New Book from Patrick Westfall Argues Humanity’s Core Problem Is ‘Misalignment,’ Not Ignorance

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Patrick Westfall has released "The Ancient Hubris," a philosophical and biblical work arguing that Scripture should be read as a single, unified narrative about humanity’s struggle to stay aligned with what the book calls the Eternal Source, rather than as a collection of separate religious texts. The book is published by Hawes & Jenkins and is available now at major retailers including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Apple’s iTunes Store, and Google Play, as well as through the publisher’s website.

The book’s full title, "How to Align With Divine Power to Overcome Disharmony Caused by an Ancient Hubris," signals its scope: a narrative that the author traces from before the biblical Fall of man through recurring patterns of authority, deference, exile, and restoration. According to the announcement, Westfall frames this as evidence of one recurring temptation running through history — the replacement of ultimate truth with substitutes — and examines how that pattern plays out both in institutions and in individual conscience.

Westfall is described as an independent biblical and philosophical writer who draws on Scripture, history, and institutional observation to build frameworks for recognizing what the announcement terms hidden manipulation and false authority. His approach, per the publisher, emphasizes discernment and personal responsibility over religious performance or ideological conformity.

"This work exists because I became convinced that humanity’s deepest problem is not a lack of intelligence, technology, or information," Westfall said in a statement. "It is misalignment. When people understand the ancient pattern, they gain clarity about their own lives and the world around them. That clarity is both liberating and demanding."

The publisher describes the book as equipping readers with a new interpretive lens for reading Scripture, history, and institutional behavior, and for examining their own spiritual condition. Westfall’s title shares its name, coincidentally, with historian Alistair Horne’s 2015 book "Hubris," a study of military overreach in six twentieth-century battles — an unrelated work, but a reminder of how durable the term has proven as shorthand for the kind of overreach that invites downfall, a concept with roots in Greek tragedy.

Studio CarryOnHarry will be watching whether Westfall’s framework finds traction beyond the readers already inclined toward this kind of biblical-philosophical synthesis, or whether its language of hidden manipulation and false authority draws a wider, more skeptical audience into the conversation.

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