I am OPTimist

From my perspectiveNOTE: I may fragment the subject of A.I. into some instances, not necessarily in order or in one single article. Who knows! Bear with me, it is a discovery to tap back into what makes us so unique as humans and not droids. This can lead to different rabbit holes that connect to cognitive science, human design, Biogeometry, and more subjects I find fascinating and would like to integrate, i.e. our incredible perception and senses as our GPS in “projecting, decoding singular & absolute realities" Critical thinking; cognition; the diversity of avenues the brain can channel in terms of connectivity; the functions of the mind and its circuitry; how it operates mechanically in our decision-making–do these lead to better understanding? Language, cognitive dissonance, and of course, The Program. Yes, The Program! As humans, we have been in a mimicking trance, copy-pasting each other to believe that we belong somewhere, to some nation or community, when we actually don’t. Nothing could be farther from reality; our minds belong to those who have trained us, who have instilled the information drop by drop. Freedom these days is reduced to merely our identity, and not even that, for we do not know who the mastermind really is.Our cognition, our ability to comprehend, a mental act or process of knowing, at times doesn’t match with common sense, since the information fuels itself from antagonistic methods.Our human behavior acquires a definition based on conditioning that limits and shapes our lives. Think of it like a helmet or armor– it can protect, but if you grow in size it can deform you. So let me begin my curvy, steep road, and at one point you can ask Chat-GPT to help you decipher it because there is no beginning or end. 🤣The program is running, homogenization is at full throttleI was prompted during my sleeping states to write about A.I., cognitive dissonance, and language.This endeavor demanded a dialectical relationship, an interplay of opposing ideas that needed time to find their equilibrium within my thoughts. Hopefully a meaningful dialogue may emerge.-WTF? I said back in my dream, what do I know about A.I.?-You do know about language[s]; you are a polyglot, not just of the spoken languages, but of the archetypal ones, networks, connectivity, geometry, and some Human Design (HD) mechanics, right?-Ahh, okay… I see where you are going (you could be my higher self, or perhaps the funny voice of consciousness…? mmm 🤔).I have been writing, mostly downloading what I know so far of the works of cognition, learning, and connecting synapses (the places where neurons connect and communicate with each other). I have also been performing repetitive practices, manifesting them via voice and hand drawings, recording or documenting new experiences that lead to knowledge.Mostly logical loops that create certain patterns and behaviors where I can come back in the future if needed, leading to introspective reflections. While machines can also operate in loops based on programming, human cognition is often driven by a combination of logic, intuition, emotions, and consciousness. In my case, I am very aware of the capacity of absorbing data, leaving some spatial gaps to practice, and allowing creativity to flow in innovative ways that find channels of expression and therefore can be shared within the collective.-What about abstract connectivity that uses an intuitive function, connecting seemingly unrelated concepts, experiences, or ideas and generating new insights or perspectives? -Or a conscious capacity that differentiates humans from machines? In AI systems, there is an absent instinctive intelligence to intuitively construct abstract wiring. -Can we agree that currently, AI can analyze patterns in data, yet it doesn't possess the depth of human intuition to make unforeseen and innovative connections between divergent concepts? AI may be missing emotional, spiritual, and psychological autonomy. -Are we co-creating a monstrous unaware version of ourselves? Let’s attempt to find out!Down the rabbit holeI have to admit, I have spent a good quantity of precious time watching documentaries that could easily be labeled as conspiratorial (tricking the machine/algorithm here), and moving around different perspectives has recently expanded my visual, mental, and psychological acuity to ∞ [infinity].The more I look deep, the more pauses I need, for Ariadne’s thread unfolds in eternity– it has taken me back to the beginning of times, and I am also making pit stops to the history and journey of the last century’s implementation of the #fiatstandard, how money became the tool of death and warfare; the inception of the Federal Reserve Ponzi scheme that drives the world’s monetary system into more debt and sheds blood; and where the education system leads to homogenization. The archaic education system still prevails and propagates misinformation by separating and polarizing the population into those who know and c

Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don’t mean escaping into dreams or into the irrational. I mean that I have to change my approach and look at the world from a different perspective, with a different logic, and with fresh methods of cognition and verification. The images of lightness that I seek should not fade away like dreams dissolved by the realities of present and future…~Italo Calvino«A fantastic representation of reality…» Ítalo Forever grateful to this master, a curious, and colorful human being who wrote perhaps my favorite text, the closing paragraph of his seminal work Invisible Cities: For now, I am a-musing myself today reading out loud the marvelous introduction to Calvino’s book “If On A Winter's Night A Traveler, 1979His eclectic style and connection to the imaginary perhaps is clear in his birth chart [see an image of his natal chart and a quick reading below] paired with an unusual upbringing, (born in Cuba to Italian parents).AUDIO below reading the introduction of Calvino’s book Playful, intriguing, curious, always a wanderer and died too young or perhaps came to tell exactly what needed to be said.We are here still reading, listening to his words. His oeuvre is fabulous as it was his colorful life. For me, Ítalo like fellow geniuses such as Dante, Leonardo, and Borges covers the sky of my life with a luminosity that inspires abundant creativity.Giovanna his only daughter, was left with the burden or perhaps the treasure of keeping that flame alive. In my case, memories change and fade dissolving with new ones that only arise from the need to keep the flame alive in my mind, as opposed to my heart which is always receptive to any signal albeit made up. I too lost my father, I was very young and all my memories at this point can make it into a fiction novel. «Some fathers never die. It is the case with mine, a writer, whose sudden death almost 30 years ago propelled him into immortality, and left me awkwardly straddling two realities; one from which he was irreversibly gone and another where he is forever present. It proved impossible to spend any solid block of time in that first, heartbreaking reality and mourn him in peace — assuming there is such a thing as peaceful mourning — without being interrupted by regular and impetuous demands from the other one, where he was being read, published, reprinted, quoted, taught. […] This year, in order to do things differently, I will make a conscious effort to separate the man from his writing. One of my favorite stories by my father (from the Mr. Palomar series) evokes a vivid memory of him sitting at the top of the sloping lawn beside our summer home in Tuscany. The Palomar character and my father are so similar that I tend to conflate them. The story is titled “Dialogue with a Turtle,” and the mental image it conjures up is of my father, in espadrilles, sitting cross-legged in a washed-out butterfly folding chair, his brow simultaneously knitted and raised, making him look 80 percent concentrated and 20 percent perplexed. But this image is a fake, as many memories are: It is a composite of various moments, of photos, of other people’s recollections.»~Giovanna Calvino, Italo Calvino: A daughter’s reminiscences, 6/13/2014 «I started producing myths from modern science»I am building a case against attention to myself. In the last week, I have been a hermit, slowly dissolving into the echo of silence, in the upcoming weeks, I am in a retreat from the world, into a sort of fantasia… Into the realm of the imagination.The power of isolation and creativity all at once! Yeah, less celestial talk or not that much, as its chatter needs to be validated by real happenings…In this realm, I am the wanderer,The traveler.Both the observer and the observed.I told you I was on a pilgrimage to relate to the most precious of things ::: myself!My freedom,My life, Roles → In which capacity? -The creative «Everyman is an artist»Joseph Beuys once said «Everyman is an artist»And he meant Art as «a social practice»Be mindful that I did not say as a social activist… Art has been abused as a social activity where political agendas are in a constant exchange of deals only benefitting those clever enough to play the game. No! I want to be free ART IS FREEDOM And now I have a safe place to be in my heart. As I play with the architecture of an upcoming book - yes you read right, the structure that will be faithful to my non-linear, abstract, and authentic, non-compromising ways, that at times reveal me as a Polymathes at heart. A design or arrangement that won’t betray the fluidity of my nature, instead it will underline, enhance and celebrate it.As I play and unfold surprising turns, like this morning out of the blue Ítalo appeared before me while I was swimming and he uttered these words “Do a search with my name, not the usual Google search, be creative… what you’ll find will validate your feelings!”

