Fool's Journey of St. Francis of Assisi
by Brian Kryszewski de Ybarrondo
A poetic spiritual allegory tracing the Fool’s Journey of St. Francis of Assisi, told in his imagined voice. Via Transformativa invites readers to walk with Francis through the twenty-two archetypes of the Tarot’s Major Arcana, each threshold revealing a step from self to surrender, from knowledge to illumination, from love to union. In lyrical prose, Brian Kryszewski de Ybarrondo transforms history and mysticism into a mirror for the modern soul.
Via Transformativa: The Fool’s Journey of St. Francis of Assisi re-imagines one of the world’s most beloved saints not as a distant icon but as a living seeker. Drawing on the timeless mystic pathVia Purgativa, Via Illuminativa, Via Transformativa, this work fuses Christian contemplation with the archetypal language of the Tarot’s Major Arcana.
Each chapter is a sacred threshold, The Fool, The Magician, The High Priestess, and onward, tracing Francis’s awakening from wealth and ambition to surrender and divine union. Told in intimate first-person narrative, the book blends historical resonance with visionary fiction, revealing the mystical heart beneath legend.
Written in the tradition of spiritual classics yet grounded in emotional realism, Via Transformativa becomes a companion for anyone navigating loss, rebirth, or the search for meaning. It is not a biography, it is a meditation on becoming.
Award-winning Mexican-American Author and Historian, Brian Kryszewski de Ybarrondo blends his passion for history, crafting compelling narratives that explore family legacy, 19th century Mexican history, and the political figures who shaped a nation.
Brian Kryszewski de Ybarrondo is an author and storyteller whose work bridges history, imagination, and spiritual reflection. His writing explores how culture, faith, and personal lineage shape the search for identity and meaning. His novel El General: In the Shadow of Giants received the 2025 International Impact Book Award for Biographic Historical Fiction and has been recognized for its contribution to Mexican-American narrative heritage. A descendant of General Ignacio Mejía, Brian draws from family history and archival research to create the La Patria es Primero series, which reexamines Mexico’s struggle for sovereignty through the eyes of those who lived it. Brian is also a contributing author in Texas Short Stories, Volume 10 (2025), published by Texas Authors Press and the Texas Authors Historical Museum, highlighting contemporary voices in Texas literature. He continues to expand his storytelling universe through the All That Resonates series, a visionary collection that imagines humanity’s future through themes of consciousness, technology, and spiritual evolution. A graduate of Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, Brian’s early historical research was published by the Texas State Historical Association and presented at the Institute of Texan Cultures in San Antonio.
ALL THAT RESONATES SERIES
In The Temple Architect, Brian Kryszewski deYbarrondo blends history, mysticism, and science into a spellbinding journey through time and consciousness. When architecture professor Gabriel Madrigal uncovers ancient blueprints hidden within sacred geometry, he stumbles upon a lost code connecting humanity’s greatest cathedrals to a resonance that could reshape the future. Every page draws you deeper into a world where art meets physics, faith meets reason, and one man’s search for truth becomes a blueprint for awakening. Fans of Dan Brown, Umberto Eco, and Paulo Coelho will find in this novel not just a mystery, but a revelation, an experience that lingers long after the final page.
ALL THAT RESONATES
From the author of The Temple Architect comes the next chapter in a visionary saga of science, secrecy, and the human spirit.
Solis Garza is a Quantum Archivist for The Bureau, a government agency charged with preserving historical and classified records through cutting-edge quantum preservation technology. When a sealed experiment beneath the University of Texas Tower reveals a forgotten Tesla device, her quiet world of archiving draws the attention of a powerful multinational biomedical therapeutics company.
What begins as a simple act of preservation becomes a struggle for control over a discovery that could redefine the future of human technology.
Intelligent, suspenseful, and cinematic, The TeslaWars explores how those entrusted to protect knowledge must decide how to protect it.
The Soldier Who Would Not Bow
Ignacio Mejía stands at the hinge of a nation’s rebirth—an austere general who fights beside Juárez and Díaz yet refuses to worship either. From the siege lines of Puebla to the chambers of a fragile republic, his conscience becomes a weapon sharper than his sword.
Told through memoir, field letters, and courtroom reckonings, El General exposes the hidden moral war that forged the Mexican Republic: a struggle between principle and ambition, justice and revenge. It is the story of a man who learns that victory without virtue is merely another form of defeat—and that true reform begins in the heart that refuses corruption.
A Republic Survives in Exile
From the embassies of London to the doomed court of Maximilian, young Francisco de Ybarrondo inherits his father’s quiet war—fighting not with rifles but with intelligence, letters, and code. Through the fall of empires, he becomes the unseen hand linking Juárez’s republic-in-exile to Europe’s corridors of power.
Based on authentic diplomatic records and family archives, The Diplomat bridges two worlds: the salons of empire and the trenches of conscience. It reveals how one family’s pen helped end a European dynasty and safeguard a nation’s sovereignty—reminding readers that the fate of Mexico was decided as much in whispers as in battles.
She Healed the Republic They Tried to Erase
Set after the wars that fractured Mexico, this volume follows Elena Arizmendi Mejía, granddaughter of General Mejía, who turns inherited defiance into compassion. When revolution reopens the nation’s wounds, she founds La Cruz Blanca Neutral—the first independent nursing corps of the Americas—transforming feminine duty into political resistance.
Through diaries, exile letters, and battlefield testimonies, White Cross illuminates the generation that rebuilt Mexico with scalpel and scripture instead of saber and sermon. It is a requiem for forgotten heroines and a hymn to the enduring pulse of civic mercy.
Two Republics. One Idea.
In an age when empires traded nations like currency, Benito Juárez corresponds secretly with Abraham Lincoln—letters carried through smugglers and diplomats like I. J. V. de Ybarrondo. Their words, preserved in hidden archives, reveal a philosophical alliance between Oaxaca and Springfield, between indigenous law and American conscience.
Through Juárez’s own recollections, El Presidente reconstructs the moral blueprint of hemispheric republicanism: liberty against hierarchy, equality against inheritance. What begins as a personal record becomes the testament of a continent learning that democracy must be defended with both rifle and reason.
The Builder Who Became a Prisoner of His Own Design
Porfirio Díaz narrates his transformation from revolutionary idealist to autocrat of progress. Beginning with The Plan de la Noria and ending in exile, The Dictator chronicles Mexico’s pivot from liberty to order—steel rails, telegraph wires, and silent fear binding the Republic he once swore to free.
Told through the eyes of Díaz, Ignacio Mejía, and Francisco de Ybarrondo, it exposes how modernity was purchased at the cost of memory. When peace becomes commerce and patriotism becomes possession, even the victors hear the ghosts of empire whisper: The rails remain
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