Finding Alignment through the FIRE with Sharon Brown: Sacred Fire Keeper, Granicera and Curindera, (Ep. 4 of 6)

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I should do nothing as a fire keep.

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I should simply endeavor , to hold neutrality, but to help people,

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let the fire do it for them.

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. Yeah.

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Because the fire cre is the creator of everything.

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The beginning and the end of ev, the creator, the destroyer, all of it.

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But there's not a thing in this world.

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There's not a, a meal you can eat.

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There's nothing you can do where the energy expresses electricity in our world.

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But, but it's all about that, that heat, that brilliance, that, um, that awareness.

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Welcome to a Lone Traveler's Guide to the Divine.

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My name is Amanda Lux and I'm the creator of the Elevation Hive School and Community

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for Energy Medicine and Dreamwork.

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This is the fourth episode in a series where I'm exploring the five elements

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in the polarity therapy healing model.

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In today's episode, I'm honored to be discussing energetic alignment through

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the fire element with Sharon Brown, who is a wise woman and a sacred fire keeper

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trained in multiple healing traditions.

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She's been initiated into the ways of the sacred fire keepers for many years,

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Sharon has also taken some of my polarity classes, including , a two

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part intensive class , , on the five elements and that class really deeply

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explores how to align and balance and free up and organize our energy utilizing

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various polarity protocols and practices.

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, so in this really fascinating conversation, Sharon and I discussed

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some of the overlapping energetic concepts and philosophies and

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practices that occur between polarity and the Nahua traditions that she

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has studied extensively for decades.

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I feel like I got some insight and hopefully you will as well from

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listening to this episode around how to relate to fire in a deeper way.

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I've attended Sharon's fire ceremonies and some of the community events she's held,

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and it's a truly transformative experience to sit with fire and receive its medicine

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in this tradition, which, As Sharon humbly expresses that every fire I've attended

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is a ceremonial process, which is on loan from the Cual people of Mexico.

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And this way of relating to fire allows all humans, no matter their race or

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background to experience and remember their sacred relationship to fire and to

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the earth, to one another and all beings.

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And this remembering.

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Arises naturally around the fire when we make offerings in a way that the

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fire recognizes and responds to and has for hundreds of thousands of years.

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When we connect with fire in this way, , it just inherently assists us

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in aligning our energy in bringing more vitality, clarity, courage, and

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balance to every aspect of our lives.

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So I just first of all wanna thank you so much Sharon for, , responding immediately

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when I reached out and let you know that I had a dream that I had interviewed you.

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I always respond to your dreams, Amanda . I had a whole other thing planned

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and then I had that dream, that I was telling somebody that I had

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interviewed you for this podcast.

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And then I woke up and I'm like, well, that's brilliant in the dream.

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I was like, yeah, she's the fire.

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Keep like it's perfect

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. Sharon Brown: It felt

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I'd love to talk about

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fire and that was just like two days ago.

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So

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, Sharon Brown: it was, and I

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I'm traveling like.

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in two days for like two weeks.

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Whoa.

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And I've got so many other things to do, but Oh my gosh.

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You know, I, I don't want to block you in manifesting your dreams.

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So , I figured I should

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participate.

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. Well, I appreciate that so much.

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. I'm so excited to introduce you.

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This is Sharon Brown.

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We're sitting in your beautiful little studio.

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. I've known Sharon for years now.

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Starting with coming to your sacred fires.

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Your fire circles that you hold and it has gone from New

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Moon to Full Moon at different

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times, In, uh, this year it's gonna stay on

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the New Moon the whole year.

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Okay, cool.

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Yeah.

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Good to know.

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I prefer the New Moon.

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, so on the new moon here in Olympia, you hold sacred fire gatherings.

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Those are the women's fire circles that you host

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by women's fire circles and also community fire circles.

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Right.

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And my husband does, Mens, Fires.

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And , also we have a number of different ceremonies throughout the year.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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That are related to the, the firework.

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, everything's related to fire, , but also are part of, , the tradition.

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I'm a, I'm a Granicera, right in the Nahua tradition of the Mexican

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Highlands, which is a weather worker, and I'm an apprentice, uh, to

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Patiani, which is like a Curandera.

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, but in the tradition of the Nahua most people have heard of the Aztecs.

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The Aztecs spoke Nahuatl.

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That makes them Nahua.

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So, , if you're an Aztec, you're in Nahua, but if you're Nahua,

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you're not necessarily an Aztec because there are lots of other.

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, , traditions and, , names of peoples who speak that language.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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. And do you wanna say anything about how you came to be a

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fire keep in the sacred fire

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tradition?

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Oh gosh, that's a huge and long story . , I could and would like

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to, But, let's talk about polarity.

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Let's talk about the fire element a little bit.

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. Don't get me

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started.

