Aligned to the Divine Design: A Manifesto for Anyone Who Refuses Powerlessness

Aligned to the Divine Design is a manifesto for anyone who refuses to live a life of powerlessness. Drawing on his own recovery and radical personal transformations, Ernest Chapman lays out a working theology of sovereignty across five domains: God, civilization, purpose, family, and self.
He reads the patterns in Nature and the patterns in Civilization as one continuous text, walks through Three Paths to God across multiple mystical traditions, and offers an alternative to institutional religion, recoveryism, and rage at powerlessness.
The book is also autobiographical. Ernest opens with his confession at the crisis point, builds his framework for sovereignty-based personal development, and closes with practical chapters on aligning civilization, families, and yourself.
For readers of: Jordan Peterson, Manly P. Hall, Robert Bly, Richard Rohr, David Deida, John Michell, Christopher Alexander, Jack Trimpey, Bishop Stephan Hoeller, and Rupert Sheldrake.
Inside you will discover: How all children are wizards, how we lose the magic and how to get it back. The Five Domains of Alignment (God, civilization, purpose, family, self) and how to operate across all of them at once. The 12 Steps for Gnostics, a novel approach to recovery for anyone done outsourcing their power to a meeting The patterns in Nature and the patterns in Civilization, read as one continuous text written in the same sacred language The architecture of civilizational collapse, and a working framework for reversing the damage Three Paths to God drawn from the world's mystical traditions, including Gnostic Christianity, Hermetic philosophy, and contemplative practices
For anyone who wonders why the institutional answers to despair, addiction, fatherlessness, or spiritual hunger don't always work, and wants to take action right now, today, to start living a better life.