Normally, we have excellent interactions with the people we love and care for. Most of our friends and relatives are people who, if not interested in personal growth, are caring, loving, intelligent, and friendly people.

For a few weeks now, Larry has been planning to visit some close relatives in Alaska. The visit was important to him. Last time, he went with his kids via plane, train and boat, it’s quite the journey. But none were free schedule wise this time, so he invited me on a road trip, using our new big truck, our camper, and a couple thousand miles of Canadian wilderness to travel through. I love a good road trip so I said, “yes.”

He let his relatives know, he got an answer a week later, and he was told in no uncertain terms that I was not welcome in their home.

Why?

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If we were to consider our conscious awareness of the world to be as big as the point of a pin, then the work of sacred plants would be to show us nuances present in and around that pin.

To belittle reality, consciousness, awareness, and altered states of perception is not what I am doing here. That’s not my job. Bringing a semblance of what we are actually facing, that is my job.

Who put us on this pin? Well, we did, of course. Why?

You know, it has been 60 years since I entered this pin and I still don’t know why we chose such a thing. However, I can tell you that for a while there, I thought the pin was the entire Universe, all of reality, and that humans in this section of the pintop were the only intelligently sentient beings that existed.

As I was trying to put words to my thoughts, Larry played a song on his computer. He played it very, very loud, and it was a country song he had “made for me” using an AI.

I am not unaware enough to think that this was a “coincidence”. Sometimes, no, all the time, the human collective will steer and dictate where and what is shared about the nature of reality. So, although I had planned to write an in-depth and thorough exploration of the true nature of reality and what sacred plants' role is within our human experience, I will instead “stay on point” and talk about why a person from our modern society decides he or she might become a plant worker. These plant workers call themselves lots of things - “curandero,” “ritualist,” “shaman,” “plant shaman,” etc.

But what they call themselves is not that important apart from the nuances of what the label expresses to their clients.

In my experience, I have seen plants have a very good grasp of what is not only on the tip of the pin but also on the entirety of the pin. They then go out and find people - workers - who will take them into the world and allow them to touch as many people as possible - the clients.

The worker was usually, but not always, a client of a different worker at some point. And the plant is the one that recruits, not the different worker, to whom it will assign the work of bringing a larger viewpoint of reality to the masses.

I am always curious as to what makes a person follow the path of the sacred plant. And I am also curious as to what makes a person drop that path altogether, or drop the particular plant that had recruited him or her in the first place, in choice of another.

In our podcast, DrivingToTheRez.com, we have an interview with one such person. His insights and reasons for the work are unique to himself, of course, but they are still interesting as a journey of expansion of awareness within the world he moves and experiences life. The interview is in the Wisdom Keeper Hour, so if you want to hear it, do subscribe to it.

In the first hour, Larry and I discuss some of the details behind the decision to become a plant worker or reject the invitation wholeheartedly.

Larry has the skills, the lineage, the intuition, and the connection to become a plant worker, but he turned it down. Tune in to find out why. 🙂

Inelia

References:

* Mystical Event Planning Class

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It’s not burnout - it’s growth fatigue. Here’s how to recover and why it happens in the first place.

Many years ago, I wrote an article called “Post Event and Ego Crash Symptoms”. I wrote it after witnessing many of the participants who had come to my events struggling once they returned home.

I did some research and talked to other teachers and guides who hold events, and this seemed to be a universal phenomenon. Not everyone would have a crash, but many people did, and it didn’t matter what type of event it was.

Of course, there are events that are exhausting in a negative way, but that is not what I am interested in here. I am talking about events where people go to receive a lot of positive information, energy, and connections, and then they go home to their regular lives.

Back when I wrote the first article, most people were going home to ordinary routines, and sometimes negative environments. However, these days most people, at least from my events, are going back to very nourishing, supportive, high-frequency lives.

So, what is the deal? I looked at the nature of the “crash” after my June 2025 event, and it appeared to be different. This time, there was a little bit of the ego crash, for sure, but mostly it was an overall “pleasant soreness, exhaustion”, very similar to what a person gets after a marathon or cramming for exams.

Looking at it from a mechanical point of view, it was completely understandable. The event itself was aimed at growing, stretching, and strengthening our Core Self, our Endobody, our Magical Body, and it gave our mental body a run for its money. In other words, it was incredibly packed with data for the mental body.

A week later, the symptoms are finally dissipating. The advice for this phenomenon is to rest, but not to stay in bed day after day. Our physical bodies are the champions in this situation. If we make ourselves get out of bed or off the chair and do physical activities that don’t rely on the mind, emotions, ego, or energy bodies, we recover much faster than if we simply retreat to bed and shut the door to the world.

Another aspect that some of the participants reported was that during the event, their energy fields, body, mind, ego, and emotional bodies were all wide open and receptive so when they found themselves traveling home or dealing with negative life situations, they were hit hard by the contrast. But no worries, they knew exactly what to do with that oopsy:

* They became aware of it

* Stop

* Process any sticky negativity

* Then did something else instead

By the way, these same steps are also useful for dealing with negative situations or thoughts that fill us with necrotic (destructive and deadly) energy. We will have a full lecture on this aspect of the light/dark paradigm soon, including how to address what we may have already absorbed.

P.S. Feeling like you got hit by a high-frequency truck after an event? That’s just your soul doing crunches. Come laugh (and learn) with us at DrivingToTheRez.com where Larry, myself and the Wisdom Keepers share our post-event experiences and what we did about them.

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