«But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought»Oh language! Written, spoken, unspoken, thoughts, insinuated, cryptic, ideas, concepts, ideals, social constructs, mind, intelligence, cognition, → truth: is there any?The letter’s soup is ready!IF Only! The meaning can’t be grasped, all translator’s tools are on strike, abstraction in the form of images and storytelling, the fantastic and the surreal have become “reality” Digesting the hopeless landscape... Everything inside an Orb, the fake illusion that big brother will take care of your UBI [universal basic income]…Dystopian awakenings.Yeah! This week even if one has been calm, touching the grass, grounded in breathwork, even so, the universe reveals a couple of challenges - fear can resurface.-Is it true Monika?-What? -The fear? -Or not knowing what is next?-BOTH? -HUH?Grounding in breath while challenges arise, health concern strikes a loved one, securities may change course, dystopian news…E V E R Y W H E R E«Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one» Lunacy prevails and all of a sudden everyone is Sinéad!Oh please! Give me a break!One thing is for sure the 2010s gave space to an organic increase in disassociation and desensitization.-Everyone’s message is reduced to one post in selfie mode (including myself) showing how messed up our culture has become- As if pronouncing her beauty, talent, and defiance was going to ease her deepest pains, the trauma we are living as a collective is not allowing us to see through, it has no boundaries, and it has permeated all the pores of hope. - it seems to be expanding at a rate very challenging to contain it--So, will it explode? M A Y B EEnergy must be transformed when stagnated.Energy finds ways to be released from a broken flow.At the edges of our lives, we find discomfort and then something snaps 💥 ……a resolution.“We must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance.” ~Rainer Maria Rilke “letters to a young poet”MOTHERThe Twilight ZoneWhy aren’t we supporting others before they die?Because we can’t. The culture of self-hustling requires many hours and practice of detachment, self-inquiry, and healing. The program was set a long time ago, and it is quite a journey to detect what is real, as in “not THAT crazy!” and what is a conspiracy theory. Oh, Mother! [mami]Some news has hit me hard. All I need is a space for prayer and the intention of offering my day and actions to the better of humankind.Mother→ The Wall→ Pink Floyd → Orwell’s 1984, → Black Mirror → Corruption → addictions → Trauma all in one, we are all bleeding in our hearts → and it is NOT getting better. Hush - hush →Lullaby time No matter how you feel about Black Mirror—and opinions tend to cluster at opposite extremes of the spectrum—you have to admit it’s a brilliant title. As creator Charlie Brooker wrote when the series premiered on Channel 4 in 2011, “The ‘black mirror’ of the title is the one you’ll find on every wall, on every desk, in the palm of every hand: the cold, shiny screen of a TV, a monitor, a smartphone.” You stare into it expecting to see yourself and find only an abyss that might be your reflection filtered through technology. Our screens: dark and blank. Ourselves: same.BY JUDY BERMAN JUNE 16, 2023𝕄𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕜 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕪'𝕝𝕝 𝕕𝕣𝕠𝕡 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕓𝕠𝕞𝕓 -𝕄𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕕𝕠 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕜 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕪'𝕝𝕝 𝕝𝕚𝕜𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕤𝕠𝕟𝕘 -𝕄𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕕𝕠 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕜 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕪'𝕝𝕝 𝕥𝕣𝕪 𝕥𝕠 𝕓𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕜 𝕞𝕪 𝕓𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕤 𝕆𝕠𝕠𝕠𝕙 𝕒𝕒𝕙, 𝕄𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕤𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕝𝕕 𝕀 𝕓𝕦𝕚𝕝𝕕 𝕒 𝕨𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕄𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕤𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕝𝕕 𝕀 𝕣𝕦𝕟 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕡𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕚𝕕𝕖𝕟𝕥 -𝕄𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕤𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕝𝕕 𝕀 𝕥𝕣𝕦𝕤𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕘𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕟𝕞𝕖𝕟𝕥 -𝕄𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕨𝕚𝕝𝕝 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕪 𝕡𝕦𝕥 𝕞𝕖 𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕖𝕆𝕠𝕠𝕠𝕙 𝕒𝕒𝕙, 𝕚𝕤 𝕚𝕥 𝕛𝕦𝕤𝕥 𝕒 𝕨𝕒𝕤𝕥𝕖 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕚𝕞𝕖ℍ𝕦𝕤𝕙 𝕟𝕠𝕨 𝕓𝕒𝕓𝕪 𝕕𝕠𝕟'𝕥 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕔𝕣𝕪𝕄𝕒𝕞𝕒'𝕤 𝕘𝕠𝕟𝕟𝕒 𝕞𝕒𝕜𝕖 𝕒𝕝𝕝 𝕠𝕗 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣 ℕ𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕞𝕒𝕣𝕖𝕤 𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕖 𝕥𝕣𝕦𝕖 -𝕄𝕒𝕞𝕒'𝕤 𝕘𝕠𝕟𝕟𝕒 𝕡𝕦𝕥 𝕒𝕝𝕝 𝕠𝕗 𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕗𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕤 𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕠 𝕪𝕠𝕦 -𝕄𝕒𝕞𝕒'𝕤 𝕘𝕠𝕟𝕟𝕒 𝕜𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕣𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥 𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕖 𝕌𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕣 𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕨𝕚𝕟𝕘 -𝕊𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕠𝕟'𝕥 𝕝𝕖𝕥 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕗𝕝𝕪 𝕓𝕦𝕥 𝕤𝕙𝕖 𝕞𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥 𝕝𝕖𝕥 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕤𝕚𝕟𝕘 -𝕄𝕒𝕞𝕒 𝕨𝕚𝕝𝕝 𝕜𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕓𝕒𝕓𝕪 𝕔𝕠𝕫𝕪 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕨𝕒𝕣𝕞-𝘗𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘍𝘭𝘰𝘺𝘥 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘓𝘵𝘥, 1979.