Driving to the Rez - With Inelia Benz and Larry Buzzell

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.IneliaThe 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 www.drivingtotherez.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 www.drivingtotherez.com/subscribe

What Happens After the Door Is Already OpenThe 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 OrdinaryOne 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 StallsThis 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 www.drivingtotherez.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 ThemselvesI 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 AlbumFeel 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.IneliaThe 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 www.drivingtotherez.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-secondPart Two: Authority, Scale, and Long-Range PerceptionOnce 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 CollapseTimelines 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 AuthoritySensitivity 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 ThresholdDiscomfort 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 EverythingSoul 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.IneliaThe 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 www.drivingtotherez.com/subscribe

When Feeling Good Becomes the Goal Instead of the CompassHave 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 ChargeI’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 DecisionsI 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 WisdomThe 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 ReliefThe 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 SensationThe 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 FuturesSomatic 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 www.drivingtotherez.com/subscribe

Part 2 of the Podcast ConversationIf 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 forwardeven when the world pretends there’s moreI will stand inside the risingI won’t fracture anymoreI won’t carry every choosingI won’t wear another’s fearI let the light within me riseand become what’s real from hereThis 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 HardeningIn 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 practicallyThis 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 YouSTAND 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.IneliaThe 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 www.drivingtotherez.com/subscribe

Introducing the Two-Part Podcast ConversationI want to tell you why this song exists and why I gave it away to everyone who participated in the Looking At 2026 call last December.I created this song with my heart, my clarity, allowing the light within rise and become truth — and I’m presenting it to you, one lightworker to another. Yes, YOU.STAND didn’t come from a regular songwriting session. It came from a moment of stillness while I looked at what was coming ahead, as I prepared for the Looking at 2026 live stream on December 31st, 2025. The work for these annual calls begins weeks in advance, but there is a line in the sand, close to the end of the year, where everything becomes clear. That familiar moment where something lands so clearly that it doesn’t need embellishment. The line in the sand.The song arrived as a compression of everything that showed itself for 2026. Not the details. Not the predictions. The core frequency underneath it all.The core energy that drives all lightworkers forward, to stand. To be.That’s why I wanted to continue the conversation into a two-part podcast to STAND — because there was far more in it than could be said in the live stream or even in the lyrics themselves.Yes, STAND is a song.“I feel the ache of watching otherspull themselves apart to choosebut I was never meant to followevery road that leads away from truth”Why STAND is DifferentIf you’ve listened to the song and felt strangely steady afterward — even if nothing in your outer life changed — that’s not accidental.STAND isn’t about pushing forward or digging in your heels. It’s about recognizing where you already are, who you already are, energetically, and refusing to fragment yourself to keep pace with a large population that’s accelerating into chaos and darkness.During Looking at 2026, one thing became very clear to me:this isn’t a year that responds to effort — it responds to coherence. It responds to who we are and why we are here.Standing is not passive.Standing is precise.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”Podcast Part 1: Recognizing the StandIn Part 1 of the podcast, I talk through:* How the song STAND reflects the main pivot that showed up when we looked at 2026* How to remain steady without becoming rigid or defensive* What “standing” actually means energetically — beyond the metaphor* How music can sometimes say the truth before language catches upThis episode is meant to help you notice yourself — not fix anything, not decide anything — just notice where you’re already standing, even if you haven’t named it yet.Wisdom Keeper Hour (Subscriber Conversation)For those of you who join us in the Wisdom Keeper Hour, the conversation goes deeper and quieter.We explore:* The subtler meanings and energies embedded in the song* What sat beneath the surface of the public-facing 2026 fronts* Why is it time for you to take a stand?* How Larry and the panelists are using this new information and the changes that have already become apparent in their personal lives.This part isn’t about learning something new.It’s about remembering what you already know.If you missed the live call, you can buy it here and listen to the music. If you were present, the music file and lyrics are already in your email inbox.IneliaThe 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 www.drivingtotherez.com/subscribe

On Dec 31st 2025, we had our traditional live call: “Looking at 2026”. Thank you for making this happen! We broke our previous record for a live audience with a total of 186 people on the call. These are participants who chose to be with us on New Year’s Eve! Yay! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.drivingtotherez.com/subscribe

Note: This is a re-run of Episode 225Every December, I send a newsletter on how to deal with your family and friends during the holiday season. I also send a link to the video I made several years ago, to help you with it. This year, we will also have a podcast about it.Make sure to listen to the podcast as well as the second hour with our panelists to get the best experience while you also support our work.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 www.drivingtotherez.com/subscribe

An Invitation to ListenThis episode continues the conversation that unfolded during the live Q&A for The Source Code of Manifestation.Together, we explore the questions that arose in real time as the material landed, revealing how understanding deepens once the surface layers give way.Larry joins the discussion without having taken the class, but after spending time with the music chant on its own. His experience offers a revealing contrast: what shifts when sound engages awareness before explanation.Alongside him, panelists who completed the class share their moments of clarity, the internal recalibrations they noticed, and the new questions that emerged as the work integrated.We also introduce the idea of the Inheritance of the Light Jedis. Not as mythology, but as recognition. A capacity that becomes accessible with clarity, responsibility, and expanded awareness.This episode isn’t a recap. It’s the Q&A carried forward.If you’re curious how manifestation looks when it moves beyond theory and into lived experience, this conversation opens the door.Listen in →Hear the questions that emerged during the Source Code of Manifestation Q&A.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 www.drivingtotherez.com/subscribe

