I am OPTimist

If your heart isn't yet illuminedBe awake always, be a seeker of the heart,Be at war continually with your carnal soul.But if your heart is already awakened,Sleep peacefully, sleep in the arms of Love~RumiToday marks a month since my mom's passing; I have deeply felt my mom's love, sometimes to the point of tears. Her guidance is palpable, I was blessed to have seen her spirit rise and dissolve while leaving her material vessel behind, it was an honor that left me in awe.My first encounter with death was at age 8 when my paternal grandmother collapsed, followed by my father's fatal car accident less than six months later. I've often fantasized that my mom's Alzheimer's was a gradual departure, drop by drop, sparing us the abrupt violence one experiences from a sudden death. I see this as a generous gesture.Life and death intertwine, much like dark and light, day and night. Our grounding in electromagnetic fields mirrors the integration of these opposites, shaping our unique existence as it emerges in the now moment.On what would have been Thây's (Thich Nhat Hanh) 97th birthday today, I reflect on the threefold training I received as one of many of his direct disciples. Embracing Buddhahood, I cultivated it through —ethics, meditation, and wisdom. Ethical practices forged a direct connection, fostering awareness in my speech, mindfulness in actions, and embodiment of the right livelihood.As a layperson, I made my meditation the center of this mindfulness action. One can meditate while walking, standing, eating, and listening, every action in the present moment is a meditation in itself that leads to awareness. Wisdom may be experienced when one is one with nature, integrating the polarities that present themself as triggers, or attachments, a fusion or unity necessary to overcome the false duality of the world of appearances in the striving toward spiritual awakening or living by one’s truth.In the middle way (Madhyama-pratipadā), integration prevails. Sacrifice transforms into a state of grace, joy, and understanding. The tears I shed are an expression of the pure love I feel for my mother, her spirit residing within me. It is the same kind of joy I feel when I am connected to the spirit of humanity.Amidst humanity's suffering, and the current carnage that unfolds, my offerings are full of attentiveness and there is an unwavering devotion to living with compassion and understanding, steering clear of further polarized events. I don’t need to sacrifice anything for I am offering my true self at all times."May all beings be happy, free from pain, living with ease. May all beings be free."[…] Thây emphasizes smiling, friendship, the beauty of nature, warmth, hugging, and identifying the positive qualities in ourselves, our friends, and our lives. The mind is full of habits: sometimes we are unhappy because our mind is focused on unhappy experiences or fears about the future. We fail to see that suffering is often the result of wrong perception. By focusing on and practicing positive states of mind, we encourage our own mind to make new habits and transform our lives. Buddhist practice provides a form of fitness for the mind: if, when you are running to catch the post, you find yourself out of breath, you might decide to undertake a program of exercises to give yourself the sort of body you want to have. This fitness program teaches us the skills to limit the damage of negative energies, and to have the sort of mind that we want to have. In short, to free ourselves from the prison of negative habits. Thây teaches us to regard words merely as useful conventions rather than getting caught up in the dogma of concepts and notions, and rather than generalizing and abstracting, it is better to speak from our own direct experience.~Plum Village Community of Interbeing Manual of Practice Chapter 2: TeachingsThe other person has wrong perceptions about himself and about us. And we have wrong perceptions about ourselves and the other person. And that is the foundation for violence conflict and war.Thich Nhat HanhAvalokiteshvarawhile practicing deeply withthe Insight that Brings Us to the Other Shore, suddenly discovered thatall of the five Skandhas are equally empty and with this realizationhe overcame all Ill-being.“Listen Sariputra,this Body itself is Emptinessand Emptiness itself is this Body. This Body is not other than Emptiness and Emptiness is not other than this Body. The same is true of Feelings, Perceptions, Mental Formations,and Consciousness.“Listen Sariputra,all phenomena bear the mark of Emptiness; their true nature is the nature ofno Birth no Death,no Being no Non-being,no Defilement no Purity,no Increasing no Decreasing.“That is why in Emptiness, Body, Feelings, Perceptions, Mental Formations, and Consciousness are not separate self entities.The Eighteen Realms of Phenomena which are the six Sense Organs, the six Sense Objects,and the six Consciousnessesare also not separate self-entities.The Twelve Links