𝐼𝓃 𝓂𝑒𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓎 𝑜𝒻 𝒮𝒾𝓃é𝒶𝒹, 𝟣𝟫𝟨𝟨-𝟤𝟢𝟤𝟥 𝓌𝑒 𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝒻𝒶𝒾𝓁𝑒𝒹 𝓎𝑜𝓊, 𝒶𝓈 𝓌𝑒 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝒻𝒶𝒾𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓉 𝓉𝓇𝒶𝓊𝓂𝒶 𝒾𝓃 𝒶 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝓅𝒶𝓈𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃𝒶𝓉𝑒 𝓌𝒶𝓎 The Cynics believe that it is through nature that one can live well and not through conventional means such as etiquette or religion.~~~Diogenes studied philosophy under Antisthenes, a crusty type who hated students, emphasized self-knowledge, discipline, and restraint, and held forth at a gymnasiu

​​“The model we choose to use to understand something determines what we find.” ― Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World‘B eaS p e c tato rwith aL a r g e E a r ’-ᴛɪʟʟʙᴇʀɢ, ᴍᴀʀɢᴀʀᴇᴛᴀ: ʙᴇ ᴀ sᴘᴇᴄᴛᴀᴛᴏʀ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴀ ʟᴀʀɢᴇ ᴇᴀʀ ᴍᴀᴛɪᴜsʜɪɴ ᴍᴜsɪᴄ ᴠɪᴄᴛᴏʀʏ ᴏᴠᴇʀ ᴛʜᴇ sᴜɴ, 1932I remember Sat H., my Taoist [shīfu 師傅/师傅] while I was still his disciple [túdì 徒弟] telling me once, “ɪᴛ ɪs ɴᴏᴛ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇʏ ᴛᴇʟʟ ʏᴏᴜ ᴏʀ ᴡʜᴀᴛ ʏᴏᴜ ʜᴇᴀʀ, ɪᴛ ɪs ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ʜᴏᴡ ʏᴏᴜ ʀᴇʟᴀᴛᴇ ᴛᴏ ɪᴛ”Proving that relational values are what makes the MAYA, [the illusion of ALL that IS] 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓮𝔁𝓹𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓷𝓬𝓮, as one synthesizes individually. These aspects operate magnetically generating a duality, Yet its perception in the NOW is 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓼, the EGO, [Εγώ], the self-Identity, how one identifies with the psyche (soul), 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓮𝔁𝓹𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓷𝓬𝓮 𝓘𝓢 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓻𝓭 𝔀𝓪𝔂. ᴛʜᴇ ᴛᴀᴏɪsᴛ ɪɴᴛᴇɢʀᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ᴏғ ʏɪɴ ᴀɴᴅ ʏᴀɴɢ ᴛʜʀᴏᴜɢʜ ᴛʜᴇɪʀ ᴛʀɪɴɪᴛʏ ᴏғ ᴛɪᴀɴ, ʀᴇɴ, ᴅɪ - ʜᴇᴀᴠᴇɴ, ᴍᴀɴ, ᴇᴀʀᴛʜ [ᴛʀɪɢʀᴀᴍ]. A trinity is a seemingly universal model. Many Taoists see the stars as "knots in the 'net of heaven'" connecting everything in "heaven and earth", thus humanity is here to experience this connection.Carl G. Jung made a whole practice of integration via shadow work [Anima-Animus], within these relational values, adding observations on Astrological and Taoist practices (I Ching) through his patients. Jung noticed synchronous acausal events converging in coincidences, as powerful and meaningful insights that emerged within these disconnected relationships. He coined the phenomenon as Synchronicity.Not too far away in time, David Bohm in quantum mechanics, proposed interconnectedness and interdependence as the Buddha also implied in his middle way, Bohm’s Dia-logos [to see through to meaning] is a deep practice that has part of its roots in ancient Greece. The emergence of a new state while practicing deep listening allows a new experience in the becoming. It is about deep inquiry and learning, sharing new perspectives and social constructs [beliefs], The objective of a Dialogue is shared meaning not trying to influence [have power over] an outcome.ʜɪ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏᴏɴᴇ! ʜᴏᴡ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ʙᴇᴇɴ? (ʟᴀᴜɢʜɪɴɢ ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴀ ᴄʜɪʟᴅ ɪ ᴀsᴋ…) Alignment: the arrangement of a line to support a process. To position to situate… it is objective and relational - sudden unexpected shocks can reposition placement and then one cares to observe what is needed to fulfill an experience of prosperity. Abundance: [overflow, to rise in a wave from abound- undare] is a wave and as such needs to be in convergence with the pulsation thus calibrated. All established in “relational values”-My thoughts this morning upon waking* 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝘆 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗱𝗿𝘂𝗺 Swinging my body sideways finding the rhythm that feels like bliss.No pressure to create the best for others -the drum of external validation is very loud- Many confuse their uniqueness with what is expected to be done to succeed.Succeed at whatBeing rich and famous? What does that even mean? watch this👇“sʟᴜʀᴘ sʟᴜʀᴘ. ɪɴᴛᴇʀʟɪɴᴋᴇᴅ. ʏᴇs ʏᴇs ʏᴇs ɪᴄᴇ ᴄʀᴇᴀᴍ sᴏ ɢᴏᴏᴅ. ɪɴᴛᴇʀʟɪɴᴋᴇᴅ. ᴛʜᴀɴᴋ ʏᴏᴜ ʟᴏᴘᴇᴢ. ɪɴᴛᴇʀʟɪɴᴋᴇᴅ. ɢᴀɴɢ ɢᴀɴɢ. ɪɴᴛᴇʀʟɪɴᴋᴇᴅ. sʟᴀʏ ʜᴀʜᴀ. ɪɴᴛᴇʀʟɪɴᴋᴇᴅ. ғɪʀᴇ, ғɪʀᴇ, ʏᴇs, ʏᴇs , ʏᴇs, ᴘᴏᴘ, ᴘᴏᴘ, ʙᴀʟʟᴏᴏɴ, ᴘᴏᴘ, ᴘᴏᴘ…”-!-If you care about freedom, You know that relationship to the outside world is slavery in disguise of power…Power is another confusing term-idea: 𝓟𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻 𝓲𝓼 𝓮𝓷𝓮𝓻𝓰𝔂 The energy to create Humans versus non-humans The brain-Cognition -Perception-The mind running wild-The power to decide Autonomy + agency (or so we think we have pure authority)But do we?good question…“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.” ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝘆 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗯𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 Words clash in high emotional states and drastic decisions are made at the last degree of the lunar nodes.What am I still leaving behind eh?Zero regrets, lots of courageThe time for a social media relationship to end has reached the perfect moment. ℂ𝕒𝕣𝕕𝕚𝕟𝕒𝕝→𝕀𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕚𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕆𝕣𝕕𝕚𝕟𝕒𝕝→ℙ𝕣𝕠𝕡𝕖𝕣 𝔻𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕘𝕖𝕟𝕔𝕖→𝕆𝕡𝕡𝕠𝕤𝕚𝕥𝕖 𝕕𝕚𝕣𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕤 ℂ𝕠𝕟𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕘𝕖𝕟𝕔𝕖→𝕗𝕠𝕔𝕦𝕤The path is beautifulMy cross is the LAX of Alignment I may be standing at a doorsillNot showing anyone the way but ushering whoever I encounter and has a commitment to themselves into a vibrational space where they might realign with the frequency that meets their needs.Have fun-Touch grass-Disconnect from the noise, believe me! it is beautiful!I would like to thank my dear friend, Ebony, she inspired me to disconnect from InstagramWhat a joy, w͟͞h͟͞a͟͞t͟͞ ͟͞a͟͞ ͟͞j͟͞o͟͞y͟͞!͟͞ ͟͞𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗗�