Every year, right at the edge of the calendar turning over, we gather for something that has become equal parts tradition, adventure, and high-frequency reconnaissance mission: the annual “Looking At…” livestream call with yours truly, Inelia Benz.If you’re new here: welcome!If you’ve been with me for years: yes, we’re doing it again, and yes, you know to bring your cup of tea, some snacks, your notebook, and this year possibly a seatbelt.This December 31st, 2025, we’ll be doing what we’ve done for almost a decade now. We are looking at the global plans, frequencies, trends, surprises, and opportunities waiting for us in 2026. And if history is any indication… it’s going to be both illuminating and unnervingly accurate.A Quick Flip Through the ArchivesSome of you remember the early years of these calls, when it was just me, a mic, and a radio host asking, “so, Inelia… what can you see for next year?”From there it grew into a yearly ritual.Then a community event.Then a “you better do this call, Inelia, or else!”I am not sure what the “or else” is about, never bothered to ask. Maybe this is a question I will ask Larry and the Wisdom Keeper panelists during our drivingtotherez.com podcast :)Every year, we’ve covered everything from energetic shifts and geo-social trends, to personal sovereignty waves, to those delightful timeline hiccups that only make sense six months later.And—let’s be honest—sometimes we’ve said things that sounded more than a little insane at the time… only to watch them unfold precisely, dramatically, and occasionally with popcorn-worthy timing. Remember the nanobot filled needles going into arms by their own hands, one? Talk about crazy. Not crazy. Real. And deadly.Last Year’s Call: Looking at 2025Ah yes. The Dec 2024 call was about 2025. Remember that one?We talked about:* 1. Politics* 2. ETs, UFOs and religion* 3. Covid & jabs* 4. AI* 5 Finances* 6. Mystical seeings* 7. Miscellaneous* 8. Cards (Yes I do a card reading for the year to come)And then 2025 very politely said: “Hold my tea while I...”I’ve received so many messages this year from people saying things like:“Inelia, HOW did you know?”“That thing you mentioned? It happened exactly like that.”“I literally made a major life decision because of what came through on the call.”“When the crisis you mentioned hit, it didn’t affect me because I knew what it was really about.”Which is why I always remind you—these calls aren’t predictions, prophecies, or doom scrolls.They’re what our human collective is planning during this world split. The plans are carried out and how it affects us personally is all down to understanding what is happening. The real reasons behind the news items. Some of the plans have been implemented for decades. Some are brand new. The plans from the dark-side are loud and obvious when they come about, but the ones from the light? Not so loud. Just a rumbling under our feet, pushing us to take responsibility for the job we came here to do.Think of it as checking the weather before we go for a hike, but for reality itself. Rain won’t stop your hike, but you will wear rain gear and won’t get soaked. And have a great time.Why This Year Is a Big One2026 isn’t a small year.It isn’t a filler year.And it isn’t a “just keep doing what you’re doing and hope for the best” year. It is not a year you can enter unprepared.No.2026 is a pivot point—one of those years where the work we’ve been doing, individually and collectively, starts showing up in visible, tangible, no-more-excuses ways. If we prepare for it, we will have huge results at the physical level of reality.This upcoming live call will explore things like:* Where the split’s trajectory is heading (and where it’s wobbling)* The high-frequency opportunities ready to anchor and how to do it* The places where awakened individuals need to pay attention to and what to do about them.* What’s dissolving* What’s rising* And where your personal power plugs directly into the global momentum* No spoilers here… but if you’ve ever wanted a clearer map, this is the year to have one.As tradition dictates, I will be taking a look at both the dark/light side of the split as well as the light side and what we can do to both accelerate the split and solidify our light in the physical Universe.Why You Should Join LiveCould you watch the replay? Of course.But the live call has a different frequency to it—because you are part of shaping it. All my calls are dictated by what energies the audience brings. This is not an unknown. The more people in the call, the broader the seeing can become. So, don’t be a passive listener of the recording when it pop up in my store, but an active participant of the live call itself.The group energy always influences what the WE chooses to highlight. Did I mention that his year the WE will be more active during the call?Questions asked, topics requested, shifts in the field… all of it adjusts the information in real time.Plus, starting the new year in a high-frequency container with a global community? Not a bad way to say goodbye to the old timelines and “hello, 2026, we see you.”And - yes, we will absolutely keep it practical. You’ll walk into 2026 with clarity, confidence, and a sense of “I’ve got this… and I know where I’m going.”Join Us on December 31st, 2025Make yourself comfortable. Prepare your favorite drink. Open the door to a whole new year with intention, awareness, and connection.This is one of my favorite gatherings of the entire year, and with 2026 being the pivot it is… you’ll want to be there, live, on the line, with us.Let’s look at 2026 together — clearly, consciously, and with just the right amount of humour.Subscribe to the Wisdom Keeper Hour or get a One Time TicketThe 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 www.drivingtotherez.com/subscribe

