{"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":176,"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":"2026-07-26T02:17:21.181753+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/i-am-optimist-7143643"},"episode":{"title":"The Battlefield is a frequency","slug":"the-battlefield-is-a-frequency","published_at":"2026-02-08T00:32:01+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/i-am-optimist-7143643/the-battlefield-is-a-frequency","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/i-am-optimist-7143643","url":"https://www.monikabravo.blog/p/the-battlefield-is-a-frequency","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/187190424/f021d2ca7f7945485459910d676a892c.mp3","summary":"In this flow, mind and matter are not separate substances. Rather, they are different aspects of one whole and unbroken movement. -David Bohm from Wholeness and the Implicate Order So what happens when you come down off the tower into the battlefield and your point of view changes from overall to, I’ve got to deal with the next thing. Have any of you ever done either Taijiquan, shadowboxing, or Aikido’s Randori. They teach adaptability, spatial awareness, and non-resistance, requiring the defender to redirect energy, stay mobile, and constantly face new threats. In this praxis, you have to deal one by one, step by step, with the opponent; and it’s interesting, because even if a lot of things come your way, you have to choose one by one how to deal with it in the moment, creating a state of presence. So when you decide to come down from the tower or the mountain to the field, it is important, in my view, my humble view, that you understand the field, the environment. What is it made of? Because everything that you will think and how you are going to respond is going to be altered by the influence of the field, the environment. It is also very interesting how people refer to life being either a battlefield or being a field full of creativity. I can tell from when I was growing up with my mom, a recent widow, she was always referred to somebody who was a good fighter, so resilient and people admired her because she was very strong and at the same time she had a lot of volition and she will make things happen. Now, looking back, people were trying to say things in a different way. If I look back what my mom did after my father passed, even before, she prepared the field full of seeds toward creating something that will actually be her life in education for her children and…","meta_description":"In this flow, mind and matter are not separate substances. Rather, they are different aspects of one whole and unbroken movement. -David Bohm from Wholene…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1176,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/i-am-optimist-7143643/episodes/the-battlefield-is-a-frequency/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/the-battlefield-is-a-frequency.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}