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The forest did not stay quiet for long. By the time we regrouped after that first afternoon of finding footprints and structures, something had already shifted. Not in the forest itself, but in a number of the individuals who had shared the experience. People were paying attention differently. Conversations were deeper, more meaningful. Not forced, just naturally more relevant. You could see it in small things, like how people walked more purposefully, or how they scanned the tree line without making a big deal about it. The group had moved from curiosity into awareness. We went back into the forest. There was no big announcement or dramatic lead-in. We simply gathered and walked in at night, in the dark. Walking into the forest at night is very different from walking in during the day. In daylight, you can orient yourself quickly. You see the terrain, distances, shapes. At night, all of that changes. Depth perception drops off, and your hearing becomes much more important. You start relying less on sight and more on how things feel and sound. We moved as a group, but with space between us. Close enough to stay connected, but not packed together. At first, everything sounded normal. Footsteps, branches, wind through the trees. Then, after a while, we started hearing other sounds. The first one was a hoot. It wasn’t loud, and it wasn’t right next to us, but it was clear. It didn’t sound random or like something falling. It had a distinct, intentional quality to it. Nobody reacted dramatically when the hoot was heard. Two miles into the forest, we reached the spot. A couple of us knew that the young Sasquatch were planning a run through near the group. They are known to do this in the area, and it is very playful. Then we heard movement off to one side. It wasn’t continuous, more like something stepping and then stopping. A little later, something similar came from a different direction. Todd would announce the sounds, their distance, and their nature. The excitement from the young Sasquatch could be felt very strongly. At this point, the Sasquatch adults stopped the planned meeting. The reason was that there were members in our party who were already terrified, and that was not the point of having a physical meetup. I have seen this behavior from the Sasquatch in the past. They will put those who are not ready to sleep, and if they refuse to sleep, they will stop the planned meeting. Of course, they don’t stop meetings with everyone at the local Makah tribe or local hunters just because they are afraid. We know of many people who have been terrified during their meetings, and the Sasquatch continue to come back to them. But for our group, it has been a common occurrence that they won’t come if someone in the group is in a terrified state. We went quiet to hear the sounds in the forest instead, but after a short while, Larry felt that the young ones were “bored”. That we had stopped talking and moving, and now were boring. By now, it was very late and cold. We decided to leave, and our bard, Martha, started singing. The rest of us sang along and the energy from the sasquatch became bright and enthusiastic again. Next week, we will talk about the next group outing, they didn’t just go back into the forest. They stayed overnight. Inside the Wisdom Keeper section of the podcast, this is where the experiences start to diverge. Everyone was in the same place, hearing the same sounds, but what they noticed and how they processed it varied quite a bit. Some picked up on patterns in the movement. Others became aware of communication in ways they hadn’t expected. A few realized they had been sensing more than they initially thought, but didn’t have a framework for it until later. Those conversations don’t come across well in summary. They’re better heard directly from the people who were there. Next week, in Part 3, we’ll go into the overnight camp, the structures we were led to, and the physical evidence we found the following day. And we’ll look more closely at a question that starts to come up once these experiences repeat: Are we finding them… or are they choosing when and how to show themselves? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dttr.substack.com/subscribe

Todd Standing is a Canadian Sasquatch researcher with decades of field experience under his belt. He doesn’t study Sasquatch from a computer screen. He goes out into the wilderness and has physical encounters with this elusive species. Not only that, but instead of writing books and trying to “prove” that Sasquatch exists, he now focuses on being a bridge between Sasquatch and people. He has a popular YouTube channel where he shares videos and evidence, and most importantly, he takes people into the wilderness so they can have their own experiences. We first came to know Todd in 2018-19. While watching his documentary Discovering Bigfoot, Larry’s mother, Makah Elder Deanna of the Makah Tribe in the northwest of the USA, was walking past the television. She looked up and shouted, “look! That’s a Sasquatch! That’s exactly what they look like. That’s what I saw in the woods by the road just a few weeks ago.” That moment changed the tone in the room immediately. Although I had seen a Sasquatch in our backyard, I had not seen his face. Only his body from the chest down as he ran through the woods, his shoulders and head hidden by tree branches. I had also heard a couple of them speaking to each other in a fast, unfamiliar, almost rhythmic language. At another time, I recorded multiple long, extremely loud wails. So when Deanna spoke, we listened. Larry and I went from casually watching the documentary to paying very close attention. We contacted Todd and invited him to the Rez for a conversation. At the time, we assumed Todd had recreated his experiences for the film. That the images were not actual Sasquatch. But after Elder Deanna identified one immediately, and then shared her own experiences seeing them in and around the Makah Indian Reservation her entire life, that question of whether the images were recreated or real, stopped mattering. Deanna’s approval and recognition was enough for us. So for those who try to prove that Todd fabricated the images, I’ll say this: even if he did, they are extremely accurate representations. And I would also say, “you are asking the wrong question”. The right question is, “where can I meet one myself?” For us, the firsthand recognition by Makah Elders carried more weight than any external debate about the authenticity of the images in Todd’s documentary. What is true and cannot be faked is that Todd has spent decades encountering, observing, and communicating with Sasquatch. That becomes evident very quickly when you are around him. And also because the local Sasquatch tribes genuinely like Todd. As Native Americans, Larry and I have never