The Yellow Rose
Book III of the Trilogy ''Falling, Dancing, Flying''
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"Falling, Dancing, Flying, a trilogy" A grand, sweeping, deeply symbolic love story. Book One, the pristine Albedo of The White Rose, Book Two, the bloody Rubedo of The Red Rose, and Book Three, the death throes of the Citrinitas of The Yellow Rose.
The story spans the years from 1880 to 1997. A story of spirituality, sexuality, and reality in the most immediate moment and in the historical moment, as told by Mary, Michelle, Blaise, Cecilia, Estelle, and Melissa.
Book Three, "The Yellow Rose" from "Falling, Dancing, Flying" a trilogy, a story inspired by actual events, an allegory of a journey of Individuation. The trilogy chronicles the alchemical transformation of Mary Bernard and her search for enlightenment. A story within a story told through her journal passages, letters, reminiscences, dialogue, and dreams. A deeply spiritual story taking the reader magnificently into the bright light of enlightenment while not fearing the shadow of that light. The story looks intently at the complexities of Lesbian love and does not shy away from those complexities.
Book Three, "The Yellow Rose"
Mary Bernard travels on board the QEII to England to be with her spiritual master. Ill during the passage across the Atlantic, she is gravely ill when the QEII arrives in Southampton, England. She is taken to a London hospital, where it is determined that she must be returned to the United States immediately. Much to her dismay, she is put on a plane and flown to Boston where she is hospitalized.
Deep in the death throes of the Citrinitas, her disease is finally stabilized, but in denial about her disease, she decides to go home to Colorado.
Amid the rubble of her life and the profound depression caused by her disease and not seeing her spiritual master, Mary falls in love for a third and final time.
Jenenne Castor-Thompson holds a BS from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico and a MA from Holy Names University in Oakland, California. Ms. Castor-Thompson spent her career in health care management and consulting in various health-care institutions in the western United States. She is now writing full-time. She lives in southwestern New Mexico among her cactus and her stones and is an aficionado of the sky and the sunsets.
More information about Ms. Castor-Thompson can be found at her web site:
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Book Three, "The Yellow Rose" from "Falling, Dancing, Flying" a trilogy, a story inspired by actual events, an allegory of a journey of Individuation. The trilogy chronicles the alchemical transformation of Mary Bernard and her search for enlightenment. A story within a story told through her journal passages, letters, reminiscences, dialogue, and dreams. A deeply spiritual story taking the reader magnificently into the bright light of enlightenment while not fearing the shadow of that light. The story looks intently at the complexities of Lesbian love and does not shy away from those complexities.
Book Three, "The Yellow Rose"
Mary Bernard travels on board the QEII to England to be with her spiritual master. Ill during the passage across the Atlantic, she is gravely ill when the QEII arrives in Southampton, England. She is taken to a London hospital, where it is determined that she must be returned to the United States immediately. Much to her dismay, she is put on a plane and flown to Boston where she is hospitalized.
Deep in the death throes of the Citrinitas, her disease is finally stabilized, but in denial about her disease, she decides to go home to Colorado.
Amid the rubble of her life and the profound depression caused by her disease, and not seeing her spiritual master, Mary falls in love for a third and final time.
Book Three, "The Yellow Rose" is now available for purchase from Xlibris.
About the Author
Jenenne Castor-Thompson is the author of 5 novels, two volumes of poetry and one non-fiction book. She lives in northern California where she waits each year for the return of the Monarch butterfly.
Castor-Thompson has a B.S. from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico and an M.A. from Holy Names University in Oakland, California.
More information about Castor-Thompson can be found at her web site: www.jenenne.com
Castor-Thompson is not now and has never been affiliated with the Golden Sufi Center in northern California.