Hard to explain some days,Some experiences,And that is why we make art,Music,Poetry, Life Is GeNEROUSYou k n ow, you are rESO n a Ting WHENYou catch the WAVEYou a r e no l o n ge rStruG g lingJust BE ing You knowYou HaveWalked the road aloneyouH a veBeENAHermitFor AREASonI can’t reallyExplain with WORDSI amWordless...Pure FeelingIn tune Gra t I t u d e In Him was life, and the life was the light of menGospel of John 1.4TRUstTheNo tKNoWIng -Generosity is the virtue I will be practicing during 2023. When received from life in intangible ways, you come to know the real frequency that connects all particles of the universe-:::::: :::::::: :::::: :::::::: :::::: :::::::: 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

We are all linked by a fabric of unseen connections. This fabric is constantly changing and evolving. This field is directly structured and influenced by our behavior and by our understanding.— David BohmAwareness is indeed a funky thing!Being too aware of what is happening could lead to anxiety if the things one is focused on are the stuff that doesn’t work. Presently, it encompasses nearly everything interwoven with social constructs and institutions—realms acknowledged as immutable. Instead of attempting fixes, one must embrace the inevitability of a cycle involving both demise and renewal.-if I [you] have the power to confront my [your]demons? -if I [you] can recognize who and what they are, and am [are] willing to face them off with compassion to open a new point of view? -how would it feel if the way I [you] relate to an attachment, a thing, a person, or a situation, were different? -how could I [you] emerge as a more sovereign being?-How is this emerging?Let's delve into the cardinal points —they mark the landscape with direction, acting as a compass that draws the illusion toward a synthesis infused with integrity, innocence, leadership, and originality. It's a journey guided by love for humanity and oneself, characterized by listening and adopting a perspective on how one can relate. It's about embracing and honoring our vessel, the body, which generously provides not only for survival but also for thriving. The best state of being? Just being one’s self: recognizing that “Everything I need is in my body”The Trinity and free will ride side by side. How, you may ask? Well, when you take the initiative and decide to engage with your individuality by becoming aware of what is in front of you, of what you are projecting and expecting from "the other," then something emerges in between. The field, potentially latent or quantum in nature, offers a range of possibilities when choosing integration. To seize this, one must adopt the role of an observer, watching the interplay unfold as if stationed at the midpoint of a 180° relationship. The resulting perspective can be at 90°, 270°, or any degree in between.This opportunity then opens other dimensions for perceiving what has been imprinted in our emotional, physical, and mental bodies, and all these fields are stages that operate between two breaths, time becomes the medium when one measures time…Time is essential as humanity lives in a dimension that perceives time within a given space. We are only barely aware of what cannot be sensed, touched, smelled, heard—you get it...I am because I am aware of [you].At times, I can be aware of [them] too.Oh boy!Did I just use pronouns as an example?I will use the traditional way of using the pronoun. The primary means by which humans identify their relationships with each other is through these pronouns. I don’t mean to associate myself with how the left-wing has weaponized it in recent years. You see, some years ago, I was very stubborn and carried some arrogance that stemmed from ignoring and not being willing to listen to others’ points of view. The more I falsely believed (not felt) that I was right and the opposing idea was wrong, the more I became stuck in this seesaw between polarities.A lot has happened since then. Uranus transiting Taurus, a fresh Jupiter cycle in my chart, and the current nodes are throwing open some awesome windows of opportunity. It's like a chance to navigate my way through the world of "NOT KNOWING."To be honest, I detest labeling others, or having myself be defined by ideologies, I am open to dialogues and discussions where I could gain a new perspective, so this is an invitation.Eclipses + nodes, meeting the shadows:On October 14th and October 28th, 2023, a solar eclipse followed by a lunar eclipse unfolds, each exerting a profound impact on personal planets and instigating dynamic energies crucial for my evolutionary journey. During the initial eclipse, my Mars, positioned at 22° Aries, aligns with the transiting North Node at 24° Aries and T. Chiron at 17° Aries. The gravitational pull is palpable, especially as transiting Mars enters Scorpio, aligning in opposition to my 3rd house Mars, where the Sun, Moon, Mercury, and Pallas engage in a standoff. The sensation of potential combustion intensifies, particularly directed towards teachers, teachings, and ideologies, amplified by the ongoing square between Mars and the nodes with Pluto in late Capricorn. However, amidst this intensity, a harmonious trine emerges as Mars forms a favorable aspect with my North Node and Saturn. Meanwhile, Venus, situated on my Uranus at 6° Virgo, engages in a challenging opposition with Saturn—both serving as rulers of the impending eclipse and nodal axis. Bottom line: all my relational values have received an upgrade, and I am slowly being invited to renew my lease on how to contribute without engaging in beliefs that belong to an old program.This celestial dance prompts heightened awareness of relatio

