Fire, like love, can burn or warm us—a powerful metaphor for the spiritual transformation many of us are experiencing during this unprecedented time of global awakening.
When my house burned down in 2003, I faced the impossible task of cataloging everything I'd lost. This physical purging mirrored an internal process equally necessary: the burning away of a toxic relationship and patterns that no longer served my highest good. Sometimes our lives need dramatic upheaval to clear accumulated emotional debris, just as California's forests require periodic wildfires for ecological health.
The energetic shift happening on our planet is accelerating this process, bringing our shadow aspects to the surface for examination and release. We're witnessing this transformation even among public figures like Eminem and others who've undergone profound spiritual awakenings, transforming their art from expressions of anger into vehicles for spiritual truth. Their journeys remind us that transformation is available to everyone, regardless of past circumstances.
Those most uncomfortable now are those resisting change, blaming others while refusing to examine their own patterns. I recognize this because I lived most of my life this way—denying my need for transformation and pointing fingers outward. But life is a mirror, reflecting whatever exists within us. When we're filled with judgment or negativity, that's exactly what we'll encounter in our external reality.
I've been confronting my own addictive patterns, recognizing how these familiar behaviors keep me from my true purpose. The battle between my old identity (the "hippie freak of the South") and my authentic self (the "ambassador of Chi") represents the spiritual warfare many are experiencing. Old habits cling desperately as we attempt to rise into our higher expressions.
Like a blacksmith forging a knife, we need intense heat to transform into something stronger and more purposeful. Those who refuse to release their old identities will remain stuck in lower vibrational states of victimhood. The challenge before us is to drag our hidden pain and limiting beliefs out of the attic of our consciousness and throw them into the transformative fire.
We were born to walk through fires. When we allow the dross to burn away, we shine with our true purpose, co-creating a brand new world. What are you ready to release into the flames today? Join our community and share your transformation journey.
Episode Transcript
Fire, like love, can burn or warm warmth of fire.
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Or are we running from the firelicking at our heels that we're
trying to avoid?
Let's talk about fire ontoday's episode of Free to Just
Be, the podcast empoweringhumanity to courageously step
out of old patterns and matrixprograms and give a big old hug
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to not only a new earth but newways of being.
And I hope this finds you inthe greatest health today, with
vibrant energy, because you havechosen to accept full
responsibility for your body,mind and soul.
Here we are going to try toinspire each other to truly be
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who we came here to be authentic, free and align with our
highest potentials.
So join me, teresa Marie, yourtraveling ambassador of Chi, on
this transformative journey torewrite our narratives and live
lives of purpose and passion.
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And I welcome you back to thisterrific, this tremendous, this
thought-provoking Thursday,because we're going to talk
about some fiery stuff todayFire, fire, fire.
Yes, and I apologize for notbeing here the last couple of
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days.
You know when you're in themidst of transformation,
sometimes you just have to gowith the flow.
But we're not talking about aflow of water today.
We're talking about the hotstuff, the fires of life stuff,
the fires of life, because man,oh man, I tell you what we are
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in the battle of our lives, thebattle to the death.
To the death, I say yes, and wehave to, we have to die, and
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that is where the fire comes in,the holy fires.
Now I'm thinking about back inthe day when my house burnt down
, back in, say, 2003,.
I believe it was when my houseburnt to the ground and you know
, when you go through somethingdevastating like that, it's
really amazing what you realizeand recognize that you value.
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Is it stuff or is it lifeitself?
Right, right, I remember theinsurance agent coming and
handing me this ream of paper,blank paper, and saying just
write everything that was in thehouse down on this ream of
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paper.
And I was like, are you kiddingme?
And I just remind you, justopen your junk drawer in your
kitchen and you will understandthat his request was almost,
like you know, finding all yourbelongings in a haystack.
Right, because we don't oftenremember or catalog in our brain
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all the little innuendos oflife that we accumulate, and
that accumulation often needs tobe cleared, like the forest in
California that were not cleared, and now the wildfires continue
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to come and nature has a way ofdoing it.
And in our lives it'll bringconflict, it'll bring drama,
it'll bring tragedy.
It will bring fire into yourlife and we can be grateful for
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it.
We can rail at it, we can bepissed off at God about it.
There's lots of differentoptions when the fires of life
come raging in.
