Combat is a soul snatcher. When the warrior leaves the field of battle he or she often leaves behind a vital part of their essence. On returning to peacetime life, the combatant is left feeling incomplete and without the capacity to leave behind the survival mode of living learned during the rigors of battle. The result is often a deterioration of personality and understanding of ones role in noncombatant life. For many it also leads to the deterioration of moral values and belief systems. Reintegrating that essence or ghost is the key to healing. Tribal peoples recognized this and dealt with...

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (* 27. Januar 1836 in Lemberg (heute Ukraine); 9. Marz 1895 in Lindheim bei Frankfurt am Main (Deutschland)) von Slowenen, Spaniern und Bohmen abstammend, war ein osterreichischer Schriftsteller. Er war das, was man zu seiner Zeit als Erfolgsautor bezeichnen wurde. Seine zahlreichen Romane und ebenso seine ebenso zahlreichen, meist folkloristischen Novellen waren teils als exotische, immer spannende, ja sogar als moralische Lekture beliebt. Victor Hugo, Emile Zola, Henrik Ibsen gehorten zu den Bewunderern Masochs. Bekannt wurde er wegen seiner Phantasie und...

George Dugan, a traumatized Vietnam veteran, finds some peace of mind by adopting Lakota Sioux spirituality. After moving with his girlfriend to a large ranch in western Nebraska hoping to live a quiet life in a tipi, local sheriff Jim Hughes and his brother-in-law rancher, L. J. Richardson, become determined to drive Dugan from the ranch. An accident leads to the shooting death of George's girlfriend, and as Indian friends move to the ranch, there are more altercations between the law and the rancher. Dugan is faced with a conflict between a pledge he made to never harm another human and a...