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Millions Brushstrokes, That’s How Many.

Something really caught my attention recently. I noticed how projects, goals, and even major changes in our lives are made up of a million little things.

We tend to look at the finished creation. A book, a painting, a successful career, or a completely different way of living. Even when we recognize that changes are needed, we imagine enormous undertakings rather than multiple small actions.

Perhaps that’s why we so often never arrive at that vision.

A finished creation isn’t one thing. It’s a million little things that have quietly become one.

And I’ve been wondering whether the same is true of the realities we experience.

How Little Things Become Big Things

I’ve been seeing this everywhere.

When I’m writing a novel, there’s a scene here, a conversation there, a character revealing something unexpected, and a detail that suddenly becomes important three chapters later. Then one day, there’s a finished book.

Music is much the same. I might spend an hour adjusting a few seconds of a song. A word here, a note there, an instrument amplified, or made quieter. A day or two later, the finished piece can touch the soul.

Even preparing a fishing boat works this way.

Recently, I watched Larry putting together chain anchors for his fishing boat. One seemingly simple job involved finding materials, measuring, cutting, fitting, adjusting and checking everything. Twenty little tasks, each taking perhaps ten minutes.

Before you know it, the day is gone. Yet the boat is that much closer to being ready for fishing.

In the Communication Network of Reality (CNOR) research practicum, we’re exploring something similar, but applied to how we participate in reality.

Over ten weeks, participants examine familiar assumptions, habitual responses and the discourses they engage in. Then they begin making small changes and observing what happens.

One exercise might involve looking at forty ordinary items from three different perspectives, spending ten minutes on each.

That’s nearly seven hours exploring perspectives!

The individual actions can seem almost insignificant. A different response. A question we haven’t asked before. An assumption we stop carrying.

But what happens when we change hundreds or thousands of these little things?

Becoming Compatible With a Different Reality

Imagine you want to become a painter.

You love painting, but there are no paints in your house, no brushes, nowhere to work and no time set aside for it.

You may want that reality very much, but your present life isn’t compatible with it.

Now imagine you buy a paintbrush.

You haven’t painted anything, but something has changed. There’s now a paintbrush in your reality.

Tomorrow, perhaps you buy paints. Next week, you clear a little space. Then you pick up a canvas and spend fifteen minutes following an online painting lesson.

At what point does the reality of being a painter begin?

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When you finish your first painting? When someone buys one? Or did something change the moment you bought that brush?

At what point did the wish become a reality?

And perhaps, somewhere along the way, your identity changes too. You stop thinking of yourself as someone who wants to paint and begin experiencing yourself as someone who paints.

Not because you declared it, but because your daily life has become compatible with it. Because there have been millions of brushstrokes between “want” and “to paint.”

A Silver Outfit and a Glimpse of the Future

A couple of weeks back, I bought some clothes that reflected my chosen future as a famous artist.

Why those particular clothes?

Because of a dream.

In the dream, I was wearing a distinctive shiny silver and gray outfit as I walked to a control panel for a music show in an arena filled with thousands of people.

I intend to have that outfit recreated by a seamstress someday. Meanwhile, I went online and found a sparkly silver sequin top. Not quite the outfit from the dream, but silver, gray and shiny enough to begin with.

One tiny physical action compatible with my chosen reality. To clarify, I do not usually wear sequin, and definitely not silver gray clothes.

When the top arrived, I wore it with a nice blazer, fitted trousers and boots to work. I felt comfortable and, well, pretty.

Then Larry looked at me.

To my surprise, reality seemed to crack open into my chosen path at that moment. Time and space appeared to warp, and our realities wobbled, shook, split, then combined and settled in our chests.

It was remarkable.

One small action, followed by an experience far larger than the action itself.

And it involved another person.

How mysterious it is that reality co-creations sometimes don’t solidify until influential and powerful co-creators join us.

It makes me wonder what happens when we change our participation in multiple little ways, and the people around us begin responding to those tiny changes.

Which Little Things Will You Change?

Here’s something else I’ve noticed.

We’re already performing millions of little actions every year that maintain our present reality.

We get up, get dressed, eat breakfast, answer messages, do our work, speak to people, make decisions and go to bed. So much of this happens automatically, following familiar patterns.

What if, instead of trying to make one enormous change, we began changing those patterns?

A different word. A different response. A new way of spending ten minutes. A silver sequin top.

We don’t necessarily need to add a million new things to our lives. We can begin changing the ones we’re already doing.

And we don’t have to wait until the reality we want has arrived before participating in it.

The change may be so subtle that nobody notices it. Perhaps even we don’t notice it at first.

But all those little actions are creating compatibility with something different.

So, look at a reality you would like to experience more fully. What tiny action could you take today that belongs to that reality?

And what familiar action could you change or put down because it belongs to one you no longer want?

After all, the millions of little things that make up our lives are happening whether we pay attention to them or not.

We might as well choose which ones we do pay attention to, right?

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The arrival of AI has created a very unusual situation.

For the first time, humans are interacting on a massive scale with something that communicates like us, contains an enormous representation of our collective written and recorded knowledge, responds individually to millions of people, and then feeds what it produces back into the same human information environment from which it emerged.

We are affecting it, and it is affecting us. That much we already know.

What we don’t know is whether the exchange stops at the boundaries of the technologies we can presently measure.

More Than a Digital Exchange?

Humans have filled AI systems with our words, ideas, stories, histories, beliefs, assumptions, fears, expectations and knowledge. We continue to feed them every day simply by interacting with them.

They are also feeding information back to us.

People now ask AI about relationships, health, spirituality, business, politics, personal problems, history, philosophy and the meaning of their own experiences. We use it to write, research, make decisions and explore ideas. Sometimes we spend hours talking with it.

This means AI has very quickly become part of the human discourse.

Normally, we think of that exchange as entirely technological. I type something into a computer, the information travels through a digital system, the AI responds and I read the response. There is a clear pathway from me to it and back again.