But right now, in the midst ofthe greatest shift of energy on
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the planet, those fires arecoming up from the earth right
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and they are scorching feet andthey are bringing everything.
It's kind of like if you evergo up to an anthill and when
you're a kid you're just curiousand you want to, you're just
ornery, right, you want to pokethings.
Well, that's kind of like fire.
One little ignition and boom,you'll watch those ants,
millions of them come out right,and that's kind of like the
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fires that are being broughtinto our life for our good.
Oh, we don't recognize it whenwe're in the midst of it.
And I've had some pretty bigramas, flashes of light, flashes
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of truth, flashes ofacknowledgement the last couple
of weeks as I have been battlingand resisting the fire in my
life.
Have you ever resisted humanity?
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Have you ever tried to run fromsomething so big and so
powerful that's there for yourgood, and you're saying no, no,
no, I don't want this to happen.
No, no, and it's oh.
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Let me give you another graphicexample.
It's the infection in yourtooth and you're resisting going
to the dentist, and yet youknow that when that dentist gets
into your mouth, you're goingto go through some
uncomfortability, some pain, ifyou will, some fire in your
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mouth, right.
But the fire of the dentist isthe good fire.
The fire of the pain that thatinfected, cavity-ridden tooth is
the other part of the fire,right?
So there are good and badaspects of everything,
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especially in this 3Dconsciousness that we live in
here on planet earth Good, bad,hot, cold, right.
And we often think that, as ourshite comes rising up to the
surface, that, as our shitecomes rising up to the surface,
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because that Holy Spirit fire,it's a coming.
Whether you like it or whetheryou believe it or not, it is
coming and everyone has the firein them.
But only champions know when toignite.
That spark is a quote by EmmettRay, and I want you to think
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about all the people thatrecently have literally changed
their life because fire came inNow.
Billy Graham, the infamousevangelist, said that the Holy
Spirit illuminates the minds ofpeople, makes us yearn for God,
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and takes spiritual truth andmakes it understandable to us.
Now think about it.
Go with me here for a minute.
The one that blew me awayrecently was Eminem and think
about how angry, how dark, howmean, and you know it was truth.
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Bloms, yes, but it was vengeful.
It was full of piss and vinegar, right All of his rap lyrics.
Well, the Holy Spirit got ahold of his mind and made him
yearn for something different.
He was so tired of the lifethat he was leading, he was so
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tired of the self-abuse, he wasso tired of the battle going on
in his mind that suddenly, thatsuddenly blink, the light went
on and he recognized his needfor God.
And what is he doing now?
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He's wrapping spiritual truths.
He's making the truth of Godunderstandable to us.
Billy Graham would be so happy.
What about Jelly Roll, adele,rihanna, so many musicians?
Now, oh, you know, some of theprepper world would say, oh well
, they're just making it rightbecause they know that they've
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been found out.
You know they've been onEpstein's Island or what have
you, and maybe that is the case,but Humanityville.
I'm here to remind you that youknow, even the worst
quote-unquote sinner, murderers,murderers, horrible, horrible
people, if they ask forforgiveness, they will be in
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heaven with God, because Goddoesn't see sin as one bigger
than the other.
A lie is just as bad as murder,and all of us sin right, and
all of us can be forgiven.
So make no mistake, they mayhave committed horrible things,
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but the way they're showing outtheir lives now, eminem
especially, I mean some of theselyrics that these musicians,
that these artists are comingout with, are not candy-coated.
You know, I just want to befreed from whatever I did in my
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past.
No, these are deep-feltrevelations coming up out of
their lyrics.
Right, and that is what the firedoes.
The fire within that HolySpirit igniting you literally
sparks creativity.
But what does fire do?
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First?
You see, like my house fire, Iwas in a horribly toxic
relationship and there werethings about my life that had to
burn, baby burn.
Now, I'm not saying that it wasa necessary thing for my
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ex-husband to burn my house down.
Now, he didn't burn it downpurposefully, but it was his
addiction to substances thatcaused him to fall into a drug
sleep, a drug coma, so to speakand let the burrito burn up in
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the deep fryer in the kitchen,right?
Nobody else was there.
My young son, who was probablyabout 11 or 12, discovers the
fire in the kitchen.
Horrible, horrible circumstance.