TIMESHIFT_Short and concise:I am back, a bit different though– I have done (still am doing) a lot of reflection. At times when I withdraw, I can see the big picture and then wait for the right time to act, respond, and share.It is clear that the timelines have shifted, as has my attention. The way I will spend my energy (Qi, Prana, Breath) is only focused on what can be regenerative, which means vessels that are not ready to receive will not benefit from the encounter, for they won’t be able to realize, see, feel, or sense anything missing– so no need to sweat it. If you are still here reading, there must be something about our relationship that still calls for your attention, so thank you!R-Evolving Cycles:At the end of the last summer, I made a commitment to myself, and it has started to bear fruit already; as I entered another cycle in the spiral, I felt I was evolving in the manner in which I related to my needs after all the Lunar nodes made certain I would focus on the Taurus side of the action, while the Scorpio end was confronting, and shedding. I hate stereotypes– the moment I sense a definition, my impulse is to fly away, to dismiss it… and yet last September, due to unforeseen events, I jumped on the boat of “Why not?” -Why not try what gives me MORE fear?Yeah! The invitation was coming from a place full of light, but I needed to trust my instincts and intuition inside the threshold, to be certain of one thing only: I would not create expectations, yet I would work with “deep-felt intentions”.-And what are those, Monika dear? You are starting to sound cryptic!Let me unpack– I looked back at all the so-called “crazy things” I did in my life that lead me here, and all of them have SOME things in common:-Courage-Curiosity -Wit -Endurance-Transformation-Self-inquiry-Perseverance in research/learning/education-Knowing when cycles have endedHereditary responsibilities -Help your siblings, hold their hands, show them how…-Yield to their needs, you are faster and smarter… Blah, blah, blah. I have been taking on responsibilities that were not mine. Many of them I inherited without asking, or I jumped into, because I knew what was needed, due to conditioning I did not know I had!!!At least that was what I was made to believe– the way I was conditioned was that because I can and I am able, I MUST take care of others. NO!Close your eyes and imagine two puppet hands near your face: one says I WANT; the other screams I NEED. Well, these hands come at me, for me at all times, and I now have a choice to engage or not.The co-dependent cycle explained by my astrologyThat was the codependent cycle right there. There is a repeating theme of a lack of boundaries (emotional, nonetheless) and the willingness to learn to discern how to relate to others, including intimately, so I can be individuated and become free from attachments, addictions, and codependent relationships with people, situations, and things.I learned to say a hard “NO!"Another aspect is my relationship values, which are supporting my creative, joyful, colorful outtakes, and my lust for life, with awareness, smells, textures, and beauty all around. The path from traumatic past lives, while connecting to peers, was not equal; I feel at times I could have been a tyrant, leading to betrayals and an emotional, mental, and even physical dissociation as a protective response. Having dealt with Trauma diligently, I have turned the current direction towards a creative and emotional liberation, which is in 2/3rds of the way. I am intense! I know it, and the emotional path is the destination – so having learned how to operate with an emotional authority, has been MAJOR. Emotions are waves, and they have amplitude and magnitude; they operate like sound, and their frequency can be adjusted by tuning in or out of certain vibrational schemes: -How does X, Y, or Z me feel? That is always a key question for me.Here I am in this life, taking care of the way I relate to myself FIRST, informing how this gives me leverage to relate to others, and last but not least, how I can contribute to a community.My outlook is that I am very driven, and my intensity and commitment are energized by my curiosity to educate myself and inspire others. The writing flows, and so do the images– it is in the synthesis and the amalgam where I thrive. The Hands of Needs & Wants: Noise versus Signal I have a radar to know what is needed and wanted– does that mean I have to supply it?Perhaps, only if it feels correct to engage in a situation where the other vessel is accountable and willing to commit herself, then, and only then, can I open up a channel to be extremely caring. Now that I have detached from those pesky hands, I have so much time… left for what??EXPLORATION: these past weeks, when the noise was off, I could listen to the signal. I have committed to a couple of challenging yet exciting practices, which connect and keep being supportive of my expansive aura (which intimidated many).

