Edith Ellis - An Autobiography of George Washington

Copyright 2005 by CMED Publishing Company

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First published in 2005 by CMED Publishing Company, Oak Park, Illinois:
ISBN: 0-9769680-0-2

Library of Congress Control Number: 2005939085

ISBN 13: 978-1-4019-1182-9
ISBN 10: 1-4019-1182-X

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Contents

I have no doubt that if Edith Ellis were alive today, she would be writing the Acknowledgments rather than me. So on her behalf, let me thank all of you for trusting in her ability to channel the spirit of the Founding Father of America, a risky task to say the least. She would also thank her dear assistant, Harriet von Tobel, who worked at her side for years, organizing all of the information that flowed through Edith on an almost daily basis. Edith, of course, did not live long enough to learn what became of her manuscript. She, no doubt, would be astonished to learn how Harriet cared for this rare piece of channeled history for the rest of her life, always with the intention of finding a way to keep a promise to George Washington to see that his autobiography would be published one day. So I, too, am deeply grateful to Harriet for what in the end became a part of her lifes work to care for this manuscript until she could find a publisher. Not many people would work for decades to see the fulfillment of a promise, much less to a spirit.

In addition to Edith Ellis and Harriet von Tobel, who are the real stars of this project, I consider the following to be the George Washington Team: Jean Etter, a lifelong friend, worked on the Washington project in the early days with me, and without her, I could never have found Harriet von Tobel again, much less acquired the manuscript. Her enthusiasm, devotion, dedication, and outrageous sense of humor did not and will never go unappreciated. Amy Myss, my dear sister-in-law, put in endless hours of editing, typing, and organizing this manuscript. She worked those long, long hours with me as only a sister would. And in one of those fun incidents of synchronicity, Amy, who is a DAR (Daughter of the American Revolution), discovered that her ancestor, Nathaniel West, fought in the American Revolution. My heartfelt love and gratitude goes to Charles and Sue Wells, who did editing, as well as layout and printing in short, they put the book together with diligence and perfection. I relied upon Charles and Sue like a right and left hand, not only because they put the book together, but also because, in addition to being a wonderfully talented printer-designer team, Charles Chauncey Wells is also an American Revolutionary historian and author of Preachers, Patriots, and Plain Folks. As an historian, his expertise was invaluable to me. And to Colleen Daley, who did a brilliant job of cover design, my thanks and loving appreciation for always being there. I am grateful also to Sharon Mullins who spent hours proofreading the text.

And to David Smith, my business partner and dear friend, my thanks for believing in this project and supporting it with unbounded enthusiasm, as is your style. David and I are also very grateful to Hay House, a company that profiles spiritual integrity, and to Reid Tracy, president of Hay House; and Donna Abate, editor of the Hay House Myss Newsletter, for their very generous support of this project and all my projects, for that matter. So on behalf of the George Washington team and myself, we are very, very honored and blessed to be able to make this book available to you after a 60-year-long journey.

Caroline Myss

An Autobiography of George Washington represents a most extraordinary piece of Americas Sacred Contract. The spirit of George Washington made contact with Edith Ellis in 1944, requesting that she take down his autobiography. When her sojourn with George Washington began, Edith was a woman in her mid-70s suffering from severe glaucoma. Harriet von Tobel, who today is a delightful and highly energetic 83-year-old woman, was in her mid-20s in 1944. She provided secretarial assistance for Edith who channeled this remarkable piece of work over the course of 110 days. The Washington autobiography is a masterpiece of intrigue, but equally extraordinary is the content that came through a nearly blind woman who had no formal training in history. I met Harriet in 1983 when the manuscript first arrived at Stillpoint Publishing Company, founded by two colleagues and me in that same year. She submitted the manuscript for consideration for publication and that began an adventure that has gone on for 23 years, leading to the opportunity to finally bring this rare piece of mystical literature to the public. For Harriet, it marks a type of closure on her 60-year commitment to Edith Ellis and George Washington to see that his autobiography made it into Americas public domain.

My own story with An Autobiography of George Washington is its own saga, from working with it 23 years ago in preparation for publication, to losing track of the manuscript for 20 years. Then, once I decided to write The Sacred Contract of America (more about that further on), I lamented its absence like the loss of an old friend. I had lost touch with Harriet, although she no longer had possession of the manuscript either. But as it happened, or as providence would have it, as Washington would say, Jeannie just happened to be traveling with me on one of my out-of-country seminars. Jeannie and I had worked together at the publishing company. She was also a part of the Washington project from the time Harriets manuscript arrived. I mentioned to Jeannie how much I could use the Washington manuscript now that I was going to write