WHAT ARE THE TWO MOST IMPORTANT DAYS IN YOUR LIFE? The day you were born. And the moment you discovered your purpose.
"Baldwin primarily presents his story in the third person, lending the narrative a tense and often electrifying energy that reads more like fiction than memoir." - Critic's Report Book Life Prize
Alignment is a story of hope, healing, and humanity as a small-town American INFJ battles himself, life, and the world seeking to decipher his own life purpose. On the outside, his life was an unconventional series of slingshots. Culpeper to Los Angeles. Paramount Pictures to the Himalayan foothills. Bollywood to Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Building nonprofits. Chasing purpose. The Gandhi/King themed unity project. Troop 1992 Mark Twain. Decades in India, at times thinking he was off course. Everything happens for a reason.
However, on the inside, he resided at ADX Willow Tree, his psychological prison of shame, resulting from a web of forty years of trauma and a vice to numb the pain. Often seeking to escape from himself.
Alignment opens with a (48 Day/48 State) road trip to break a trauma bond, a nightmare gifted to him by an entanglement with a covert narcissist. Over the course of the journey, flashbacks serve as puzzle pieces that begin to paint a picture of a soul struggling to heal, struggling to get his mind back, to lift the fog of doubt.
He was 40 when he learned that God really did exist. A series of events began to awaken him. And the love and light he received from a relationship and Divine children would shake him to his core. In an instant, a violent assault would change everything and slingshot him into the Holy Land, a world full of endless strife for centuries.
He was the epitome of the road less traveled. He never expected to find himself in the middle of Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories in 2019, much less in the back of an old Bedouin truck in a remote corner of the Judean Wilderness. The final piece to his puzzle. A Rubik's Cube. A whisper from God. A new lens. An assignment. A challenge, a challenge for his tribe and the world tribe to light up the little town of Bethlehem for humanity, all 8 billion.
IT'S A JOINT FAMILY BRUH!