The Books
A shelf that asks the same question in different registers — what a system looks like before it is examined, and what happens when it is read through the wrong dictionary.
One book traces what happens when a tradition is read through a template it was never built for. Another asks what a mocked system of knowledge actually contains, once the caricature is set aside. Two more excavate the colonial residue that makes certain violences and certain beauty standards feel traditional. They are separate projects, but they share an underlying method: name the wrong dictionary, then trace where it came from.
Astrology
Symbolic cartography — a two‑volume investigationof the Sun
The system the public dismisses — and that science has correctly debunked — is not the real system. It is a 1930 newspaper hack. The full‑chart traditions have never been seriously tested. One life, read through four independent traditions, as the case study.
of Destiny
Identical twins share DNA, upbringing, and chart — yet their lives diverge. The skeptic calls this a refutation. This volume takes it as the real question, and answers it through a refined San Cai framework: Heaven, Earth, and Humanity as active navigator.
Religion
Lived pluralism — how traditions are read, misread, and recognised
The religion column on the Indonesian identity card is not merely administrative data. It is a stage where identity is negotiated, judged, and translated into the language of the majority just to be considered legitimate. A study of what happens when a tradition is read through the wrong dictionary.
Cruelty
Plonco is not an indigenous tradition of character building. It is a colonially implanted ritual — Dutch ontgroening, military discipline, then naturalised — kept alive by cognitive dissonance and chain oppression disguised as pembentukan karakter.
Standard
The golden ratio mask is not a universal ideal. It is a nineteenth‑century colonial pseudoscience used to rank faces by proximity to whiteness — a ghost that still haunts every whitening cream advert and every nose job consultation.
The Inherited Cruelty and The Golden Standard are companion volumes, presented together on the Liberation page — where the structural outlines, key chapters, and publisher enquiries are set out in full.
Each book begins from the same observation: a system is being judged by a version of itself that was never the real thing.
Buddhist KTP names the monotheist‑scripturalist template that makes Dharmic traditions illegible. Shadow of the Sun names the 1930 newspaper column that became the public face of a four‑civilisation tradition. The Inherited Cruelty names the colonial military ritual that was rebranded as character formation. The Golden Standard names the anthropometric pseudoscience that was rebranded as aesthetic truth.
Four books, one diagnosis: the wrong dictionary is not a metaphor. It is a historical artefact that can be dated, traced, and — sometimes — replaced.
Manuscripts, proposals, and sample chapters are available on request. Translation and serial rights enquiries are welcome. Buddhist KTP is published in Bahasa Indonesia; the two astrological volumes and the two Liberation volumes are seeking placement.