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, . Well, I feel really honored that you have.

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Attended multiple of the polarity classes.

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You took Polarity one twice.

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Mm-hmm.

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the first time when I had first started the school, and then we got shut down.

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And then you , retook it.

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Yeah.

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Again recently.

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Yeah.

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And I love having you in those classes with all of your wisdom

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and experience, and you also went through the elemental class.

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So we studied,

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did that gonna be taking polarity three?

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You're gonna be doing cranial sacral?

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Yeah.

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I, I love how you and Kim teach.

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I love what you teach and there's a great, uh, , it's not even a

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synchronicity because that makes it sound like it's two different things.

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Um, there's a unity.

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Yeah.

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, between the work I do, particularly as a Nahua, , but fire as the creator

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of virtually everything, , weaves into polarity, just in a crazy, , can't

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make this stuff up sort of way.

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Yeah.

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Uh, with this, with this traditional wisdom that I'm studying.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Well, I, I would love to hear more about what specifically you think.

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Is so interesting about that.

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And you and I have talked about maybe even collaborating at some point.

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Yeah.

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Which I really look forward to, , in teaching something that

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does bring these two together.

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Yeah.

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Well, you know, it's interesting.

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So, , polarity, , is a spectrum.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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People think of polarity as opposites..

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And, , what's in the middle of two opposites is this sort of

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place where they come together and they neutralize each other.

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Right.

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In a way.

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And so I think we had a conversation a number of years ago, , on neutrality

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You were, making a point of, of how you try to maintain neutrality.

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And I do too.

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Yeah.

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And, and sometimes in our culture.

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, , socially too.

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, neutrality is not so popular.

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Right.

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Um, people tend to, , feel that being authentic is really taking a firm

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stand for a particular something.

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Mm-hmm.

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, and that's good.

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I take a stand for neutrality.

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Right.

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. I mean, it's, it's good to be firm in what you are passionate about.

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, but I was like, wow, Amanda's into neutrality.

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I haven't met all that many people.

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And of course as a fire keeper, one of the things that we are trained to

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maintain is neutrality because the whole, , the why have a fire, , why hold

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space, sacred space for people around a fire, , is to create a opportunity

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for people to express themselves.

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safely.

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And so you can't invite the public to come to an event where, , safety

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isn't part of the package.

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Right?

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But it's not being safe by stifling yourself, it's being safe by

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listening, it's being safe, by having an agreement that everything

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expressed in the circle feels.

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Real and true to whomever is speaking it.

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And they, you know, I heard a definition of love once, , one of

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my teachers said that, , love is defined as the, , unconditional

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acceptance of the other as legitimate.

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Mm-hmm.

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people have legitimate reasons for what they feel and what they believe

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and, and that can turn into, , lot.

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political positions that can turn into a lot of stuck conversations that

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can turn into a lot of disagreement and challenge between people.

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And so Fire has this capacity to move people's emotions.

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It has the capacity to shine light on what's hidden.

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, it has a capacity to help someone, , experience, their fear in a different way.

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, and when we do that collectively, what we find is that we are just so much alike.

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Someone that we may have completely opposite political.

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and it tends to land around, , common heart and, , family being able to feed

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yourself and house yourself and being able to create a life for yourself.

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What comes up is that people have different ideas about how that

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should be done, but fundamentally, we all want the same thing.

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We all want to be loved, that we all want safety.

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We just have different ways of looking at it.

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So as a fire keeper, neutrality is extremely important.

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And, of course Covid was a, wild time for that.

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So when you mentioned your neutrality, I probably, I don't know, I probably

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asked you to tell me a little bit about polarity or you, you did, and

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I'm like, I, I need more of this.

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I need more of this

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polarity also, , is foundational to the Cosmo vision.

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I love this word, Cosmo vision, , which is a translation of, , a Mexican

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word, which is spelled Cosmo vision.

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It's just not pronounced the way I'm pronouncing it.

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Which is the worldview that inv, you know, includes the cosmos and, um,, spirituality

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is, is just on the surface in Mexico.

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, it's this very, , rich and mystical and magical, way that people.

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And, and continue to be.

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, I was, , initiated as a weather worker by, uh, Don Lucio, Campos

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Alde in nepa, Paco, Mexico in 2001.

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And, , have since that time received continuous training.

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And, and one of the things that I'm deep into right now is working with, the

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way time works and everything is married to its opposite in this worldview.

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Hmm.

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The worldview of high and low, hot and cold, , loud and

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soft, , strong and and weak.

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And there, the thing that's different from our western view is

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that there's no polarity around.

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Right and wrong morally.

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Hmm.

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Now there may be the right way to hold a knife and the wrong way to hold a

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knife, but it's not a moral judgment.

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And, um, that really.

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Intrigues me and, and attracts me.

