Reclaim Your Truth. Rebuild Your Life.
Welcome to rikTextual—a growing body of work dedicated to mapping the structure of human meaning. Here, you’ll find writing that challenges illusions, reframes the role of truth, and offers practical pathways for healing, accountability, and sacred living. Whether exploring relationships, culture, or power, each book invites you into a deeper understanding of yourself and the world—not through ideology, but through functional design. This is a space for seekers, skeptics, and builders of better realities.
Every journey begins with a question: What am I missing? The works of rikTextual are crafted to answer that question—not with final truths, but with precise frameworks that deepen over time.
This site offers a sequence of transformative texts, each building upon the last to expand your understanding of self-responsibility and the structures that shape your life. Start with Vote for Yourself, which dismantles inherited illusions of leadership and authority. Continue with The Golden Egg – A Worker’s Resolve, where structure, sacrifice, and relational power are redefined.
Then read You Know NOT God, a piercing inquiry into the roots of your inherited spirituality and how that predetermines your destiny. Alongside these, Mirrorless Reflection offers a poetic mirror—verses that distill the same journey into intimate, symbolic fragments. Find them all in our store (by clicking on this link) and read them in order. They will meet you where you are and take you on a journey of functional enlightenment.
Vote for Yourself is a politically reflective and analytical work focused on the role of land reform in shaping South Africa’s future. Framed as the first in a “Divinity Series,” the document serves to educate and provoke thought, encouraging South Africans to move beyond party loyalty and instead engage in critical, self-responsible citizenship.
Function:
The document functions as an independent assessment of political parties currently in parliament. It examines each party’s policies—particularly around land reform—as a way to understand their vision for the country and to evaluate the sincerity and viability of their promises. Through this exploration, it seeks to equip readers with the insight needed to make informed electoral decisions.
Purpose:
The book aims to awaken political self-awareness. Rather than continuing to vote based on struggle credentials or propaganda, the author challenges citizens to reclaim their agency by interrogating the truth behind political manifestos. The document positions land reform not only as a policy issue but as a symbol of broader social, historical, and psychological fractures in South Africa. It seeks to dismantle the illusion that salvation lies with political figures, urging the reader to “vote for yourself” by choosing truth, responsibility, and action over dependence and denial.
Message:
The central message is one of self-responsibility. The author argues that political dysfunction is a reflection of the electorate’s failure to demand better, driven by collective denial of uncomfortable truths about power, race, class, and historical trauma. Land, as both a physical and symbolic resource, becomes a lens through which the health of societal relationships is assessed. The book challenges the reader to recognize the continuation of inequality and systemic failure, and to act as a sovereign political being, rather than a passive consumer of promises.
Content and Structure:
The document begins with a preface and thematic introduction, framing the issue of land as core to South Africa’s unresolved past and its contested future. It outlines the psychological and societal consequences of mishandled land reform and makes a compelling argument for honest political engagement.
The bulk of the book consists of 22 chapters, each dedicated to a political party. These include major parties like the ANC, EFF, and DA, as well as smaller or emerging entities. Each chapter offers an in-depth but accessible critique of the party’s position on land reform, drawing from official manifestos and public statements. The author supplements this with personal insights, critical analysis, and provocative questions, encouraging readers to consider not only what is said but what is left unsaid.
Vote for Yourself is more than a political guide—it’s a call to personal and collective awakening. It demands that South Africans reflect on their role in shaping the nation and accept the difficult truth that sustainable change begins with them.
The Golden Egg: A Worker’s Resolve builds directly upon the core message of the author’s previous work, Vote for Yourself. Where Vote for Yourself challenges citizens to reclaim their political agency through critical reflection on party politics—especially around land reform—The Golden Egg shifts that focus to the economic arena, particularly the lived reality of workers in a structurally unequal labour market. Together, the two works form a thematic progression: from political self-empowerment to economic self-emancipation.
Function:
This document functions as a philosophical, political, and economic exploration of the worker’s role in society. Through a mix of personal testimony, theoretical analysis, and systemic critique, the author reveals how the employment relationship mirrors broader social injustices, and how workers can begin to reimagine their place in the economy.
Purpose:
Expanding on the purpose of Vote for Yourself, this book aims to deepen the reader’s awareness of their position—not only as a citizen in a flawed democracy but as a worker in an exploitative economic system. It challenges readers to dismantle internalized narratives of failure and dependence, and to instead see themselves as the producers of value. The text pushes for a new consciousness: that true empowerment means owning both your vote and your labour.
Message:
The central message continues the thread of self-responsibility and systemic awareness: the worker, like the voter, must recognize their value and stop surrendering it to institutions that do not serve them. Framing the worker as the metaphorical chicken who lays the golden egg, the author warns against systems—employers, unions, and even the state—that extract maximum value while giving little in return.
