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When Eyes Die, The Stranger Arrives

   Title and Material Copy Rights February 2010
  Expected release:                2010

  Subject matter:    Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Military Veterans.
           I reserve the name Post Traumatic Stress Disorder for clinical use. I use the term ‘reality shift’
   in place of PTSD.

   Primary topics:
           - The concept that war can create in a soldier a deep anger/hatred/shame of the human
   race for using war to resolve issues. The self anger/hatred/shame that can be felt by the
   veteran for being a part of the human race and participating in the savagery of war
   and taking of human life. That this internalized response to war may drive a soldier into
   such spiritual darkness and despair that a brutal disconnection from life occurs leaving
   the veteran with a sense that suicide is the only solution. For many other veterans, it may
   condemn them to a life of misery.

           - That a soldier/veteran may not be able to identify the origins of this most base
   anger/hatred/shame in/of/for the human race. This leaves the veteran in spiritual/emotional
   darkness, caught between an experience the veteran cannot understand and a lack of
   understanding to resolve those experiences. This results in total disconnection from the greater
   beauty of all life.

           -These issues are discussed through my own experiences with war.

           -Also discussed are the limits of reality imposed by humans through religion, society, education
    and family. I explore how these limitations may result in stigmas and the inability to think beyond
    human rules and regulations to the broader connection to all life.

           -I explore the history of humans at war, the development of our personal and social
    regard/respect for life and how these affect our ability to understand/justify our participation in war.
    This discussion focuses on how we think/understand our reality formed as a continuation of the
    human (ancestral) experience/thinking throughout history.

           - Graphs, which are intended to help give a visual perspective to aid in understanding the
    experience and reality shift of war are presented to visually explain how life is a series of reality
    adjustments: War is one of these reality adjustments on a very severe level.

            -One of the main topics covered is the idea that humans can understand how to emotionally
    and spiritually process and resolve the experiences they have created in their lives.

           - Interviews with professors and combat veterans who offer experience and knowledge to the
    discussion are also included.

           -Spirituality, diet, the arts, physical/mental exercise and other ideas central to my experience with
    “Reality Shift” of war are also covered in depth.

           - I refer to my book Souled Out, A Memoir of War and Inner Peace and the experiences covered
     and explained therein.

Michael Orban Phone: 262-247-2456

P.O. Box 1031

SOULED OUT

is available on Amazon.com, book stores

West Bend, Wi. 53095

and at www.michaelorban.com