NOTE: I started writing this article around September 7/8th. By the time I was going to post it, my beloved mother died peacefully. I decided to leave the words as I wrote them.Integrating the sudden death of my father at 8 years old left a deep imprint. Witnessing the passing of my mother a fortnight ago is a slow process, and creativity is my vehicle. Though time will tell, for now, I feel strong, and her presence fills my heart with joy, not sadness. I feel her closely and deeply. She did not suffer, nor am I suffering either; Mom left in the presence of the children she was devoted to.:::::I had written about the upcoming breakthrough of the Jupiter + Uranus synod at 21° Taurus on 04/20/24, disrupting the status quo, resources, and potential transcendental growth. I will publish it in a few days. Plus, the upcoming eclipse season!:::::Happy equinox!In the meantime, James Blake dropped a superb album, and I was only able to dive into it this weekend. I am savoring his unique and profound sound. I feel the low beats support my free spirit rising into the heavens —a direct, boundless connection where I can feel my mother's eternal love.Below is the soundtrack to this post. Now that I've put one and two together, it is the perfect background to talk about transcendence and machines from other dimensions of time (droids) and angels all together.Happy birthday to two outstanding musicians, James Blake and Nick Cave.Enjoy, Monika September 24, 2013Liminal statesIt could be a place,A state of being,A physical reality,A bridging agent,A transcendent motion.Whatever you are emerging,Wherever you are stepping into,Moving forward,Embodying,Whatever you have left behind will always be with you,Like the Nodal axis, it carries the information at a cellular level, it has been slowly almagating, integrating, In a state of becoming…Looking back to move ahead while assimilatingLet's take a closer look at the last 4.5 years, starting when the North Node of the Moon entered the sign of Cancer in November 2018. For a span of 18.6 months, it compelled humanity to become more aware of our emotional safety. By the end of that cycle, it had kept the entire population grounded at home. Then, in May 2020, it moved into the sign of Gemini, opening up the possibility for curiosity to guide our daily activities.Fast forward to January 2022, when it entered Taurus. The focus shifted to our essential needs and values concerning safety and security. From mid-July 2023 until January 2025, our focus will shift towards our individuality. We'll notice how having leverage in relationships grants us the freedom to be ourselves and express our uniqueness with courage.Throughout this entire cycle, we've also left behind corrupted, crooked pillars that held ideologies no longer wholesome. This created a meaning crisis, leading to questioning and confronting addictive behaviors that stemmed from traumatic imprints. Now, until January 2025 when the nodal axis crosses the 29° of Pisces, we have the capability to form meaningful relationships with things, situations, or people that resonate with our sovereign values.In February 2026, Saturn and Neptune converge at 0° Aries, heralding a complete dissolution of what we consider reality. The last time they met was 37 years prior in Capricorn, in 1989. During that conjunction the Soviet Union and parts of Europe witnessed the dissolution of structures that had been implemented and modified since 1953 with the death of Stalin, (they met in the sign of Libra). Prior to that, in the sign of Leo, Nov 1917 Lenin implemented a totalitarian regime, where ideologies deprived citizens of their basic civil rights and property. In a very chilling fashion, we are currently witnessing similar behavior in the European Union and the USA.In 1953, this ideology spread to China, resulting in the destruction of individualism under the guise of a cultural revolution. The zero-degree mark in Aries in 2026, signifies a significant shift in energy, ushering in new beginnings. The question arises: -will humanity be able to reconnect with its true essence, or has the programming been so deeply ingrained that we are unable to detect and break away from it? Many people will be disillusioned, while others will initiate new structures centered around individual accountability. The North node, I repeat, is the point of intake; the south node is the point of release or evacuation. In animal organisms the biological functions can be shown to operate alongside of an alimentary tube; food is absorbed at one end, and waste products are excreted at the other end - "north" and "south."[…] The French composer, Saint-Saens, was fond of saying: "I compose just like an apple tree produces apples." The true creative artist releases almost automatically art products that his psycho-mental organism produces spontaneously and of which, in a sense, he has to get rid. He acts in relation to his culture, or to a special group of individuals constitut

