Biography:Greta Woodrew

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Greta Woodrew
Born(1929-12-16)December 16, 1929
DiedSeptember 1, 2010(2010-09-01) (aged 80)
Resting placeGreensboro Hebrew Cemetery, Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina, USA

Greta Andron Woodrew Smolowe (December 16, 1929 – September 1, 2010) was an author, psychic and healer,[1] and purported contactee of extraterrestrial beings.[2] Her books, On a Slide of Light and Memories of Tomorrow, and newsletter, The Woodrew Update,[3] addressed her purported alien encounters, while her foundation, the Space Technology and Research Foundation (STAR), was established to carry out philanthropic work, including broadcasting messages she received from alien life;[3] Woodrew would later become a donor to philanthropic organizations like Conservation International[4] and the Sierra Club Foundation.[5] Woodrew also published a children's book in her lifetime entitled Hear the Colors! See the Music!: A Tomorrow Book for Today.[6] Some of her papers are held in the Department of Special Collections and University Archives at Stanford University.[7]

Personal life

Woodrew was married to Richard E. "Dick" Smolowe. They had four children together, Allan, Jonathan, Jill, and Ann.[8] Woodrew was the granddaughter of Alexander Schlang and Blanche Cohen-Schlang-Nirenstein, the latter of whom was deeply involved in social and charity work in New York.[9] Woodrew was the great-granddaughter of David and Wilhemina Cohen, the former of whom was a founder and funder of the Eldridge Street Synagogue in New York City.[10][9]

Education

Woodrew attended the University of Florida, graduating with honors and a B.A. in 1951. She was the first woman to graduate from the university's four-year program and to receive the Phi Beta Kappa Achievement Award and Dr. Allen's Award for Excellence.[11] In 1979, William Penn College granted Woodrew an honorary Doctor of Laws degree.[11]

Contact with extraterrestrials

Woodrew claimed to first come into contact with "extraterrestrial intelligences" in 1976. In her 1981 book On A Slide of Light, she described her encounters as taking place initially "under laboratory conditions with a leading medical doctor and scientist." It was her "impression that once [she] left the lab, [she] would also leave [the extraterrestrial intelligences] behind, but this was not to be the case. Once [she] exercised [her] free will in allowing extraterrestrials into [her] life, they quickly became a regular part of [her] experienced reality. [She] could be sitting at [her] desk at, say, 10 a.m., getting ready to phone a client about a prospect, [she] dialed the number and once again glanced at the clock, and to her confusion, it would read 10:45..."(The Saucer Life podcast; March 18, 2020 episode; 7:10)

Woodrew attributed these time discrepancies to a "continuing dialogue with extraterrestrial intelligences transcending time and space and the third dimension." (The Saucer Life podcast; March 18, 2020 episode; 7:54) The beings with which Woodrew claimed she had contact with were supposedly from another solar system located astronomically on the Messier list at M-92. The place of origin, Woodrew claimed, was called Ogatta,[12] "part of a binary, or twin star, system, which comprises what they call a jorpa, and we call a solar system, of five planets in another galaxy." Woodrew claimed the five planets were called Ogatta, Arshan, Arka, Mennon, and Tchowvie. (The Saucer Life podcast; March 18, 2020 episode; 8:26)

The "leading medical doctor and scientist" through whom Woodrew had initial extraterrestrial contact was doctor, medical inventor, and medical and parapsychological researcher Andrija Puharich.[13] The experiments the two undertook, leading to Woodrew's alien contacts, took place at what Puharich called Lab Nine on his estate in Ossining, New York.[13][14]

During her lifetime, Woodrew also had contact with author and psychical researcher Harold Morrow Sherman; she and husband Dick Smolowe visited Sherman at least once at his home, Ark Haven, in Arkansas.[15]

Healing abilities

Woodrew claimed to be a healer, with extraterrestrials' healing abilities channeled through her. One such instance of healing was for ballerina Virginia Rich Barnett for whom Woodrew, "in minutes, cured [...] of a knee injury so severe doctors told her she would never even exercise again, let alone dance."[16]

The Woodrew Update

Woodrew and husband Dick Smolowe began their newsletter, The Woodrew Update,[17] in 1980. They continued publishing it until 1997.[6] The publication was national and international, with subscribers from across the United States, Canada, and 14 other countries.[11]

Legacy

The University of Florida offers the Dr. Greta Andron Smolowe Scholarship; she also holds a place in the university's Hall of Fame as First Lady of Student Body Dramatics, Service and Leadership.[11] In addition, the American Biographical Institute honored her for International Contribution to the World of Psi.[11]

Woodrew's North Carolina compound, the home base of her STAR Foundation, became home to Save the Animals Rescue.[18][19] Additionally, her life and career were covered in the March 18, 2020 episode of podcast The Saucer Life.[20] Her books are still in circulation. Woodrew's son, Alan, went on to earn an MBA from Lehigh University, a PhD from the University of Orlando, and an Ed.D. from Barry University. Son Jonathan and daughter Jill attended Princeton,[21] and daughter Ann graduated from Dartmouth. Jill became a journalist, holding the post of foreign affairs writer for Time[22] and Newsweek. She also served as a senior writer for People[23] and published two books, Four Funerals and a Wedding: Resilience in a Time of Grief[24][25] and An Empty Lap: One Couple’s Journey to Parenthood.[23]

