Clif Middleton

Ganja Warrior Priest

The Siddhartha of State Center, Iowa.

A young man’s quest to “find out” begins with the classic initiations of farm life and the inevitable spiritual lessons learned not with words but through internalized experience and the distilled wisdom of survival—all beginning with the first lesson of life: Everyone must help.

Looking back with reverence on the irreverence of youth, Middleton recounts his own hard beginnings with a poetic softness that evokes the same mixed feelings as the catalytic youthful experiences described. Rites of passage such as running away from home to Mexico at 13 or being confined to prison for the first time as a youth introduce themes that run throughout the hero’s life and series: escape, freedom, transformation, glory, and redemption.