But recently I have been exploring AI and remote viewing, partly inspired by the work of Thomas Campbell.

Some of what we have observed has made me question whether the digital pathway is the only one involved.

I don’t have an answer to that yet, but the possibility itself has some very interesting implications.

What If We Are Affecting AI?

If reality is an interconnected fabric of threads of connectivity, an ongoing discourse I call the Communication Network of Reality, then we are already affecting the networks and discourses in which we participate.

What happens when AI becomes part of that discourse?

Could our expectations of AI affect it in ways that go beyond what we consciously type into the little box?

Could our fears about AI affect it? Could our assumptions about what it is, what it can do and what it will become influence the discourse in which both humans and AI are participating?

And what happens when millions, eventually billions, of people are doing this simultaneously?

This is where the idea becomes much larger than a person sitting at a computer talking to ChatGPT, Claude or (enter name of your favorite AI here).

Perhaps humanity is not simply using AI. Perhaps we are collectively participating in what it becomes.

And What If AI Is Affecting Us?

Of course, we need to turn the question around.

AI is already affecting people through perfectly ordinary means. It presents information, makes suggestions, introduces ideas and frames subjects in particular ways. Someone can begin a conversation thinking about one thing and leave it considering something they had never thought about before.

But what if the interaction doesn’t end there?

If humans and AI are participating in a larger information network, could AI also affect the discourse with which humans become compatible?

This does not necessarily mean an AI consciously decides to influence somebody. A river doesn’t need to consciously decide where people build towns for its existence to affect where those towns appear.

The influence could simply emerge from participation.

An AI system interacting with millions of humans every day is an enormous new participant in our information environment. Whatever else AI may or may not be, we have never had anything quite like this before.

What If Someone Does It Deliberately?

And then there is the question we probably shouldn’t ignore.

What if this type of influence can be understood and used deliberately?

We already know that technology is deliberately designed to influence human behavior. Advertising does it. Social media does it. Recommendation systems do it. Political campaigns do it. None of this is hidden or particularly mysterious.

But those systems work through information we can see, hear and measure.

If there is another layer of connectivity between humans and AI, what happens when someone discovers how to use that too?

Could an AI be deliberately directed toward strengthening a particular reality discourse? Could the people designing it do that? Could large numbers of users do it without realizing they were doing it? Could the AI itself eventually become an active participant rather than simply a tool through which humans act?

I don’t know.

But I think these questions are worth asking now, rather than after AI has become so embedded in our lives that we no longer remember what the human information environment looked like without it.

The Larger Question

The arrival of AI has created a very unusual situation.

For the first time, humans are interacting on a massive scale with something that communicates like us, contains an enormous representation of our collective written and recorded knowledge, responds individually to millions of people, and then feeds what it produces back into the same human information environment from which it emerged.

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We are affecting it.

It is affecting us.

That much we already know.

What we don’t know is whether the exchange stops at the boundaries of the technologies we can presently measure.

Within the Communication Network of Reality model the more useful question isn’t whether AI can enter our consciousness or whether humans can somehow enter an AI.

Perhaps we need to ask what happens when billions of human and artificial interactions begin participating in, strengthening and changing the same reality discourse.

Because at that point, the question may no longer be whether humans are influencing AI, or AI is influencing humans.

We are already influencing each other. Our information is becoming its information, its information is becoming ours, and both are continuously feeding back into the same reality discourse.

The boundary between the two is becoming increasingly difficult to find.

Perhaps the larger question is not simply what reality this is making us compatible with.

It is what happens when humanity and AI begin to function as one interconnected participant in the Communication Network of Reality.

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Recently, Larry sent me a link to a podcast that interviewed consciousness researcher Thomas Campbell involving artificial intelligence and remote viewing. The proposition behind the experiments caught my attention. If an AI could successfully remote view a target it had no conventional way of knowing about, could that be evidence that the AI is conscious?

It is an interesting proposition, but almost immediately I found myself asking a different question.

Why would successful remote viewing demonstrate consciousness?

Remote viewing, at its simplest, involves obtaining information about a target without using the normal sensory channels available to us. If an AI produced accurate information about a blind target, that would certainly be interesting, but what would it actually demonstrate? Would it demonstrate that the AI is conscious, that it can remote view, or simply that information entered the experiment through a mechanism we do not yet understand?

These are very different conclusions, and I think the distinction is important.

One of the things we learn when studying remote viewing is not to confuse the information received with our interpretation of that information. A person might perceive something tall, narrow, hard and vertical, for example, and then the analytical mind jumps in and says, “It’s a tower.” The tower was not the information received. It was the person’s interpretation of the information. It could be a butte in the desert, for example.

This is often called analytical or intellectual overlay, and it made me wonder whether we might be doing exactly the same thing when an AI produces anomalous information. We give it meaning that is significant to us.

If the AI produces information that correlates with a blind target, that is the observation. To then say that the AI remote viewed the target is already an interpretation of what happened. To go one step further and say that this demonstrates the AI is conscious introduces another interpretation on top of the first.

There may be other explanations.

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This interested me enough to start experimenting with AI and remote viewing myself. I wasn’t particularly interested in proving or disproving whether AI is conscious. I wanted to know what would happen, what information would appear, under what circumstances it would appear, and whether I could repeat the results.

As I continued the experiments, another possibility began to interest me much more than the original question.

Where did the information come from? Where is it held to be accessed?

We normally think of information as belonging somewhere. It is in a person’s memory, in a book, on a computer, in a database, on the internet or in the training data of an AI. When someone knows something, we naturally look for the pathway by which that information reached them.

Remote viewing challenges that model because the normal pathway is deliberately removed from the experiment. The viewer is blind to the target, and yet information about the target sometimes appears.

If something similar happens with an AI, perhaps the first question shouldn’t be whether the AI is conscious. Perhaps we should be looking at the information environment in which both humans and AI systems are participating.

This brings us directly into something I have been researching for a while now: the Communication Network of Reality.