"And on each of its circles was seated a Siren on the upper side, carried round, and uttering a single sound on one pitch. But the whole of them, being eight, compassed a single harmony within the seven intervals."-Plato Book X, "Republic"State of beinghey, here I am again, another week, and I am still observing the view, not really wanting to dive in back yet. I will share however that I am in a joyous state of being, somehow powerful insights coming from new territories that are gracefully emerging. I would love to tell more, but all I have are shapes, colors, sensations, and insights that connect to the core of my essence, these are felt playfully and have a component of transparency, perhaps some images below such as the five elements of Sugimoto can give a clue, or Dominique Teufen’s multiple projected fields that merge the perspective into one angle that can transport the mind elsewhere.Before the light there was sound, which I heard clearly in one of my dreams, in fact, light and sound are different parts of a spectrum. Sound travels much slower than light and it is produced by mechanical means. Sound does not have the electrical and magnetic fields that visible light does. Sound and light both have a wavelike character but are very different in speed and size covering a range of wavelengths, light is not restricted to a single wavelength. An artist and educator I feel very connected with is Josef Albers, his practices on color and form are not just playful but beautifully engaging and have served as methodologies in previous and current public art commissioned work.Under Suprematism I understand the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art. To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling, as such, quite apart from the environment in which it is called forth.The so called “materialization” of a feeling in the conscious mind really means a materialization of the reflection of that feeling through the medium of some realistic conception. Such a realistic conception is without value in Suprematist art… And not only in Suprematist art but in art generally, because the enduring, true value of a work of art (to whatever school it may belong) resides solely in the feeling expressed.[…] Objectivity, in itself, is meaningless to him; the concepts of the conscious mind are worthless.Feeling is the determining factor… and thus art arrives at non objective representation at Suprematism.It reaches a “desert” in which nothing can be perceived but feeling.[…]This was no “empty square” which I had exhibited but rather the feeling of non-objectivity.I realized that the “thing” and the “concept” were substituted for feeling and understood the falsity of the world of will and idea.Kazimir Malevich: The Manifesto of Suprematism. Originally published in The Non-Objective WorldTranslated from Russian into German by A. von Riesen 1927 | Albert Langen | Munichvol. 11 of Die Gegenstandslose WeltFrequency is everything now‘What is G•D?He is length, width, height and depth’-St. Bernard of Clairvaux, on considerationI have spent a great amount of time drawing for an upcoming commission, mostly vectorizing geometrical forms and preparing canvases of color for an upcoming glass wall. Immersed in these fields, my mind rests, my hand moves and my spirit elevates. The nodes meet in circles, creating aspects and angles, depicting movement in time. Magnitude represents amplitude while meaning is given depending on how one reads these relationships. Until then I come out of this gracious state, linear thoughts may remain abstract, cryptic, and still.Stillness“Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.”―Jorge Luis Borges A la prochaine! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

»For the artist communication with nature remains the most essential condition. The artist is human; himself nature; part of nature within natural space.«Paul Klee -Pädagogisches SkizzenbuchUpdateAnother week, I sense a shift in the air, and I am still purposefully taking the time to be; I have been entertained by drawing plenty. I also entered a state of integration from the insanity of the last 15 weeks… More to come, not just yet… In the meantime another set of random shares. Enjoy!It is time for excellence Not for the minimum or the maximum unintentional motivationFor lofty, prominent, and distinguished acts of loveNot a sacrifice but an offeringFollowing the flow of natureAs The River As The CloudsAs The SunAs a Being RejoiceMonika Bravo, Excellence, 06/21/23Gio Ponti is my museIt is very challenging to pick up a handful of images that can convey his artistic genius and impact. Since it is not just the excellence of one of his designs, but the overall harmony of the spaces he conceived. LIXIL / TOKYO / "Giving Warmth to the Building Skin. The World of Gio Ponti, Father of Modern Italian Design” by Mai Inoue and Masahiro Inoue“Everything happens according to a certain regularity which I sense inside me and which never lets me rest.” Emma KunzNick Cave’s cornerAnother prolific artist, that is aging gracefully, still edgy and full blast honest, Nick’s art has been part of my life since 1988… Nick then, Nick now in a very recent interview[…] when another person dies, everybody dies again, you know... All over again. And at the end of the day, we become a kind of manifestation of our losses… We become these creatures of loss moving through the world… a deepening effect to grief, and the world becomes more interesting and deep.Nick Cave“Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent",in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".”―Plato This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

Hello beautiful people, I am 88% close to wrapping up my next article on AI {artificial intelligence}, language, and Venus' loop around the sky, but all of a sudden I had the urge to indulge in other things this week. [Context The Sun and Mercury are in playful Gemini while Mars and Venus dance in delightful Leo, so I will leave you with 9 random things, enjoy1- a poem2- a song3- a set of random images4- a video (youtube) with link to a transcript 5- a quote 6- an excerpt from one of the books I am reading7- a tweet8- a meme 9- a voice message All random Till next week…1- A poem:We are the time. We are the famousmetaphor from Heraclitus the Obscure.We are the water, not the hard diamond,the one that is lost, not the one that stands still.We are the river and we are that greekthat looks himself into the river. His reflectionchanges into the waters of the changing mirror,into the crystal that changes like the fire.We are the vain predetermined river,in his travel to his sea.The shadows have surrounded him.Everything said goodbye to us, everything goes away.Memory does not stamp his own coin.However, there is something that stayshowever, there is something that bemoansWe Are The Time We are the famous. Jorge Luis Borges [24 August 1899 - 14 June 1986]2- a song:i don’t want to feel the thunderi don’t want to feel the raini take heed of these omensi don’t want to return the same.i just want to believe in somethingi don’t want to feel this greyi take heed of these omensi heed what the lightning saidthere’s a god-shaped holein every seekers soulturned cold in rebellionas life unfolds like a quest once toldLove’s dance towards the one…The Return 3- a set of random images4- a video The Psychology of Power – How to Dethrone Tyrants, academy of ideas. “If…if… We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves in one unrestrained outburst in 1917, and then we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! …We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1link to transcript 5- a quote:“Nobody looks at the moon in the afternoon, and this is the moment when it would most require our attention, since its existence is still in doubt.” ~Italo Calvino6- an excerpt from one of the books I am reading“The future is the imaginable activity of man in its creative march. Imagining is the creative power, not only of the poet, the artist, the actor, and orator, but of the scientist, the inventor, the merchant, and the artisan. Its abuse in unrestrained, unlovely image making is obvious. But its abuse in undue repression breeds a sterility, which robs a man of actual wealth of experience. Imagining novel solutions to ever more complex problems is far more noble than to restrain or kill out desire. Life is the continuing solution of a continuously synthetic problem. Imagining creates events. Our world, created out of men’s imagining, comprises unnumbered warring beliefs. Therefore there could never be a perfectly stable or static state. Today’s events are bound to disturb yesterday’s established order. Imaginative men and women invariably unsettle a preexisting peace of mind.”