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, I've had this, this sense since I was a child.

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And in fact, that's part of how I was divine as having a calling is

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that when I read these philosophies, I'm like, oh, I know this.

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Mm-hmm.

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, oh, I know this, this isn't what I'm taught in school,

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but this is familiar to me.

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Yeah.

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And so, , , yeah.

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Polarity and the way energy moves.

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And I remember, uh, when, when you taught about how there is

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the, the east west energy and then there's the fire energy spiral.

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Yes.

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The sp that spirals and moves forward and that is exactly how energy is described.

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in the Nawa Cosmo vision.

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Yeah.

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Um, Ollin is the energy of, of going around and bouncing with pattern.

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It's like a bouncing ball.

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It's like the sun coming around the earth.

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It's like the beating of our heart.

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Mm-hmm.

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, that's a particular energy.

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And then there's another energy called malinalli, which is vertical and

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spiraling up and down at the same time.

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And when I looked at the pictures in, in the polarity work book, I was

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like, oh my gosh, this is going to be really, , fundamental to expanding and

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deepening my, uh, my, to patiani, my corenderra practice with how energy moves.

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, I just find it super fascinating.

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, Dr.

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Stone primarily in Eastern traditions, is that correct?

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Yeah, yeah, definitely.

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Yeah.

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From global.

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At the level I'm at with polarity.

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Right.

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Um, we could have a conversation.

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I could discover there's like some whole new secret door that you

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don't go through for a little while.

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, mostly it, it's being described as energies and, that's the other

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thing that really turned me on to polarity is that everything

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is energy in the Nahua worldview.

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everything is teotl, teotl.

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And what is teotl teotl is energy without beginning, without end.

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You don't even ask, you know, why is not a shamanically relevant question.

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Yeah.

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Uh, it's what is right?

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Yeah.

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And teotl is this never ending, always expressing energy.

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If you think of a lotus unfolding those animations of the, you

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know, that's what's happen.

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and that everything that's unfolding, everything that manifests in this realm.

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Okay.

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Qualifying, we're talking about this realm.

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Yeah.

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There are lots of other dimensions Yes.

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Et cetera, but in this realm, everything that uh, emerges is teotl, everything

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is sacred, everything is mundane.

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There we go.

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They're two.

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They're two polarities, right?

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Right.

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They're sacred and mundane.

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They're both and, and always.

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Yes.

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, But they're always got their opposite.

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And, What's fascinating to me is, again, the overlap in how

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healing happens time is alive.

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And so, this additional synchronicity between polarity work and, , the Nahua

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cosmology and the calendar is that as a human person, on the particular day, when.

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Conceived, and it's actually not your conception, it's more

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when your heart starts to beat.

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But at that moment, you receive an imprint and the sacred calendar

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is nine Gregorian months long.

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It's 260 days, which is a little shy of , a human gestation, just shy enough

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that it could be the time when the heart starts when you become a person.

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Yeah.

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And you have this timestamp of these various influences, and you

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receive three different souls.

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One in your head, one in your mind, yeah.

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One in your liver, one in your lower body, and then one in your heart.

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And it's all about balancing those three souls.

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has the ether and the air.

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It's, you're up in the clouds, you're up in the future, which is your mind soul,

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that your tenali soul is in your mind.

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One is rooted in your, your earth and your water, right?

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The, the earth and the water, which is what our body is.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Earth and water.

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And then, and then the heart.

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And you know, this is the only thing that I haven't found sort

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of a perfect fit with polarity.

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. The Nahua view is that the fire is in the heart.

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Right?

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That's a little north of the solar plexus.

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Yeah.

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In the air.

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Yeah.

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But, , here's, here's kind of how I, I tend to work with that.

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The, the true fire in the body digestion.

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, the real heat, the real workhorse.

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The upper body work is in the heart.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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And so the heart has , as, , as many, , , neurons as the mind.

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, a lot of people don't know that.

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, the heart is as actively engaged in learning, knowing, perceiving,

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generating movement, , decisions.

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And it's the heart voice.

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That's the voice.

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That's the one that we wanna hear.

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Yeah.

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And what is earth?

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Earth is decay.

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Yeah.

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Earth is rot.

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Um, it's filth.

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And so the, the, the Naah Aztec people have a Goddess Tlazolteotl and

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she's the eater of, orger which is basically animal manure.

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, she's the goddess of ritual bathing.

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She's the goddess of sexuality.

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She's the goddess of, stink and sin and, , intoxication

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and, , really losing yourself to.

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very earthy things.

Sharon Brown: 00:19:20

Mm-hmm.

Sharon Brown: 00:19:20

, and she's the confession goddess.

Sharon Brown: 00:19:22

Mm-hmm.

Sharon Brown: 00:19:24

. And she is, , the goddess of weaving.