questioned the existence of Sasquatch. Asking us if Sasquatch exists is like asking if frogs exist. It is a nonsensical question. When I spoke with Elder Deanna at the time, she told me that the separation between the Makah people and the Sasquatch tribes in the area was relatively recent. She said that before that separation, Sasquatch and Makah would meet regularly to exchange medicine and stories. Unfortunately, Elder Deanna passed some years ago, and we can no longer ask her to expand on that relationship. Have I seen Sasquatch? Yes. With my physical eyes. I have also heard them with my physical ears. And not just running through the woods a few yards from me. They physically came into the Shamanshack where I met them to figure out medicine for one of their babies.And they communicate in multiple ways, including through the method I teach in my class Experiential Telepathy, which is a primary form of communication across the Universe. So, yes I have also heard them and seen them with my inner ears and eyes. Since that first visit with Todd, we have hosted him and his expeditioners most years in the spring, when Sasquatch activity in the valley increases. Or perhaps it’s not that they become more active… but that we do. That we pay closer attention when Todd facilitates our time in the deep forest. Todd brings a fascinating group of people each year. Through these visits, we form new connections, and our own tribe steps into a different way of interacting with the forest. We go out not just to observe, but to engage, to listen, and to communicate as a group. Something we don’t typically do. On our podcast, Driving To The Rez, we share the broader story of this year’s visit (2026). But inside the Wisdom Keeper member section of the podcast, we go much deeper. For Todd’s visit, we are releasing the member section of the podcast for free. It is in the Wisdom Keeper section where Todd shares insights about his work that he doesn’t normally speak about publicly. And where our panelists unpack what they experienced during the week of forest trips and explorations, in their own words, without filters or conclusions placed on top of it. If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to step into this kind of interaction, not as an observer but as a participant, that’s where those conversations live. And this particular visit… the forest did not stay quiet for long. Next week we continue our exploration of all the interactions, knowledge and wisdoms experienced during Todd’s 2026 drive to the rez. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dttr.substack.com/subscribe

This week’s Practice Lab Retake the Purpose and Mission Quiz and see what has changed, if anything, from your first results. Reply to this email with your result. Last week we asked what comes next after discovering our purpose and mission. At the very least, it begins to change how we see things. And I would like to remind us here that this quiz is not for those people who are not asking themselves what their purpose for being alive is. It is literally for those who have found our articles and podcasts. For those who have orchestrated a path to shed the veil of illusion and see reality in its true form. It’s for you. For me, the exploration into purpose and mission brought a great deal of clarity about how to proceed with my work here on Earth. Larry and the rest of our panelists had similarly fascinating insights and aha moments. Because of the deeply personal nature of these explorations, we share them within our supporter space, where the container allows for honesty, depth, and real discovery. What I noticed most was the shift from surface-level answers like “to be happy”, “follow my passion”’, or “to have fun experiences” — which are often inherited from societal programming — into deeper, more authentic reasons for existing. Personally, I took the quiz several times, and my mission statement became increasingly precise. What surprised me most was not just that it changed — but how refined it became. One word made all the difference. Originally, the phrase had the words “takes form.” But something felt slightly off. When it shifted to the words “becomes form,” there was a clear internal alignment. That level of precision matters more than we think. I share this with you because even one word can reveal whether something is true — or slightly misaligned. The quiz suggests you “truth” your mission statement. I would go further and say: truth every word. There are many tools available for this. I personally use the one I teach in the Truth and Lies class. For deeper exploration, join us in the Wisdom Keeper Hour at the Driving To The Rez podcast — where the conversation is not one-way. And perhaps, as you begin to see more clearly why you are here, you will notice something subtle but undeniable… the light within was never waiting. It was already rising — becoming form whether you noticed it or not. The discussion doesn’t stop here - listen to the full podcast episode for unfiltered insights from Inelia and our panelists. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dttr.substack.com/subscribe

This week’s Practice Lab Following last week’s Purpose and Mission Quiz, at least once a day for the next week, use your mission statement when making a small decision. For example: “Will eating this fruit support my mission?” Reply to this email with your result. We found that most lightworkers are here to assist the shift from light/dark to light-only. How that happens — how you do that — is the question many people are asking themselves right now. Western society often teaches us that we are here to have fun, follow our passion, and seek pleasure or consumption. I remember when I came to live in the USA, one of the first things I was advised to do to have a good and fulfilling life here was to start working on and build a good credit score. But you likely already sense that those are not sufficient reasons for the Universe to conspire for you to be born at this exact time, as the person you are, seeking out others like you. On the Wisdom Keeper Hour, our panelists shared their own journeys of discovery using the quiz. Some missions went from “having fun” to “weaving light”. On a surface level, these things might not seem related to each other, but as the person revisits each of their quiz answers, the path from one to the other becomes very clear. Larry’s example was particularly interesting, as the words he initially used for his mission could easily be misinterpreted as low frequency. Part of the quiz helps reveal whether a mission statement is still embedded in the light/dark paradigm. How can we tell? At its core, the light/dark paradigm is anchored in fear. Around that, layers form: cycles of victim and aggressor, amnesia about who we are, and blinders that distort perception. Eventually, we begin to believe darkness is necessary — and that belief becomes the cage. And yet, here we are.Discovering who we truly are.What we are here to do.And who we are here to do it with. So, what’s next? In the Wisdom Keeper Hour, we explore the next steps. While every journey is unique, there is one common thread: No one reading this article is here by accident. The discussion doesn’t stop here - listen to the full podcast episode for unfiltered insights from Inelia and our panelists. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dttr.substack.com/subscribe