It critiques the idea that labour laws, job interviews, and company “engagement” strategies exist to protect the worker. Instead, these mechanisms are exposed as tools of control, designed to maintain a hierarchy in which workers are kept dependent and voiceless. The book emphasizes that this inequality is not accidental but systemic—rooted in legislation, social norms, and cultural indoctrination.
Topics Discussed & General Outline:
The book is structured into five chapters that build a comprehensive case:
The Job Interview – Dissects the inherent imbalance of power in recruitment, questioning who truly benefits from the process.
The Employment Relationship – Examines four theoretical models of labour relations, ultimately aligning with the critical model that reveals hidden power dynamics.
The Golden Egg – Uses allegory to expose the long-term damage caused by short-term exploitation of labour.
Employer Domain vs Employee Domain – Highlights how employers manipulate workers’ emotional states rather than materially improving their conditions.
Employee/Citizen Empowerment – Expands on democratic theory, advocating for worker-owned enterprises and grassroots economic reform.
In essence, The Golden Egg is the natural sequel to Vote for Yourself: where the first calls for political awakening, this one calls for economic liberation. Together, they argue that only by reclaiming both political and economic agency can individuals hope to shape a just and equitable society.
You Know Not God is a spiritually reflective and emotionally incisive work that explores how childhood trauma, relational betrayal, and emotional illiteracy distort one’s perception of the Divine. As the third installment in the Fractal Divinity series, it completes the triad by addressing the internal—where the collapse of outer systems reflects a deeper disconnection from God, self, and others.
Function:
This work functions as a spiritual excavation and relational mirror. Through poetic commentary and personal insight, the author reveals how spiritual misalignment is not born of atheism, but of unresolved pain. It guides readers through the subtle but powerful ways early emotional wounds disrupt one’s ability to trust, feel, and love authentically—making false religion possible and true connection elusive.
Purpose:
The book aims to restore emotional and spiritual integrity. It challenges readers to move beyond performative religion and inherited doctrine, toward an experiential, felt relationship with the Divine. It seeks to dismantle the ego structures that masquerade as faith—control, guilt, superiority—and replace them with vulnerability, honesty, and the courage to confront what hurts. It is particularly concerned with men, for whom disconnection from feeling is often framed as strength, yet results in spiritual paralysis.
Message:
The central message is this: You cannot know God if you refuse to know yourself. True service, love, and leadership flow not from dogma or image, but from emotional truth. The author contends that many people serve a false god shaped in the image of their trauma—controlling, distant, punishing—because they have never been invited into the tenderness of spiritual intimacy. By tracing this distortion to its roots in family, culture, and memory, the book offers a path to realignment with the God-form: love, as truth.
Content and Structure:
The book is structured as a series of reflective essays interspersed with poetic expressions and symbolic imagery. It begins with an opening meditation on the difference between “knowing of” and truly knowing God—emotionally, relationally, and spiritually. It then explores themes such as:
Father-wound theology – how paternal absence or abuse shapes one’s god-image
The emotional illiteracy of religion – how churches often perpetuate shame and numbness
The return of the child – reclaiming innocence, awe, and emotional presence
Love as confrontation – truth as the measure of spiritual depth
The God-form vs. the Devil-form – introduced as relational ontologies: one based in love and truth, the other in fear and illusion
While intimate and confessional, the work is also philosophical—inviting both spiritual seekers and skeptics into a space of honest reckoning. The language is poetic, yet the insights are precise, grounding transcendental themes in practical, emotional reality.
You Know Not God is not a religious text, but a spiritual confrontation. It is for those disillusioned by empty faith, harmed by false prophets, or numbed by silent pain. It calls the reader back to the sacred task of feeling—and through it, to the Divine.
Mirrorless Reflection: Language by Other Means is a poetic-philosophical collection that offers a deeply personal yet socially resonant critique of contemporary South African life, family, manhood, governance, and identity. Presented as a hybrid of poetry and reflective commentary, the book uses metaphor, allegory, and spiritual insight to reveal emotional truths often obscured in public discourse. It is both testimony and treatise—designed not only to express but to confront, provoke, and awaken.
Function:
This work functions as both art and activism. Through poetic form, it dissects the fragmentation of social bonds—from familial dysfunction to the betrayal of masculinity, from societal decay to cultural dislocation. Each poem is followed by a prose commentary in which the author interprets and expands upon the themes, anchoring abstract metaphors in real-world grievances. It is a mirror held up to the reader, but without a frame—forcing introspection and challenging the illusion of distance between self and society.
Purpose:
Mirrorless Reflection seeks to restore emotional and spiritual literacy to a generation estranged from itself. It critiques the death of truth in relationships, institutions, and identity, while calling for an honest reconstitution of the self within the group. The author reclaims poetry as a tool of both confession and reconstruction, advocating for a return to personal and communal accountability, where love is defined not by sentiment, but by the capacity to withstand truth.
