I am OPTimist

byMonika Bravo

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I am OPTimist. I am not willing to be defined by a few words—what I do is a living journey. I am a multidisciplinary artist, empirical polymath, writer, evolutionary astrologer, libertarian/Bitcoiner. My philosophy integrates Eastern, ancestral, and cosmological traditions with psychological inquiries, praxeology, and Austrian economics, emphasizing liberty, value, resources, and self-worth in the quest for individual and societal service. I create public art commissions and immersive environments, facilitate dialogue, and explore freedom, shadow work, myths, natural law, Bitcoin, and the architecture of time. This podcast is a reflection of my living and individuated journey. If you are cu...

Episodes(40 episodes)

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Published: Mar 26, 2026Duration: 8m 50s

Conflict as Mutation

NOTE: I wrote part of this text as small posts that I shared in FOTT community, but I thought that it’s a universal thought process that I want to share with you as outer and inner conflict are one and the same. These days, I don’t feel like sharing that much. I’ve been in very slow-internal processes of decoding a bunch of projections that I didn’t know were my shadows hence decoupling from them has been extremely liberating. So when I saw the light, it was poof, like the brain emoji exploding 🤯 in slow-motion. It cou...

Published: Mar 24, 2026Duration: 11m 39s

“Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.”— Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking PathsIn Borges’ story, Ts’ui Pên attempts to write a novel and build a labyrinth. Everyone assumes that the novel is chaotic and the labyrinth is never completed. The revelation is that they are the same thing, because the labyrinth is the novel and the novel is not linear. One storyline does not exclude the others, but every possible outcome occurs. In one version of reality, a character kills someone. In another one, he is killed. In another one, both survive. Re...

Published: Mar 16, 2026Duration: 30m 53s

Note; this article has been sitting on the draft box since last Friday, but my only “excuse” is that I am feeling very self-oriented, self centered, what others would call selfish; the eclipses and the Saturn and Neptune conjunction have been both a culmination and initiation in my relational fields. Big shifts in my psychic - emotional terrains unfolding. Enjoy this, I have another two articles waiting to be sent… no rush, time can wait lol…Opening“We cannot in good conscience accede to their request.” — Dario Amodei, CEO of...

Published: Mar 5, 2026Duration: 27m 4s

The Circular Mirror

Movement I: EpistemologyMetacognition is the awareness of awareness itself; the capacity to observe the structure that generates thought while experience is unfolding.The unconscious mind is capable of discernment; it has its own delicate sensibility. It knows how to choose, how to divine.— Jules Henri Poincaré, “Mathematical Creation,” lecture delivered to the Société de Psychologie de Paris, 1908; later published in Science and Method (1908).As I was browsing X, I bumped into Eileen Gu [Watch video at the end of Movement I,] who had just won Olympic medals. She was a...

Published: Feb 25, 2026Duration: 27m 21s

What Is Your Incentive?

The word comes from the Latin incentivum — that which sets the tune. From incinere: in, into; canere, to sing. It means to set the pitch. To begin the song.An incentive is a motivating force that moves someone toward a specific action. It can be material, emotional, intellectual, or spiritual. In economic language, it refers to a reward or consequence that influences behavior. In a broader sense, it is the internal or external stimulus that activates desire and decision. Incentive answers a simple question: why act.Most people inherit their incentives wi...

Published: Feb 20, 2026Duration: 29m 5s

That echo is the sound of everything collapsing in your mind

I know the title sounds very dark, but actually when things collapse, other things emerge, so I am more focused on the emergence part rather than the collapsing. Yet it is here, the famous ultra-famous season of eclipses and the conjunction of a life time cycle.Today I will not speak that much. It is a small reflection, a very tiny one.What do you want to be?How do you want to contribute?What is it that you observe that can be completely different in your landscape?<...

Published: Feb 12, 2026Duration: 21m 2s

The Battlefield is a frequency

In this flow, mind and matter are not separate substances. Rather, they are different aspects of one whole and unbroken movement.-David Bohm from Wholeness and the Implicate OrderSo what happens when you come down off the tower into the battlefield and your point of view changes from overall to, I’ve got to deal with the next thing. Have any of you ever done either Taijiquan, shadowboxing, or Aikido’s Randori. They teach adaptability, spatial awareness, and non-resistance, requiring the defender to redirect energy, stay mobile, and constantly face new threats. In t...

Published: Feb 8, 2026Duration: 19m 36s

From the Tower, Far Away, I See

Man can choose either to identify himself with the results of the past, or to become a creative participant in the unfolding of a new cycle.Dane Rudhyar, The Pulse of LifeThe question these days that arises inside of me is how do you rebuild when everything is crumbling and what stands up is just the columns of old structures that no longer stand. How do you rebuild, what do you save, what do you actually eliminate for good.Because of having been under the weather for over three weeks, it was...