Week 1 Before we discuss why you are here, I would like to make a short announcement. After using the quiz~~, which I will share with you in this newsletter,~~ something became very clear. My mission has changed. You may or may not know this, but although my purpose, “to make the world buzz better,” has stayed the same throughout my life, my mission (as a public person) has gone from “raise the vibration of the planet” to “raise the frequency of the planet” to “deliver the message of empowerment.” And now, after taking that quiz, it has become: “The light within rises and becomes form.” This is not a “speaker/audience” relationship between us anymore. It is now a very co-creative relationship, an active, co-creative partnership in bringing in the New-Paradigm to express physically and experientially for all of us. To reflect this new mission, I will be adding a short and simple Practice Lab at the start of each weekly newsletter: a simple exercise you can do to support our path to facilitate the light to rise and become form in our lives. Therefore this article is not just me writing and you reading, but it includes you testing what I write about in your own life. This week’s Practice Lab Take this short Quiz and discover your own purpose and mission. . Reply to this email with your result. After a recent newsletter and podcast, “Why ‘What Do I Want?’ Is the Wrong Question,” Driving To the Rez, Episode 281, Parts 1 and 2, something very interesting happened. We began a conversation in our Dojo, Walk With Me Now, about each of our purposes and missions. This led to the realization that the process of discovery could be quite involved, and time intensive, with much back and forth to drill into the precise reasons many of us came here at this time. The core of the conversation was about how to make decisions based on your purpose and mission rather than just using “what do I want” The conversation continued with how I use a very simple sentence to determine if a decision is the right one: “Does this decision facilitate my mission?” To me, it was simple and straightforward. But here’s where things got interesting — the biggest question that came out of that conversation was: “What is my purpose and mission?” In February 2026, we explored this in our articles and podcasts “Why ‘What Do I Want?’ Is Not the Right Question.” The conversation in the Wisdom Keeper Hour became so expansive that we split it over three weeks. This is indeed a very important discussion to have right now. What followed was that many people at Walk With Me Now began actively exploring why they are here — and what they came to do. Soon after, our DTTR panelist Dr. Kara began creating an interactive quiz designed to go deeper than surface answers like “I am here to be happy.” With Larry’s help using vibecoding, and with input from our community, the quiz quickly evolved through testing and refinement. Version one is linked at the top of this article for you to try. You can edit your answers, retake it, and refine your clarity over time. Next week, we will explore the diversity of missions and purposes — and how discovering them can begin to reshape your life. The discussion doesn’t stop here - listen to the full podcast episode for unfiltered insights from Inelia and our panelists. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dttr.substack.com/subscribe

The Powerful Legions of Light Around the world, there are billions who carry light not as a trend, not as a reaction, but as a position of power. They may look ordinary from the outside. They have families, jobs, responsibilities, daily routines. But internally, they are steady. Trained. Clear. Although up to this day they have been asleep, indulging in light/dark, keeping the docket stamped day in and day out. For them, the flare in the sky that is shaped as a Fire Horse will tell them it is time to stop darkness in their lives and become their true selves. The selves that: Are not glued to outrage cycles.Are not baited by every provocation.Are not destabilized by headlines. But instead they are building. Creating. Anchoring. Clearly seeing reality for what it is. Correctly perceiving their true nature. As they look at the flare of the Fire Horse year, it is not a call to scramble. It is a signal of confirmation. Stand where you are. The powerful legions of light are not being summoned into battle. They are being reminded of their strength. They are asked to wake up and open their eyes to see what is now visible. Have you felt that you can no longer: Shrink to make others comfortable.Dilute clarity to avoid being labeled.Enter shadow arenas to prove endurance. That is because light-only is not softness. It is mastery. It is command. It is the discipline to hold coherence when chaos tries to recruit you. The powerful legions of light are not waiting for the Fire Horse. They ARE the Fire Horse. The force of this year does not belong to chaos. It belongs to those steady enough to direct it. The momentum, the acceleration, the exposure, all of it becomes power in the hands of those aligned with clarity and vision. The Fire Horse does not drag the legions of light. It is the legions of light. And the legions of light don’t brace for impact, they are the impact. I hope this article was long enough to find you, my friend. The discussion doesn’t stop here - listen to the full podcast episode for unfiltered insights from Inelia and our panelists. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dttr.substack.com/subscribe