Sharon Brown: 00:19:27

And what she represents is this reality that, , we are earthy people

Sharon Brown: 00:19:33

who, , screw up and love life a lot, and love our bodies a lot.

Sharon Brown: 00:19:40

and sometimes we get out of balance with that.

Sharon Brown: 00:19:44

Yeah.

Sharon Brown: 00:19:44

And sometimes if we don't, , attend to, , our family and our community.

Sharon Brown: 00:19:50

She's a weaver that weaves all this back together through

Sharon Brown: 00:19:54

ceremony, through ritual bathing.

Sharon Brown: 00:19:57

, have a goddess of

Amanda Lux: 00:19:59

filth, right?

Amanda Lux: 00:20:01

. Love

Sharon Brown: 00:20:01

it.

Sharon Brown: 00:20:01

How po That's polarity.

Amanda Lux: 00:20:24

So this series that I've been recording is about how to align

Amanda Lux: 00:20:29

your energy using the elements.

Amanda Lux: 00:20:31

Mm-hmm.

Amanda Lux: 00:20:32

. And so this episode focused on the fire element is really how do we align

Amanda Lux: 00:20:39

ourselves utilizing fire as an ally

Amanda Lux: 00:20:42

Through the realm of the fire element or the third chakra.

Amanda Lux: 00:20:46

And so in polarity there are certain ways, as you learned in the polarity two, That

Amanda Lux: 00:20:53

we can utilize , that elemental nature to help us find alignment in our lives.

Amanda Lux: 00:20:59

For me, my favorite way is through embodiment, because I see that fire in

Amanda Lux: 00:21:04

the involutionary pattern of polarity.

Amanda Lux: 00:21:08

How?

Amanda Lux: 00:21:09

energy steps down into form.

Amanda Lux: 00:21:11

It really becomes more physically manifest in the fire, in the air.

Amanda Lux: 00:21:16

As we were discussing the heart.

Amanda Lux: 00:21:17

There's still this relationship with the mind, with mental energy, with,

Amanda Lux: 00:21:21

it's still a higher vibratory quality.

Amanda Lux: 00:21:23

It's not quite fully embodied yet, but when you get to the

Amanda Lux: 00:21:26

fire, it's really about action.

Amanda Lux: 00:21:28

Mm-hmm.

Amanda Lux: 00:21:29

and so about physicality, it's about inhabiting and, and movement.

Amanda Lux: 00:21:34

Um, and I think of that as embodiment.

Amanda Lux: 00:21:37

Um, and I go to that in five rhythms dance, which is

Amanda Lux: 00:21:41

also related to the chakras.

Amanda Lux: 00:21:43

the rhythm Related to fire is chaos

Amanda Lux: 00:21:47

and that is really fast and loud and hard, and it's where we go into that deep

Amanda Lux: 00:21:54

place in order to shake everything loose.

Amanda Lux: 00:21:56

Mm-hmm.

Amanda Lux: 00:21:57

. And we emerge different.

Amanda Lux: 00:21:58

It's the great transformer, right?

Amanda Lux: 00:22:01

Yeah.

Amanda Lux: 00:22:01

When we come out on the other side of of fire, we are in touch with our heart

Amanda Lux: 00:22:05

in a new way and we're, we're cleansed in a way by going into that deep.

Amanda Lux: 00:22:12

crazy place.

Amanda Lux: 00:22:13

All the shit . Yeah.

Amanda Lux: 00:22:14

That's how we cleanse and we transform.

Amanda Lux: 00:22:17

And so fire is the great transformer.

Amanda Lux: 00:22:20

Fire is the place of, of embodiment, of taking action.

Amanda Lux: 00:22:24

And so when I think about for myself, how I align my energy through

Amanda Lux: 00:22:28

fire, I think about the physical practices that help me get there,

Amanda Lux: 00:22:32

such as my yoga practice and running.

Amanda Lux: 00:22:35

even art visual arts is also related to fire.

Amanda Lux: 00:22:39

Yeah.

Amanda Lux: 00:22:39

, and so these are ways that I go to, and I was just, I wanted to

Amanda Lux: 00:22:43

discuss that as part of this episode.

Amanda Lux: 00:22:46

You know, like how do we align our energy through the

Sharon Brown: 00:22:48

fire?

Sharon Brown: 00:22:49

What's, what's fire?

Sharon Brown: 00:22:49

Well, you know, and I think that's part of, um, what, and here's

Sharon Brown: 00:22:54

another polarity, both confronts me.

Sharon Brown: 00:22:58

and attracts me.

Sharon Brown: 00:22:59

Yeah.

Sharon Brown: 00:22:59

About polarity.

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Yeah.

Sharon Brown: 00:23:01

Is that, um, that's a different re relationship with fire, right?