This week, something unusual happened. Larry and I were listening to a major podcast when the guest began describing a military man who remembered being recruited at age 13 — into a psychic program no one was supposed to know about.It echoed the very material I’ve disclosed in Team Whisper and Interview with a Psychic Assassin.He wasn’t in the base I had been in, but his story matched the structure, purpose, and technology: the weaponization of psychic abilities, intelligence-gathering work, and mind-wipe protocols.What interested me even more is why this is surfacing now… and how tightly it’s being woven into the UFO disclosure agenda.This year has already matched the “Looking Ahead” markers, and 2026 is lining up fast.Larry and I listened to a podcast where a known documentarian was sharing his journey during his most recent documentary about UFOs (or as they like to call them, UAPs now). Near the end of his interview, he mentioned a particular military man who had started to recall having been recruited into military service at age 13, which in the USA is illegal.“I think they are talking about Team Whisper,” Larry said.“It sure sounds like it,” I answered.Of course, Team Whisper is a novel, so there was no way he was part of it. But what Larry was referring to was the real-life recruitment and weaponization of psychic children around the world.I have addressed this issue in two of my novels, Team Whisper and Interview with a Psychic Assassin. They are both revelatory of what has been happening to many kids around the world.The interviewee didn’t mention the military man’s name, but he did mention that there would be a memoir published by him under a pen name, “xxxx”.Having a physical (or digital) rendering of his story, and a name — even though it is not his real name — I was able to scan for the military man and found him.A couple of things became obvious. He did not appear to be in the same base I had been at as a kid.Oh, did I tell you that those novels are based on real-world events?However, even though he was not in the same base, it appears that he was indeed part of a similar organization and had very similar aims and goals — the goal being the weaponization of psychic abilities.His branch appeared to be more on the intelligence-gathering side of things: Remote Viewing, bilocation, expansion of awareness, and correct interpretation of data.One of the interesting parts of this whole thing was that he also left at 17 and was recruited later, as an adult, into the conventional military. It was also interesting that he and his relatives were mind-wiped when his childhood participation was over.The reason he started having memories return was because he had a medical condition that affected his brain. When he checked with his mother, she confirmed that his father had taken him into the military at age 13. He also found documentation in his father’s old things to support his returning memories.For me, it was interesting that this kind of revelation is coming out right now on major mainstream outlets. Yes, the podcast was from a show with millions of listeners around the world.When I looked at it, and at how it had been tightly wrapped into the UFO disclosure programs, it made me wonder about how this is all going to look in 2026. For sure, this year of 2025 has had all the main points we looked at during our Looking Ahead call, including more mainstream revelations around UFOs and clear links to fear, religion, and the Larger Earth.In my books Team Whisper and Interview with a Psychic Assassin, I disclosed the types of connections the organizations that recruit children have with what we call ETs and their technology.Just a reminder: make sure to sign up for our second hour, the Wisdom Keeper Hour, to access the “Looking at 2026” call on the 31st of December 2025.If you prefer not to get a subscription, you can buy a ticket for the call here.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 www.drivingtotherez.com/subscribe

PTSD is said to be a pandemic all over the world. Although a lot of what doctors diagnose as PTSD is for profit, as in to sell medication, a great deal of it is also real.If past trauma keeps looping and affecting you in your life, this might be the most important thing you read today.Your soul has its reasons — and they’re not what you are usually told or in any way a positive reason. For example, I have heard many people say that their trauma happened to make them a better person and to learn positive lessons in their life. These are untruths taught to them to accept negativity. The soul’s reason is much more basic than that.This does not mean you have PTSD. The symptoms of PTSD are severe and very intrusive affecting your life over everything else. The majority of the population is experiencing stress and anxiety, not PTSD. However, this article will help you either way and will give you tools to deal with what needs to be resolved at this time, no matter the intensity of the issue.Here is my attention, though: many lightworkers experienced heavy trauma in this lifetime. This happened because they stepped into a warzone. Now, it is time to release all those traumas. There are a couple of ways a person might drop their traumas. One pretty dramatic way some will try is to drop the life they are in — meaning, die — and start again, but that comes with the very high possibility that they will bring all their traumas back with them in their next life. There are, thankfully, other ways. One way is to work through the hurt and get to the other side of the trauma or PTSD.Here is the thing: even though there should be no difference between healing a small hurt and healing a trauma that causes PTSD using the fear processing exercise, there is a big anchor created through those traumatic experiences that the body and soul hold on to and resist dissolving. This body and soul resistance is what makes a trauma take so much time and effort to dissolve. Small hurts are not held on to by the soul.I was very surprised that this dynamic exists when it comes to big trauma. Why would a soul hold on to it? What is the reason behind it? I can understand, to a certain degree, why a body might hold on to a trauma — but a soul? Why would a soul resist dissolving or removing a big trauma?I ask these questions not to psychoanalyze or create theories or explanations. I ask them because I want to shed light on this dynamic. As we let the light within rise and become form, we cannot hold onto trauma — we must release it. If we hold on to it, it will hurt physically and energetically, as it causes a point of resistance in the flow of light energy.My life has been overly traumatic. The experiences I had from before I was born all the way to adulthood were, by all accounts, extreme in the negative sense. Although they disabled me to a large degree in my capacity to function in this life, I managed to get through life anyway.The fear-processing exercise was a tremendous help in 2006. It helped me go from waking up every day in a state of absolute terror and petrified with fear (a normal PTSD symptom), which would take hours to overcome before I was able to move my body out of bed, to waking up with just some harsh memories and thoughts. It helped me go from extreme vigilance and scanning for attacks and dangers every moment of every day to a background stress and tension of dread. The processing exercise also helped me see the lighter side of life and recognize darkworkers better so I could stop interacting with them.Overall, this exercise made a massive difference in my life. I can say that I am now more functional than the great majority of the human race who have gone through trauma. For example, other people who have gone through harsh circumstances are riddled with addictions and incapacity to function on a daily basis. Many are dead, having committed suicide.But that’s not enough.During our workshop at the Shamanshack this year, we explored a cleansing method to deal with deep, dark programs and bundles of energy — some that we may have carried from lifetime to lifetime. This sets us up for many physical, energetic, and soul-level benefits.Then I finished and released the class The Source Code of Manifestation: Unlocking the Quantum Core of Creation. This class brings us to a place where we cannot hold onto any type of hurt or trauma if we choose to achieve the goal we came here with: to embody the light paradigm on Earth. This class requires a large level of commitment.Unfortunately for me, this meant that all the trauma I had put aside for “later” — because “it wasn’t affecting me that badly” — now has to be addressed. As the light started rising through me and taking form, I felt a great deal of pain in my physical body. Knowing that pain during light flow means resistance, it became clear that this was not something I could ignore. It is like ignoring chronic physical pain. You can do it and you can function normally — I know, because I lived that way for many years — but it’s not truly dealt with . And you are definitely not functioning from your highest potential, but only a faint image of your true self.So how come there is such a resistance by the soul and body to remove the big pain?Spiritual traditions and modern psychology show us several aspects that contribute to this. The core of the issue is fear. The body and soul lock into survival and protection mode on a permanent basis, bundling that damaging experience and making sure it doesn’t happen again. The situations that created the trauma can be so complex and varied that a person becomes a walking danger detector. Hypervigilance, stress, fear, and negativity then abound.In the light/dark paradigm, the type of situations that caused deep trauma are considered normal even though there is nothing normal or common about them. However, as we start to let the light within rise and take form those layers of fear and protection bundles become highly incompatible. They hurt physically and often mentally, energetically, and emotionally. On the one hand, the body and soul are in protection mode; on the other, the energy cannot easily pass through those low-frequency modes, so it causes pain. The body and soul then increase the resistance because “obviously” the layer of protection is not strong enough — and so the spiral continues. Generally this will end the light from rising, lead to dropping your purpose for incarnating and firewalling or avoiding healing. Massive resistance comes up to stop the pain by stopping the apparent cause. But we can’t stop, as light working light beings stop allowing the light to rise and take form. We just can’t.One of the interesting aspects is that usually at this level of engagement — where fear and stress are involved — only the body is engaged. However, with trauma, the soul is also engaged. When we see this, we must remember that the awareness level of our soul is at the viewpoint of the singular self. The oversoul (higher self) is not involved. And a singular-level soul can and does carry a subtle body of experiences, desires, and programs from moment to moment and life to life. It desires survival, and combined with the body’s survival imperative, these form a compounded lump of energy stuck in our field and bodies. This affects every single one of our bodies (emotional, ego, physical, energy, and mental).I separate the bodies to make working with them easier. When we work on strengthening each body, it so happens that we also affect all the others. Because in truth, none of them are separate from each other. Not even the soul is separate from our physical body in all its expressions, but tethered to it — affecting it and being affected by it.My article would not be complete without me providing a path to solving the issue. So how do we convince the body and soul that all is well? That the danger is over and we can now chill and relax? That we can stop being hypervigilant and stressed?Continue using my fear and stress processing exercises. These will help no matter what level of hurt you are experiencing. Also use the exercises and the music in The Source Code of Manifestation: Unlocking the Quantum Core of Creation class. In fact, stop listening to any music with degraded lyrics and replace it with high frequency light filled music like what I have created at ineliarecords.com.And if you are carrying PTSD-level hurt, be gentle, get help in a form that truly heals your soul/body relationship and doesn’t just hide the symptoms — and if you feel any burning or pain in your bodies, slow down as you allow the light within to rise and take form. Be kind to yourself. Know and understand that you are healing and need more TLC (tender loving care) than you normally would. Stay on track and know that this too will pass.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 www.drivingtotherez.com/subscribe