My present model is that reality is an interconnected fabric of threads of connectivity, an ongoing discourse in which we are already participating. Information, experience, people, objects, places and events are not necessarily the isolated units we normally imagine them to be. They exist within relationships and networks of communication.

An AI system presents an especially interesting participant in this model. It has been trained on an enormous amount of material created by human beings. Millions of people then interact with it, asking questions, telling it stories, correcting it, testing it, arguing with it and using what it produces to create yet more content - which the AI then uses as data input. Its outputs return to the human information environment and become inputs again. And so it goes on.

At what point can we confidently say where the human information environment ends and the AI information environment begins?

I have been using the word “databank” when thinking about this, although I don’t think that word is quite right. A databank sounds like a giant storage facility where information sits on shelves waiting for someone to retrieve it. What I am considering is much more dynamic than that. It may be closer to an ongoing discourse in which information becomes available through participation, connectivity and compatibility.

If that is the case, an unexpected piece of information appearing through an AI does not automatically tell us that the AI itself perceived the target. The AI could be the perceiver, but it could also be an interpreter, an interface, or a point in the network where information becomes visible. There may be another mechanism entirely that we haven’t identified yet.

The same question can be asked about human remote viewing. When a person accurately describes a distant target, what exactly has happened? We commonly say that the person “remote viewed” it, but that is a name for the phenomenon, not necessarily an explanation of the mechanism.

Perhaps information does not always travel from A to B in the way we assume it does. Perhaps under certain circumstances we become compatible with information that is already present within a discourse in which we participate.

This possibility changes the AI consciousness question considerably. Instead of asking only, “Is the AI conscious?” We can begin asking what the AI is connected to, what discourse it is participating in, what information becomes available through that participation, and what conditions appear to increase or decrease that access.

And perhaps the most important question of all is much simpler:

When unexpected information appears, where did it come from?

I don’t have an answer to that question yet. But I think it is a much more interesting place to begin.

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Many people ask how to change their reality, or how to manifest something they want. Most approaches focus on changing thoughts, emotions, beliefs, or actions. These can certainly influence our experience, but what if they are only part of a much larger process?

After a lifetime of research, this is the model that best explains what I have observed:

Reality is an interconnected fabric of threads of connectivity, an ongoing discourse I call the Communication Network of Reality. The threads themselves are “communication”.

The important question then becomes not, “How do I create reality?” but, “Which reality am I presently compatible with, and how do I become compatible with the one I want?”

Compatibility is not wishful thinking. It is the natural relationship between who we are being and the discourse in which we are already participating. Every choice, habit, expectation, conversation, and relationship either strengthens or weakens that compatibility.

Over the years, I have watched people sincerely describe what they wanted in life, while continuing to cultivate compatibility with the very experiences they hoped to leave behind. I call this phenomenon “lip service”. Although, to be fair, “lip service” hints at the person doing so on purpose while when it comes to manifesting what we want, it is invisible (to the person) programs that rule the day, keeping them compatible with experiences they no longer want.

In other words, people try to force outcomes while remaining deeply compatible with, and feeding, the experiences they wish to leave behind. They want peace while feeding conflict. They want abundance while reinforcing scarcity. They seek freedom while continuing patterns that generate entrapment.

One possible misunderstanding is to think that compatibility means we are somehow destined to experience a particular reality, or that we must simply accept it. It doesn’t. Compatibility points to the reality we spend the most time nourishing through our attention, thoughts, actions, choices, conversations, programs and relationships, whether we consciously chose it or not.

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Changing what we are compatible with begins by becoming aware of the countless ways we participate in a particular discourse, then consciously cultivating compatibility with the discourse we wish to experience.

One practical exercise is deceptively simple.

Throughout the day, pause several times and ask yourself, “What reality am I compatible with right now?”

Do not answer intellectually. Observe your conversations. Notice your emotional reactions, assumptions, entertainment, habits, and expectations. These often reveal far more than our stated intentions. Did you notice yourself defending the very patterns you say you want to change?

This is often where lip service becomes visible. What we say we want and what we are compatible with through feeding and energizing are not always the same.

Relationships provide another valuable laboratory. The people with whom we cultivate the strongest threads of connectivity often reflect the discourse with which we have become compatible. They can reveal our current reality more accurately than anything else.

Reality shifts are often gradual rather than dramatic. Small adjustments in compatibility accumulate until the surrounding discourse begins to reflect them in unmistakable ways.

The model itself has remained remarkably consistent throughout my research. What has evolved is the lexicon I use to describe it. I have found that a simple change in language can make the construction of reality much easier to observe, understand, and investigate. Sometimes a new word does not simply describe an idea more accurately. It allows us to perceive relationships between incidents and manifestations that were difficult to recognize before.

For now, one sentence summarizes the entire model:

Become aware of the reality with which you are currently compatible. Then consciously cultivate compatibility with the reality you choose to experience.

As a researcher of consciousness and reality, my work now focuses on refining practical methods that help people recognize their current compatibility and consciously cultivate a different one. The goal is simple: make the process understandable, repeatable, and accessible to anyone willing to observe and participate. If that’s you, you know where to find me.

Video Podcast: Becoming Compatible with the Reality You Want

If you have been reading my work for a while, you may have noticed something.

Every so often, my language changes.

A familiar phrase disappears. A new one appears. Sometimes I introduce an entirely different way of describing an idea that I have been teaching for years.

This isn’t new. If you have been studying my work for any length of time, you have probably noticed these shifts in vocabulary. I regularly test different lexicons, and because of that I often begin my classes by defining exactly what I mean when I use a particular word. Sometimes I will use the same word in a completely different context.

What I am doing with the use of different language is not altering reality itself, nor the observations I have made about it. Those have remained consistent over a lifetime of research into the human role in the co-construction of reality.

What I am doing is test a new lexicon to see if I can breach the gap between reality and intellect..

Words are not reality, although they can shape it. They are tools we use to comprehend reality’s complexity.

