We had an “before iboga” article and podcast episode where I shared what my experience has been with sacred plants, and where Larry made the announcement that he would be participating in an iboga ritual.

For that episode, go here and make sure to log behind the paywall for the Wisdom Keeper hour to hear our panelists' experiences with sacred plants, their viewpoints and research.

This week, we are covering not only Larry’s experience with the iboga sacred plant, but we have also interviewed two of our panelists as well as our friend Craig, all of whom participated in the ritual.

One of the things that became clear to me, was that the plant is not to be taken lightly. There are certain things the person needs to prepare before the ritual, including cutting out stimulants such as coffee. Also, certain supplements do not participate well with the experience.

Although the ritual can last just a few hours, the work with the plant can start weeks if not months before the ritual, and can last many days or weeks after it. There was information I received for three of the participants beforehand, during and after the ritual. These were sometimes to help me understand what was happening but mostly it was almost like the plant wanted me to deliver a message that they were not listening to.

I did not participate in the ritual myself.

Larry had a bit of a tough time during the ritual. He had certain concepts and issues that were tough for him to work with. In the end, he came out of it with a certainty that he was done with addictive behaviors.

From a third party perspective, I have seen that Larry is now less willing to put up with blocks and frustrating situations. One might say that he expresses his feelings more easily. Whether the feelings are joy or anger, they are expressed more readily at a physical and emotional level. It almost feels like a block between himself and his body has been removed. Like a mask is no longer there. He also wakes early and spends hours in the morning doing physical things on our property, getting a morning sweat going, a go and do it with much less check the on-line world interference. Online world has diminished greatly in importance, while the outside world has become more important. This is a good thing/bad thing for an individual whose work now involves much more online tasks, and much less outside tasks. I did notice that the amount of online time he spends watching random videos or on facebook clickbait is greatly reduced, choosing instead to spend that online time learning skills and being busy at work.

Larry shares his full experience in our podcast here, and on the Wisdom Keeper Hour we get to interview Craig, Ashley and Fred. You will be familiar with Ashley and Fred as our second hour panelists.

The discussion doesn’t stop here—listen to the full podcast episode for unfiltered insights from Inelia and our panelists.

It is April, and as most years around this time our friend Todd Standing comes to the Rez with his expeditioners.

Todd lives and breathes Sasquatch research. We, on the other hand, just see them as our friendly neighbors who we go out and seek once a year when Todd is here. Todd is loved by all of us and needs no introduction to our readers or audience.

This year we also had a visit from our friend Tobe Johnson. Tobe is a producer known for Voices in the Wilderness, A Flash of Beauty: Paranormal Bigfoot (2024) and Spiritual Bigfoot (2023). He is also a researcher of the link between bigfoot and the supernatural. Tobe interviewed various members of our community here at the Olympic Peninsula, including yours truly. He is also the first person to come out and ask me very interesting questions about Sasquatch and about other woo subjects, including aliens and “conspiracy theories”. I look forward to seeing what he does with the recordings.

From the perspective of these two amazing researchers, this month has been a very interesting one indeed and we wanted to share some of the experiences our own community members had during these high-caliber men’s visit to our corner of the world.

The experiences are best listened to on our podcast, DrivingToTheRez.com, where we interviewed our friend and Makah Elder Brian, and two of our own Wisdom Keeper Hour panelists, Dr Kara and Ashley.

Larry himself had some breakthrough connections and face to face experiences with Sasquatch. You might think that Larry, being a Makah Elder himself, would be an old hand at connecting with and communicating with Sasquatch, but as we have documented through the years, keeping the connections alive is not made easy by our present society and culture.

This short article is to point you in the direction of our podcast where you can hear these men and women’s experiences here at the Peninsula yourself.

Inside, find descriptions of our experiences including:

Tree breaks, Foot stomps, Tracks and trackways, Hoots/calls with answers, Tree structures, nests, Portal Cracks, Shapeshifting, Shimmer/invisibility cloaking, direct physical interaction inside the cloaking field, manipulation of canoe while we are in it, face to face interactions with multiple individuals teen aged and adult, male and female, cloaked and not cloaked, and vocalizations like drops of water. Truly amazing stories.

References

* The Fear Processing Exercise

* Human Reactivity Training by iBenz Academy

The discussion doesn’t stop here—listen to the full podcast episode for unfiltered insights from Inelia and our panelists.