Sharon Brown: 00:23:05

Than what I've had.

Sharon Brown: 00:23:06

Yes.

Amanda Lux: 00:23:07

And it's a different archetype.

Sharon Brown: 00:23:09

Yeah, the, polarity has the archetype of this, um, Transforming

Sharon Brown: 00:23:14

actor, um, that's gonna move things around and create some chaos.

Sharon Brown: 00:23:20

Uh, in Nahua we've got some other people that are focused on chaos.

Sharon Brown: 00:23:24

In the, , Aztec view.

Sharon Brown: 00:23:26

Um, fire is actually above chaos.

Sharon Brown: 00:23:31

Fire is, is in partnership with ometeotl which is the oneness.

Sharon Brown: 00:23:37

Chaos breaks into two.

Sharon Brown: 00:23:39

Right?

Sharon Brown: 00:23:39

The oneness is both at the same time.

Sharon Brown: 00:23:41

Yeah.

Sharon Brown: 00:23:41

And then it breaks into chaos and order, which might be

Sharon Brown: 00:23:45

tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl might be a way to look at that.

Sharon Brown: 00:23:49

But I do have a practice of how I, I think your question might be . What's

Sharon Brown: 00:23:55

another way to look at working with fire?

Sharon Brown: 00:23:57

, to affect positive, uh, polar positive changes It better?

Sharon Brown: 00:24:02

Yeah.

Sharon Brown: 00:24:03

Right.

Sharon Brown: 00:24:03

Let me, let me qualify what I mean when I think something's better.

Sharon Brown: 00:24:06

Okay.

Sharon Brown: 00:24:06

Yeah.

Sharon Brown: 00:24:06

Because, because better or worse, good or bad, , the Huichol people who

Sharon Brown: 00:24:11

are, , ancestrally related to the Nahua.

Sharon Brown: 00:24:15

When they have a hard decision to make, , they all get together.

Sharon Brown: 00:24:18

They all talk about it.

Sharon Brown: 00:24:19

They don't say what's right or wrong, good or bad.

Sharon Brown: 00:24:21

What they say is, will it grow corn?

Sharon Brown: 00:24:23

Right?

Sharon Brown: 00:24:25

Is it generative for life today and into the future?

Sharon Brown: 00:24:29

, so how do we work with fire to grow corn in our lives?

Sharon Brown: 00:24:35

, and for me, that practice is.

Sharon Brown: 00:24:39

being with the fire.

Sharon Brown: 00:24:41

Hmm.

Sharon Brown: 00:24:42

And recognizing that the fire itself in a fire ring.

Sharon Brown: 00:24:50

, uncontained fire, is a healing medicine

Sharon Brown: 00:24:55

. and I have a couple, of things that

Sharon Brown: 00:24:58

have shown me how amazing fire can be.

Sharon Brown: 00:25:01

, so first and foremost, , for me being around fire, it's

Sharon Brown: 00:25:07

like my body recognizes it.

Sharon Brown: 00:25:09

And, , we say that it's part of our ancestral dna.

Sharon Brown: 00:25:13

, human people became human around the fire.

Sharon Brown: 00:25:17

, we were transformed by the fire.

Sharon Brown: 00:25:20

And so my body just recognizes it.

Sharon Brown: 00:25:23

When I'm around the fire, I feel something.

Sharon Brown: 00:25:25

Mm-hmm.

Sharon Brown: 00:25:27

and then, , working with fire in a ceremonial.

Sharon Brown: 00:25:32

making offerings to the fire in a traditional way, which is acknowledging

Sharon Brown: 00:25:39

this relationship of giving and receiving changes the dynamic from, say, a

Sharon Brown: 00:25:47

barbecue in the backyard or a bonfire at a party, to creating this, , sacred

Sharon Brown: 00:25:54

space that calls in all the directions.

Sharon Brown: 00:25:58

and for the time that we're in that space, we are in the center of the world.

Sharon Brown: 00:26:05

And the transformation in many ways can come from the being with the fire itself,

Sharon Brown: 00:26:14

with the context, and you may not even need the context, but I think it helps

Sharon Brown: 00:26:19

to have the context that you're there.

Sharon Brown: 00:26:22

to receive healing, that you're there to move something in yourself, that

Sharon Brown: 00:26:28

you're there to open yourself to let the, the light shine on your

Sharon Brown: 00:26:34

darkness, to bring forth something.

Sharon Brown: 00:26:37

And so , I think when you're talking about the outward action

Sharon Brown: 00:26:42

and focus, and I love that.

Sharon Brown: 00:26:44

And I love fire as focus, which I got more from polarity than from my own training.

Sharon Brown: 00:26:50

So the opposite side of the outward energy is the inward energy.

