Press_release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SOULED OUT:

A MEMOIR OF WAR AND INNER PEACE

Souled Out

Michael S. Orban

Silver Rings Press

PO Box 1031, West Bend, WI 53095

9780976758112, $17.00 www.michaelorban.com

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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