Why Lightworkers Will Feel This So Strongly For people who identify as lightworkers, the embodiment of light, the constructors of the light paradigm, leaders, or stabilizers, 2026 will feel like pressure.Not because something is wrong, but because intensity demands integrity. And this year will be intense from beginning to end. For example, you cannot consistently energize inner or outer despair and claim you are anchoring light. It simply will not work. Not only that, but it will be obvious you are doing it. It will bite you in the … you know where. You cannot fuel conflict online and call it service. Fueling conflict is simply feeding the beast. The moment you attack another person for their choices, you are part of the problem. The us vs. them cycle will burn you if you stay in it. You cannot rehearse worst-case, fear-filled futures and expect to stand as a stabilizing presence, a gate to the light. It just won’t work. The Fire Horse will blast you into space. This is not about pretending darkness does not exist, or about putting up with abuse, violence, exploitation, or other forms of darkness. It is about refusing to feed it as entertainment, identity, or habit. It is about refusing to give it excuses or value. It is about it becoming visible to us and us refusing to indulge in it anymore. That is the practical meaning of “light-only paradigm” in a Fire Horse cycle. The End of Indulgent Darkness For many years now, we have been educated and encouraged in a peculiar luxury: the indulgence of negativity. Not just experiencing pain. Not just healing trauma. But dwelling in darkness as an identity.Curating outrage. Performing victimhood or “justified” aggression. Giving darkness value for contrast, learning, lessons, or inevitability. It has almost become fashionable to orbit darkness while claiming awareness. The Fire Horse doesn’t allow time for these types of indulgences without the lightworker getting burned to cinders. A Fire Horse year does not sustain that indulgence comfortably. This year is a flare shot into the sky over a battlefield that has stretched for lifetimes. Not a flare to signal danger or a cry for help. It is a flare to identify positions. A flare that lights the dark landscape. Where the landscape becomes visible. A light that allows you to see not only where your guidance steps, but where you are, where you stand. A light that shows where the darkness lies in wait. Where the traps are, where their bullets are flying. I repeat, when a flare goes up, you see exactly where you stand and what is around you. There is no more romanticizing shadow work as a lifestyle. No more hiding inertia behind “processing.” No more pretending neutrality while feeding despair. The Fire Horse burns away the luxury of spiritual ambiguity. Or actions based on ignorance. Or the refusal to realize you are an adult and have been gifted with free will. That YOU choose. The discussion doesn’t stop here - listen to the full podcast episode for unfiltered insights from Inelia and our panelists. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dttr.substack.com/subscribe

Chapter One There are years that feel ordinary while you are living them. Whispered years. Years that you don’t remember once they are over. Maybe, if something did happen in one of those years, you only understand later that something shifted. The Year of the Fire Horse is not a whispering year. In the Chinese zodiac cycle, the Horse is movement, vitality, forward momentum, raw life force. Add Fire to that, and the energy does not stroll. It gallops. It blazes. It exposes. It refuses stagnation. The Fire Horse does not tolerate fences built from fear, complacency, or stagnation. It does not tolerate fences built from anything, actually. Historically, Fire Horse years have been associated with intensity and social change. They stir people from complacency. They amplify what already exists. They accelerate timelines. They reveal where something is alive and where it has decayed. In 1966, the world did not whisper. The Cultural Revolution erupted in China, unleashing ideological purges and youth-driven extremism. At the same time, The Beatles released Revolver, pushing music, consciousness, and culture into unfamiliar territory. Psychedelic experimentation entered mainstream awareness. The Vietnam War escalated. Protest movements strengthened. The space race accelerated. The collective drive to enlightenment and awakening was hijacked into a hyper-individual identity. The “I AM” path became louder than the shared field of true enlightenment. 1966 was not a quiet year. And it was Light/Dark. The same intensity that fueled creative breakthroughs also fueled destruction. The same fire that broke artistic barriers also burned institutions to the ground. The energy itself was neutral. The direction it took depended on who held it. And as the holders of power were light/dark, so were the results at a global social scale, dipped in light and dark. The energy from 1966 fueled the light/dark paradigm for decades. The light/dark paradigm drivers know about the Year of the Fire Horse. They know the energy it encompasses, and they know how to use it. Here is the clincher for 2026, however: The light rules. The words “light rules” are not said in a sentimental way. Not in a triumphalist way. But structurally. The field has shifted from light/dark to light-only. What worked in 1966 to derail collective awakening will not function the same way now. At least, it will not function in the same way for those who have chosen LIGHT. For those who choose to stay in light/dark, sure, it functions the same way for them. And it will be fast and furious as it materializes their choice. The Fire Horse runs fast this year. Darkness or hyper-individualism expressed as a personal path of enlightenment will no longer be an option for the rest of us, however. For us, the LIGHT, the Fire Horse opens its eyes, shakes the chains and dusts them off, rears, finds a focus, and runs fast and furious, not caring what falls in its path. And what falls in its path this year is darkness. Inner darkness, outer darkness, all darkness. It will burn. Burn. Burn. The discussion doesn’t stop here - listen to the full podcast episode for unfiltered insights from Inelia and our panelists. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dttr.substack.com/subscribe

Last week we ended with a question. A better decision-making question: Does this choice support the mission I am here to fulfill? One of the reasons I adopted this method is that I realized I had no idea how to live in a physical universe or how to make decisions within it. When I tried using conventional decision-making frameworks, the outcomes were often disastrous. A common example is the advice: “Get a degree so you can be financially independent.” That advice, by itself, isn’t wrong. But it is incomplete. It fails to address why financial independence is desirable. If the underlying motivation is fear of poverty, the result will likely be poor. If the motivation is the ability to support your village or community, the outcome will almost always be beneficial. Strange as it may sound, decisions made for the larger good reliably lead to greater happiness and satisfaction. Before I explain my method, I need to clarify two terms: purpose and mission. This distinction emerged during one of our WalkWithMeNow.com monthly calls, when Katrin, one of my students, pointed out the difference. We may be born with a purpose, while we consciously choose a mission to carry out that purpose. I was born with the purpose of “making the world buzz better.” That’s how I understood it in toddler language—and by “world,” I meant people. All people. As an adult, I translated that purpose into the mission of “delivering the message of empowerment.” So when I make decisions, I ask a single question:Does this facilitate the delivery of the message of empowerment? On our podcast, we’ll explore how effective this approach becomes when others adopt it. We’ll also discuss how to discover your purpose and how to define a mission that aligns with it. Curious? You should be. This is a vast and meaningful conversation. In the Wisdom Keeper segment of the podcast, you’ll hear directly from our panelists as they share their lived experiences with purpose and mission—the insights, the missteps, and the clarifications that emerged as they walked the path of empowerment. Inelia The discussion doesn’t stop here - listen to the full podcast episode for unfiltered insights from Inelia and our panelists. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dttr.substack.com/subscribe

