{"podcast":{"title":"I am OPTimist","slug":"i-am-optimist-7143643","podcast_index_feed_id":7143643,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/731823.rss","website_url":"https://www.monikabravo.blog/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/731823/a21b09d8cc174423adcae82bcde087d4.jpg","author":"Monika Bravo","episode_count":184,"summary":"Exploring the creative architecture of a polymath and multidisciplinary artist, sharing a living and individuated journey across shadow work, bitcoin, evolution, astrology, myths, art, and the principles of freedom, Austrian economics, and natural law.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-23T06:19:12.920320+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/i-am-optimist-7143643"},"episode":{"title":"Mesmerizing","slug":"mesmerizing","published_at":"2026-08-22T19:29:07+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/i-am-optimist-7143643/mesmerizing","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/i-am-optimist-7143643","url":"https://www.monikabravo.blog/p/mesmerizing","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/212154805/014f8bcf4366a1afef32fe6aac18eeed.mp3","summary":"What does it make it? Mesmerizing, as soon as there is some light integrating the realm of fantasy, imagination, even of god, with the realm of touching, grounding, earthing, the material that leads us to take action to decide. At times, the decisions can be very blurry, or they cannot be absolutely defined. Since I was little, I was always wanting to stay in this liminal place where I could still be dreaming awake. I would see colors, listen to sounds, and be mesmerized by the stimuli that my senses were perceiving, but was that real, or was that something I was making up? Fast forward many, many years, now I feel that this is how inspiration lands: it lands because I hear something, I see something, I am stimulated by my senses, or even better, by my emotional body. The senses are trying to translate into a form, to a shape, to a sentence, to an idea, into something that must make sense. I like this liminal space that we are in right now in the collective, where most of the things that are revealed are possibly waking more people up. The conspiracy theorist already knew this because we were able to sense these anomalies. We were able to trust our bodies with the knowledge of what really was going to hurt us or not. As an artist, I work not with less is more, but I start with more is more. The more, the merrier. I get stimulated by music or landscape or even just words and ideas, and then I go through a whole journey of accumulation of these, gathering them either printed on the wall or in places that I can have a distance and observe them. This practice is super important, not only in art but in life. The accumulation of stimuli can sometimes distort what we see, our perception. If our perception is distorted, then the narratives we create can have severe consequence…","meta_description":"What does it make it? Mesmerizing, as soon as there is some light integrating the realm of fantasy, imagination, even of god, with the realm of touching,…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1254,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/i-am-optimist-7143643/episodes/mesmerizing/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/i-am-optimist-7143643/mesmerizing.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}