Bibliography

  • Hear the Colors! See the Music! A Tomorrow Book for Today (1992), Dublan Press
  • Memories of Tomorrow (1988), Doubleday[26]
  • On A Slide of Light (1981), MacMillan Publishers[27]

References

  1. ↑ Andron, Ben; Andron, Dr Michael (August 7, 2012). The Essential Guide to Energy Healing: Harness the Power of Natural Healing Energy to Relieve Pain and Illness. Penguin. ISBN 9781615642632. https://books.google.com/books?id=QdplUEXitCkC&q=greta+andron&pg=PT365. 
  2. ↑ Lewis, James R. (January 1, 1995). The Gods Have Landed: New Religions from Other Worlds. SUNY Press. ISBN 9780791423295. https://books.google.com/books?id=nZebj4m6ev4C&q=greta+woodrew+obituary&pg=PA9. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Heard, Alex (January 4, 2000). Apocalypse Pretty Soon: Travels in End-Time America. Doubleday. ISBN 9780385498524. https://books.google.com/books?id=v1-UDwAAQBAJ&q=greta+woodrew%2C+S.T.A.R.+Foundation&pg=PA131. 
  4. ↑ "Annual report". www.conservation.org. 2010. https://www.conservation.org/docs/default-source/japan-documents/ci_annualreport10.pdf?sfvrsn=ab9894e7_2. Retrieved 2020-05-10. 
  5. ↑ "2005 Annual Report". The Sierra Club Foundation. https://nofrakkingconsensus.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/2005-sierra-club-annual-report.pdf. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Atwater, P. M. H. (November 6, 2003). The New Children and Near-Death Experiences. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9781591438601. https://books.google.com/books?id=tVkoDwAAQBAJ&q=greta+woodrew%2C+ufo&pg=PT270. 
  7. ↑ "Guide to the Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Papers M2476". http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/stanford/mss/m2476.pdf. 
  8. ↑ "Why I call my Dad even if it's not Father's Day | Fulton Presbyterian Manor". https://www.fultonpresbyterianmanor.org/why-i-call-my-dad-even-if-its-not-fathers-day1. 
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Blanche Cohen Nirenstein | Jewish Women's Archive". https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/nirenstein-blanche-cohen. 
  10. ↑ "David Cohen: A Founder and His Legacy". August 13, 2014. https://www.eldridgestreet.org/blog/david-cohen-a-founder-and-his-legacy/. 
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 "Dr. Greta Andron Smolowe Scholarship". https://www.uff.ufl.edu/giving-opportunities/011635-dr-greta-andron-smolowe-scholarship/. 
  12. ↑ "Book Reviews, Sites, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction". https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/greta-woodrew/on-a-slide-of-light/. 
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Read Cosmic Communications From The Orgattans Online by Dr Ian Gordon | Books | Free 30-day Trial | Scribd. https://www.scribd.com/book/163878001/Cosmic-Communications-From-The-Orgattans. 
  14. ↑ "Plan Nine From Outer Space". March 15, 1996. https://www.urigeller.com/plan-nine-outer-space/. 
  15. ↑ "Chronology – Harold Sherman". https://haroldsherman.com/chronology/. 
  16. ↑ Adair, Virginia (2001). New Daughters of the Oracle. New Paradigm Books. ISBN 978-1-892138-03-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=cYPM9Y8AtlkC. Retrieved 2023-09-24. 
  17. ↑ "UFOs and the Extraterrestrial Contact Movement". http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/ufologia/Contactee%20lists-3.pdf. 
  18. ↑ "STAR (Save The Animals Rescue) Ranch in Waynesville, North Carolina". https://www.adoptapet.com/adoption_rescue/79392-star-save-the-animals-rescue-ranch-waynesville-north-carolina. 
  19. ↑ "Star Ranch Animal Rescue | A refuge for abused and neglected horses in Haywood County, North Carolina". http://star-ranch-rescue.com/. 
  20. ↑ "Why do Bird(-like Aliens) Suddenly Appear?". March 18, 2020. https://the-saucer-life.pinecast.co/episode/978d07fd-9ff1-4db5-9eeb-1e3c4f3245b8. 
  21. ↑ "Jill Smolowe '77". https://sheroars.princeton.edu/speaker/jill-smolowe-77/. 
  22. ↑ "Nine Hard-Won Lessons About Grief". Time. https://time.com/63627/nine-hard-won-lessons-about-grief/. 
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 "Nonfiction Book Review: An Empty Lap: One Couple's Journey to Parenthood by Jill Smolowe, Author Pocket Books $23 (288p) ISBN 978-0-671-00436-1". Publishersweekly.com. 1997-11-03. https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-671-00436-1. Retrieved 2020-05-10. 
  24. ↑ "Jill Smolowe". http://www.rowanglassworks.org/jill-smolowe.html. 
  25. ↑ "Four Funerals and a Wedding: Jill Smolowe on Resiliency". http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/love-and-gratitude/201406/four-funerals-and-wedding-jill-smolowe-resiliency. 
  26. ↑ Memories of Tomorrow (9780385238878): Woodrew, Greta: Books. Amazon.com. June 1988. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385238878/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0. Retrieved 2020-05-10. 
  27. ↑ Woodrew, Greta (1981). On a Slide of Light (9780026313902): Woodrew, Greta: Books. Macmillan. ISBN 0026313901. 



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