I am OPTimist
by Monika Bravo
Latest episode
Some thoughts on private property
Some thoughts on private property
About this podcast
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 curious, there is much more to explore in the About Me section.👇☝️
www.monikabravo.blog
Episodes
The newest 20 of 192 episodes
- Some thoughts on private property · 7 minHi everybody. Times are weird, and when times are like this, I kind of settle into deep thinking. This week, I have been writing about lineage, I will publish the article…
- The Ontology of an Unfinished Thought · 24 minHell yeah. I am so prolific. Maybe it is because I have been designing my upcoming commission, and I have been spending a lot of time just within me. I find that that gives me so…
- FROM INFERNO TO PARADISE · 6 minAt times, in order to understand and grasp reality, I tend to go back to symbolism and abstraction through poetry. Sometimes, when things are less literal and more…
- Beyond 2027: The Practical Within the Myth · 42 minNote: This is quite a long article, so the audio above is 41 minutes. If you want to listen to it in two parts, I’m going to place the audios here: part one and part two, each…
- Dear Europe >>> + elsewhere · 8 minProtesting by destroying other people’s property is hardly an efficient or wise form of human action. To be honest, it’s quite retarded and oxymoronic, especially when you’re…
- What Is Bitcoin Becoming? · 24 minTHE INQUIRY I’ve been working on this article for several months, and I decided to put it aside because too many things were unfolding at once. I needed some distance to observe…
- Property or Propriety ? · 9 minEarly this morning, I was scrolling through social media (more specifically Substack), and I found this quote from the Li Ji, the Confucian book of rites: “The superior man is…
- The Value of Commitment: · 23 minI have been thinking very much about value because we are about to enter yet another Venus retrograde in Scorpio. Venus retrogrades about every 1.6 years, and over eight years it…
- THE WHEEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS · 21 minWe are right at that point of equal night, equal day, the equinox. The cycle reaches the opposite point from its beginning. What initiated six months ago now exists in…
- The witness · 3 minI’m in Framingham, Massachusetts, researching a public artwork called Equilibrium Is a Process, which will take another three years to complete. I’ve spent the week talking to…
- Postmodern Noodle Soup · 18 minEclipsisms What are we discerning now? Can you reflect on it and see the truth? Oh my god. I did not think I could have survived the tornado of what the eclipsisms was. But here…
- Some Exhaustion Brings Some Closure · 10 minHey everybody, the Lunar Eclipse was last night, around 12 hours ago, and I had been anticipating this for a while. The good thing about being an astrologer is that nothing comes…
- Mesmerizing · 21 minWhat does it make it? Mesmerizing, as soon as there is some light integrating the realm of fantasy, imagination, even of god, with the realm of touching, grounding, earthing, the…
- Shattering reality meets consensus · 15 minThe first of the two eclipses of the season just passed, and I have decided not to talk about it without feeling it. There's something quite clear for me: reality has been…
- Choose Life: Entropy,Order,& Alignment · 17 minWhat organizes human life? What preserves agency in an age of increasing entropy? How does a human being create order without surrendering freedom? When there is entropy, we…
- Standing in Your Own Place · 8 minNote: I know I said I was taking a break from writing about astrology, but this is too significant to pass over. So here it goes. The shift is full on. On February 20, when…
- Four Questions and a Nap · 9 minHey, I sat down and I wrote two articles a few days apart. Just when I was going to start recording, I’m like, “Mmm, this doesn’t feel right because there’s something that has…
- An Ongoing Wavelength of Change · 10 minBE BOLD 7/13/2025 I just woke up, but I have this sense that things are moving underneath and between. Whatever calm I thought that was, there is some turbulence underneath. One…
- Contingency · 4 min“In every age someone, looking at Fedora as it was, imagined a way of making it the ideal city, but while he constructed his miniature model, Fedora was already no longer the…
- THE AUTONOMOUS LOCAL ENGINE · 4 minBUILD ONCE, OWN FOREVER I am very excited to launch this today. It came to me unexpectedly, and now that I think about it, I have been building toward this for a while. THE…