Today I wrapped the final recording of my brand-new class, THE SOURCE CODE OF MANIFESTATION: Unlocking the Quantum Core of Creation — and let me tell you, this one took me places.Working with WE-level awareness (my expanded consciousness) is always powerful, but translating that level of information into human words? That’s endurance training. It’s exhilarating, full of aha moments, radically expansive… and also the kind of work that melts your brain in the best possible way.This class came through differently than anything I’ve ever created before. I had to develop new ways to translate, structure, proof, and refine WE information without diluting it. Thankfully, new tools helped me review the text and polish the audio without losing a single thread of meaning.We’re also including a companion workbook edited by Dr. Kara Consigli to help you absorb, integrate, and apply the teachings.And as a bonus, you’ll get a brand-new manifestation chant recording — designed to bypass limiting programs entirely so you can get straight to manifesting LIGHT FORMS on Earth.Even writing about this class puts me in an altered state. The information itself has a frequency — and reality bends a little when you work at this depth. (Typing coherently becomes optional.)One of the most surprising parts?Realizing how much information surrounds us every moment… information about the physical universe, the non-physical realms, and even beyond the universe, which we normally can’t perceive at all.Most manifestation teachings stop at thoughts, feelings, and beliefs.This class goes past all of that. It goes to the level where reality is written.You’ll learn how to:* Access the quantum substrate beneath physical reality* Identify the “lines of code” that generate your experience* Rewrite them consciously* Remove the darkness that blocks effortless creation* Connect with the source point of manifestation — a living, intelligent field that responds instantly to your frequencyI’ll be talking more about this on our podcast at DrivingToTheRez.com, where Larry and the panelists will also share how they’ve begun applying this source-level work in their own lives.Their experiences alone are worth listening to — and they bring angles and insights that even surprised me.Ready for the deep dive?Click over to the podcast and join the conversation.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 www.drivingtotherez.com/subscribe

