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ASPEN AUTHORS WIN SECOND PRESTIGIOUS BOOK AWARD IN AS MANY WEEKS
June 19, 2026. ASPEN, CO |
“Meeting Your Magnificence: 111 Ways to Live from Your Higher Self” by Aspen authors Carolyn Golbus and Gary Gleason, has been named Best Inspirational Nonfiction Book 2026 by the New Generation Indie Book Awards. This is the largest international book awards program for indie authors and publishers.
ASPEN AUTHORS WIN PRESTIGIOUS BOOK AWARD
June 1, 2026. ASPEN, CO |
“Meeting Your Magnificence: 111 Ways to Live from Your Higher Self” by Aspen authors Carolyn Golbus and Gary Gleason has won a Nautilus Award in the Gift & Specialty Books category. Nautilus Book Awards honor books that support conscious living, green values, wellness, social justice and spiritual growth.
COLORADO COUPLE TO LAUNCH NEW BOOK SERIES
June 26, 2024 . ASPEN, CO |
Aspen residents Gary Gleason and Carolyn Golbus this week announced the launch of their new book, “Meeting Your Magnificence: 111 Ways to Live from Your Higher Self”, which will be released this fall by Dallas-based Brown Books Publishing Group. This is the first book in a three-part series on spiritual awakening.
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Colorado Couple Launches New Meeting Your Magnificence Book Series
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Book Summary |
Meeting Your Magnificence:
111 Ways to Live from Your Higher Self
What if the answers exist not in the world around you – but inside you?
Life coach and ordained minister Carolyn Golbus and floral photographer Gary Gleason come together in a collaboration full of love and spiritual wisdom to help readers live from their higher selves, honor their desires, and experience true joy.
Each page-long chapter contains a spiritual message accompanied by immediately-applicable exercises and mesmerizing original floral photography, all of which remind us to pause, look closely, and realize – you are exactly as you are meant to be. A guidebook as insightful as it is visually stunning, Meeting Your Magnificence: 111 Ways to Live from Your Higher Self is a must-have companion for modern day readers on the path of spiritual awakening.
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Sopris Sun Article | Aspen author’s spiritual legacy shines after tragic bike accident
A unexpected turn of events on July 4 led to Carolyn Golbus’ death, casting a shadow over what was meant to be a celebratory time as they launched their first book. This article details and honors the decade long process of bringing Meeting your Magnificence and a spiritual legacy. “Gleason is now left to carry forward their shared vision and Golbus’s legacy of spiritual awakening”
| Gary Gleason
Gary Gleason is a writer, photographer, musician, master metaphysician, polyglot, entrepreneur, and athlete. He helped photograph, edit and produce the Nautilus-Award winning Meeting Your Magnificence: 111 Ways to Live from Your Higher Self, and recently completed the manuscript for Meeting Your Magnificence: 111 Ways to Love Yourself. Over the course of his world travels he has developed a photographic style uniquely his own focused on beauty in small and conspicuous subjects so easily overlooked. Much of his work is captured using iPhone and other small digital technologies. He thinks of his work as making paintings with a camera. He has been honored to collaborate with Carolyn on the Meeting Your Magnificence series, and to carry forward its simple yet powerful wisdom. He is also grateful for the healing gifts he is able to now share with the world.
Artist’s Statement
Carolyn Golbus |
Carolyn Golbus, MhD (10/2/1963-7/12/2024) was a musician, energy healer, life coach, and the author of the book series, “Meeting Your Magnificence”. A 1987 graduate of the University of California/Los Angeles (UCLA), Carolyn was an ordained minister and was been certified by the Life Coach Institute of Orange County. She received her Doctorate of Metaphysics & Healing from Delphi University of Spiritual Studies in McCaysville, Georgia in 2024. She lived with her life partner, Gary Gleason, in Aspen Colorado until her accidental death following a tragic bike accident on Independence Day 2024.
Author’s Statement
Tragic Note |
These press materials were developed in June 2024 with intended release following the Independence Day Celebrations in the United States.
On July 4, author Carolyn Golbus was in a bicycle accident in Aspen, Colorado and subsequently died of her injuries.
The Aspen Daily News ran this frontpage story about Carolyn and her remarkable life entitled “Seeking Strength over a Life Cut Short. ”