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Unveiling the Wolves: Recognizing Spiritual Exploitation

• Terri Wilson

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The path to authentic spiritual freedom is filled with unexpected detours, false prophets, and powerful awakenings. Theresa Marie opens this deeply personal episode by revealing the 38-year journey between receiving a divine mission and finally having the courage to fulfill it. Back in 1987, she experienced a vivid lucid dream instructing her to transparently share her messy spiritual journey, showing that divine love persists even through our most chaotic chapters. After decades of resistance, she's finally embraced this calling.

With remarkable candor, Theresa details her "Jerry Springer ringer life" – from substance abuse and tumultuous relationships to her experiences within four different cult environments. Rather than hiding these struggles, she recognizes them as the very credentials that allow her to guide others through similar terrain. Her story powerfully illustrates how our greatest wounds often become our most valuable teaching tools.

As we navigate what many call the Great Awakening – a global energetic shift accelerating consciousness expansion – Theresa warns of the shadow side of spiritual seeking. She expertly dissects how our most natural human desires for belonging, acceptance, and purpose can be weaponized against us by those with exploitative intentions. Drawing from painful personal experience, she identifies the psychological patterns that make even the most discerning seekers vulnerable to manipulation, particularly those carrying childhood trauma or fear of isolation.

The episode culminates in a profound reminder that true spiritual authority always resides within. "Give your own insight, what's happening inside your body, mind and soul, more credence than anything," Theresa urges, "because that is where the truth is – right inside your own gut." In a world overflowing with external guidance, perhaps the most revolutionary act is learning to trust yourself again. What inner wisdom have you been ignoring while seeking answers elsewhere?

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Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember you have within you the strength, the patience and the passion to reach for the stars, to change the world, and that is a quote by Harriet Tubman. And I want to welcome you back to the Tuesday episode of Free to Just Be, the podcast empowering humanity to courageously step out of old patterns and programs and give a great big hug to new ways of being. And this is Teresa Marie, your traveling ambassador of Chi, hoping that this finds you in the greatest of health, with vibrant energy, today because you have chosen to accept full responsibility for your body, mind and soul. And here on Free To Just Be, I'm going to attempt to inspire you to truly be who you came here to be, and that begins with authenticity and honesty and transparency, which causes you to be free and aligned with your highest potential. So join me today on this transformative journey to rewrite our narratives and live lives of purpose and passion. And if my content is beginning to resonate with you, I would greatly appreciate it if you would smash that like button and share it with other people and subscribe to my stations so we can raise the algorithm and begin to encourage each other to navigate this incredible energetic shift that we're on. Yes, welcome back, welcome back. And today, before I get into the meaty content of what I'd like to share today, I want to just share where I'm heading with the Free To Just Be podcast and why exactly. I'm here behind a mic hosting a podcast called Free To Just Be. I've talked about it in my early episodes. I'm pushing about I don't know 280 episodes or so now, and been on and off at it for a couple of years.

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And way back in the 80s, back in 1985, I got radically, radically introduced to Jesus and my life really, really changed and has never, ever, ever been the same. And in about 1987, the same year of the harmonic conversion and if you don't know about that you might want to look it up. Don't ever take anything that anybody tells you as truth. You are here to navigate this incredible energetic shift that we are experiencing, energetic shift that we are experiencing. You are here to question everything. You are here to think for yourself. You are here to decide your own destiny. As my Rastaman, bob Marley, said, every man got a right to decide his own destiny. But unfortunately, the way the matrix merry-go-round works, oftentimes we get on a train, car or a horse, a merry-go-round horse, and we get following the externals rather than our own voice.

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So in 1987, with two years of walking with God under my belt, one morning I woke up and well, I was semi-awake. I had a very vivid lucid dream and in that dream and this was before Ozzy God rest his soul. I pray for him as he's going through his Bardo right now. It was way before Ozzy and Sharon came out with the reality shows. Remember when reality shows came out, and then the Kardashians and all of those shows which were depicting people's actual lives, and cameras were just following them around and we were like in awe, because we all like to live vicariously. It's safe to sit on a couch and watch others' lives unfold, but literally that is a way that we learn. And now here in the mid, going into the latter years of the 20th century, the 21st century right, we're seeing more and more of that. People are sharing their transparencies, their authenticity, their lives left and right, everywhere.