“Hold fast to your ideal in your imagination. Nothing can take it from you but your failure to persist in imagining the ideal realized. Imagine only such states that are of value or promise well. To attempt to change circumstances before we change our imaginal activity is to struggle against the very nature of things. There can be no outer change until there is first an imaginal change. Everything we do unaccompanied by an imaginal change is but futile readjustment of services. Imagining the wish fulfilled brings about a union with that state. And during that union we behave in keeping with our imaginal change. This shows us that an imaginal change will result in a change of behavior. However, our ordinary imaginal alterations, as we pass from one state to another, are not transformations. Because each of them is so rapidly succeeded by another in the reverse direction; but whenever one state grows so stable as to become our constant mood, our habitual attitude, then that habitual state defines our character and is a true transformation.”Infinite Potential Neville Goddard & Mitch Horowitz.7- a tweetHow Twitter has become the new “uncensored media” (to a certain degree)…8- a meme9- a voice message This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

“The world which is described from observation is a manifestation of the mental activity of the observer. When man discovers that his world is his own mental activity made visible, that no man can come unto him except he draws him, and that there is no one to change but himself, his own imaginative self, his first impulse is to reshape the world in the image of his ideal. But his ideal is not so easily incarnated. At that moment when he ceases to conform to external discipline, he must impose upon himself a far more rigorous discipline, the self-discipline upon which the realization of his ideal depends.” ― Neville Goddard, Awakened ImaginationWhat lies in the consciousnessA new stream, another current, a novel path? A different journey, a diverse perception, an innovative way of thinking– but is it new? Or is it consolidating? Refining? Restructuring? Some new ideas emerge, or new ways of implementing them not traveled before…How about another P.O.V.? It is so interesting to know, to know for a fact, that what I have learned thus far is something that I have tried, experienced, and assimilated. And that I can change my mind, as many times as I want, once I verify what is correct for my design. Now– do you want to master it? And to know it? This is a great experiment (life).The ways that made me evolve in the last few years… -Deep Listening-Asking questions {I never stopped questioning the narrative} Looking at how I related to those thoughts that I once believed were what defined me. Finding out that they were just thoughts, I practiced them so religiously that I enacted them as true. On May 16, 2019, when Uranus met Venus and first touched my Jupiter at 3°Taurus (where the North Node of the Moon and Jupiter are meeting on 06.01.23), my floor shook. I felt that if I resisted the strength of the wind, it would break everything inside that held me together (my reality)... so I surrendered… (not without a fight). Look at your journals– what was happening around May 16, 2019? Saturn was in Capricorn between the South Node and Pluto, little did we know what was coming 9 months later…This is important because it was the summer before the lockdown, and somehow our memory has probably been fading, as so many insane events are still unfolding. In my case, because of Uranus’ disruptive nature in Taurus, my ground was being shaken, and the belief systems that defined me for a long time started to be uprooted; I was deciding to sell all my storage, give up my NYC’s artist studio, and leave only what I needed and could pack in two days. I could feel the waves of change... I had a sense I had to follow, and so I did. Now I find myself on another, completely exciting, journey. Four years later, almost to the date (one-third of Jupiter’s journey around its cycle), two cycles have ended: one that started in May 2004, when the North Node met Jupiter at 11°Taurus; and another, not so minor, when Jupiter was in the same degree it is today, at end of 2011. (Degrees in the Zodiac carry a frequency that holds a memory with information, which becomes relevant at different times.) I can say that the routes I traveled make sense in retrospect. Jupiter is looking for meaning, it expands horizons looking to implement ideas. Now beware of Taurus’ energy, my friends… as stable as it is, it carries an energy of stubbornness.-Are you the same person you thought you were back in 2019? And the persona you are now, do they resemble, look alike, or have they been radically transformed? We all have Jupiter somewhere in our chart, and that is what has the potential to be transformed, as Pluto squares it along with the nodes. The reflection is about ways of thinking, ideologies, social constructs, belief systems, propaganda, information, data, and experience.The innovative part of the journey is what I want you to look for– finding the courage to be unique, and embracing your singularity, will support the losses and close structures that are in decay. The journey can be, and will be, grounded in innovative ways when Jupiter conjuncts Uranus, April 20th, 2024. The choices you have already made by letting go of addictive behavior will celebrate a new relationship to the leverage you now have within all kinds of relationships (Feb 21, 2024, when Venus, Mars [rulers of the nodes], Pluto in Aquarius, North Node in Aries, and Chiron meetup).Also, look at what is closing, dissolving, as Saturn spends time in Pisces supporting this venture, allowing the stagnation and decay to evaporate and to mourn, while also supporting what is emerging - Some journeys are very well known, journeys that have been recorded and told as fable stories– these heroes and heroines incorporated confrontations, hallucinations, battles, and moments of insight. They all went through a path of seeking and experiences. These memories, or scars, defined our lives, allowing each moment to be lived in truth.There was no holding to ideas so fiercely, for what these heroes found was e

I sent this video message to my friend ELLERY JAMES ROBERTS on December 4th, 2022, we had a conversation that morning that I wished I had recorded, so later in the day, I felt inspired, and I created the video below. It was sent as an open dialogue/invitation, although today I see it more as an inner dialogue, a statement of an era that unbeknownst to me was about to close. In retrospect, I had just started to become quite conscious about the shift I was going through. I also see it as a reaffirmation of a path I embarked on this life with only one thing in mind: [R] evolution.Today, almost 180 days later, I am in the midst of a Synthesis, as I am still integrating my recent past, where I have been so focused on learning to relate differently with what I value, to my resources, educating myself with new technologies, amplifying and diversifying among multiple themes, and alternative views. My curiosity has no ceiling, as I open my mind wider, and wider, the knowledge is proving to be extremely connected to the source, and everywhere I go, I see the trinity, the law of three, natural law always finds the way back to me, in harmonious, and synchronistic ways. I can only look up, raise my hands in prayer mode and give thanks with a huge smile and a sense of humility that at times I shed some tears down my cheeks, mind you these tears are full of joy.In full alignment, the timing with its frequency vibrates in resonance sending various validating codes. I Surrender& Trust the Universewill give me what I needI am Grateful for the Life& Our Moment here on Earth. Written & Produced by Lost Under Heaven Before-after you hear-read the video message, I would like to invite you to watch-listen to Ellery and Ebony’s Lost Under Heaven’s new trailer (above) of their upcoming album Something is Announced by Your Life!, which releases June 2, 2023.I hold dear the friendship I have created with both of them, individually and separately as it has offered me the space to inquire, deepen, and engage in collective growth filled with inspiration. I am grateful for their creative expression in this lifetime. I am elated to have minimally contributed to the creation of this album, and I fully support their courageous initiative of producing the record themselves with no middlemen! Be curious and engage with their offerings. Music is extremely important in my life, it is akin to the Divine Absolute and there is no harmony without numbers and no Logos without correspondence (ratio). Last thoughts of 2020: -Christ as the archetype of the self - Carl Jung -The second coming of the messiah means the advent of individuation...