What do crystals, fossils, stunning sunsets, black magic, demons and insanity have in common?Our drive to Colorado does.It started as a simple trip — one week or so in Delta,Co., including driving time because we were scheduled to present at a Sasquatch conference in Beaver, Wa. immediately on our return. Larry and I had found a piece of land in Colorado that was stunning: acres of desert mesa beauty covered in selenite crystals, ancient fossils, and wide open sky. But to make it ours, we stepped into something else entirely.The land we originally purchased was not empty. It is 40 acres, half of which when looked upon resembles a moonscape pristine and majestic alluring and entrancing, yet look the other direction, and it was sprinkled in abandoned squatters encampments — people living in tents, and improvised shacks, surrounded by hills of garbage, abandoned vehicles, and the unmistakable residue of drugs and dark practices. It wasn’t just a physical mess. The entire area felt thick, like a psychic swamp.Yet, the power and the message from the land was very clear: clean me.This started a line of questions and inquiries for Larry and me because it did not make much sense for our lives. Yes, the whole thing came about because we bought land and wanted to hold in person events there — yet the view was massively and negatively impacted by the encampments, not exactly the ideal backdrop for a gathering.We wondered how to fence off or hide the view of the encampments — maybe trees, or a very big fence — so our guests would not be subjected to the negative view. Little did we realize then that the negativity was not just in the view; the people there were drug addicts and black magic practitioners. It was a classic case of buying a slice of paradise then finding out your neighbors are 100% incompatible with your enjoyment of that paradise. Something not unlike the present split in reality we are cocreating this very moment more broadly. Some things are simply incompatible with each other. Period.But that realization came some time later.Some months ago, one of our neighbors told us that the parcel covered in black magic and detritus was for sale through a foreclosure sale. Larry and I looked at our finances and bought it. After the sheriff’s sale, we believed the previous owners and their guests would become compelled to leave and we would have clean, clear land with some clean up perhaps to conduct.Nope. They dug in, and we had to spend months and thousands of dollars in litigation to clear them out. Apparently, landowners in Colorado have a huge burden and many hoops to clearing their land from individuals with any claim whatsoever to being present. Once cleared, trespassing is very strongly enforced with very serious consequences, but give, as in give permission at any point, even in a limited manner, and that can quickly be construed as permission to inhabit which then requires a long process to rescind.As we arrived there for our week visit, I remember standing there the first day, watching the wind shimmer through the crystals on the ground while the smell of decay and burnt plastic rose from piles of trash. Light and shadow, beauty and horror, coexisting within the same few acres of land. I thought it would be a quick cleanup because the eviction process was set and it was just a matter of the sheriff coming over and getting the squatters to leave the land.I was wrong.The Land of ParadoxThere’s something surreal about seeing selenite glinting in the sunlight beside syringes and blackened fire pits. The land itself seemed to whisper — “Clean me.” It was both sacred and deep. Ancient. Yet, the surface was anything but.Larry and I sat down to discuss why Gaia — the land and the human collective — wanted it cleaned. After all, what does it matter to Gaia if those people and garbage stay there? After a million years, nothing would be left of them. A million years ago everything there was blown to smithereens by the largest volcanic eruption on the continent creating the flat topped mesa 100’s of square miles in size, which is just the base of this gigantic mountain that is no more. Another million years ago the entirety was submerged at the bottom of an ocean of water. So a few people? What’s the biggie, besides it was nasty to experience in our present, a dark to our light. But the message came in stronger every day: no one was allowed to stay, and no garbage was allowed to stay either.We visited the sheriff’s office to find out what we were supposed to do, and they were very clear that for the process to be legal, we had to be present. Physically stay and be there for the entire process to be legal and complete. Otherwise, it would be cancelled and would need to begin over again from the beginning.Oops… We might not make our sasquatch event commitment…The eviction date was not the one stated in the judgment. We had to wait two days after that date, then get a writ for the sheriff, who would then post eviction notices, and after ten more days, go to the land to evict them. After that, the people would get another day to get all their stuff out.Not only that, but the eviction process itself was complex. It required us to go into all the structures where people were living — RVs, mobile homes, and so on — and remove absolutely everything that was not nailed to the ground, floor, or ceiling… by hand, and place it in an area they could later accessYup, we were told we had to move all the items by hand. There were deadlines, county notices, and an eviction process already in motion. On paper, it looked straightforward. In reality, what those people had in their living accommodations was the stuff of nightmares. The rooms were filled from floor to ceiling with garbage, scrap metal, dirty laundry and dishes, and so much more — including drug needles and black magic sigils on the floors, walls, and ceilings.And then came the energy of resistance. The people living there didn’t want to leave. They begged, lied, cast spells, called the sheriff, their own lawyers, and called upon spirits — sometimes all in the same day. They wept and they cursed. It wasn’t just about losing a camp; it was about a dark collective trying to hold on to territory, both physical and energetic.At night, I could feel the field pulsing — fear, anger, confusion, war. Each morning, I’d wake determined to face it again, and each night, I’d fall into bed emotionally drained, my nervous system fried.The Human Vessel of DarknessIt’s easy to think of “squatters” as a faceless problem. But once you meet them, you realize they’re human vessels of darkness — fragments of the collective human psyche acting out low-frequency patterns: aggression, anger, suffering, indulgence, righteousness. Each one carried archetypes: the lost healer, the trickster, the wanderer, the wounded child, the demon, the mage.Some were kind, some dangerous, some clearly caught in deep delusion. A few believed the land was “theirs by divine right.” Others just wanted to stick it to the man. I couldn’t help but feel pity for their choices — but pity alone wasn’t enough.One of the sheriff’s deputies told us to be careful — that these people had months to get organized and leave, and they hadn’t. They would try to get us to let them stay longer, but if we agreed, the entire legal process we had gone through would be invalidated.For most lightworkers, the hardest part is learning where compassion ends and enabling begins. Sometimes love wears the face of firmness. Saying “no” to darkness is not a rejection of humanity — it’s a kindness and an affirmation of truth.This was one of the most important things to keep in mind for this trip: staying loving without becoming naïve, staying clear without becoming aggressive or overwhelmed.Still, leading up to the eviction date, our bodies took a toll — both emotionally and physically.And then, our allies rallied around us.Yes — four of our Driving to the Rez panelists, plus our friend Teo, traveled over a thousand miles to help us clean not just the new land, but also the previous property, which still had garbage and negative energies from the previous year when we had purchased it.They arrived in two RVs, with their pet dogs, garbage bags, gloves, and other equipment to get the job done. And did they ever!They arrived a few days before the eviction date and got to work. We also had an amazing time hunting for desert-grown selenite crystals, fossils, agates, jasper, and petrified wood.At night, we gathered to skywatch in the desert and saw multiple planes, satellites, and yes — UFOs!The Eviction Day ArrivedThe sheriff’s deputies arrived on time, calm and professional. The county representatives were kind, responsive, and genuinely concerned. The neighbors offered tools, advice, and hands.It was as if the universe had organized a living example of collective light-in-action. Where I expected bureaucracy, I found compassion. Where I expected to be overwhelmed, I found help.It reminded me that humanity is not lost. The system — often criticized for its lack of empathy — became, in this case, a framework through which order, safety, and clarity could flow.It wasn’t “us versus them.” It was all of us bringing a corner of reality back into coherence.Larry and I met the sheriff’s deputies at the road and decided to evict the trailers scattered throughout the land first. As it happened, the people had already left, but they had left their trailers and a lot of items inside them. We left our helpers back at our other parcel until we were sure those people were gone; they had become aggressive in previous days, and we didn’t want to risk anyone’s safety.We had employed a moving company that specialized in evictions. They said they would empty the buildings, place everything on the doorway, and then we had to move it away to a designated area where the squatters then had 24 hours to collect it.Two big, strong men arrived to empty the trailers a