But you, you know, you have tolet certain things go and now,
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exponentially, the pressure's onfolks.
It's like a pressure cookerhere on earth.
There are those that want toare here on earth.
There are those that want tostay in their old way of being
and they are the mostuncomfortable people right now
because they are not willing tolook at their shite.
It's everybody else's fault.
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It's everybody else's drama.
Nobody, nobody does it the waythey do it.
They are right, they are good,everything is going good in
their life.
It's everybody else's problem.
If everybody else would leave,then they would be fine.
Those are the resistors.
And how can I call them out?
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Because I live most of my lifelike that La, la, la, la, la, la
la.
Nothing to see here.
I'm good, I don't need any fireto burn anything off.
I am perfectly good.
I don't want to change.
I'm going to stay in my pile ofshite and in my mess and you
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leave me alone.
You are the problem.
And really that is the beginningof recognition and
acknowledgement.
It is the beginning becausewhat's going to happen to those
folks is what happened to me andto many others.
You begin to see it everywhereyou go because, humanityville,
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like it or not, life is a mirrorand it's going to reflect back
to us whatever is inside.
And if you got yuck, you gotangst, you got unforgiveness,
you've got onriness, you've gotvengeful thoughts, you've got
judgments oh, am I talking toyou?
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Oh, yeah, yeah, because guesswhat?
Those three or four chubs werepointing back to me my whole
life, a life of comparison andjudgment.
And then I began to recognizeI'm not getting out of this.
Nobody is coming to save me.
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I have to work out my ownsalvation.
I said those words 40 plusyears ago.
Forgive me, god, for I havesinned right, but that was the
beginning and that is what ishappening now.
The fires are coming up andthey're revealing and
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illuminating all that has to goin our life.
And you have a choice.
You can let this fire burn awayeverything that no longer
serves you.
It can burn away all the yuckthat's keeping you from your
purpose, your highest callingright, or you can keep on
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running, or you can literallydecide.
You know what I like, where I'mat and there are going to be
millions that decide thatthey're going to stay in the
drama pool of the 3D world andthey're not going to go.
They're not going to ascend,they're not going to go up the
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steps toward heaven, they'rejust not.
So we have to remember that themost powerful weapon here on
this earth is us souls on fire,like Eminem, like Tom McDonald.
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Now Tom is still, he's stillspewing all what's wrong.
But somebody has to do it,somebody has to be the siren.
Well, the battle, thebattleground for our souls, is
incredibly fierce right now,because the darkness knows that
way too much light is on theplanet now and all darkness is
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being found out.
So you have to ask yourself,humanityville, are you going to
let yourself be found out?
Are you going to look at yourstuff?
Are you going to unpack it?
Are you going to pull it out ofthat suitcase that was up in
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the attic and are you going todrag it down those attic steps?
Are you going to drag it downthose attic steps?
Are you going to pull it by thehandle and say, no, you're
coming with me, I'm not puttingup with you in my life anymore,
whatever it is.
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One of the things that got methis week is my repeated
programs.
You know it's reallyinteresting.
There are no coinkydinks, thereare just synchronicities.
And for a whole week I wasthinking about my being an eight
on the Enneagram and I'm goingto go more in depth about the
Enneagram in episodes to comeand I'm going to invite my
friend Sandy on to describeEnneagrams a little bit more.
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But my lower side of myEnneagram is excessiveness, is
my addictive behaviors.
That's been my life.
And as I've been driving thisweek thinking about this, as
I've been driving this weekthinking about this, I have
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these patterns Patterns of sugar, patterns of caffeine, patterns
of alcohol.
Oh yeah, alcohol, a big oldhaul of grossness, is what
alcohol brought into my life.
Alky-lo brought into my life.
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Alky-lo, a low where you'rethinking about drinking and then
you drink and then you gothrough all the bodily yuck of
the day after drinking thealkydol.
Oh yeah, the dullness.
You know I have indulged moresince I've been home than I had
in two years in the last six oreight weeks.
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Why?
Well, because it's a veryfamiliar pattern in my family.
It's a very familiar pattern inmy family and unfortunately, it
came into my family, into mychildren's world, through me,
through watching the pattern inmy life, and when they got old
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enough, or almost old enough,they replicated it.
So now we have a lot of alcoholand a lot of events.