-It is at a crossroads, where the individual stands today: inner or outer authority?-Malevich’s cross and his manifesto are intended to underline the significance of felt sense.I will elaborate further: The cross has a long association with religion and mysticism. It is a simple form that contains strong echoes of religious doctrine and devotion.Representing the sublime or the divine may take figurative and non-figurative forms-The cross has a long association with religion and mysticism. It is a simple form that contains strong echoes of religious doctrine and devotion. Similarly, the idea of a crossroads or a cross street contains a reference to change, uncertainty, and the need for a decision. A cross is at once threatening, laden with associations of death and penance in the religious canon, and conversely, full of opportunity and a new beginning in the public consciousness.Let’s remember his manifesto: where he exposes the felt sense or the emotional body to be one that embodies the perspectiveBy 'Suprematism' I mean the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art. To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling."[Initially published in a private social media group]Enjoy the North node + Jupiter conjunction at 3° 30 Taurus, which happens to conjunct my natal Jupiter at exactly 3° 34! I am having my 5th Jupiter return, a typical Jovian cycle’s duration is 12 years. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.monikabravo.blog/subscribe

NOte: it is a long one, I won’t post anything next week, enjoy! Masks offA few weeks ago I was packing to go for a week down to Bogota where the average temperature is 15°C [60°F], and since I moved to Miami Beach my average temp is 26 °C [80°F]. When I was choosing what to pack and wear in the colder weather, I paused in surprise and asked: -Whose are these garments? Who is the person wearing these clothes? LOL!I could not recognize the now Monika with the Monika that lived in NYC and spent 27 winters there!So the persona I had embodied was no longer vibrating at the same frequency now, after 33 months [almost three years], and that brought a huge smile to my face! ‘Evolution’ means growth to maturity and development of an individual living thing, also felt as a detachment, a growing out, growing up, letting go, innovating, mutating…How many Personas have I consciously left behind, shed, and disembodied so drastically, and at times smoothly and less violently? Two? Three? Four? Does it have anything to do with celestial alignments, sine wave oscillations that meet again and again, such as Saturn's returns [every 28.5 years], or lunar nodes returning and passing through specific angles every 18.6 years? Fractions of that perhaps? Well, I feel these geometric events that happen as harmonious or not so harmonious serve as validators and reminders of what surrendering to my Geometry is. The last lunar eclipse was very potent, the cycle of the last 18.612958 years (6,798.383 days) completed yet again another revolution in my chart. What did I release? The masks I had to wear just to be! (Or I thought I needed to be!) Gabor Maté calls these behaviors adaptations– at times one has to adapt to the environment because one does not feel safe and is lacking a connection to one’s essential needs, so one trades this connection for validation as a way to survive what is, thus there is no authenticity. One is acting out, wearing a mask, a persona. The deal is to start recognizing the adaptations and to work with them as one changes the ideas held behind that make their behavior endure. Changing a point of view, for instance, is an incredible event that supports evolution. “The persona is what we would like to be and how we wish to be seen by the world. It is our psychological clothing and it mediates between our true selves and our environment just as our physical clothing presents an image to those we meet. The ego is what we are and know about consciously. The shadow is that part of us we fail to see or know.” ― Robert A. Johnson, Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the PsycheOn Nov 8, 2022, there was a lunar eclipse (full moon) at 16°of Taurus - Scorpio axis, Uranus was between the Moon and the North Node opposing my Neptune. The nodes were at 13° at the same axis, the dissolution of multiple personas I had worn started to be felt, and by May 5th, 2023, [178 days later] the lunar eclipse opened again another portal between my natal Moon at 12°18 Scorpio (just learned it aligns with Alphecca fixed star) and my natal Neptune (16° Scorpio). This time the full moon in was at 15° Scorpio.Both celestial bodies are each at one side of my 13°Scorpio MC, which refers to the public persona. It felt as if the last 9 months had been a preparation for a new platform I am about to embark on. There is no defined shape, as I will work together with Jupiter entering Taurus and squaring Pluto– this is an opportunity for the collective to allow new views to shape new fields based on the now moment. Tradition is important, but as evolving specifies we can’t survive if all ideals become stagnant. The work I consciously started during 2017, is pretty integrated by now; Jupiter has gone ¼ of its 12-year cycle around the Sun, making sure to remind me to be open-minded. I can see it in my life, my face, my frame, my attitude. A friend in Bogota remarked about how different I look and behave. In essence, it is still me, with less baggage and more joie de vivre!If you see the drawing below, you’ll find 4 cardinal points that refer to 4 aspects of one’s journey: what drives it moment by moment (the Ascendant); what gives it emotional security (IC); the projection of the other is the beginning of shadow work as a synthesis (descendant); lastly, the public persona one portrays in society is what can be found at the top of the sky (MC). All social constructs demand humans to engage in pursuing a social status, to aim for social recognition, but this is a huge misunderstanding. Humans are looking for validation, and connection, not approval, and until this is integrated, one becomes a slave to outer authorities.The persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself, as well as others, think one is.C.G.Jung [“Concerning Rebirth,” CW 9i, par. 221.]Authority, soverignty, and freedomNo certification or accreditation given by someone else will ever define my experience on this earthly planeI say the above with a humble hear

Two unusual examples of the Gemini type in the field of letters are Dante and Bernard Shaw. Dante wrote his Inferno so that he could show in luminous verbiage all his enemies roasting in the pits of perdition. The Shavian humor has about it the bite of shallowness. It is not the deep laughter of the gods who understand all, but the shallow titillating laughter of mortals who understand not even themselves.”― Manly P. HallPILGRIMAGETo follow Dante in his pilgrimage is to follow the path of the human psyche, the human condition, and the experience of our existence. Dante offers a view of the hero’s journey from darkness to awakening, later known as the Jungian notion of individuation. Dante’s path is lyrical, literal, esoteric, anagogical, allegorical, deep, and sometimes moralistic. Witnessing it, one discovers stage by stage the process of living according to one’s design, illustrated as a political critique of the role of the individual in society. Dante tells the story of a protagonist (himself) who meets his hero (Virgil, the Roman poet), who becomes the voice of reason; the pilgrimage is a metaphor for self-inquiry. Virgil operates as a guide and creates in Dante an inner dia-logos, such as a relationship one can have with a journal, or with a therapist that listens and observes as one walks near the abyss. Virgil, as the other, creates a space where insights emerge for Dante (and for the viewer, who is the witness). The Divine Comedy accounts that individuals must take responsibility for their deeds and aim for ethical and moral virtues to live purposeful lives. I resonate with this part, and the way Dante uses allegory as a device, the poem contains a compelling socio-economic and political examination addressing corruption and justice in familiar ways that seem extremely relatable to the roles we have constructed and what is expected for the individual in society. In my view, Dante Alighieri, if alive today, would have been a Bitcoiner.God spoke to him in a dream: “You live and will die in this prison so that a man I know of may see you a certain number of times and not forget you and place your figure and symbol in a poem which has its precise place in the scheme of the universe. You suffer captivity, but you will have given a word to the poem.”