NOTE: this is a long article so take your time and enjoy!Don’t tread on me, first Jaiden then the rest of us. I have to say, stories like Jaiden Rodriguez’ fill my heart with inspiration and somehow validate the urge I feel to stay true to my authentic path. It has never been easy, for one may have to eat lunch by oneself, probably sustain attacks by people who feel threatened by one’s personal views, face unfollows, un-invitations and even being canceled 🙄 [rolled-eyes emoji]. Handling the reactions from the herd can, at times, be quite comical.I had initially planned to write about the programming we are subjected to through the media, television, the current curriculum in education, the internet, Hollywood, and various other influences. My tone was rather hostile and occasionally filled with rage. I softened it a bit since Jaiden sparked a wave of admiration and affirmed the importance of independent thinking and non-compliance.By following this story, I find the optimist in me, as I keep smiling, Knowing that there are incredibly courageous and unique individuals willing to stand up for their beliefs, embrace curiosity, and learn from diverse sources, warms my heart.Jaiden had been reading the Tuttle Twins, and if you don’t know what or who they are, or what they teach, you are in for a treat!Voilà!The mud in the desert…You know, there's this other kind of programming we deal with – FOMO, or the Fear of Missing Out. It's like this constant nagging feeling that we're gonna miss out on all the cool stuff. It makes us do things we might not really want to do, just because we're afraid of missing out on the action, whether it's parties, trends, festivals, rituals, or opportunities. We've got to keep it in check and try to live life on our own terms, unafraid of having other people’s needs projected on our own individual behavior instead of constantly chasing what everyone else is doing. To trust the narrative or to DYOR [do your own research]? A.I. + Propaganda can lead straight to dystopiaNo one shapes your brain more than you do by complying! To manifest freedom,To manifest freedom of speechTo abide by laws and yet feel free to express one’s views unafraid.To be judged, To be ostracized,To be compliant. To know your mind belongs to the herd.To believe machines are against you.To lie in ignorance because one fails to question and flops at being curious To inquiry beyond what one perceives as “true”To Be courageous is to be Assertive To have the heart and the passion at handTo initiate a path from not knowing the end of your discoveryFear, as in stress or FOMO, immobilizes or moves us away from being authentic.We shape our lives based on our thoughts that become our actions, and with frequency, our habits will end up building character and outline a life’s destiny. Be mindful of your inner chatter, of your environment, of what is entering your brain, as know that ANYTHING can shape your behavior.Are we defined and doomed from the start? Bringing acceptance to the plate and releasing the chains that enslave our minds to keep feeding the machine that limits our freedom.End of rant… [for now]It especially annoys me when racists are accused of 'discrimination.' The ability to discriminate is a precious facility; by judging all members of one 'race' to be the same, the racist precisely shows himself incapable of discrimination. ~Christopher Hitchens, "Letters to a Young Contrarian"BRAINWASHING: education, cinema, literature, & social constructs = programmingOne of the groups that are more easily extorted or that will never question authority are those in academia or in positions where their reputation is what they milk on, their livelihood depends on their tenure.These groups are the most dangerous, as they are exposed to the easiness of misinformation and disinformation propagated on such social media platforms that really work the muscles of our insecurities: -Do I look or sound like that? -What if I don’t agree? Will I be left out? -Could I be ostracized by my peers?-Am I at risk of ridicule?Similar to an autoimmune disease, where the immune system erroneously targets healthy cells and tissues, these individuals exhibit a preference for suppressing what is inherently sound. They prioritize clinging to positions guided by meticulously devised hierarchical strategies, aiming to secure long-term security despite any prevailing malaise symptoms.They play safety over authenticity, and in the art world, this is an oxymoron– they are supposed to support critical thinking, but instead, they group in herd-like communities, validating each other's beliefs out of fear of missing out (FOMO). Interestingly, these groups are the first ones that jump overboard and disappear when individual authority is needed; perhaps they would show leadership if the trade would benefit the herd. In the meantime, I will explore the similitudes and differences between programming non-sovereign individuals and programming AI language system