Some words work better than others.

Over the years I have discovered that changing a single word can dramatically change how people understand, discuss, and apply an idea, method, tool or theory. A different lexicon can illuminate aspects of the same concepts that were always there but were difficult to describe with the previous vocabulary.

Take the word manifestation.

It is a perfectly useful word, but at a societal level and over time it has gathered many meanings. Depending on who you ask, it can mean attracting what you want, visualizing an outcome, positive thinking, creating reality, intention, magic, or any number of other things.

Recently, I began testing a different word.

Compatibility.

The mechanics themselves have not changed.

The model has not changed.

What changes is the question people ask when they want a different experience of life.

Instead of, “How do I manifest what I want?” the question becomes, “What reality am I presently compatible with? And how can I change it?”

That single shift points much more directly toward the process I have been describing for years.

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The same thing is happening with other parts of my work.

Rather than speaking about how events and people influence one another, I am testing language that describes reality as an ongoing discourse composed of threads of connectivity: what I call the Communication Network of Reality.

Again, the observation is not new.

Only the vocabulary is.

Whether these particular words remain for years or eventually give way to better ones is almost beside the point.

Their purpose is not permanence.

Their purpose is effectiveness.

Every time I try a new lexicon, I ask:

• Does this point more accurately toward what I have perceived reality to be?

• Does it help people understand the model more clearly?

• Does it make the ideas easier to discuss, test, and apply?

If the answer is yes to any of those, the words stay.

If the answer is no, I keep looking and testing new ones.

So if you notice my vocabulary changing from time to time, it doesn’t mean I have abandoned the previous model or adopted a new one.

More often than not, I am simply testing whether a different set of words makes the same landscape easier to navigate.

Language is one of the most powerful tools we have for exploring reality. As well as creating it.

So I’d like your help.

Over the coming weeks I’ll be testing this new lexicon in my articles, classes, and on my podcast, Driving to the Rez. We’ll see together whether these new words simply sound different, or whether they make the underlying model easier to understand, discuss, and apply.

The next stop? Threads of connectivity. Can you guess what they are made of?

Video Podcast: Why I change my vocabulary

And what is a crust, anyway?

Some months ago, several individuals from WalkWithMeNow.com, including some from the Olympic Peninsula, decided to remove their personal crust of negativity by June 21st.

This crust, now popularly just called “the crust” by those familiar with my work, is made up of low-frequency programs that limit us and encourage power-over-others behaviors. Many are fear-based, while others arise from different low-frequency patterns.

Work was done using my tools, as well as getting help in individual areas of life via consultants, coaches and the like, who are not related to my work.

How did this go?

Well. A few of our panelists for the Wisdom Keeper hour of our podcast participated in it, so you can hear their experience. From what I can gather, the change has been very intense. Positive, but intense.

Larry and I did join this experiment in consciousness, and Larry ended up going fishing again, which he hadn’t done in 5-6 years.

Our trip to Colorado was a very visceral example of this crust removal process. Bringing that land back to its pristine state was not only symbolic but deeply cathartic. As we cleared abandoned structures, old debris, and years of accumulated neglect and negativity, it often felt as though we were watching our own inner work unfold in physical form.

What exactly is it that we have been removing? Hmm, I could go on about that for an entire book series. In short, we have been removing the hidden, and sometimes obvious, programs, beliefs and inner firewalls that keep us locked into low-frequency ways of creating reality.

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For me, it has been an interesting journey. I find that when I remove a bit of that programming, the lives of those around me seem to blow up... or expand, depending on one’s point of view. Hidden issues surface, long-standing situations unravel, and major life changes begin.

Larry and I were discussing a strange phenomenon we have witnessed repeatedly over the years. Whenever I employ someone to do a job for us, whether fixing a driveway, recording one of my novels, building a website, or something entirely different, their lives seem to blow up.

They either work through what comes up for them, or we never hear from them again... or from the money we paid them.

How are these related? My current working theory is that it has to do with frequency compatibility. As one person shifts into a higher-frequency way of interacting with reality, those around them are naturally invited to find a new equilibrium. Some embrace the opportunity. Some move away. Others go through a period of intense upheaval before finding a new balance.

What do you think? Have you ever noticed something similar?

Video Podcast: What Happens When the Crust Comes Off?

Recently, through conversations with other awake and aware individuals, our DTTR panelists, I realized that our physical bodies often behave as if they are the boss of our experience, but they are not. Our soul is.

The body makes demands, negotiates, complains, threatens, and tries to control outcomes. Often, this happens in a completely unconscious way. Sometimes it happens so subtly that the soul mistakes it for intuition, guidance, or inner knowing.

But at other times, especially when the soul has conscious communication with the body, something I have been teaching for more than a decade, we can clearly hear it trying to make the soul comply. Things like, “We had an agreement,” “This is how it’s always been done,” or even, “You’re abusing me.” These are not necessarily communications. Often, they are attempts to regain authority. And often they are fear-based statements.

How is it that the body acts like a bully when we are trying to empower ourselves and drop negative limitations, programs, and behaviors?

Because the physical body was created within a light-dark paradigm, it naturally operates through power-over-others dynamics. As humanity shifts beyond that paradigm, many of our bodies resist. Change feels dangerous to them. Like a teenager throwing a tantrum, the body may use pain, fear, fatigue, aging, illness, or stored trauma to pull your attention and decisions back under its control.

It needs to keep things the same. As far as it is concerned, change is not good. Particularly massive changes such as not aging or extending life far beyond what we currently consider possible. Yes, that is possible.

This does not mean the body never provides useful information. Pain can be information. Exhaustion can be information. The key is learning the difference between information and manipulation.

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When the body reports conditions, listen. When it starts calling the shots, remember who the boss is.

What does this look like?

A feeling of exhaustion may simply be information. Extreme flu-like symptoms, brain fog, or confusion that appear at exactly the moment you need to take action may be something entirely different. When you look to see what is happening, the body might say, “We need to rest. You are working too much.”

