A couple of years later, the Pentagon commissioned the Trojan Warrior Project, an intensive six-month training in mind-body-spirit practice for Green Berets. The program included meditating with a Tibetan lama, neuro and biofeedback sessions in a cutting-edge computer lab, praying with a Benedictine monk, and training in aikido, a Japanese martial art dedicated to universal peace. It was a frontal assault on the neurophysiology of ecstasis (and the direct progenitor of the SEALs’ Mind Gym). For their coat of arms, they combined ancient and pop mythologies: a wooden horse sat above two crossed
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