Angel Through the Storms
The storms of time ravage our reality, then leave us in our experience,
dislodging us just long enough for us to survey where we are inside and out
and in that time discern where our hearts would have us be.
Whether chaos or peace follows depends on whether we hold onto or let go of our constructs of the past.
Riveting, multilayered – Angel Through The Storms delves into the loveless realities of child abuse and molestation; it illustrates the mass abandonment experienced by refugees suffering and dying on the sweltering streets of New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina; it depicts the psychological and spiritual travesties that result; it offers up hope and healing through a love too rare for any ordinary human to share; in short, it births angels through the storms.
“Gotcha this time, lil’ girl! Ain’t no gettin’ away!”
Fisherman Sinker Parrish tears into his innocent daughter, Lola, finishing off the rape he started years before.
Lola is a pure being, an intuitive, a crystal child some might say. Introverted, she suffers from PTSD and when threatened, psychological dissociation. Dissociation is her way of escape from the storms of her life. Diving deep into the internal realm of her soul, she is soothed by angels. When she flees the desolate marshlands of Louisiana to New Orleans, she learns that she is pregnant with her father’s child. Despite the horrific manner of its conception, the growing presence within her body makes her glow with uncommon radiance. Lola’s landlords, their priest, her obstetrician and a psychic are drawn to her mystical quality. Dr. Luc Fontainebleau delivers her angel in the flesh, Grover, a “keeper of the flame”, to the world.
When Lola falls in love with Luc, her father re-enters her psyche and her life. She goes missing, dramatically separated from her lover, and their budding romance drowns under tumultuous waves that culminate in Hurricane Katrina. Those who endure, with the aid of Grover’s mysterious influence, witness a greater truth about their “angel in the storm.”
The Bubble Rule
Somewhere in the Book of Psalms it says,
“But the meek shall inherit the earth;
and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.”
Somewhere in my mind, I hear myself asking,
Is that even possible?
Who are the meek anyway?
What power, if any, do they possess over the growing hordes of
Weapon-wielding maniacs proliferating on our planet today?
The Bubble Rule
What happens when a soulless mob boss in India experiences the awakening of his conscience?
He must silence it.
What happens when it speaks to him in his own voice from the mouth of a boy he is convinced is real?
He vows to root him out and eliminate him from the planet.
What happens when that five-year-old boy is a fully enlightened spiritual master?
That boy, Grover, is not only a menace to him, but to the evil ways of mankind.
What happens when that mob boss is one of the wealthiest, most powerful business magnates in the world?
He, Duryodhana Talwar, will use every resource at his disposal to get him.
It is unfortunate for Dr. Luc Fontainebleau that he is snared by Talwar’s trap and must fight to save his mind from being encapsulated in this archenemy’s bubble.
How will his girlfriend Lola, a true angel through the storms, respond? How will her son Grover respond? How will Luc respond? And finally, how will Duryodhana respond when he ultimately meets his nemesis in the field of Kurukshtetra?
Indian Mafia mob boss now business tycoon, Duryodhana Talwar, experiences a vision of Grover, Keeper of the Flame. In it, he confronts his own conscience awakened and calling him out. This, he cannot allow, thus he vows to find this intruder and eradicate him.
Dr. Luc Fontainebleau, recovering from the psychological trauma caused by Lola’s disappearance during Hurricane Katrina following her psychotic break, is in Mumbai with her and Grover. They are visiting friends while New Orleans remains under martial Law in the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Lola, following her soul guidance, takes action against a brothel exploiting child sex slaves. Luc, worried that this experience could trigger an exacerbation of Lola’s dissociative disorder, reluctantly follows her on her crusade. When it expands to encompass Grover’s karmic entanglement in the life of Duryodhana Talwar, Luc has difficulty making the leap of faith required of him and disobeys those who possess a higher knowledge. This choice, not without warning, creates his own personal “Katrina” through which he must fight to save his mind from a hostile takeover.
Ironically, Duryodhana Talwar is simultaneously fighting the same battle within himself as he faces the consequences of his past actions – where else, but in the field of Kurukshetra.
Author’s note: The Kurukshetra War is an ancient war described in the Indian epic Mahābhārata as a conflict that arose from a dynastic succession struggle between two groups of cousins of an Indo-Aryan kingdom called Kuru, the Kauravas and Pandavas, for the throne of Hastinapura. (Wikipedia)
I use the term Kurukshetra allegorically to refer to the inner battlefield within each of us whereupon the divine qualities (the Pandavas) of the soul battle with the baser qualities (the Kauravas) of the ego