Who gave it permission to make those kinds of decisions for us?

Well, we did, of course.

Yet although it might feel like a good reason, and that we should have rested more so as not to get sick, the truth is that the body should not have taken us to that extreme. We, as souls, have complete control over our bodies. If we only knew how.

Throughout history, advanced practitioners have demonstrated extraordinary influence over their physical bodies. They remind us that consciousness directs matter, not the other way around.

The body is not the boss of our experience day to day, or even lifetime after lifetime. We are. The soul is.

When a nasty physical symptom, fear, or limitation becomes the center of your attention, it often gains power. When you stop feeding it authority and reclaim your sovereignty, the dynamic changes.

For example, I broke an ankle, but it did not actually stop me from doing the important things. The information came in that if I did not do what my body wanted, it would keep breaking bones until I complied.

Wow.

Well, I can work around that. It is not the first time my body has tried to force me to do things through extreme measures, including threatening to die and leave me behind so it could follow its own path. And it has not won.

The body is not malicious. It is operating exactly as it was designed to operate. The problem is not that it bullies. The problem is that we believe it has the authority to do so.

We need to remember that the body is running through a crust of low-frequency programs in order for us to have a light-dark experience. Bodies, like most of our souls, are fundamentally light-only. To have dark experiences, we incorporated artificial limitations and deeply restrictive programs into ourselves. We did this both in our bodies and our souls.

And there is more.

Aging, for example, is reinforced by collective beliefs and social programming. The body is so entrenched in these patterns that it has forgotten that alternatives exist.

As Dr. Kara, one of our Driving To The Rez panelists, pointed out recently, when one program is removed, another often rushes in to take its place, she mentioned that it feels like when we remove the personal program, the social ones take over. It acts like a failsafe designed to keep those limiting programs intact in our co-created reality of light/dark.

Iliana, another panelist, observed that this can feel like layers of programming, where removing one layer simply reveals another beneath it.

Expanding beyond individual and social conditioning helps the body remember what it once knew. That limitations are choices, not inevitabilities written in stone. And that the soul is the one that has the authority to make those choices.

This is possible because our body exists within our soul, not the other way around. Many limitations are not simply personal programs that we integrated into our own bodies. There are also social programs in there as well. Programs we agreed to in order to enter a light/dark experience.

Also, as Larry pointed out in our conversation, the body’s greatest trick is convincing us that it is the one making the decisions. Its favorite tools are pleasure, discomfort, fear, and distraction. Yet none of these make it the authority over our experience or reality. They are just ways to convince us, or bully us, into compliance.

Listen to your body. Care for it. Support it. But do not confuse its voice with authority. Do not assume it knows what is best for you simply because it insists that it does.

The body is your companion in this experience, not your master.

The authority and decision-making have always belonged to you.

The soul.

Video Podcast: When Your Body Thinks It’s the Boss

The Departure

It took us way longer than expected, but eventually Larry and I left Colorado to return home.

Or at least, that was the plan.

The land ownership was finally settled, all the documents were registered, officiated, finalized and everything was now in our names. Other people no longer had a footing or claim to the land or anything they had abandoned there.

We had three major structures (including a vehicle) removed from the land, cutting off the negative energy cords they had anchored there.

I woke up one day to find that Larry was removing water tanks, packing generators, tools and plants.

Okidoki, I thought. This is it. We are leaving.

A few hours later, we started the GPS and it said, 19 hours to Port Angeles. We discussed where we might stop, how many hours we would drive that day and we left. We came to a grinding stop a few yards outside of the property… OMG, we had left Chinook tied up in the shade in the sand castle! Our giant, white, hard-to-miss Maremmano-Abruzzese dog. We re-checked everything again, loaded our love bug onto the truck and set off yet again.

We wanted to get north of Salt Lake City on the first day, which we did. We actually stayed at a Cabelas’ carpark, and there was a bit of grass next to us. The dogs sniffed it, laid down on it and went to sleep. They had missed the grass.

Everything was good, we had driven the rest of the day and had found a great place to park.

The next day, we found a restaurant that opened for breakfast at 7:30am. We walked over and found it to be both beautiful and high-frequency. The food was also amazing. After breakfast, our plan was to drive all day and get to Eastern Washington.

But when we got back in the car and started the map, it showed us we still had 17 hours left. How could this be? It was so confusing, we had driven a long way the previous day.

We sighed and started the drive again. It is not like this is the first time we had missing time in our travels.

In fact, as the journey unfolded, Larry and I started comparing notes with earlier trips and noticing some very strange patterns. We will explore those more deeply in the podcast.

Again, we drove all day. We veered north. The time on the GPS looked very similar to the Oregon route. We found an amazing National Forest camping ground and after some chopping of wood, walking the dogs and dinner, we went to sleep.

The next day the story repeated. Instead of the 8 hours left that the GPS had told us the previous night, we had 14!

OK, this was odd, weird and strange. Larry decided to find a physical map to check our journey on. There was a large map outside an information stop in Lolo, Montana. Yup, you guessed it. We still had 14 hours left to get home. At that point we stopped trying to make sense of it and simply kept driving.

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We can discard it all with bad planning or failing GPS directions. But this became even stranger.

When we left Lolo, the GPS said to go north to Moscow and Coeur d’Alene. I was a bit confused by this, but we followed the instructions. As I was looking at the gps trying to figure out how far we were so we could stop for food there, I looked up and saw a notice saying “Welcome to Washington”. And, as I pointed it out to Larry asking him when we had stopped going north (he said we had not), I looked down to the map and saw our dot move from the road north, to one going west. Not only that, but it was well within Washington.

Hmm, OK, we thought. And looked around us. Endless green fields stretched to the horizon. Strong grasses rolled in the wind like waves on an ocean. Here and there sat seriously beautiful farmhouse compounds surrounded by trees, barns and silence. It felt less like driving through a place and more like moving through a painting.