Choosing Beyond Comfort, Fear, and Personal Trajectory “What do I want?” feels intuitive, but it may be the wrong question to ask when shaping a life. I would like to have a discussion about decision-making through a method I have been using for many years. I could say I’ve used this method my entire life, but that wouldn’t be accurate. There have been entire decades when I discarded it and relied on other parameters instead—parameters aligned with social conditioning, pleasure, and the avoidance of pain. This method is related to stepping away from both body-based and soul-based trajectories within the light/dark paradigm (the material we came in with) and choosing outside of our personal trajectory altogether. The idea of a personal trajectory is actually a very recent invention. Historically, a person did not consider their life path primarily in terms of personal benefit, pleasure, wants, or pain avoidance. These considerations are quite modern—and not natural. Our natural state is to be cradled within the human collective. As part of that collective, we follow the path that brings the greatest benefit and harmony to the whole. It is widely recognized that we are living in unnatural times. As a result, our natural way of making decisions has become difficult—and largely forgotten. We are left asking questions like: How do I make decisions that guarantee what I want out of life? When “what I want out of life” was never a natural reference point to begin with? So what, then, are we left to make decisions from? Most people rely on either the body or the soul to guide them through the decision-making process, while leaving larger existential considerations entirely out of the room. Whenever I talk about including a larger purpose, mission, or collective well-being in personal decision-making, two concerns consistently arise. The first is: “Are you saying I have to become a martyr for the greater good?” The second is: “Does this mean that decisions based on my body are wrong?” A great deal of clarity around body- and soul-based decisions emerged after the publication of my article and podcast, When Pain Warps Your Timeline. Much of that clarification came during our WalkWithMeNow.com monthly call. Before we continue, let’s address the question of martyrdom—specifically, how to tell whether making an uncomfortable or even painful decision in service of a long-term goal or mission is actually a form of martyrdom. Martyrdom occurs when a person takes on pain so that others do not have to feel any. It involves suffering or dying for a cause or for others. There are additional patterns commonly present, such as betrayal by someone the martyr considers a close friend or trusted associate. When you make a decision for the greater good of the planet, it does not mean you are taking pain away from others. If that is how you currently define “the greater good,” then I would suggest that this belief itself is worth examining—specifically, whether it is a belief that genuinely serves life, or one that perpetuates harm. I make no secret of the fact that, for me, any teaching that frames pain as inherently good or necessary—for you or for others—is a harmful teaching. It validates and normalizes suffering. I teach that suffering disables individuals and entire populations. Period. Now, I’ll share the method I use to make decisions. I use it most days—for both the smallest and the largest choices in my life—and it consistently produces positive results. A better decision-making question: Does this choice support the mission I am here to fulfill? The discussion doesn’t stop here - listen to the full podcast episode for unfiltered insights from Inelia and our panelists. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dttr.substack.com/subscribe

What Happens After the Door Is Already Open The first conversation around the album Larger Earth asked a simple but destabilizing question: What if Earth is already larger than we were taught to perceive? The second conversation begins somewhere else entirely. It starts after the moment of widening. After the kitchen feels different.After the street you’ve walked a thousand times seems to have more depth than pavement should allow.After you realize nothing has changed, and yet everything is quietly rearranged. Part two of the podcast does not try to define the Larger Earth. It sits with what happens once perception has already slipped its old leash. When Expansion Becomes Ordinary One of the strangest things about expanded perception is how quickly it becomes… normal. There is often an expectation that awareness arrives with fireworks, or at least a dramatic internal monologue. In reality, it tends to show up like an extra room you suddenly realize has always been part of the house. You don’t gasp every time you walk through it. You just start using it. This is where many people get confused. They think the experience has “faded,” when in fact it has integrated. Suddenly, what seemed extraordinary is as much part of life as breathing. Were you alive before cellphones were released to the public? Yeah, like that. The Larger Earth does not pull you away from life. It threads itself through it. On this side, the containment side, bills still need paying. Conversations still happen. Emails still arrive. And yet, something fundamental has shifted in how those moments are held. Not transcendence.Choice of view. Why Music Works Where Language Stalls This is also where music quietly re-enters the conversation. Language excels at categorization. Music excels at awareness. You don’t need to understand a soundscape to know where it places you internally. Luc Lake’s work doesn’t instruct the listener to expand. It offers a frequency environment where expansion is nourished. Music is not there to convince you of anything, just allow you the space to remember. The conversation continues in part two of the podcast, where these ideas are allowed to breathe, overlap, and occasionally contradict one another in useful ways. You are invited, the door is open, it is up to you to step through. The discussion doesn’t stop here - listen to the full podcast episode for unfiltered insights from Inelia and our panelists. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dttr.substack.com/subscribe