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But back in 1987, I was given that lucid dream and this was my dream. The dream was that I was to share my life as a new believer and to show the world in real time that you can love God and God will love you back, even though you are an F-up. Yep, that was what my dream said, because back in 1987, I was still flailing around, right, I had so many lessons to go through and so much life to navigate and I was still dabbling with substances and beginning to raise children and I was still quite a mess and I loved God and I knew God loved me. But to reveal my life, the way it was messy, and what I thought was gross, and do it on camera? No way, I was not doing that. And I remember laying in my bed that morning thinking, no, no, freaking way, I'm not going to expose myself like that, like that. And going back to the quote I opened with, it takes patience, right, it takes strength and passion to reach for the stars and change the world. Now, 1987,. Well, let's just do the math here. How many years ago was that? All right, my big old mathematicians, it's 2025. I have a daughter. That's that age. What is the math on that? 2025 minus? Oh, my goodness, I am so bad at math and I even have a daughter. That is that age.

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1987, 38 years ago. That lucid dream, even that, even just that little tiny verbiage just two seconds ago about not being able to compute that in my head and flubbing up with the math, I never, ever, ever would have revealed myself. But I have discovered, after 38 years of having that lucid dream, that I have a lot of strength. I have been through an incredible merry-go-round of experiences, as I've always called it a Jerry Springer ringer life, and just to you know, bring you up to speed if you don't know who Jerry Springer is, he was like a shock host and he would host people that had all this drama and baby mamas and people who have ripped off others and people who would get up on stage and fight each other and all that kind of BS. That was my life Chaos, one mistake after the other, one mistake after the other, and I gained a lot of strength from those years of struggle and patience oh my goodness, the patience of God 38,. And patience oh my goodness, the patience of God 38,.

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40 years later, here I am and what am I doing? I am authentically and transparently sharing my life and, to make this come even more clear, my life mission, my mission statement, is this and I really want to share it with you now. My mission is to inspire and impact people by authentically and transparently sharing my relatable life experiences, encouraging them to look within and rediscover the love and light of God that they truly are. That is my mission in life and this podcast, along with thousands of other people who are now coming clean with their own life experiences. Now, could I have made more of an impact back in 1987? Oh, maybe. Maybe, had I been brave enough and confident enough, I could have literally walked through my Jerry Springer ringer life and people could have learned from it as I went through it. But here I am right now through it. But here I am right now before the mic, saying that it's only going forward now, and some of the things that I will share on this podcast are past events, while simultaneously I'm sharing with you the events that are taking me through the greatest energetic shift ever.

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Now, if you're still not sure that there is a shift in the energies happening, you might want to look into the Schumann resonance. You might want to look at some of the people that are talking about the great awakening or the quantum field. But make no mistake the planet has been changing for years and years and years. It's not new, however. What's new is so. Many people are now aware and are now coming out from behind the curtains of unconsciousness and are encouraging those that are just beginning to wake up, those that have just discovered the red pill, people who maybe had their first red pill, or some that are looking at it and saying I don't know, it's just, I don't want to go down that path. Ignorance is bliss, and it is hard. It is hard to recognize what is happening within you and around you, and that is why I'm here.

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My job is to bring truth and power back to humanity in any way that I can, and I'm a storyteller, and so that is why I created Free to Just Be. I may be 38 years late, god, but here I am, doing the mission that you gave me back in 1987. And I want to remind you that every single one of us has a purpose and a mission that we came to planet Earth to achieve, and we often forget that it's a collective, group effort. Not one single person has the answers. There are many, many, many, many teachers, and we go through many lessons, and it's easy for somebody to get on the internet and rob somebody else's experience, for example, rather than going through the experience themselves. So to kind of quantify or validate the fact that I have lived a Jerry Springer life and have had 40 plus, well, really, really way back since I was a kid, you know 60 years of experience, and that has credence. I've had a cornucopia of experiences, just like you have, which is why the people are beginning to recognize that it's time to share those experiences, because they were not for naught. They were there for us to use as tools to help our fellow human beings.

