also important that the word Woman be a part of your name. It is essential that you are a woman and are called Woman for the work you will be doing. Never forget that you are Sacred White Eagle W oman .

It was later in the 1970s when he said to me, There will be a thousand years of peace and prosperity, and they will be ushered in by the women.

I knew then that these were important words, and I have grown into a greater understanding of their meaning over the last thirty-five years.

Only recently did I put these two experiences together.

When I realized that it was again time for me to write another book about and for women, I knew that he had given me the title years ago. I am grateful for all he taught me and continues to teach me. And, as is the way with the teaching of our elders, I knew that even more would be revealed from the many things he taught me.

He also said, At my first vision quest when I was nine years old, I was told that I must bring healing to the white nations. He then tearfully added, I have failed. And now I am giving this responsibility to you.

I remember thinking, No wonder you failed. You dont have a white mind, and white minds are very, very tr icky.

So maybe this white-mind-trained, Cherokee-souled woman is ready and can take this issue on and move things along a bit.

For me, at this point in my life, this book is an important piece of the promise I made to him and perhaps a step in the right direction to try to do just that. And, I am sure, as it is said, more will be revealed.

I also want to acknowledge the hundreds of women and men of all colors and nationalities from all walks of life who have honored me by sharing the most intimate details of their lives with me. They have struggled to delve deep into themselves, shedding their cultural brainwashing as they strived to become fuller persons. Participating with their struggles is a constant inspiration to me. All are trying to develop clearer knowings of who they can be and build a better world for those who come after them. I acknowledge all who have contributed to this book and hope that it honors every one of them.

I also want to give special mention to the men who actively share my life: Pete, my manager; Roddy, my son; Chuck, my ex-husband; and Joe Hughes, and Scott and Nathaniel Cantor. They have taught me again and again that this current TMMS (Technological, Mechanistic, Materialistic System) is not just violent toward and alien to women, it is equally destructive to those who created it and have the assigned power in it.

Also, I want especially to thank Carol Gordon, Josephine Potter, and others who read the preliminary manuscript and gave helpful editorial advice.

And last and certainly not least, I want to acknowledge the young women born into a post-second-wave feminist world who know that they have rights and unique contributions to make as women. Annika, Sidney, and Grace, from three different countries, who have grown up in the International Living in Process Network and now participate as adults. The young women of England and Hawaii, who take responsibility for speaking with a clear feminist voice. And, indeed, a generation of young women who know that their identity comes from within and that they live in the context of the whole.

These young women give me much hope for finding new paths for humanity on this planet.