hurricane, my path from darkness to freedom with a forward by nelson mandela, and your co-author is ken clarksy>> guest: that is correct. >> host: you said the purpose of the book is to discover the truth? >> guest: to be the truth. >> host: given where i was and for how long i was there, this is incredible, i have no business at all being here now. >> guest: that is absolutely correct. >> host: now, you say you were in jail 40-something years. what do you mean by that? >> guest: well, i was in jail 47 years. the fact that we are born into a prison actually -- when we are born, we are born as perfect beings, complete with all of our possibilities in tact, but we're also born into a world of sleeping people, the level of inconscious human insanity where hate and wars and death and destruction and inequality reign supreme so we are actually born into a prison, so i was in that prison for the first 40 years of my life until i was able to wake up and get out of that prison and realize who i really am. >> host: let's come to who you are in a second, but for the viewers' sake say your were incarcerat