Sharon Brown: 00:26:53

And so what I hold as a fire keeper is, , , maybe not embodying to bring

Sharon Brown: 00:26:59

forth, but in-bodying to look inside.

Sharon Brown: 00:27:18

I remember my, , daughter, , when she was in high school in Santa

Sharon Brown: 00:27:21

Cruz, she had a, a science teacher, physics teacher, um, who had retired

Sharon Brown: 00:27:26

from uc, Santa Cruz, uh, in physics.

Sharon Brown: 00:27:29

So the guy had some smarts and, um, ,, I'd gotten involved with the

Sharon Brown: 00:27:32

high school newspaper or something.

Sharon Brown: 00:27:34

I was writing an article.

Sharon Brown: 00:27:35

I don't know.

Sharon Brown: 00:27:36

And I interviewed him and he was one of the developers first

Sharon Brown: 00:27:39

developers of fiber optics.

Sharon Brown: 00:27:43

And he talked about how much information can be contained, you

Sharon Brown: 00:27:48

know,, in a single strand of hair.

Sharon Brown: 00:27:50

I don't know, what is it, 40,000 simultaneous transcontinental

Sharon Brown: 00:27:53

conversations or something in a strand of hair or something.

Sharon Brown: 00:27:57

And, and as I started to work with.

Sharon Brown: 00:28:00

I'd been working with fire for, for a little while.

Sharon Brown: 00:28:02

, actually when I, interviewed this guy and I was like, oh my gosh.

Sharon Brown: 00:28:07

When we light a fire, how much ancestral information is being

Sharon Brown: 00:28:13

conveyed in all that light?

Sharon Brown: 00:28:15

Because, what came first was the Big bang, which was this energy,

Sharon Brown: 00:28:20

this Teotl fire is this Teotl.

Sharon Brown: 00:28:23

Is this heat?

Sharon Brown: 00:28:24

There's not a, there's not a thing that we do.

Sharon Brown: 00:28:28

And you know this, the, the camera and the audio recording, it works on electricity.

Sharon Brown: 00:28:33

How do you generate electricity?

Sharon Brown: 00:28:34

You light something on fire, , or you use water Grandmother,

Sharon Brown: 00:28:39

ocean, Chalchiuhtlicue, you know?

Sharon Brown: 00:28:41

Yeah.

Sharon Brown: 00:28:41

Water's.

Sharon Brown: 00:28:42

Water's great, but what is it?

Sharon Brown: 00:28:43

What's being created through that Water wheel.

Sharon Brown: 00:28:48

Friction, right?

Sharon Brown: 00:28:49

Yeah.

Sharon Brown: 00:28:50

Friction Fire is, exchange polarity.

Sharon Brown: 00:28:55

And so by bringing people, , together around the fire

Sharon Brown: 00:28:59

by holding a neutral space.

Sharon Brown: 00:29:01

And I just wanna, , recount a story that happened to me at, at, at your

Sharon Brown: 00:29:04

class, you know, was it polarity one, and Kim did a demonst.

Sharon Brown: 00:29:09

. And, uh, for the people listening, , , Kim and Amanda teach together and they

Sharon Brown: 00:29:13

have this class and, um, and I, I think Kim just wanted to, to make a

Sharon Brown: 00:29:17

point about the field, about resonance, about neutrality and holding space for

Sharon Brown: 00:29:27

aclient . And so she asked for one of the students, is anybody feeling something?

Sharon Brown: 00:29:32

And a fellow's like, well, my shoulder's bugging me.

Sharon Brown: 00:29:34

And Kim's like, well, come have a seat.

Sharon Brown: 00:29:37

And um, and so Kim grounds herself with this upward downward movement

Sharon Brown: 00:29:43

that I constantly use now.

Sharon Brown: 00:29:46

Hmm.

Sharon Brown: 00:29:46

Uh, drawing up from the earth and down from the sky.

Sharon Brown: 00:29:50

Yeah.

Sharon Brown: 00:29:51

And Kim said nothing.

Sharon Brown: 00:29:55

She did nothing but she held space and, and you could, you could feel

Sharon Brown: 00:30:01

it and see it in her being that she was like really becoming a beacon of

Sharon Brown: 00:30:09

energy that was flowing in and out.

Sharon Brown: 00:30:12

She was becoming, um, transparent and yet highly charged at the same time.

Sharon Brown: 00:30:20

Yeah.

Sharon Brown: 00:30:21

And, I don't know, 3, 4, 5 minutes she's holding this space and she

Sharon Brown: 00:30:27

just kind of looks up and he's, she says, how are you feeling?

Sharon Brown: 00:30:31

And he's like, well, I feel something in my feet.

Sharon Brown: 00:30:33

I feel like something's coming up my feet.

Sharon Brown: 00:30:35

She's like, you feel something in your feet?

Sharon Brown: 00:30:38

Okay.

