Dare you read Edward?
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Go no further if all you want is comfortable escapism. I hope you have an enquiring mind, or, at least an open mind; if you do, then Edward is a treat and one you will not quickly forget.
There is a basic question for all of us, what happens when we die? At some time we all ask that. What is the meaning of Life? and again, what is the meaning of Reality? Edward will open your mind to some answers to these, after all, they are the very fabric of the story. In this book past-life regression is no mere literary device, it is an experience. As Edward's story emerges I do nothing less than put you in the shoes of Edward Stafford, the last great Plantagenet prince. |
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Before Edward I didn't know how the medieval mind worked, how it valued honour and how it valued 'relics', not only in the Catholic Church, but right up to royalty. It isn't easy for the modern mind to understand this, even professional historians fail. Experiencing Edward, this was not my problem; what I had to do was simply open that experience to the 21st century.
I want you to come with me as I question and explore, but you don’t have to do anything other than follow the story. If you let it, Edward will unfurl itself before you, each vision, each interlude, carrying you on to the next. Only at the end of the last chapter will you be asked a question you shouldn't avoid, even then, it is up to you how you answer it.
There are upward of half a dozen major challenges to historians I found in the factual history of Edward, see the Synopsis. These can be proven, they cannot honestly be denied, and they should rock conventional understanding. Such things matter to some people, but they are not why I wrote the book. Maybe 'History' doesn’t matter to you, any more than it did to me before Edward, for me it has always been emotions and people that matter; yet, funnily enough, it is the emotions of the people of the past which made History, they made us and the World we live in today.
If Henry Tudor, with all the illegitimacy of his ancestry, and his poverty, both in honour and in money, had not come to the throne, England would have been a very different place. Without Henry VIII's abolition of the Catholic Church, and all the upheavals of the 1600s, the British empires which emerged in the 1700s and 1800s either would not have happened or would have been very different. This history of England has changed the World from one end to the other - and not always for the better.
These things make Edward compelling, but do not forget Edward himself: if what Angharad and I found in the Box is to be believed, he lifted his very personal story to Eternity.
The story would never have happened without the basic elements at the start. You need the right circumstances, of course. You need the right people; and an enquiring mind, one once started that won’t let go, like a terrier after a rabbit. You need a sharp perception, energy, a discipline and training in analysis. Of course, you don’t need these, your need is that I should have had them, together with the ability to set the story before you.
I hope you find the results worthy of your attention.
It is all very nice to receive favourable comments, see Reviews page, but what is really interesting is what people want to know, the questions they ask. Since writing it I have been asked many questions, in radio interviews and blogging. I can say with assurance, Edward can change lives.
I want you to come with me as I question and explore, but you don’t have to do anything other than follow the story. If you let it, Edward will unfurl itself before you, each vision, each interlude, carrying you on to the next. Only at the end of the last chapter will you be asked a question you shouldn't avoid, even then, it is up to you how you answer it.
There are upward of half a dozen major challenges to historians I found in the factual history of Edward, see the Synopsis. These can be proven, they cannot honestly be denied, and they should rock conventional understanding. Such things matter to some people, but they are not why I wrote the book. Maybe 'History' doesn’t matter to you, any more than it did to me before Edward, for me it has always been emotions and people that matter; yet, funnily enough, it is the emotions of the people of the past which made History, they made us and the World we live in today.
If Henry Tudor, with all the illegitimacy of his ancestry, and his poverty, both in honour and in money, had not come to the throne, England would have been a very different place. Without Henry VIII's abolition of the Catholic Church, and all the upheavals of the 1600s, the British empires which emerged in the 1700s and 1800s either would not have happened or would have been very different. This history of England has changed the World from one end to the other - and not always for the better.
These things make Edward compelling, but do not forget Edward himself: if what Angharad and I found in the Box is to be believed, he lifted his very personal story to Eternity.
The story would never have happened without the basic elements at the start. You need the right circumstances, of course. You need the right people; and an enquiring mind, one once started that won’t let go, like a terrier after a rabbit. You need a sharp perception, energy, a discipline and training in analysis. Of course, you don’t need these, your need is that I should have had them, together with the ability to set the story before you.
I hope you find the results worthy of your attention.
It is all very nice to receive favourable comments, see Reviews page, but what is really interesting is what people want to know, the questions they ask. Since writing it I have been asked many questions, in radio interviews and blogging. I can say with assurance, Edward can change lives.
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