Who Is Luc Lake, Anyway, and Why Am I Talking About Him? Luc Lake is one of my created artists, and his life is shrouded in mystery. No one at my studio knows where he lives, where he comes from, or where he goes after a recording session. His latest album, Larger Earth, comes with a disclaimer: “We, at IneliaRecords.com, will neither confirm nor deny that Luc Lake is from the Larger Earth, the stars (whether they are a lake or a reality), an ultra-dimension, the future or the past, or a planet with three suns that is not Earth.” What we do know is that Luc exists where sound meets perception, using music not to tell stories but to open space. He is not a performance persona or a character designed for spectacle. He is very serious about his work and his message. Luc uses few words and a Tech House expression to convey the energetic states he wants us to experience. His music is minimal, spacious, and emotionally rich without being overwhelming. It leaves room. It doesn’t rush meaning or require interpretation. Through Luc Lake, I explore states of awareness that resist explanation but translate clearly into feeling. The tracks are environments you enter and recognize through forgotten knowledge and buried memory. Larger Earth is the first full expression of what the Larger Earth feels like as a place. It is not symbolic. It is not hypothetical. It is not metaphor. It breaks from the known continents and from the shadow of illusion that has shaped how we have been taught to understand Earth. The album was not created to describe a future or propose an idea, but to reflect something many people already sense quietly: that Earth, as lived, is more layered, intelligent, and expansive than the version we were taught to believe exists. In this work, Luc normalizes what might otherwise seem fanciful. He opens doors to perception without telling us what is behind them. It is up to us to open those doors and walk through, or at least peek through the keyhole. There is a moment many people recognize but rarely talk about. Nothing dramatic happens.No vision. No collapse. No revelation scene. You are standing in your kitchen, walking down a familiar street, answering emails, and suddenly the world feels bigger and radically different. Not louder. Not brighter. Just wider. As if reality has more rooms than you were previously allowed to enter. Time stretches, or sometimes collapses, and suddenly several hours have passed. Luc Lake’s album Larger Earth was created to bring clarity to that moment. Not another world.This one, perceived differently. The lyrics on Larger Earth are intentionally spare. They do not tell stories in the usual way, and they do not explain themselves. This is not because something is missing. It is because Luc is not trying to convince you of anything. He is pointing to something you already sense. Something you already know. In real-life terms, the album is not about leaving Earth or escaping human experience. It is about what Earth reveals itself to be when perception expands beyond the narrow bandwidth we were trained to use. Same planet.More perception. Why the Lyrics Don’t Explain Themselves I do teach that meaning and understanding often arrive through definition. However, some experiences collapse when they are over-described. I was very tempted to explain every single line in Luc’s songs, but doing so would defeat the point. The lyrics are not puzzles to solve; they are coordinates. That said, for those who enjoy exploring inspiration and backstory, I will be revealing some of the sources behind specific descriptions, songs, and lines in the Wisdom Keeper section of our podcast, Driving to the Rez. How to Listen to the Album Feel into the music and the lyrics.Let the imagery take you as far as it can.Allow yourself to tap into the remembrance. If you’d like to spend more time with this work, you can download your personal copy of Luc’s album at my store, or listen on Spotify here. We also explore the Larger Earth and the role of music in greater depth on our podcast, where these themes continue to unfold through conversation. Enjoy the music, and the memories. Inelia The discussion doesn’t stop here - listen to the full podcast episode for unfiltered insights from Inelia and our panelists. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dttr.substack.com/subscribe

This article accompanies Part Two of our podcast conversation. In this episode, Larry, the Wisdom Keepers and I continue the exploration that opened last week, allowing the implications around pain, authority, and long-range decision-making to unfold more fully. The conversation is spacious, candid, and goes into places that are difficult to capture in writing alone. You can listen to Part Two of the podcast here: https://www.drivingtotherez.com/p/when-pain-wraps-your-timeline-second Part Two: Authority, Scale, and Long-Range Perception Once we stop treating discomfort as a verdict, a different question appears. Not How do I feel right now?But What actually is my long term purpose if it’s not simply body comfort or pleasure? This is where the conversation deepens. Because the issue isn’t pain itself. Pain is information. The issue is what happens when pain is given authority over time. How Timelines Quietly Collapse Timelines rarely collapse through dramatic failure. More often, they compress through a series of reasonable, well-justified choices that prioritize immediate relief. And sometimes by making one huge life changing decision that concentrates on body comfort instead of a broader awareness and information around the results. How do we know when we went for short term pleasure, over long term plans? The future becomes shorter. Options thin. Movement slows. Not because something went wrong, but because our future plans were never consulted. This is what timeline distortion looks like in real life. Not chaos, but a contraction between what we say our long term plans are, and our choice for short term pleasure. The Difference Between Sensitivity and Authority Sensitivity is not the problem. Being a sensitive person is not the issue here. In fact, it’s a strength. The problem arises when sensitivity is mistaken for leadership. When our discomfort and pain, or the pursuit of pleasure are allowed to lead us. Whether they are emotional, physical, mental or egoic relief or pleasure that is being sought. The body reacts to change, uncertainty, and unfamiliarity as potential threats. That reaction is honest. It is also incomplete. The body cannot see context. It cannot weigh