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We have childhood traumas, for example. Everybody has childhood traumas, whatever they might be, whatever depth or tragic details were around it. Every one of us, as children, had some things that were imprinted on us. Then, for example for me, I ran away. I hitched across the country. I lived on the streets. I dealt with nicotine, alcohol, drug abuse. I was an unwed mom at 19. I was married to a drug addict, a pedophile, a self-medicating bipolar man who even burnt down my house what else? I then married his brother, who had lots of narcissistic tendencies. I stayed distant from my family, who loved me. I homeschooled when it was still taboo. I went through all sorts of religious programming, including wearing skirts for a year. I lived without a TV for nine years I I have been involved in so many teachings and so many erroneous groups that I now have again this buffet of experiences with which I can turn and encourage and teach others how to walk through them, because I have indeed come out victoriously with each chapter of my life.

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Now, with these huge energetic shifts that are happening, I am here today, now that I've laid the groundwork for why Free To Just Be exists and how I'm going to go forward. I'm going to talk about my past stories and I'm going to, in real time, explain the things that I'm going through as we walk through these incredible changes of frequency and energy that the planet is going through the great awakening. It's been upon us for years, but now it's accelerating, so we're going to help each other through that, and one of the things that I want to talk about today is kind of like a capitalistic opportunity that everybody has available to them in any given change or era of time, and this is an era of massive change, is it not? And having gone through many, many teachers, many of whom said that their way was the way, I'm very familiar with this capitalistic, opportunistic mode of operation, and that is. I take you back to the gold rush and often it was not the people looking for the gold that made the money. It was the people that provided the pans and the jeans and the tools to go out and look for goals. That was a capitalistic opportunity. Oh, they're going to need this. Well, I'm going to be the provider of that. Well, it's no different.

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In this age of energy communication movement, there are people that are going to capitalize on that vulnerability. There are people that are just beginning to wake up. There are people that had abandonment issues. There are people that had a need for approval that they didn't get when they were a child. There are people that are longing for support and community and family that they didn't have because, you know, the family has been so disintegrated by the matrix. So all of those provide a beautiful avatar for those that want to skip ahead, for those that maybe don't want to create something new, but know they want to prey on the vulnerabilities of different individuals, individuals and use that as their way to make an income in their lives, for example.

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Let's just talk about spiritual vulnerability first off. All right. So here on Free To Just Be, we keep talking about being open and honest about your feelings, your struggles, your faith. All of that is very, very necessary for allowing a deeper connection with God and others. You have to be honest with yourself. First off, we have to be able to give a big old hug to personal vulnerability, because that's what leads to growth of any kind, especially spiritual growth. That's what leads to healing and more authentic relationships, not only with God but with others, right? So that's spiritual vulnerability.

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Let's look at the definition of it. It refers to openness and susceptibility of individuals to their spiritual challenges and emotional exposure. Spiritual vulnerability is essential for maintaining a strong relationship with God and fostering spiritual growth. We need to recognize this vulnerability, which allows believers to guard against temptations and also to seek divine guidance. Divine guidance is the capitalistic opportunity for many, many charlatans, for many wolves in sheep's clothing. So we also have to remember that vulnerability.

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What does the matrix tell us?

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We don't want to be vulnerable. We don't want to show our backside, because that is seen as a point of weakness. Right, and this is often what people who have erroneous thoughts or motives bank on. They look at somebody's spirituality, vulnerability, and say, oh, this is an opportunity for me to be that divine guidance for them. Now, make no mistake, on everybody's journey, we have multiple teachers and the matrix will tell us oh no, no, there's only one God and yes, I absolutely believe that. And therefore, we should only learn from one book, the Bible. And I believe the Bible is a very true book. I quote it and read it every single day. I quote it and read it every single day. However, there are many, many, many other ways of learning spirituality and there are many, many teachers along our path, and they all lead us back to our Creator, god, and to say that there's only one way could be very, very shaky ground to be on.

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So we have to remember that vulnerability is often seen as weakness, but it's actually our source of strength, because when you're honest about your feelings, your struggles, your fears, that is incredible strength. That openness not only leads to a deeper connection with God, but it opens other people up as well. So we personally need to embrace our own vulnerability so we can experience love and belonging and joy, which is absolutely crucial in our personal growth, especially growing in our spiritual life. But now, when individuals show their true colors, show their authenticity, show their genuineness, it is often food for predators, because those predators can take your vulnerability and use it for your demise. Because spiritual vulnerability can make individuals much more susceptible to what? To charlatans, to wolves in sheep's clothing, to cult behavior, to being led astray, to believing that you have to hang on the words of one particular person in order to evolve.

