The Adamantine Arrow: spiritual warriors and masters of conflict, who claim a heritage going back to the First City's defenders.

His newest book entitled No Small Snakes tells Dalbey's memoir of becoming the spiritual warrior he is today.

A spiritual warrior is a person who battles with the "universal enemy," self-ignorance (avidya), the ultimate source of suffering according to dharmic philosophies.

There are self-described spiritual warriors.

The spiritual warrior can be described as an archetype character on a journey for self discovery.

Regarding himself as a spiritual warrior, he is now comfortable killing his enemies when this seems useful and poetically just.

Chogyam Trungpa teaches the way of the spiritual warrior.

The spiritual warrior seeks to change others with rational and compassionate decision-making in service of a higher goal.

He is viewed as the angelic model for the virtues of the spiritual warrior, with the conflict against evil at times viewed as the battle within.

Chopra declines to comment, calling Flynn (via fax) a "spiritual warrior."