Published: Feb 4, 2026Duration: 16m 48s

Bots are running the world…

At the beginning of the year, when I wrote January Initiations, I spoke about timing; I spoke about how this year would not open with a single event, but with a sequence of initiations and activations that unfold gradually. What we are living now is part of that sequence, the Full Moon in Leo on Feb 1st, is a culmination, depending on how one experiences it, because it is preparing us for what comes next.On February 17, we have the first eclipse of the year, a solar eclipse at 28 degrees of Aquarius, this is a very important...

Published: Jan 31, 2026Duration: 14m 50s

The Act of Reorienting

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Published: Jan 24, 2026Duration: 10m 21s

bitcoin is full of love

In the past, I was used to guilt and duty as the way I showed up, where I would bring structure, solidity, integrity, and behavior in exchange for acceptance and love. Right now, what people respond to is when I open my heart, and that’s where I feel much better. I just have to slowly start trusting myself to move from one side of the neural axis to the next.Bitcoin is love. That’s how I felt this weekend.This is lived experience.I’m in Medellín, the last ho...

Published: Jan 20, 2026Duration: 10m 38s

Everything I Need Is In My Body

You are about to enter into Monika’s universe, where her inquiry may align you to new dimensions. You are about to cross a threshold into the unknown; (surrender to the experience).The body is a temple, it’s the vessel that has density and allows us to really experience, through our senses, the nature of our reality. The body as the logos is also the doorway of incarnation, the place where consciousness becomes experience. It is the body that is also miraculous, and it has such an incredible genetic imprint, at the same time the...

Published: Jan 10, 2026Duration: 20m 28s

January initiations

You are about to enter into Monika’s universe, where her inquiry may align you to new dimensions. You are about to cross a threshold into the unknown; (surrender to the experience).Hello everybody. Today when I write this is the 1st of January. Even though in antiquity many cultures did not start the year on January 1st, the Western world normalized this date across the globe through the Julian and later the Gregorian calendar, a civic agreement that shaped how time is counted, how administration moves, and how decisions are timed. The Ro...

Published: Jan 3, 2026Duration: 21m 11s

Children of time

Stanza IEmbodying my nervous systemOh Lord, this one is curvy and bold, sincere and curious, courageous and soft, strong when needed. This is my song for 2025.Lord, I do thank you for remembrance. I do thank my soul for listening to my inner voice screaming silence and no more attention, where distracting factors kept me from being kind to my beautiful self.Embracing a softer edge has been the challenge, since I thrive in structure, order, and support. Yet trust needed wisdom that is lived, not read or transmitted even. It...

Published: Dec 31, 2025Duration: 12m 58s

I’m Not There; I’m Here; Within the Jungle

The Beach; the Vortex; the FieldToday’s Monday, just came back from the beach. It was such a beautiful moment. It was very windy, and it was very sunny, and the air was crisp, and the water was salty, crisp as well. A little bit violent, but not too much for me not to venture in. At times I think about the vortex where I live, where these lines meet and create this energy field that makes me feel so home, connected, and where I can almost measure the qualitative energy that ma...

Published: Dec 23, 2025Duration: 18m 22s

The Divine in me

I feel that it is imperative to move towards a complete integration of what we call the divine to what people call the source, where some more religious call G*d, Christ, Jesus, the Buddha, Mohammed, Shiva, the light, the divine, WUJI anything you can call what is sacred.What we call the core of it all, All that Is, aka consciousness. Instead of staying in a place where we are completely divided inside and out of ourselves because of ideologies, rituals, perspectives, that they don’t seem to make any more sense. So there is an ur...

Published: Dec 17, 2025Duration: 14m 34s

Here I am sitting in the middle of the night, probably 9 PM, and I changed all the bulbs in my house to red light, so it looks a little bit like the red district, but it has really helped me change my sleeping patterns, because as soon as I turn on the lights I feel like winding down. And I am also waking up really early, so I can see the sunrise, and it just changes everything.I’ve been wanting to stay quiet, but then there are other things that I need to process, so basically wh...

Published: Dec 11, 2025Duration: 18m 40s

A monetary mirage that visibly reveals the magic trick

Is your value pegged to your priced possessions, your cherished relationships, your status, or simply to your truth? How can you trust yourself to make the right decisions about your time on earth?Current Experiment: echoing July 1944, when forty four allied nations met in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to design a new monetary order that pegged their currencies to the dollar and the dollar to gold.In my current limited and still studying understanding I am watching two structures being built at the same time and together they change what the...

Published: Dec 3, 2025Duration: 24m 1s

BehaviorWhat does that even mean, to behave?We can start with the premise of what behavior means etymologically. In English, to behave comes from Old English “behaven”: be and have together, to hold, to surround, to contain, to have oneself in a certain way, the way we carry and conduct ourselves in front of others and in front of life. In French we would say comporter, which is to bring together, to gather who we are and how we act into one gesture. So behavior is how we hold ourselves and how we carry ours...

Published: Nov 26, 2025Duration: 15m 16s