the consequences across years. It cannot perceive trajectory. That is something it depends on you, the soul, to do for it. Yes, your Body depends on your Soul for context, for long term trajectory, for information and choice outside immediate comfort and pain. When bodily signals are obeyed rather than interpreted, authority quietly shifts from awareness to reaction. Being reactive is something we want to overcome because reactions always choose now over later. And being reactive never served us. Why Discomfort Often Appears at the Threshold Discomfort frequently arises at moments of expansion, not because something is wrong, but because something is unfamiliar. New environments, new roles, new responsibilities, and new ways of being all disrupt established patterns. The nervous system registers this disruption as stress, even when the direction itself is coherent. If discomfort is treated as a stop sign instead of a signal, growth stalls. Scale Changes Everything Soul wisdom operates at scale. It considers not only sensation, but timing. Not only emotion, but consequence. Not only relief, but direction. Scale allows discomfort to be placed inside a larger frame, where it can be understood without being automatically obeyed. I am not saying here to invalidate your pain and discomfort, but to see it in the larger context of your long term plans and desires. When scale is restored, the future becomes clear and your plans take precedence. I will stop now and let you get onto Part Two of the podcast. I hope you enjoy our continued conversation this week, it certainly has been very expansive to record. Inelia The discussion doesn’t stop here - listen to the full podcast episode for unfiltered insights from Inelia and our panelists. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dttr.substack.com/subscribe

When Feeling Good Becomes the Goal Instead of the Compass Have you ever heard someone, maybe yourself, say “I checked, and my body said no.” When it comes to making an important decision? Larry and I were talking on our drive home after the Looking at 2026 call about a pattern we’ve seen again and again, not just in others, but in ourselves. When faced with decisions, even important ones, people often choose based on pain avoidance. The deciding factor isn’t what’s best long-term, but whether something feels comfortable or uncomfortable in the body. That choice feels reasonable. It’s also quietly costly. This will often evolve into a Catch-22 situation, always feeding itself into unending circles that have us spinning on our wheels and not getting anywhere. An example of these spinning wheels when we fall for the body decision making by avoiding pain is when the “higher” self will place us in super painful situations in order to shift us to do something else. Like poverty and bad credit ratings, for example, used to stop us from a shopping addiction. Left field! I know. The Body Is Brilliant — and Not in Charge I’ve spoken at length about why body-based resonance and dissonance are not enough to “truth” something even though our body is excellent at finding what is true and what is not. Sensations and emotions can be influenced by unconscious programs, fear responses, or the body’s own agenda. However, even though the body is excellent at seeking comfort and relief and we can use that tendency to find what is true from what is false, the body is not designed to evaluate long-term outcomes that include life changes. The body is designed for the here and now comfort cue, illustrated sometimes by the saying, short term pain for long term gain used to push through discomfort in order to achieve, perhaps, better physical fitness. Body says NO, but WE know better. Another dramatic example is substance addiction: the body prioritizes numbness or pleasure despite the soul knowing the long-term consequences can be catastrophic. The body will tell the person that the truth is that if they have a few drinks, their pleasure and comfort will increase. Yup, it’s true! A short term pleasure for a long term pain, again an instance where the body doesn’t see long term results as relevant. A quieter example is turning down a better job because being the new person feels uncomfortable, even though staying put limits the person’s growth. The body is telling the truth when saying that staying with what is familiar is less stressful (in the short term - the body can’t see long term). In both cases, comfort wins. Wisdom loses. Why Feeling Good Was Never Meant to Make Life Decisions I use bodily sensation as a guidance system in very limited ways. It helps me find lost objects or navigate while driving without an address. For that, it’s precise and useful. But it does not work for life decisions. Change is uncomfortable. Growth disrupts equilibrium. New directions activate fear and uncertainty in the body. If comfort were the deciding factor, no meaningful transformation would ever occur. Short-Term Comfort Is Not the Same as Long-Term Wisdom The phrase “the path of least resistance” often gets misused. What people actually follow is the path of least discomfort. Because change triggers resistance in the body, the mind, and even our co-creators, choosing comfort often results in staying still. The familiar feels safer than the unknown, even when it leads nowhere. “I wanted to move to a high-frequency community, but it rains there all the time and my body can’t stand the rain.” Basing the entire decision of where to live on their body comfort, disregards the entirety of their experience and relationship with their community. Figuring out when it’s fear of pain, or rain, making the decision, or an intuitive guiding system is a fine line. Let’s learn how to discern what is what when it comes to body discomfort. How the Nervous System Prioritizes Relief The body is wired to reduce pain and avoid stress. Discomfort signals danger. The instruction is simple: stop, withdraw, avoid. This system is essential for survival. It is not designed for strategic decision-making. When the body leads, long-term considerations disappear. In our present society, we are taught and wired for instant gratification and endorphin hits. Breaking through the discomfort of change is not something that is encouraged or taught in school. And even the places that teach it, like boot camp in the armed forces, it is done in ways that also include brain washing and following orders that push us past our humaneness. Or cramming for final exams, harsh and hard and uncomfortable, but teaches short term memory of useless data over long term wisdom or discernment. In other words, our society does not teach us any high-frequency reason or way to push past discomfort in order to see a clear long term road ahead. Wisdom Sees Further Than Sensation The body can provide valuable data, but only when framed correctly. Sensations help refine questions. They