Robert Mitchell was discharged from the United States Army, in 1970, “with my soul wounded by the betrayal of the warrior spirit” by the U.S. military (as stated by his novel’s protagonist). A subsequent twelve-year odyssey of redemption and healing is the subject of a two-volume, autofiction series, of which John Christian: Warrior-Shamen, Book I: Redeeming the Warrior Spirit is the first volume. For the following thirty-years he taught secondary school. Currently, he writes and lectures on educational reform in the United States. His latest book is TEACHER: Seeking the Vocational Archetype (2023).

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