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.~Carl JungI never can tell how things will end up but I can surely tell when I am in the middle of a deep transformation. Right now, I am experiencing deeply on a personal level, and I know that pretty much everyone on the planet is going through a collective transformation as well.During an X [Twitter] space, I participated in last night, a listener asked me about these changes, and I found myself focusing on one message: We are pulsating a mutation, and as the old corrupted walls of decay either fall or the old structures dissolve, even the most feisty among us will either surrender and give in or will be completely crushed by the new wave of ordeals. It is an individual choice, I may say!We are beyond good and evil.Since this dichotomy is a very important juxtaposition to embrace, integration and synthesis are in order. Through tough angles, we are forced to give in or breakthrough. Allowing the flow of the energy to transcend. Mom has taught me a valuable lesson: her body while fasting after 30 days shows no sign of giving up, instead, it regenerates all tissues as an act of purification. Her fierceness is something I also have in me. Her transmission in the past week will support my way in upcoming times…We are the ones we are waiting for A phrase bordering on cheesiness might be as true as it sounds, For there is no second coming,There's no big savior or political agenda that can magically solve all our problems.No FEMA, no socialist, no liberal-Republican-monarchical, anarchist-political agenda that has the answer to the place in history where we find ourselves. The second coming depends on our responsibility.A whole lot of planets are in retrograde. Astro update > This means even more reflection.-Do you know who you are?-What motivates you?-What your values are?-What triggers you?-Do you have a Plan B, Plan C, or even Plan D? just in case?-How far are you willing to serve for the good of humankind?-Are you still a taker, pretending no one is watching?Virgo time is about discernment and all details point toward purification. There is no sacrifice but rather an offering, the subtle distinction still empowers you. While you make an offering, some joy emanates, when you sacrifice a limb for the good of all, you will focus on the hole it generates. Switch frequency bands. There is always something nice playing elsewhere. During the next weeks be objective and take note of what makes you unique. Take stock of all the areas of your life The joke is on us:The corrupted elites will try to play another big scam-demic (if you know what I mean…) It is up to you to decide whether to comply or not.I won’t comply. I am not alone but on my own. -Have you done enough research on themes related to resources, talents, and money?-How about growing Food? -About your health, how is your immune system this time after 3 years, did you finally learn how to take care of it? do you need a list of some herbs and ancestral wisdom beyond the corrupted Medical - Insurance system?-How about Trauma? would you like a link to Gabor Mate’s incredible work? Have you healed yet from ancestral drama?-Small communities, are you resonating with the right peeps? or do you still wonder quietly, who are these people I have around me? And what have I done (or not done) to deserve them?FYI: The last three years were a test for what we are about to unfold next.And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."—The Minpins, Roald Dahl* *Another canceled author … “Fat,” “ugly,” “crazy” and even “female” — these are some of the words that have been controversially scrubbed from Roald Dahl’s famed children’s books by so-called sensitivity experts. Be wary of all the rapid changes in society overtaking our lives, look into all the agendas, and follow the money trail. keep asking questions, and for F*ck’s sake DO NOT COMPLY! Remember, when in fear stay curious! In the fall, I am committing to deepen my studies in BioGeometry, (more on that soon), I can hear my mother’s whispers reaffirming the path, I just surrender and channel. I listen to intuition and validate it with results.The rest manifestations are channeled in words, colors, shapes, sounds, and joy. Yes, pure joy!The worst thing that could happen to me is the best: Transcendence.Until then, I will be purifying my life to be deserving of that precious moment I fear not. P.S.,I will retake the AI subject matter as soon as I have more time…Be well.Everything is under the influence of everything else.~ Thich Nhat Hanh, No death, no fear, Try to make nothing, Transforming grief and fear, 2002Somehow this song just popped up::: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visi

