About
Carolyn Cobelo is a highly regarded healer, channel, and spiritual teacher who is the founder and president of Akasha Entertainment, the world's premiere metaphysical media company dedicated to expanding consciousness. In addition to founding two metaphysical film festivals, Carolyn has written seven books, including "The Spring of Hope: Messages from Mother Mary." Her latest books are the Akasha Sacred Travel series, including Asia, Hawaii, and Europe. She is an award winning documentary filmmaker, producing the SACRED SPACE series of films, including "The Magical Land of Hawaii." She has also invented a spiritual board game "Avalon: Temple of Connection." She currently resides in Bali and Maui, Hawaii.
The Sons of Godwine: Part Two of The Last Great Saxon Earls
Description
<p>Emerging from the long shadow cast by his formidable father, Harold Godwineson showed himself to be a worthy successor to the Earldom of Wessex. In the following twelve years, he became the King's most trusted advisor, practically taking the reins of government into his own hands. And on Edward the Confessor's death, Harold Godwineson mounted the throne—the first king of England not of royal blood. Yet Harold was only a man, and his rise in fortune was not blameless. Like any person aspiring to power, he made choices he wasn't particularly proud of. Unfortunately, those closest to him sometimes paid the price of his fame.<br /><br />This is a story of Godwine's family as told from the viewpoint of Harold and his younger brothers. Queen Editha, known for her Vita Ædwardi Regis, originally commissioned a work to memorialize the deeds of her family, but after the Conquest historians tell us she abandoned this project and concentrated on her husband, the less dangerous subject. In THE SONS OF GODWINE and FATAL RIVALRY, I am telling the story as it might have survived had she collected and passed on the memoirs of her tragic brothers.<br /><br />This book is part two of The Last Great Saxon Earls series. Book one, GODWINE KINGMAKER, depicted the rise and fall of the first Earl of Wessex who came to power under Canute and rose to preeminence at the beginning of Edward the Confessor's reign. Unfortunately, Godwine's misguided efforts to champion his eldest son Swegn recoiled on the whole family, contributing to their outlawry and Queen Editha's disgrace. Their exile only lasted one year and they returned victorious to London, though it was obvious that Harold's career was just beginning as his father's journey was coming to an end.<br /><br />Harold's siblings were all overshadowed by their famous brother; in their memoirs we see remarks tinged sometimes with admiration, sometimes with skepticism, and in Tostig's case, with jealousy. We see a Harold who is ambitious, self-assured, sometimes egocentric, imperfect, yet heroic. His own story is all about Harold, but his brothers see things a little differently. Throughout, their observations are purely subjective, and witnessing events through their eyes gives us an insider’s perspective.<br /><br />Harold was his mother's favorite, confident enough to rise above petty sibling rivalry but Tostig, next in line, was not so lucky. Harold would have been surprised by Tostig's vindictiveness, if he had ever given his brother a second thought. And that was the problem. Tostig's love/hate relationship with Harold would eventually destroy everything they worked for, leaving the country open to foreign conquest. This subplot comes to a crisis in book three of the series, FATAL RIVALRY.</p>
Story Behind The Book
Visionary spiritual teacher Carolyn Cobelo has helped thousands of people all over the world connect to their Highest Selves. The author of four books, Carolyn is now located in Carmel, California, and is the Founder and Director of Akasha Entertainment, LLC, a company devoted to uplifting consciousness through films, festivals, and cutting-edge media. She developed the world's first metaphysical board game, "Avalon: Temple of Connection."
Carolyn's mission is to support the demand for truth that is increasing on Earth and to help us pass easily through the transformation of the planet during the 2012 shift. As a spiritual pioneer, Carolyn has been at the forefront of consciousness for decades, and has been channeling 2012 material from her beloved spiritual guides, Mother Mary, and Zarathustra, since the mid 1980's. She has led sacred pilgrimages to Mayan Temples and holy sites worldwide for over 20 years; and has written the book "The Power of Sacred Space: Exploring Ancient Ceremonial Sites' which has been a consistent seller worldwide for the last decade.
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