Now I'm not calling my familyout, because that's not my job
it is no longer my job to takecare of anybody but me.
But I was thinking about howalcohol is one of my patterns
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and it keeps me from theawesomeness, the purpose, the
reason that I'm here.
And so, as I'm driving thisweek, I was thinking, wow,
there's that pattern again andagain, and again.
And then I started thinking youknow, that's Terry Wilson, the
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hippie freak of the South.
I'm not the hippie freak of theSouth anymore, I'm over here.
I'm Teresa Marie, theambassador of Chi.
That's who I really am, theambassador of chi.
That's who I really am, the onewho wants to talk about god,
the one who wants to light theworld up, the one that wants to
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help people come home tothemselves.
And oh, baby, there's thathippie freak of the south saying
oh you, you know, you wantanother twisted tea, don't you?
And there it is the battle tothe death, the logic of my old
patterns, or my own clairvoyance, my own intuition, saying you
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know, you don't want that, youdon't need that anymore.
You want to step up, you wantto rise above the ashes, you
want to be that phoenix.
But man, old habits are likeKlingons and they are holding on
for dear life.
Right now that is the battle ofour souls happening.
And so, going back to all ofthat yuck that we have hidden in
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that suitcase up in the attic,I've begun to call it out and
say no, you're coming with me.
No, get behind me.
No, no, no, no.
I've been saying no a lot.
To who?
To the hippie freak of theSouth?
No, you're not in chargeanymore.
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There is a new Teresa, a newperson in town and it's not the
old way anymore and thoseKlingons are going to have to go
.
And here comes the fire.
I think of my friend Tracy, whotwo, two and a half, maybe
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three years ago, decided hewanted to forge some iron.
He wanted to learn how to makemetal go into a fire and come
out a beautiful knife.
And he didn't know what he wasdoing at first, but he got his
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equipment and he began.
And man, oh man, the beauty,the function, the strength that
he now creates and three yearslater he is really perfected the
art of forging knives.
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Now that is a great use of fire.
Are we using fire so we canbecome more of who we really
want to be Free?
You see who we really want tobe free?
You see, you cannot becompletely free until you burn
away the old.
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The old man has to go.
It has to go and, dare I say,my opinion is, the people that
don't want to kill that old man,they are the ones that are
going to stay in 3D, they'regoing to stay in the drama pool,
they're going to stay innegativity, they're going to
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stay in victimhood, they'regoing to stay on welfare.
They're not going to risebecause it's too hard, I don't
want to, it's uncomfortable.
I want to stay in my safe space.
Now I'm not labeling because,baby, I've just walked out of a
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whole lot of my lifestyle and it.
Burn away and expose thebeautiful creations that we are.
So remind yourself today whatFerdinand Fox said the most
powerful weapon on earth, folks,is the human soul on fire.
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So will you allow all the yuck,all the stuff in the attic?
Picture yourself dragging itdown to the fire.
Picture yourself like thatcaveman and you're dragging your
yuck, whatever it is, judgmentcomparison.
I'm not good enough, I can'tI'm never drag it by the hair,
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drag it down to the fire, put itin the fire.
Put it in the fire and begin tolight a fire that the rest of
the world can't put out, becausethe more people that burn away
the dross, the yuck, thecorrosion, the green mold, when
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you burn that away, you're goingto shine, shine, shine.
And then we're going to beginto burn with purpose, letting
our inner fires lead the way.
And those of us that arepioneers, we may just be the
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ones that are going to have totake the bellows out and puff,
puff, puff and blow air on thosethat we love so that their
fires can burn hotter andbrighter and they can walk out
shiny, just like Shadrach,meshach and Abednego, right,
because we can't burn.
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Baby, we were born we were bornHumanityville to walk through
fires.
We were born for this.
So we're going to end where Iopened Fire, like love can burn
or warm.
Let your old stuff, the hiddendross, burn away so that you can
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sit by a holy fire and knowthat now you're shining, you're
shining with purpose, you'reshining with mission, you're
shining with the spark ofcreativity and you're creating a
brand new world.
And it's because you let thatfire burn all the old you away
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and now you're a new being.
I love you, humanity.
Burn it up, burn it up.
Burn it up and I will see youon a fantastical Friday.
Peace out.
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