[...] Years later, Dante was dying in Ravenna, as unjustified and as lonely as any other man. In a dream, God declared to him the secret purpose of his life and work; Dante, in wonderment, knew at last who and what he was and blessed the bitterness of his life. Tradition relates that, upon waking, he felt that he had received and lost an infinite thing, something that he would not be able to recuperate or even glimpse, for the machinery of the world, is much too complex for the simplicity of men.Translated by J. E. I. Inferno, I, 32:: J. L. BorgesVirtuosity, Dante becomes Virgil for later writersFideli D’Amore Dante through Borges’eyes To observe Jorge Luis Borges follow Dante is to witness a path of admiration and pure enchantment; while Borges did not speak Italian (I do), he read the poem many, many times in the original text. As he mentions in his Seven-night lecture, the translation could serve as a stimulus for the reader to approach the original; he continues to say that Dante’s poetry is much more than what it says. Is Borges [or am I through him], stating that the pure comprehension of the beauty of this magnum opus is attained abstractly, rather than logically? The four mathematical arts are arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy; these anciently were termed the quadrivium, or fourfold way of knowledge.Sir John Hawkins, "A General History of the Science and Practice of Music,1776Borges says poetry is about intonation and accentuation. Often untranslatable, for me, it is about feeling it, and finding patterns I can correlate with my present experience, of what I am in the midst of discovering… Borges adds that reading Dante like Shakespeare is a musical event, because each line must be read aloud, as music corresponds and generates an emotional response. Borges goes on to make a case about Dante as a hermetic wizard, and as a reader, one must de-cipher its hidden meaning:Dante is already in Paradise, unaware of what his destiny awaits (including hard times); he compares his strength and principles to the 4 phase tetragono “Delle mi fuor di mia vita futura parole gravi, avvegna ch'io mi senta ben tetragono ai colpi di Ventura.What you may or may not know is that through mathematics, we find patterns based on connections that configure aspects (phases) in relationships; the frequency, or time, of these dimensions, is what harmony is all about, and using the celestial bodies results as a verification device.For Dante, a single moment is enough– Borges has been admiring an encounter that actually belongs to Dante in the middle ages: that of presenting every occasion as a cipher of a life.In the beginning, we read the poem with the hope of someone who

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.ὅπου γάρ ἐστιν ὁ θησαυρός σου, ἐκεῖ ἔσται καὶ ἡ καρδία σου.Matthew 6:121Dear reader, bear with me on this winding road of unchartered waters. At times delusional, at times mystical, these territories are where we use our objectivity to observe, verify and discern, so the instincts, intuition, and emotions, which are coded beautifully in our bodies, will guide this upcoming journey that seems bleak and hopeless. Shall we keep surrendering to the will of devices we have naïvely trained and believed were working on our behalf (such as our dear mind that is shaped by the conditions that exist in the environment)? Monika Bravo I AM OPtimist is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.By weaving allegories, using archetypal images, and literal and direct quotations from the sages that have lived before me, I share [in a non-linear fashion] what I have been able to contemplate thus far. Remember it is just the perspective from my crystal, each one of you has your own, so use it wisely as we are co-creating reality in unison where we will meet in resonance or dissonance. I have divided the text into 2 parts and one Interlude, take your time and enjoy! (2nd part drops soon)PART 1Amuse bouchePluto in Aquarius, a rare state of observationWhere are we now? How much do we know? And where are we going?From the top of the mountain, with a gaze of an eagle, I can see a generous valley between two rivers, a place I will keep planting and nurturing seeds of sovereignty, hence sowing the wisdom needed to fulfill a precious empirical life.I see it without detachment but with objectivity, for we have never felt this energy during this lifetime, and for that reason, it is precious [Pluto just entered 0° Aquarius on 3/23, it takes 248 years to get back to the same spot]. I am taking my time to enjoy the nuances that I am capable of noticing. One obvious one is how the masks are suddenly falling off everyone’s faces… If we want to, we can see things as they are.I can sense clearly who I need to connect to and who I don’t need to be connected to. Things will feel weird for a bit and then we will be thrown back and forth to a familiar place that is just so familiar… but not necessarily a good environment to grow in, as Pluto will go back and forth from Aquarius to Capricorn to finally culminate the entrance at the end of 2024.This is just a taste of the next 20 years folks, an amuse bouche, a sample of how it feels to be sovereign and be gathering creatively together, or the taste of how by not being sovereign leaves one removed, with no willpower of our own, at the mercy of others. At times I may sound loud and angry– yep! Anger is my favorite e-motion; it runs through me as a driver for change. I channel its energy by initiating, being curious, asking questions, and engaging. And when I do so, I become a peaceful warrior that aims to be transformed. I am guarding a domain, the one that speaks about individuality and freedom. So at times, I speak as if I am shouting and with tons of passion. Well, you sense it right– it is my root, my drive expanding, provoking, enduring, connecting to fractals that are also with the willingness to do the work. I love it!-One has to verify in order to trust-Pluto in Aquarius is not about holding hands in community, it is about confronting the shadow of not being sovereign! so let’s get our act together before 2027… No more bargains, I do this for you, while you get this in return, we do what we have to do INDIVIDUALLY, while we mutate, so we can THRIVE collectively. - IT HURTS - Damn if it does! the solar eclipse on the 19th/20 of April is an Amuse boucheA weeping boat versus a rowing boat. The night becomes dark, lighting strikes… I can hear/see a boat full of weeping people crying for their fate, confused, bitter, disempowered, and still demanding to be saved. The boat is sinking, making matters worse, as everyone rocks it in desperation, blaming the water, the weather, and the captain, incapable of being accountable, this boat of weeping peeps can’t see things clearly, for fear has made them numb and incapable of moving. The fates will bring, at last, a bigger wave, or a sign, and those who still have it in them will get the hint. I can't tell you about the others, I can't seem to see them anymore on the horizon…Weeping and cursing they come for evermore, and demon Charon with eyes like burning coals herds them in, and with a whistling oar flails on the stragglers to his wake of souls.Inferno, Canto IIIIn my boat we all are very busy rowing, we are riding the waves, flowing and in unison, aligning with the frequency (time), creating a song that resonates inside and outside of the vibrational space. As time unfolds, I can see a field full of brave warriors and mavericks creating an ecology where sovereignty and individuality are king or queen, each steering its pa

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