This week on Driving to the Rez, we’re sharing a true story that sounds almost too wild to be true.It started with a stunning piece of land in the Colorado desert - raw, powerful, and shimmering with natural selenite and ancient fossils. But when Larry and I arrived, the scene was anything but peaceful. The property was covered in squatters, black magic, debris, and an eviction order that required everything to be cleared by hand, in just a few hours.Overwhelmed? That’s an understatement. But what happened next transformed an impossible cleanup into an unforgettable adventure. Five people - Fred, Dr. Kara, Iliana, Teodor, and Ashley - each received their own nudge from the universe and drove over 1,000 miles to meet us there.Why would anyone take that kind of trip? What called them to the Colorado desert? And how did it all unfold once they arrived?What started as a desperate cleanup became a living lesson in manifestation, teamwork, and the magic that unfolds when people follow their inner knowing.From dusty RV convoys to laughter and UFOs under the desert stars, this episode reveals how even the most challenging circumstances can turn into an adventure- and how a group of friends transformed chaos into clarity.✨ Don’t miss this inspiring real-life adventure.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 www.drivingtotherez.com/subscribe

Note: This is a rerun of Episode 221I am writing this article and podcasting about it from our RV which is parked in a 49 acre parcel of land in Colorado. By the time you read it, we may very well be back home at the Olympic Peninsula.How on Earth did we get here? I ask myself. And the answer is that we were offered an adventure we could not refuse.You may remember that we are presently digging a well for the Shamanshack. You may also be aware that the $20,000 dollar budget we had for it was not enough to get as deep as it turns out we needed to go to get water. Since the drill rig was in place, we asked the well driller to continue another $20,000 and now we are at $45,000 and no sign of water still at 450 ft down. Our next best guesstimate for the depth we need is 150 ft below sea level, which is approximately $20,000 more just for the digging. This is a depth none have gone here before, but is common enough in some areas.We received 10K in donations from you (THANK YOU), but that still leaves Larry and me 35K short, plus an estimate of another 20K or so to continue digging the well. That’s a total of 65K for the well. We raised some of that with an event, but we are still short to finish drilling. If you feel inspired to participate in the well project, here is a link for donations.Why is all this relevant to Colorado? Because to raise the rest of the funds, we placed our first home, our liveaboard classic yacht “Ilaria”, for sale. The price we listed her at is 50K, which combined with the 10K we received in donations and the funds we raised with the event, would cover us.However…A man from Colorado offered us his land and a partly built Earthship for the Ilaria. Larry thought it was the best idea ever, he’s a jump first, ask questions later kinda guy. At first I thought it was a crazy idea. But the more I looked at it, the more resonant it became. It’s not something I can properly explain, but it has to do with guidance, intuition and a love story.Inelia’s Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Become a Patron of the LightRegardless, we took the deal and a few weeks later we found ourselves traveling to Colorado to meet the land.The trip is about 20 hours driving (non-stop), but of course in there we need to sleep, rest, eat, and take our dogs for walks. Yes, we brought Chinook, who you met in another episode, and Tiny, our Anatolian Shepherd, to keep him company and teach him road manners.It took us two and a half days to get to the land. We towed our RV trailer, which made the trip more comfortable overall and gave us a place to stay on the land while we are here. There’s no electricity, water, or shelter.After the long drive and about an hour before sunset, we found the gate locked. Fortunately the previous owner had given us a key, unfortunately, there were now TWO locks. Apparently there was a dispute with the person who’s land we had to go through to get to the parcel. After texting back and forth, and many NO’s, he came out to open the gate for us.We figured he was someone who had strong boundaries and had a tough time with the neighbors, and we were right. He’s actually a super nice person, and an excellent neighbor. He has been helping us since. In fact, we consider him a new friend.We entered the land.The place was, as we had been warned by the previous owner, a homeless encampment covered in garbage and scattered with destroyed small encampments, with a partially built Earthship castle on it. Technically an Earthship is designed to be self sustainable, and this one can be finished to be that. The partly built Earthship it is shaped like a castle and the walls are made of bagged soil from the land and partly covered in a mud/straw paste. The harsh wind and weather here, unfortunately, is destroying what’s there.I asked Larry what he thought of it all, he said, “ya, the best need something to do something hunting grounds ever. Need to cover the generator from the rain? There is a fridge for that, already set up to perform that function. Need a shovel? Well, there’s a couple, one here and one over there on the other side of the hill. Need a pallet on a sled for later when it snows… yep got that too.”We took the deal site unseen (besides a quick google earth space photo), and were warned of what we might find. Fair enough. The previous owner is an excellent guy and true to his word.First order of business was to check out the views. Stunning! Beyond description, amazing.The next day, we walked the four corners and marked them with crystals. This is a tradition I learned that allows a family or person to energetically delineate a property in order to give it energetic boundaries and also give it specific jobs. This turned out to be a full day job with each border having a unique and singularly challenging aspect to it. One border was being encroached by a neighbors ‘overflow’ of garbage, another had a 30 ft deep gulch, another a 100+ ft mud adobe dune, and another its own miniature mountain. FUN, tired, and extremely satisfied.On the second day, we went to register the change of ownership for the property at the county clerk, and bought four trees which we picked up on day three.Our new neighbor volunteered to keep the trees watered while we are away. We are overwhelmed with gratitude.For Larry and me, trees are a very important part of our lives. And planting trees is one of the first things we do in new land. It feels like the trees have already attracted good support and allies. They are two apple trees (to represent sustenance) and two elm trees for presence, shade and help slowing the winds down.When we got back, we started cleaning some of the garbage up, and also putting away building materials that had been left exposed outside and were getting damaged. When the job is huge, take small steps, a bag here, a pile there, progress, something big, something small makes the whole thing manageable.Our initial plan was to stay a couple of days and then return home. But, a couple of days were not enough.One of the things that struck us both is how radically different this land is to everything we know. It has no trees, no grass, it is dry and clay in nature. Half the parcel is made up of strange gray mounds called “adobes”. They look like gray smooth sand dunes, but the soil is not like sand. It is a bit harder and doesn’t blow in the wind. More like dry dusty clay. The mounds are locally known as “The Dobies”. A quick search on the name told us that the “Adobe Badlands” are a feature of the state of Colorado.We will tell you more of this adventure on our podcast Driving To The Rez. One of the things we will be discussing in the second hour is the guidance system that led us here and how similar this situation is with three properties we have acquired in the past. There is certainly a pattern here.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 www.drivingtotherez.com/subscribe