do not provide answers. Wisdom holds context. It sees timing, consequence, and trajectory. When wisdom leads, the body eventually recalibrates. We have to take this into consideration when dealing with body discomforts as we make our long term decisions. One of the reasons why bodies react so heavily to long term decisions that require change is another aspect of society that is encouraged to disempower us. That is the aspect of teaching people to make decisions on their own (or their spouse if they are married), not as a group or tribe. Group or tribe decision making is so corrupted in society that we have been taught to distrust it absolutely. Huge financial and intellectual investments go into manipulating decision making of leaders and groups of people, making them think they are making good long term decisions when in fact the decisions were made for them. And yes, those manipulations are all comfort/discomfort based. All our bodies are involved in this; emotional, mental, ego, energy as well as physical. I am not giving us an “out” or “excuses” for letting the seeking of comfort and pleasure be our main decision making tool. I am bringing this information into our awareness so that we can understand what is happening and we can pivot from our previous disabling habits and into empowered ones. Let’s understand what we are doing and not fall into the blame-game here. Why Listening Only to the Body Shrinks Futures Somatic information is useful, but it must be interpreted, not obeyed. Periods of high stress, fear, or loss are especially poor times to use bodily sensation to guide decisions. Emotional processing comes first. Otherwise, fear quietly becomes the decision-maker. And if there’s something more limiting than choosing comfort, it’s choosing from fear. Making long term and life decisions is by default a stressful time for our bodies. So, who is in charge? The body is an extraordinary instrument for navigating a physical world. It is fast, sensitive, and deeply invested in survival. But it was never meant to be a long-term strategist. When we hand authority to comfort or pain avoidance, we don’t stay safe. We stay small, through thousands of reasonable-seeming choices that favor relief and pleasure over direction. Discomfort, fear, mental spinning, and emotional exhaustion do not automatically mean we are doing something wrong. They often mean we are doing something new. Whether it is wrong or right needs further work and exploration. The mistake is not feeling these signals. The mistake is letting them decide for us before we can figure out what they are saying. When the body is under stress, the task is not to reorganize our lives around eliminating those sensations. The task is to restore clarity, process the charge, and step into a wider field of awareness where decisions can be made with context, timing, and purpose intact. From that larger awareness, the body can be met with care rather than obedience. Comfort can follow. But it does not lead. Our mission and long term goals don’t respond to how comfortable we feel and how much pleasure we are getting moment to moment. High-frequency reality responds to who is in charge. Make sure it’s you. The discussion doesn’t stop here - listen to the full podcast episode for unfiltered insights from Inelia and our panelists. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dttr.substack.com/subscribe

Part 2 of the Podcast Conversation If Part 1 is about realizing where you stand,Part 2 is about what it takes to stay there and not get pulled into the dark. There are only two ways forward even when the world pretends there’s more I will stand inside the rising I won’t fracture anymore I won’t carry every choosing I won’t wear another’s fear I let the light within me rise and become what’s real from here This is where the song becomes less poetic and a real tool we can use— not in a “do this” way, but in a lived, embodied way. This conversation continues, giving you more information about what we see in 2026, and what this song embodies for all of us. And how to use it throughout 2026. Because standing isn’t a moment. It’s a relationship with yourself and the reality you are co-creating moment to moment. And how you affect the entire world. Your Mantra. Say it out loud when you catch yourself indulging in negativity, victim aggressor, blame, fear, all the dark frequencies. “The light within rises and takes form - through me” (Disclaimer: no Fairies were harmed or killed in the making of this podcast! - listen to the end of the Wisdom Keeper hour to understand this joke - or not a joke… maybe it’s real?) Podcast Part 2: Staying Steady Without Hardening In Part 2, we talk about: * Why doing without alignment to your true self becomes exhausting this year * Why 2026 exposes reality in a non-linear fashion. * What we do when we think we failed. Tools that take us out of negative indulgence instantly. * What does Lemuria have to do with it? This episode tends to land differently depending on when you listen to it — and I actually love that. It tells me the conversation is interacting with timing, not belief. Wisdom Keeper Hour (Subscriber Conversation) In the Wisdom Keeper Hour for Part 2, we move into territory I don’t usually speak about publicly: * Longer-range implications that became visible during the December 31st live stream * How the STAND frequency carries beyond what we think is “real” * Why some paths close cleanly, while others simply fade away * What holding your position actually requires — energetically, emotionally, relationally and practically This isn’t instruction.It’s confirmation. Well, maybe it is instruction. Or even orders. Marching orders. For many individuals, families and communities, this part puts words to decisions they’ve already made — or truths they’ve been quietly circling. It’s a remembrance, really. Remember. Stay in the light. A Note From Me to You STAND isn’t about defiance.It’s about presence and who you truly are and why you are here. It acknowledges the struggle we will be facing when we can’t influence those we love to choose the light. When they refuse to release power over others, victimhood, aggressor or savior energies. When they get sick and refuse to heal. These two podcast episodes — and the Wisdom Keeper Hour conversations that follow them — are an invitation to listen beneath the lyrics, beneath the year ahead, and beneath the noise, to that place where choice becomes obvious and self-betrayal and fracturing becomes unnecessary. The place where your truth resides and remembrance is yours to hold. 2026 responds quickly. Where you stand matters. I KNOW you’ve already chosen. I see you. Inelia The discussion doesn’t stop here - listen to the full podcast episode for unfiltered insights from Inelia and our panelists. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dttr.substack.com/subscribe