James Dillet Freeman
The Reverend James Dillet Freeman (1912 in Wilmington, Delaware April 9, 2003) was an American Indian poet and a minister of the New Thought denomination Unity .
Freeman was sometimes referred to as the "poet laureate to the moon" because his poems were twice brought to the moon, "a distinction he shares with no other author." [1] His 1941 "Prayer for Protection" was taken aboard Apollo 11 in July 1969 by Lunar Module pilot Buzz Aldrin, and a microfilm of Freeman's 1947 "I Am There" was left on the moon by James B. Irwin on Apollo 15.
Freeman's best known poems include "Blessings for a Marriage" [2] and "The Traveller." [3] The latter poem was written after one of Freeman's friends had died.
While James Dillet Freeman worked for Silent Unity and was a writer for the Unity magazine called Daily Word for most of his adult life, he proudly proclaimed on many occasions that he had never joined Unity, revelling in his independent nature and personifying a spirit present throughout Unity and the New Thought Movement.
Feeman's wife Katherine battled Alzheimer's disease for many years, and Freeman wrote many moving articles about his her illness. After she died, he became the lover of Unity teacher Dr. Alice Cronley. Freeman died April 9, 2003 at the age of 89. [4]
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