Warrior's Way: The Strength Secrets of Ancient Warrior Societies
Living life well requires wisdom and the author, though not unseemilngly astute, (as in not too smart) has, nevertheless developed a certain cunning as a result of having survived into his seventh decade while helping to raise ten children, six stepchildren, (currently 64 grandchildren) and teaching about 7,000 seventh and eighth graders something about history, scholarship and art. I spent a lot of my adult life working with various Native American groups, primarily the Navajo. I was struck by the difference between our perception of a warrior and theirs. We have much to learn from them besides physical fitness. Strength and fitness is at best only a beginning in the effort to live a fulfilling life. (If you're thinking of Native Americans only as those who struggle to live on the reservations. . .well you must judge the rest of us by our ghettos and slums, nothing more and by your unthinking bias you are overlooking a wonderful source of knowledge.) I hope to show you the best principles of the true warrior, who is not a vengeance-driven, bloody minded barbarian, but a man or woman who, wisely, does not fight unless pressed to do so, but who then fights, like Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, with overwhelming skill, whether on a physical or on a mental battlefield. Join me, along the WARRIOR'S WAY and let me show you what I've learned about being a real warrior.   Jon Hansen, M.Ed. May 2007. Visit the authors website: http://home.comcast.net/~jonhansen44