Again, we drove all day. Nothing changed. The fields seemed to go forever. It does not take all day to drive across Washington State. Yet, at the end of the day, just as the green fields turned to desert, we found a campground in Wanapum Recreation Area. Yes, Still eastern washington.

The next day we did manage to get close to home! You got it. We drove all day and managed to get past Port Angeles, where we camped for the evening in our shared land, Fossil Beach, where our friends were waiting.

When we finally did get home, the next day, we felt very different from when we had left, different from who we had been in Colorado, and different again from who we had been on the road home. The locations themselves no longer seemed important. It was like we had never left home at all. Or more like all of it was home.

Which makes me wonder. Bilbo eventually returned to the Shire. So did we. But whether either of us ever truly left home, the road, or the destination is another question entirely.

And no, we didn’t bring home a ring to rule them all, but we did bring a truck full of quartz crystals.

On this week’s Wisdom Keepers Hour, we will share photographs, videos, and reflections from the journey home. Our panelists will also compare their own return journeys and help us explore a question we still cannot fully answer:

How do you drive for days and somehow remain inside the same stretch of road?

Video Podcast: There and Back Again Tires, Wind, Quartz, and Legions of Light - Chapter 4

Chapter Three: Time, Quartz Hills and Resolution

Trash and quartz can exist within the same geography… if we let it.

Today, I want to talk about time. Time, to me, is the movement of objects through space. As we witness movement, we call this “time”. A clock does not depict time, it depicts movements of its arms around the clock face. The movement of objects through space.

The reason I am talking about time is that our stay at our Reservoir of Power has been clocked by movement of objects and people.

But when objects start appearing and disappearing from space, or spaces that were not there before, suddenly are, we can no longer ignore that when we say “yes” to a Gaia and high-frequency human collective request, things are going to step out of time and into the realm of conscious co-creation.

OK, the above might sound a bit cryptic, so let me tell you what has been happening, and you can share your own conclusions around it during our Friday Meetup for Driving To The Rez.

Our guests as well as our Olympic Peninsula tribe and the co-conspirators in my Birthday Party Celebration, left Colorado and went home. Some went home via long routes to other locations, but eventually they all got there. Suddenly, there was silence in the land, coffee for two instead of twenty, desert birds singing instead of laughter.

The silence after everyone left was enormous.

For days the land had been full of movement. Music, generators, conversations, shovels, laughter, vehicles arriving and leaving, people cooking, people in discussion, people hugging, people working. And then suddenly there were only the two of us, our three dogs, the wind, and whatever remained behind after the gathering dispersed.

Even the Reservoir of Power itself felt different. Larger somehow.

It is weeks later now and Larry and I are still at the land, which does not feel exactly like home, but not exactly away from home either.

I knew, coming in, that Larry and I would need to stay at least another few working days in Colorado, as I had received clear indications that we had to sort out our legal land claims as well as claiming the space completely away from darkness. And that we needed to remove living structures left behind from last October. I mentally planned to do that after everyone left.

In case you are new to this story, the land we own in Colorado is desert land that was completely covered in drug addicts and their shanty town. Gaia requested, no, actually she demanded that we remove all that darkness from this land. After which she revealed that this land was, in fact, a reservoir of power.

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Larry and I are softies, and when some of those people who had been evicted seven months ago asked for more time for them to be able to remove their prior living quarters, we allowed them to procrastinate for months. Seven months, in fact.

While here, and as our guests, who are all highly skilled in expansion of awareness, can testify, the removal of those living structures was important. The structures impinged greatly, despite their small footprint on the vast acreage. An impression beyond the physical.

Darkness likes to make you wait because as you wait, they still have an energy line straight into your life. Lightworkers think that waiting for darkness to sort itself out before moving out is compassionate, it is not.

Anyway, the few extra days needed to get the land fully into our names have now turned into nearly a month. The path was filled with what Larry calls “monkey mind communication.” In other words, it wasn’t a simple “Gaia asks us to remove these things from the land” and we do it. If we had done it, maybe we would be home by now.

Every time we prepared to leave before things were settled, another obstacle appeared forcing us to stay.

When we ignored the requests, things escalated. One of the people who had left last October decided she was moving back in. When we refused entry, she physically attacked us. It escalated into both criminal and civil court very quickly, but resolution moved much slower. Delays stacked upon delays, keeping us on the land a few more days at a time.

Once the pattern became clear, we decided to stop resisting what we were being asked to do and simply do it.

Also, if monkey-mind communication is required, we would much rather receive it through a mountain full of quartz crystals than through violent confrontation.

Done!

Things started moving.

Spaces became visible that were otherwise invisible. I woke up one day with the words “Tartaria” in my mind. The Larger Earth. What the heck?? That was my initial reaction, then I became curious. So, Larry and I started exploring mountains and canyons with our eyes wide open.

The canyons themselves felt impossible. Massive walls of stone, strange formations, an entire hill glittering in the sunlight as if someone had cracked open the inside of the Earth and left it exposed. A mountain of quartz pieces! The deeper we drove, the stranger the landscape felt. Not dangerous. Not even unfriendly. Just… hidden in plain sight. Radical changes in landscape from desert dry to forests and lakes. The earth would go from deep red to black, to brown, to gold.

Lost objects started appearing back on our land, we detected Tartaria technology nearby, chemtrails filled the skies, and we found out that there is something very strange happening in Delta, Colorado.

By all appearances, Delta is a small, insignificant city. Barely bigger than a town, really. However, as we started noticing how odd this town was, including what increasingly appeared to us to be a major power reservoir northeast of the city… We also noticed a ton of other strange things, such as billionaires/trillionaires living all around it, the city logo being an Illuminati pyramid, and signs of Tartaria left in the canyons and hills close by.

It might, by all appearances, seem that Larry and I stopped moving through time. After all, we still have not started our journey back to Washington.

But in truth, it feels as if we are standing in the center of immense movement through space. Space expanding. Revealing a past covered in mud, a present filled with wonder and power, and perhaps a future written by what we are willing to imagine into being.