Message:
At its core, the book proclaims that true healing—whether individual, familial, or national—can only emerge through the radical acceptance of uncomfortable truths. It is an indictment of passivity and denial, particularly among men, who the author urges to rise from ideological slumber and reclaim their role as moral leaders. By framing dysfunction as a consequence of collective abdication, the author invites the reader to take responsibility not only for their pain, but for the pain they perpetuate.
Content and Structure:
Mirrorless Reflection is structured into thematic chapters, each led by a poem and followed by a prose commentary. These pieces span topics including family betrayal (“A Family Severed”), gender warfare (“Allegation”), social abandonment (“Brother Eye”), racial identity (“I Am An African”), and existential defiance (“Success”). Though highly lyrical, the work is not abstract; it engages with pressing cultural realities like unemployment, false allegations, broken homes, and political co-dependency.
The AI-generated images accompanying each poem create a visual lexicon that mirrors the poetic mood—blending digital surrealism with intimate expression. This multimedia layering reinforces the theme of modern identity as both constructed and dislocated.
The God-Form
The God-form is a philosophical treatise and spiritual blueprint that critiques modern society’s descent into fragmentation while offering a radical alternative rooted in relational integrity, moral courage, and sacred structure. It functions as both analysis and invocation—exposing the energetic disarray of the Devil-form while prescribing a return to coherence through the God-form: the divine pattern made manifest through interpersonal relationships.
Place in the Series
As the fourth book in a growing series—including Vote for Yourself, The Golden Egg, and You Know NOT God—this work expands upon a progressively deepening framework. Where Vote for Yourself focuses on personal sovereignty and localised responsibility, The Golden Egg reimagines work, economics, and structure from the ground up, and You Know NOT God reclaims a spiritually grounded understanding of truth, divinity, and human limitation. The God-form synthesizes these insights and moves from critique to construction, laying down the spiritual and relational architecture for a new society. If the prior books dismantled illusion, this one builds the temple of truth.
Purpose
This book seeks to reintroduce divinity into everyday life by restoring the foundational relationships between men and women, leaders and communities, individuals and truth. It reframes governance, family, and culture as sacred structures—each requiring renewal through mutual accountability, encoded interdependence, and the balancing of masculine and feminine energies. Rather than offering superficial reforms, the text urges a reconstitution of society from the ground up, beginning in the heart and home.
Message
At its core, The God-form declares that all meaningful transformation is relational. Society’s decline is not political or economic at root—it is spiritual and interpersonal. The book asserts that men must rise—not in dominance, but in devotion—to reclaim their roles as stewards of structure, and that women must support this rise by reinhabiting their sacred cultural, emotional, and spiritual functions. The God-form, as a living architecture of love and responsibility, is the only sustainable antidote to the Devil-form: a parasitic distortion of power, unity, and self.
Content and Structure
This book is structured across six chapters, each building toward a comprehensive reconstruction of relational and societal integrity. Topics covered include:
The distinction between the God-form and Devil-form as opposing energetic patterns
The sacred roles of women and men in restoring relational balance
The individual’s responsibility in healing, authenticity, and emotional coherence
The real cost and structural requirements of unity
The temporary and sacred use of power, hierarchy, and polarity
Grace as the divine function of forgiveness in relationships
A reimagining of the Holy Trinity as a relational system
The God-form is ultimately a call to remember what has been lost—not in tradition alone, but in the living intelligence of our relationships. It does not offer escape or ideology, but a grounded, sacred architecture for how to live with one another in truth. By reclaiming divinity as something forged through relational coherence rather than conferred by belief, this work dares its reader to restore the world not by changing it from the outside, but by rebuilding the relational field at its core. It is a vision for a society where love is structured, power is shared, and truth is lived into—fractal by fractal.
Explore Our PoliSeries
The PoliSeries is a sequential collection of political reports, freely accessible on this site, designed to empower the discerning South African citizen. It examines each parliamentary political party’s manifesto—specifically their positions on land reform—and evaluates their proposals in terms of long-term national prosperity. Through clear, incisive analysis, the series equips readers to make informed, self-responsible voting decisions grounded in constitutional logic and pragmatic foresight. When experienced in its entirety, the PoliSeries forms Vote for Yourself, a cohesive political education initiative now also available in print. The content is deliberately structured, each report building upon the last, for those ready to engage deeply with the realities of governance and their own role within it. See Below.
Word Art That Reflects Your Inner Truth
Discover a soulful collection of word art (poetry) that explores love, loss, identity, and the balance between the material and spiritual. With vivid imagery and raw emotion, each poem invites reflection on life’s beautiful complexities. Curious? Dive into our sample poems “Blood relation” and “Religion” to experience our passion for the art of words.
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