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And I am here to begin to break open and to begin to discuss those possibilities, literally on the internet. Now, how can you really talk about this in an authentic and real? In other words, what credibility do you have in talking about spiritual vulnerability? Well, because I have been involved in not one, not two, not three, not two, not three, but four different cults over the last 25 years. And I look back, I look back on my journals in recent weeks and it was like every 10 years, and then in the last 10 years I even stepped it up more than that.

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Every 10 years I had another teacher that I hung on, that I was psychologically messed with, that I was preyed upon because of my incredible desire to not only be more like God but to help others come back to God. And that is both an incredible blessing, because that's what we all want. We all want to come back home to the love and light that we are, and if that's truly the case, then we want that for other people too, because that's where true freedom lies. It's absolutely a fact, and I have many, many chapters of my life where I was not free. As compared to where I am now, I am freer than I've ever been in my entire life, and I am beginning today to sound a trumpet. Today, to sound a trumpet, a trumpet call for those who are with me that love God and know that they are love and light.

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And I'm here to say that we have to be very cautious because there are exploiters out there. There are people that prey on our vulnerabilities. What are some of the vulnerabilities? What are the negative vulnerabilities of spiritual vulnerability? What are some of those aspects of having a good heart that can be exploited? Well, going back to childhood trauma if you weren't accepted, if you didn't feel like you had the approval of those that were supposed to love you you know your parents and your siblings say or if you never felt like you belonged oh, buddy.

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Cults will often exploit these vulnerabilities by offering a sense of community and purpose which, unfortunately, in my experience, led to manipulation and control. And it's so very insidious and so wrapped in light and love and it looks so good and it it also makes us susceptible to manipulation or control by groups, often due to our upbringing and our past experiences. What are some of the factors that actually leads to some of this vulnerability to cults? Well, if you were a child raised in a high control environment, say, you were born into a really strict family or to a religious institution, or you were raised and you went to church three or four times and it was all about developing a mindset that discourages you from questioning authority. This is what we do. This is what we do every day. We put on these garments, we follow this teaching and we never divert from it. If you were early conditioned in your life in high control environments, in your life in high control environments, you are going to be more susceptible.

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What about needing to feel like you belong? Many of us felt abandoned. Many of us felt like we were the redheaded stepchild in our family. Many of us felt like we were aliens to the family we were born in. Of us felt like we were aliens to the family we were born in. So we have an incredible need of belonging. So many people seek community and meaning in their lives, making them more likely to join groups that do what they promise connection and family and purpose.

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Now I go back to my statements in the beginning of this podcast. We all came here to be who we are, authentically and transparently, to seek out what our own individual purpose is, because we are a collective but yet we are one, just like the Bible teaches a collective, but yet we are one. Just like the Bible teaches, we are all one body, but we all have different members. I've talked numerous times about how the hands and feet are kind of the ones out in front, or the mouthpiece or the you know, the teachers, but just as important are the eyelashes and the fingernails of the body, yet we are all one body, okay. So these people who kind of lull us into cult behavior are often banking on the fact that we need connection and we are searching for purpose. Be very cautious as you begin to peel away the veils of unconsciousness, because there are those on the sidelines watching and waiting for an opportunity for you to be lulled in to their way of doing things and their way only A desire for acceptance. We have an innate human capacity for belonging. We want to belong. We want familiar family love. This makes us red flags for cult behavior. It's like we're flashing needy, needy. Oh, this person is a prime candidate for me to just suck their energy, their need for family and connection oh, I can milk that, can't I.

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What other psychological factors lead people into cult-like behavior? The fear of isolation, you know, when you come on the planet and you feel like you're an alien, and a lot of lightworkers felt like that. And why, why? Why would people who want to lead us astray, into cult-like, as thousands of us that I am talking to right now, people who have found free to just be, people, who were in the new age movement, people who have been constantly looking and searching for the answer in sound healing and in meditation, and in all the gurus that are out there, we are discovering that we are indeed here to be lightworkers, and lightworkers are the big targets for the darkness. The darkness do not want lightworkers to stay on their path. They certainly do not want them to find their purpose. And even if they find their purpose, which ultimately is to lead others back inside to their love and light, well, let's divert them a little bit. Let's distract them for their individual purpose.