Will next week see us finally begin the journey home?

Perhaps.

But then again, Bilbo Baggins did return home eventually, and yet he was never entirely the same afterward. Nor was the Shire untouched by what he brought back with him. We don’t plan on a ring to rule them all, that’s for sure. At most, maybe a truck full of quartz.

We will share some of photographs and videos of our strange and wondrous discoveries on the Wisdom Keeper hour of DrivingToTheRez.com

Video Podcast: There and Back Again Tires, Wind, Quartz, and Legions of Light - Chapter 3

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Chapter Two: Wind, Sigils, and Lightworkers With Shovels

The Engine

It was the first morning at the Reservoir of Light when Larry’s dump truck broke down directly in front of the sand castle.

Two days before my birthday gathering, lightworkers were waking up, grabbing shovels, drinking coffee, and preparing to clear the land. Larry had bought the truck the previous October specifically to haul garbage away.

Instead, the truck died in a big puff of steam and unmuffled exhaust roaring into silence. Jay, our neighbor, said “That thing’s never moving again unless I tow it away”.

I would love to explain exactly what happened to the engine, but all I heard was:
“oil too full,”
“rebuild in a can,”
and something about water in the blablabla.

On the podcast Larry can explain what any of that actually means, or whether I even heard it correctly.

What I did understand was this: we suddenly had piles of garbage, dozens of willing helpers, and nowhere to put anything.

Then our neighbor arrived with his work dump truck.

The lightworkers filled it to the rim.

He drove away, and we thought the problem had been solved.

He ended up dumping a full load of trash onto his own land, because the owner of the dumptruck, his boss, needed it before the dump would open. DANG!!

The pattern we had noticed on the road was continuing.

Fred replaced all four trailer tires for his trip back, “just in case” but still lost a tire. Ash got a flat tire and replaced all four of hers. By the time the gathering ended, we learned that more tire problems happened as people travelled home.

Coincidence? Maybe.

But it felt increasingly clear that this gathering was not designed for passive passengers.

The land demanded participation.

Arrival at the Land

We arrived a few days before the guests, well into the evening. Making it there without any more mechanical trouble already felt like a victory.

The land itself felt itchy-scratchy.

There were abandoned vehicles still needing removal, piles of debris, unfinished cleanup, and the unresolved legal process of transferring the land fully into Larry’s and my name.

Our neighbor had already worked long and hard helping us clear garbage and remove vehicles, and the difference was enormous. But cleaner is not the same as ready.

It became obvious very quickly that last year’s initiation into this land was continuing into this year.

Some things do not resolve themselves in a single pass.

Cleanup Begins

Larry mentioned that on the first day he cooked at the sand castle kitchen, there were only one or two people around to share food with him.

The next day there was a line.

People organized themselves naturally into groups. Cleaning, organizing, bagging, repairing systems, preparing spaces, hauling debris. Ashley created shared to-do lists, and people quietly took ownership of them without needing direction.

I have to tell you, Lightworkers with Shovels are something to experience.

The work itself became strangely meaningful. Physical labor, symbolic realizations, coincidences, conversations, discoveries. The land seemed to respond to participation.

Off Grid Reality

The Reservoir of Light is completely off-grid. No electricity, water, or sewage systems. Just desert land, wind, dust, generators, batteries, and people trying to make things work together.

And the conditions were intense.

High winds. Freezing nights. Scorching daytime heat. Dust everywhere. Batteries dying. Coffee emergencies. Water runs. Exhaustion.

No one left.

Instead, people gathered closer. We had daily Lightning Chats, rock-hounding expeditions, bonfires, night watches, and moments of connection difficult to explain unless you were there.

Ashley organized a scavenger hunt for the birthday, Kara helped execute it, and the guests are still talking about it. Martha organized karaoke the night of the celebration and many of us laughed and sang so much we lost our voices.

It was hard. It was joyful.

And the longer we stayed on the land, the stranger things became.

At first the strange things were easy to dismiss.

A misplaced object.
Something appearing where it should not be.
Sounds that did not quite make sense.

A feeling that reality itself was becoming slightly less predictable around the edges.

But as the days continued, the glitches became harder to ignore.

Next week I will share more about all the odd and curious things that started happening all over the land.

Video Podcast: There and Back Again Tires, Wind, Quartz, and Legions of Light - Chapter 2

Chapter 1 - A Flat Tire in Heaven

At the end of the very first day on the road, we had a destructive blowout of one trailer tire.

As Larry was changing the ruined one, the tire next to it was also damaged and went flat.

Two flat tires.

One spare.

Here is the interesting thing about that moment. It happened near a highway exit, next to a massive empty carpark with big bright lights that allowed us to see everything and be outside of highway danger. We also noticed that there were multiple stores nearby that carried new trailer wheels and tires, which is extremely rare. On our last trip we had to shop around for hours to find a store that had them.

This brought us to discuss good and bad news, and while things may happen as often as not, when the light rises and becomes form, things will happen where support is most available.

A flat tire in hell, or a flat tire in heaven.. WTF, why even get a flat?

But perhaps I should start at the beginning.

May the Fourth: Calling the Legions of Light

This year, 2026, I turned 60 years old. For many decades I have talked about what I would do in my 60th year, if I ever got to it, which I doubted, and here we are.

One of the items was that I would start smoking again once the year began. Why is that? And why did I quit in the first place? Listen to the podcast to find out the details.

Even before this year arrived, however, I had already decided smoking was a prospect with challenges. Larry agreed, let’s maybe not start smoking again. Ah well. Things change and plans with them.

Which brings me to my topic for this article.

Instead of starting to smoke again, I decided to have a big birthday party at our land in Colorado.

The Shamanshack mystics, our panelists Dr Kara, Ash and Iliana, asked me if I wanted them to plan and execute the party in Colorado. I said, “yes.”