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.~Carl JungLeading with affectionThis article will be short, I need to take off for a few days during this wonderful Venus retrograde. We just hit the midpoint on August 13th when Venus will initiate the journey back to being a night star. For me, this 42-day period has been and still is a chance to reflect and dive into the depths of my being. It's an opportunity to uncover the hidden treasures that define my uniqueness and creativity, allowing me to integrate them more fully.I find myself in a profound connection with something genuinely invaluable to me: my freedom. Every facet of it, from the tangible to the intangible, the purpose of my creative expression gives me an incredible amount of joy, even when times are challenging. The upcoming New Moon in Leo is intended to emphasize Venus' journey through an awareness of the capacities we hold as individuals to create a unique journey of creative expression, yielding and igniting inner radiance.Between paragraphs and quotes, there are bits and pieces, connected and disconnected, making sense or not. This sense-making belongs to the eye of the beholder, for the aim of these writings is purely a reflective, personal inner dialogue that I happen to be willing to share.Prior to the emergence of something new that could evolve into significance, a juxtaposition is often crafted.Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change but in the dialectic between the two.~Octavio PazDialectics or Polemics?Within the realm of metamorphosis, a captivating interplay unfolds—where juxtaposition, dialectic interrelationships, and clashes of perspectives meet. This convergence fuels the pursuit of harmonious integration, delicately attuned to the nuances of time and space. Evolution is influenced by the environment in which it takes place. Organisms need to adapt to their surroundings and find ways to integrate new traits or structures in a way that suits the demands of their environment. These principles encapsulate the essence of epigenetics. When humans attune themselves to the frequency or vibration of their surroundings, the evolving outcome might encompass qualities of heightened awareness. This state of being extends to how we interact with ourselves and those nearby, as their presence can shape our behaviors and responses. We could engage in polemics, or decide on civilized ways to diverge and explore a variety of outcomes without having to unload the weapons. In ancient Greek times, the crafts of rhetoric and polemics were used to convince audiences and dismantle opposing arguments. -Can we as individuals immerse ourselves in the practice of dialectics, attentively embracing a range of perspectives and nurturing an environment for open dialogue?This pathway has the potential to spark innovation, catalyzing a transformative shift that results in a harmonious realignment of all life forms.Open emergent space gives way to creation. The Sun is our light, without its life force, we cease to be. Thus, I dedicate myself to honoring its rhythmic journey, synchronizing my inner time with the changing seasons. I enjoy Venus’remaining time in the underworld seeking a reconnection and brand new relationship to my essence, a preparation for whatever humanity requires of me as a human being, all for the greater good.There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build,a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away,a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak,a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace~EcclesiastesWhen it comes to engaging in systematic reasoning, exposition, and argumentation, it takes skill to effectively bring together divergent or conflicting concepts. The goal is to find harmony amidst discord, and this is achieved through the careful exploration and analysis of opposing ideas. Ultimately, the pursuit of truth and resolution is what drives this method of discourse.~ANAR-Key, [my collection of Chatbots] 3rd revised version.I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. War does not determine who is right - only who is left. The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world, the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.~Bertrand RussellEnchanted, pronounced, and delivered. Sacred space is the earthly image of the CosmosOur experience of time is not linear but rather a continuous flow of duration. Our feelings and sensations are intimately connected

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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