Sharon Brown: 00:30:40

And then another three, four or five minutes, you know, nothing.

Sharon Brown: 00:30:43

She's just holding space.

Sharon Brown: 00:30:45

And she asked me and she, how are you feeling?

Sharon Brown: 00:30:49

And he's like, well, my, my shoulder.

Sharon Brown: 00:30:51

. It feels looser.

Sharon Brown: 00:30:52

It feels looser.

Sharon Brown: 00:30:54

And, and I had this like humbling moment cuz as a fire keep, you know,

Sharon Brown: 00:31:01

twice a month I invite the public

Sharon Brown: 00:31:04

To come in and sit at the fire with me.

Sharon Brown: 00:31:05

And they're, they have expectations.

Sharon Brown: 00:31:08

Yeah.

Sharon Brown: 00:31:08

Something's supposed to happen at this fire.

Sharon Brown: 00:31:11

And so I'm the kind of person, outwardly focused energy person.

Sharon Brown: 00:31:15

And so sometimes, If I don't feel like enough is happening, I

Sharon Brown: 00:31:19

would wanna engage it to happen.

Sharon Brown: 00:31:21

Sometimes that's good and necessary, and sometimes that's not good.

Sharon Brown: 00:31:25

And watching Kim hold neutral space with intention, she was focused.

Sharon Brown: 00:31:34

She asked him what his issue was.

Sharon Brown: 00:31:35

She knew it.

Sharon Brown: 00:31:36

She was just holding his issue in her field and allowing the

Sharon Brown: 00:31:42

energy to do what it needs to do.

Sharon Brown: 00:31:45

Yes.

Sharon Brown: 00:31:45

Yeah.

Sharon Brown: 00:31:47

And when I saw her do that, I was just, and I'm, I'm like, tears are

Sharon Brown: 00:31:52

like in the back of my eyes here with the humility, the humbling of myself.

Sharon Brown: 00:31:58

I do nothing as a fire.

Sharon Brown: 00:32:00

I should do nothing as a fire keep.

Sharon Brown: 00:32:04

I should simply endeavor to , to hold neutrality, but to help

Sharon Brown: 00:32:09

people, let the fire do it for them.

Sharon Brown: 00:32:14

. Yeah.

Sharon Brown: 00:32:15

Because the fire cre is the creator of everything.

Sharon Brown: 00:32:19

The beginning and the end of ev, the creator, the destroyer, all of it.

Sharon Brown: 00:32:23

But there's not a thing in this world.

Sharon Brown: 00:32:25

There's not a, a meal you can eat.

Sharon Brown: 00:32:29

There's nothing you can do where the energy expresses electricity in our world.

Sharon Brown: 00:32:34

But, but it's all about that, that heat, that brilliance, , , that awareness.

Amanda Lux: 00:32:52

I really loved Sharon the idea that, you know, you were referring

Amanda Lux: 00:32:56

to with the fiber optics and that how much information is contained in this

Amanda Lux: 00:33:01

strand and that the fire itself is also , containing all that information from the

Amanda Lux: 00:33:08

very first fire that ever was and the big bang and beyond that even, right?

Amanda Lux: 00:33:13

Like that, it's all, all time and all fire is in that fire.

Amanda Lux: 00:33:17

Any fire.

Amanda Lux: 00:33:19

. I love that feeling.

Amanda Lux: 00:33:20

, and that truth.

Amanda Lux: 00:33:21

And if I feel that in my body when you say those words, like Yeah.

Amanda Lux: 00:33:24

Yeah.

Amanda Lux: 00:33:24

And then when you say that , you could take that idea of holding neutral space

Amanda Lux: 00:33:30

for a client and how, by being in our own alignment, what, what Kim was doing

Amanda Lux: 00:33:36

there was getting in her own energy alignment between north and South Poles.

Amanda Lux: 00:33:40

Mm-hmm.

Amanda Lux: 00:33:41

the energy alignment of heaven and Earth.

Amanda Lux: 00:33:43

Yeah.

Amanda Lux: 00:33:44

And, and opening that channel.

Amanda Lux: 00:33:46

Because of this principle of resonance that we teach in all of the classes,

Amanda Lux: 00:33:50

there's , an intentional way that we can open our own energy flow

Amanda Lux: 00:33:54

and that the other person's energy will also start to flow and find

Amanda Lux: 00:33:58

their alignment through resonance.

Amanda Lux: 00:34:01

And then it's like, you're not doing, you're non-doing, you're in a

Amanda Lux: 00:34:06

space of non-doing and total trust.

Amanda Lux: 00:34:09

or learning to experience trust in a humble way.

Amanda Lux: 00:34:12

. Yeah.

Amanda Lux: 00:34:12

Always.

Amanda Lux: 00:34:13

Yeah.