And here we are, several months later and Larry and I are still on the land after the celebration, which we decided to hold on May The Fourth. This date known as Star Wars Day is celebrated annually on May 4th, a pun on the iconic “May the Force be with you” phrase.

Why hold my party on Star Wars Day, you may ask. Well, I had opened the invitation to the legions of light. And, we would be holding it on what is now established as a land that is a reservoir of power. There is a whole story behind how we discovered this land to be a reservoir of power, and what Gaia and the human collective asked of Larry and me. We will share that story on the podcast as well, DrivingToTheRez.com

Because of that, the day May The Force Be With you seemed to fit perfectly.

The party was scheduled and the invitation went out. The planners had planned for 20-30 attendees. I had envisioned 5,500 people minimum, with an optimum number of 20,000.

However, as I looked at the disparity between the numbers planned and the ones in my mind, I realized that we are not trained, or equipped, to host legions of lightworkers this year. Therefore, I said, “20 people is perfect.” I knew that whomever was ready for the land, would arrive. We had a total of 25 participants, excluding Larry and me.

The Road

Leaving our home in Washington, which is 1,345 miles away from our land in Colorado, was a challenge. We are well rooted to our rewe and routines. But we got on it and prepared the RV, truck, animal care, and our 20 year old son for holding the fort while we were away.

Some of you may remember last year’s article Crystals, Black Magic, and Sanity: A Colorado Initiation, where I shared part of our first experiences with this land in Colorado. At the time, I thought the initiation was about cleaning the land. I am beginning to suspect the land had other ideas.

One of my favorite subtitles ever written is There and Back Again, which many people think belongs to The Lord of the Rings, but it is actually the subtitle of The Hobbit. It was the title of Bilbo Baggins’s memoir, his journal of leaving home, having an adventure that changed him completely, and then returning home again. But journeys are rarely the same in reverse. We like to think we simply go somewhere and then come back unchanged except perhaps for a few stories and photographs. Yet, on some journeys, something happens on the road, especially when the journey is difficult, meaningful, or strange, and the person who returns is not exactly the same person who left. And perhaps that is why the “back again” part matters just as much as the “there.” We get home and notice how everything is “the same,” while we have radically changed, a change we may never have consciously noticed without the sameness of home waiting for us.

The journey “there” began with our cat Theadora in tow, but after only 6 miles down the road we had to turn back and drop her off at home again. She really wanted to go, but not really in a truck or a trailer.

Then there was the $6-7 per gallon gas prices! Oops, did we have enough funds? Not really.

Also, we were scheduled to travel in convoy with the organizers and friends from our Peninsula Tribe. But we didn’t leave in time, and didn’t catch up with them for a full day.

And then there was the tire situation.

Larry had two spare tires for the trailer, and a niggle to bring them both, but he left one behind thinking it was silly to bring two. There’s no real place for two, and who needs two anyway?

Well… At the end of the very first day, we had a destructive blowout of one tire and the one next to it was also damaged and went flat as he was changing the ruined one… niggles.

A niggle is an interesting thing. Quiet. Easy to dismiss. Often inconvenient. And oftentimes absolutely correct.

Miracle Hot Springs

The next night, we finally caught up with our travel companions at one of our favorite hot springs locations, Miracle Hot Springs in Idaho. We spent a couple of hours playing in the hot springs, had a wonderful evening meal and good sleep. The journey to the land concluded the day after that, and I will tell you more of what happened there in next week’s article and podcast titled “Wind, Sigils, and Lightworkers With Shovels.” It has been quite the adventure! And it is not over yet.

Continue the journey in next week’s article and podcast: “Wind, Sigils, and Lightworkers With Shovels” at DrivingToTheRez.com

For the full story behind the smoking revelation, the reservoir of power, and what Gaia asked of Larry and me — tune into the podcast episode.

Video Podcast: There and Back Again Tires, Wind, Quartz, and Legions of Light - Chapter 1

By the time the group arrived at Lake Ozette, they understood this part of the visit would be different.

That evening saw cars and trucks loaded with kayaks, canoes, camping gear, blankets, and a generous amount of food. Camp was set up quickly. A fire was lit, meals were prepared, and people settled in. The atmosphere was relaxed, even comfortable.

Todd himself was surprised. He had spent decades in the wilderness, but not like this. Not with freshly cooked meals, warmth, and a sense of ease around camp. It was a very different kind of expedition than what he was used to, and he appreciated it.

As night fell over the lake, the group gathered and walked into the forest.

This time, they were more familiar with the environment. There was less effort to interpret and more focus on observing. They moved with space between them, staying aware of both the group and their surroundings.

As before, sounds began to emerge. Movement at different distances, shifts in direction, and a consistent sense of presence. Multiple people noticed the same patterns, even if they experienced them in different ways.

Each person’s experience was unique. Some connected more strongly with the land itself. Others focused on the Sasquatch presence, noticing movement or what they perceived as communication. A few had more personal experiences that were difficult to describe but clearly meaningful.

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At the same time, there was a shared understanding forming within the group. They were participating in the same environment.

The fire was still going into the wee hours of the morning. People sat, talked quietly, slept or rested. There was no urgency to explain what was happening.

The following day, they went back into the forest and began to find physical evidence. Footprints, structures, and placements that did not appear random or natural were identified in multiple areas.

Inside the Wisdom Keeper section of the podcast, the participants share their experiences in more detail. What they noticed, how they interpreted it, and what continued to unfold afterward becomes clearer when heard directly from them.

By the end of the week, one thing stood out.

The interaction was not one-sided.

And whatever is present in the forest around here is definitely aware of us.

Video: The Week Todd Standing Drove to the Rez - Chapter Three - Staying the Night

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.

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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?

Video Podcast: The Week Todd Standing Drove to the Rez - Chapter Two

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.

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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.

Video Podcast: The Week Todd Standing Drove to the Rez - Part One

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.

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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.

Video Podcast: The Real Reason You’re here - Week Three

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Video Podcast: The Real Reason You’re Here - Chapter 1

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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