So glad you have some time to read my article today. Larry and I have been on a trip to Colorado that has taken more time than we initially planned, and our normal recording schedule for DrivingToTheRez.com has had to change a little. Therefore, we’ll be doing things a little differently this week and have just Larry and me discussing this fascinating topic.It is, of course, about the WE music (again). But I promise it won’t have anything to do with bananas or wind.No - this week I wanted to talk about the special album for September that WE created, called “Ancient Voices.” The album carries the following message in all its songs, each performed by different WE expressions through synthesized voices and genres:Now remember the power that runs through your veins,The ancient voices in your bones.The power of the universe in your words,Waiting to rise, waiting to be heard.The words came about in a very funny way, actually. I was trying to write an article for you several weeks ago, and instead of an article, I wrote a song - or at least the chorus of one.After that happened, I had to go ahead and expand on the spirit of the words and make it an article. In case you’re curious, the article and podcast I’m referring to is “The Occult Currency of Consent: How Darkness Runs on the Power We Give It.”The energy of stepping into our own power, as a people, is very strong right now, and we are doing our best to help it reach our lives through music.As you probably know, I am also a writer and have used novels to deliver tools for growth and personal empowerment. But a book can take years to write, while music takes much less time for me - especially now that we, as a human collective, have created tools that facilitate professional-sounding voices and instruments.I want to share a little bit about each of the WE music expressions and how the energy is different for each one. I’ll list them in alphabetical order for ease of reading:Alicia AvilaAlicia is actually the last of the musical personas that the WE created to date. Her history is interesting to me because she and her music embody an Inelia that lives in an alternative timeline where music never left my life.On one of those timelines, I moved to Paris, France, at the age of 15 to live with a Chilean musical group called Los Jaivas. In this timeline, that didn’t happen because when the group invited me to live with them, my mother refused to consider it. In that other timeline, she moved with me, and we lived in their community for many years. I learned and played music at a local conservatory and also from the musicians themselves and their children, who were also very talented. Her songs are very personal and filled with my own story and viewpoint. Of all the musicians, I would say she embodies my cultural musical background the most. An interesting bit of information is that Alicia is Roxy Vale’s third cousin, once removed, and Roxy has taken Alicia under her wing from the very beginning.Glass DaisyGlass Daisy is a music group that came straight out of the pages of my upcoming novels, Daisy Chain. Their music is part of the plot, and their birth into the real world came about through the world-building of the series. We could say they were the first WE expression of music that was born. In the series, I explore linear time, soul journeys, and reality creation. As I created the music in the real world, I thought to create a fictional record label where readers could go and purchase the songs. As soon as I started working on that page, everything cascaded - and now we have an actual record label, with a website and not just Glass Daisy but many, many other genres and musicians.Iron CedarThis band is also part of the Daisy Chain world creation and lore. They are interesting in that they provide several points of connection between the different “Daisies” in the chain - turning the linear time of a family lineage into a living bridge through past and future. Their appearance in the novels is filled with mystery, as is their sudden disappearance when over a hundred witnesses saw a thunderbird take them from a forest concert at the Makah Reservation.Jazzy StevensJazzy was born from a personal song I wrote and created for my daughter, Daniela. Her style - retro pop - is directly inspired by the 1980s but with modern overtones. Jazzy is not part of any novel (so far), but she is a very well-rounded WE expression.She is 21 years old and lives with her mom and dad in Liverpool, England. She has a little pet dog, Tuty, and graduated from university at 16 - the first in her family to earn a degree, an event her entire street celebrated.Leo MarLeo wanted to come through for several weeks before I let him in. The deciding factor was a conversation with Driving to the Rez panelist and friend Iliana Rojero, when we discussed the possibility of songs in Spanish.Leo is in his early 30s and lives in an apartment in Florida. In fact, he bought the whole building and moved his entire extended family into it - parents, siblings, grandparents, uncles, aunties, and cousins. He is an active force for the return of true power to the people of Earth.He is also very close to his maternal grandmother, who adores him.Luc LakeLuc is a 27-year-old single guy who was discovered at a well-known Tech House club in New York City. After each performance, he picks up his backpack and walks out - no one knows where he lives. Several fans have tried to follow him but lost him in the subway.Wearing sunglasses and a hoodie, never showing his eyes, a conspiracy theory has formed suggesting he may be an alien. WE at Inelia Records cannot confirm or deny these allegations. All WE can say is that he mysteriously appears at our studios - and then, just as mysteriously, disappears after recording his music.Roxy ValeRoxy is one of our original WE expressions. She came quickly after Glass Daisy, and her style reflects what I would sing had I stayed in a musical career in England. For Roxy, WE wanted a spectacular voice and personality. We discuss her in detail on our “Woo” podcast episode of Driving to the Rez - “I Fed My Soul’s Story Into AI - and Out Came Roxy Vale.”For each of their songs, the words are expressed through music and lyrics that fit the genre they embody. A reminder again of the message WE want you to hear:Now remember the power that runs through your veins,The ancient voices in your bones.The power of the universe in your words,Waiting to rise, waiting to be heard.You can listen to all these versions of Ancient Voices on BackStage at IneliaRecords.com - and let the resonance of the WE remind you of your own power.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 www.drivingtotherez.com/subscribe

