I met Elisabet Sahtouris 1n June 1989 at the Seeking the True Meaning of Peace Conference in Costa Rica. I read her book Gaia, the Human Journey from Chaos to Cosmos and was mesmerized with the story of how we evolved and were like caterpillers becoming butterflies!
When at the United Nations Earth Summit in 1992
I was Master of Ceremonies for the Campaign for the Earth tent at the Global Forum, I heard her again & we became wonderful friends.I had never met someone who could articulate so clearly the need to cooperate.
She came and visited me in New York when I first was starting Airline Ambassadors and we traveled togeher to Washington DC for Clinton’s first inauguration. We volunteered at the Homeless Ball.
She eventually talked me into joining her in Washington DC where we both rented a one bedroom apartment (hers on the 4th floor and mine on the 8th, at 1500 Mass Ave. W helped with the first Prayer Vigil for the Earth in 1993 Thomas Banyaca of the Hopi stayed in my apartment, and Elisabet put up a dozen grandmothers from many tribes! My good friend Annette Lantos hosted a Congressional Lunchon for the women! A few years later (after I got married in 1997) we rented apartments near each other in Burlingame CA. She went on to grow her fame as a evolution biologist and I focussed on building Airline Ambassadors International. She lived in Spain, Portugal and Hawaii, and just last year gave me a beautiful acknowledgement for my book, Wings of Love.
We share the same birthday on January 21 so last year she came to visit me in El Salvador in 2024 and she said after the reception we gave for her when she met some of the President’s family she said “there comes a time when you know your work is done”.
I called her in early November just to check in. and I could hardly believe what I was hearing when she said she was in the process of concious dying.
She wrote to about the most important award she had received in her entire life: “In a ceremony on Oct, 27th, I had a royal Samoan lineage title bestowed on me. It was an amazingly deep and loving ceremony, run by Samoan high chiefs of both genders, as well as the head of the entire lineage dating back to the king who united all the warring factions of Samoa.. Smaller event physically, but same in essence as that just bestowed on King Charles in Samoa itself. This was the frst time such a title has been bestowed by Samoans here in Hawaii. The brown royal lei around my neck weighs about ten pounds. (in picture to left.)Man holding my book lower left is a high chief, as is the lady holding my hand on my left.. Tusi, head of local family and highest chief of his whole lineage, is to my right; his wife Linda directly behind me.”.
Soon afterwards she intuited in meditation it was her time to leave the earthly plane..the date she got inwardly was was Nov 20, 2024. She asked for a sign that this was correct and she soon learned her Soul had a sence of humor as when when she finished her meditation and opened her computer and the first email announced “Its Time to Say Goodbye”.
So she began the process of closing out her life….giving away her clothes, completing her will. etc. I called her on Nov 18th and she said she was proud of herself that she had finished nearly everything. She was turning off her computer the next day and preparing to “get her wings”.
I was worried that it would not happen exactly as she planned, so shared with her the story about Sai Baba visiting a very high disciple on his deathbed. Sai Baba touched him and made him only slightly better. The other disciples said “How cruel Baba! Either heal him or let him go!” and Baba replied “You have no idea how great a gift I have given this dear one who is so close to perfection. By allowing him to remain on earth for two more weeks and burn the remaining karma, he will be in a Paradise beyond your imagination.”
Elisabet was not at all happy with that and she said other friends were cheering her on while I was dooming her to more days of suffering…..I totally didnt mean it that way, I and thought about her constantly on the 20th.
On a hunch I called her on November 23rd and she answered!!! She sounded very weak, but she said
” Nancy, I have seen the other side and it is BEAUTIFUL!!!! Its like Diamonds! The Angels who I have come to know won’t let me stay there until the body finishes its dying process…..but just you know…it is so, so VERY BEAUTFUL!
Elisabet got her wings on Dec 1st.. 10 days after she thought….but I am sure she is in a Paradise beyond our Wildest Imagination!
See this short video below compiled by our mutual freind Daniel Sussot!
Her son Phil is managing her website at https://www.sahtouris.com Get her last book below:
Fly like an Eagle!VISTA final as published by Upaya House
Kudos to my dearest friend to promised to meet me when my time comes…her friendship, legacy and inspiration have helped everyone who knew her!
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