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For example, my individual purpose is this right here, speaking to humanity in my vulnerable, raw way of doing so and that's going to touch certain people in my demographic or what have you. There are certain people that are going to resonate with Teresa Marie, the traveling ambassador of Chi's voice. That is my particular section of humanity that I am here to reach my purpose and, yes, I will use moving meditation of Tai Chi Gong. That will be my connection to certain people and this podcast will be certain connections to people. The courses I'm developing to help walk people out of the matrix programming, those are my purposes.

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But oh, buddy, can you get diverted and can you get waylaid in your purpose? Because some of these cults have very good aspects and teach us very good things, but man they intertwine with, do it this way, or else Do it our way or be ostracized, right. And oh, buddy, do I have some experience with cult behavior, with homeschool cult curriculum? Oh yeah, I went through the whole skirt stage and wore skirts for a couple of years. I went through a religious cult, I went through a news cult, I went through a church cult and oh, buddy, to recognize that you're going through them again and again, it's like a massive smack in your face, you're like there's no way that I could have fallen through this again.

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But when you have a good heart, when you have a desire to help humanity, that is reason for you to really put your guard up and really be aware that the very things that you're walking out of are often big old flashing lights for those that want to misuse and misguide you. So one of the other things is fear of isolation. You know the fear of being ostracized, right, you find a group and there's hundreds of people in this group and they're all going in the same direction, and all of a sudden, ding, ding, ding, oh, another veil of unconsciousness begins to get lit up and you begin to think well, wait a minute, this doesn't feel right, this doesn't sound right. And because now you're in this collective family that's all going in the same direction, and you feel like you're this elite group, and you feel like, oh man, I found it, I found the one, I found the ultimate leader. Wow, I am part of this incredible movement, right? But all of a sudden something hits you wrong. But all of a sudden something hits you wrong and you enter back into that childhood and you think but wait a minute, this can't be wrong. I mean, look at all the love and look at all the camaraderie and look at all the good that has come out of this particular group. And then you think of the childhood trauma and you think of the isolation and you don't want to go back. You don't want to go back into feeling like you're alone and you certainly don't want to admit that. Oh, buddy, surely I didn't do this again. And what about the leader? They were so strong and persuasive and they had such special knowledge and insight and wisdom. And, man, you just cannot fathom that again, you were led on the outside when, in effect, you're beginning to recognize once again that all the answers are on the inside, that, ultimately, we don't need any dogma, any guru. No, and I step on toes here all the time. But no, you don't even need a religion, you don't need a building. We are the body of Christ, we are the church. And I continue, when I so feel led by God, I continue to worship with many different religions. Oh, buddy, that in itself opens up a can of worms. How can you sit in a Nazarene church and a Baptist church and a Methodist church and go to a Hindu worship? Oh, my God. Oh, why? Because the brainwashing in the religious world is intense and, yes, dare I say it is cult-like. And how dare I say that? Well, I sat in it and I sat under that control and I know what it feels like and I know how, when you wake up to the truth of it, you want to vomit and you want to get back in that fetal position and you want to say how could this be? And it can be, because God wants us to be completely free and this cult-like behavior will use whatever manipulation. Oh my gosh, the word of God is used, words that we want to hear. All of this is used here. You know all of this is used. And so today, I just want to close and say, if you are in a place that you are beginning to say to yourself, you're scratching your head and you're like this just doesn't feel right. Please, please, please, begin to give your own resonance, your own spidey sense, your intuition, your gut feeling. Begin to give it more credence than whatever teaching, whatever book, whatever dogma, whatever religion, whatever spiritual guru or leader that you are currently following. Give it less and give your own insight, what's happening inside your body, mind and soul. More credence than anything, because that, my dear fellow humans, my brothers and sisters in this big body, we call humanity, that is where the truth is right inside your own gut, and on that note I will leave you. Today and tomorrow we will talk a little bit about the exploitation of idealism, because it is rampant right now, because we all want to live in a better world and we all have that. Oh, some will call it the unicorn and butterfly aspect. We all want that aspect of life and I caution you, that is also a target for the darkness. Much love and I will see you tomorrow.