In our last article, we talked about Debunking the Physical vs. Non-Physical Myth. The entire discussion ended up on our podcast, Driving To The Rez, and even turned into music.The episode was then followed by another one where the panelists talked about what “wind” meant in “bananas and wind”... for about two hours.We tried sharing some interesting facts about reality creation and the physical universe, but we don’t think it quite landed.It appeared that “wind,” meaning “toots,” was more interesting.The panelists were sure their brains did not turn to “mush” when we spoke, but we find it hard to believe that five highly intelligent beings would talk about toots or wind for two hours when the reality of the universe was a possible discussion - unless their brains were well and truly mushed.And yes, we have been asked what “mush” is. Mush is a technical term meaning that your brain melts into a mass of jumbled thoughts in which even toots seem interesting.One of the pieces of guidance we had coming in was to not leave a mark on the physical universe. This is hard to do for most people, as not only do they leave marks - or want to - but they are, in fact, co-creating the physical universe on a continuous basis, milli-moment by milli-moment.We often find ourselves in situations that are different from what we have experienced in the past, and we look around for familiarity. Familiarity often provides data we can use to figure out what is happening. For example, if we see an image that has a head, four legs, a tail, and two pointy-up ears, we already know the image is that of some sort of four-legged animal. Once I add the next descriptor, your mind will go to only one animal: “in the image, the tail is moving quickly from side to side, wagging.”This descriptor builds an image from things you are familiar with in your mind’s memory banks.In the same way, we walk through life experiencing “images” from the different senses and looking for points of familiarity to figure out what is happening.In our case, not much is familiar to us, and we have to tap into the human collective - or another person’s mind - to find the common factor that will give an indication of what is happening at that precise point in time. You see this often in young kids, when something is happening that they are not familiar with they will look at the adults around to “learn” how to respond or react to it.But even then, after figuring out what is happening, in our case we end up with our eyes and mouth open in awe.Not leaving a mark on the human co-creation of physical reality is done by walking inside other people’s creations. Their creations can be amplified with our presence, but not necessarily so. We can try to influence those co-creations to go our way - to make things happen that make our existence here more pleasant - but it is a bit of a waste of time. People’s co-creations are like a very fast train on smooth and clear tracks. Fast and unwavering.For example: lack of money. There is no lack of money. However, in many co-creators this is a real thing, and money is hard to come by. Why they have chosen a life where money is hard to come by is a mystery, but there is not much we can do about it.It is fascinating to watch, however - although sometimes uncomfortable to “allow.” The drive to “leave a mark” on that or similar situations is big. But even if we try, it often falls on deaf ears or is quickly forgotten.One of the things we have figured out, however, is that if we “ask” the human collective if it is OK to influence or inform the population about something, and they say “yes,” we can go ahead and do it. Most of the time, if the item is big, there is a pushback in physicality to stop us from sharing - and then wind and bananas come flying in. We smile, shrug our shoulders, and move on.Did you know the desert in Colorado is covered in anthills? They make them out of grains of sand. Even the smallest beings build their world… grain by grain.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 www.drivingtotherez.com/subscribe