Sitting with Warrior

Inner teacher, "Warrior," a Nanticoke warrior of the seventeenth century, shares
his wisdom with his grandson, and in so doing reveals the mystery of the warrior
spirit. It is through the inner-warrior that we self-actualize the inner life dreamed
into the outer life lived. It is through embracing our warrior nature that we
conquer self-delusion and self-doubt and realize the ultimate truth: We are
Warrior. We are the noble being we always hoped to be.

Warrior'sspiritual perspective on war, life, death, the meaning of existence
addresses those fundamental questions of human origin and purpose. HIs view
is both insightful and honoring of life lived and sacrificed in pursuit of higher
meaning. Drawing on spiritual science and "warrior perspective," he navigates
the reader through the inner workings of the human condition, enfolding within
it war as an ironic outcropping of consciousness raging for fuller integration.

As a Marine Corps veteran of an unpopular and divisive war, Carl Hitchens
contends that "Sitting with Warrior" chronicles not only his journey, but Americas
as well. By sitting and listening to Warriors wisdom, he has recovered lost parts
of himself. This gives America hope for stepping out of the long shadow of
Vietnam that today stretches over Iraq and Afghanistan. Hope that by sitting with
Warrior and his unifying truth, America can heal her old wounds. Hope that she
can draw from her pluralism and diversity unity rather than division"out of
many, one."

To Educators, Historians, and Mental Health Practitioners

More than story, more than memoir: Sitting with Warrior is an authentic peep
inside the combat mind experience of those who go to war. It looks at war and
warrior-ship in the full circle of cultural and nationalistic themes, and social,
psychological, and spiritual forces that form and shape those going and
returning from lethal combat. It is therefore relevant to any historical treatment
of war and its effects from readjustment challenges, to interrelationship
struggles to PTSD to spiritual healing.