Steven Pressfield

I don't know if you ever heard of this book, Knowledge of the Higher Worlds by Rudolf Steiner.

No, it's really very telemonian in a way.

It's about the occult, which is really just mystical knowledge

the same things Christianity, Judaism, all the great religions have of how do we reach that?

In other words, I'm not really reading novels right now.

I'm more interested in that sort of...

soul passage to whatever the higher dimensions are and rudolph steiner was kind of a serious guy not a kind of a crazy theosophist or anything like that and i recommend that book

OK.

What comes to mind?

A series of virtues above and beyond war fighting.

that are also shared with a mother or an artist or anything like that.

And the virtues are, among others, courage, patience, selflessness,

The willing embrace of adversity and love of our brothers and sisters and love even of the enemy.

And particularly as it applies to mothers.

Mothers embody those things.

You would think it would be the opposite of a warrior, but it's the same.

Sorry, I got a little wordy on that one.

No, not at all.

But I hear the word mercy in there as well, though.

Yep.