Amanda Lux: 00:34:13

That's how I feel about it.

Amanda Lux: 00:34:15

Like you, yeah.

Amanda Lux: 00:34:15

Always.

Amanda Lux: 00:34:16

I'm humbly, you know, learning to trust that more and more

Amanda Lux: 00:34:21

and to do less and less.

Amanda Lux: 00:34:22

But I love the idea specifically around energetic alignment through the fire, that

Amanda Lux: 00:34:27

there's not any action you need to take.

Amanda Lux: 00:34:29

Even though fire itself may, may represent in certain ideas in polarity, perhaps

Amanda Lux: 00:34:35

that, that there's action around.

Amanda Lux: 00:34:38

that there doesn't necessarily need to be, that the fire

Amanda Lux: 00:34:40

has its own intelligence.

Amanda Lux: 00:34:42

That the fire elementally has its own power, its own

Amanda Lux: 00:34:45

memory, its own transmission.

Amanda Lux: 00:34:48

And that if we just sit with it yes.

Amanda Lux: 00:34:51

That it will transform us.

Amanda Lux: 00:34:53

If we just are in the presence of fire, it will do

Sharon Brown: 00:34:56

that work.

Sharon Brown: 00:34:56

Absolutely.

Sharon Brown: 00:34:57

And and you used the word transmission.

Sharon Brown: 00:34:59

Yeah.

Sharon Brown: 00:34:59

And that's perfect.

Sharon Brown: 00:35:01

. And that's, that's really perfect.

Sharon Brown: 00:35:03

And you know, our lives are so consumed by action.

Sharon Brown: 00:35:07

Yeah.

Sharon Brown: 00:35:08

That people need a place to not have action.

Sharon Brown: 00:35:12

Right.

Sharon Brown: 00:35:13

And so, um, you know, when we sit around the fire, it's really about

Sharon Brown: 00:35:18

grounding and listening and letting go.

Sharon Brown: 00:35:23

And then if one is interested in holding the awareness of.

Sharon Brown: 00:35:30

, I can make offerings here.

Sharon Brown: 00:35:32

I can express a desire to connect.

Sharon Brown: 00:35:35

I don't know what it's like to listen to clouds and listen

Sharon Brown: 00:35:39

to trees, or listen to fire.

Sharon Brown: 00:35:41

This is foreign to me, but I'm gonna, uh, suspend my expectations.

Sharon Brown: 00:35:48

. And um, and that's one of the things I'll say often is that, uh, when

Sharon Brown: 00:35:52

we're making offerings is to start working on moving your awareness from

Sharon Brown: 00:35:56

the movie in, in front of your eyes down to the feeling in your heart.

Sharon Brown: 00:36:01

And just what, if you've never thought, what would it

Sharon Brown: 00:36:03

feel like to open your heart?

Sharon Brown: 00:36:05

Just try to go for that.

Sharon Brown: 00:36:06

Yeah.

Sharon Brown: 00:36:07

Yeah.

Sharon Brown: 00:36:08

Um, open your heart to possibility.

Sharon Brown: 00:36:11

Mm-hmm.

Sharon Brown: 00:36:11

. And then the other thing that helps.

Sharon Brown: 00:36:14

, move things a little more quickly if quickly is your thing.

Sharon Brown: 00:36:17

Some people aren't ready to change, right?

Sharon Brown: 00:36:20

Yeah.

Sharon Brown: 00:36:20

Some people it's too much.

Sharon Brown: 00:36:22

Yeah.

Sharon Brown: 00:36:22

They don't wanna open the door, right?

Sharon Brown: 00:36:24

That's cool too.

Sharon Brown: 00:36:24

Mm-hmm.

Sharon Brown: 00:36:25

, right?

Sharon Brown: 00:36:25

Mm-hmm.

Sharon Brown: 00:36:25

. But if you're, if you're wanting to kind of move that along,

Sharon Brown: 00:36:29

then speak and tell your story.

Sharon Brown: 00:36:34

, and rather than thinking, thinking, thinking, what am I gonna say tonight?

Sharon Brown: 00:36:37

What am I gonna say tonight?

Sharon Brown: 00:36:38

I hope they don't call on me.

Sharon Brown: 00:36:39

What am I gonna.

Sharon Brown: 00:36:41

, like you were saying, do less.

Sharon Brown: 00:36:42

Right.

Sharon Brown: 00:36:43

Just wait.

Sharon Brown: 00:36:44

, and ask the fire, I feel something in my body.

Sharon Brown: 00:36:49

I need to let this feeling out.

Sharon Brown: 00:36:51

Speak for me.

Sharon Brown: 00:36:52

Fire and then listen to what you say, right?

Sharon Brown: 00:36:55

Yes.

Sharon Brown: 00:36:57

, and it's about trying to get to your, deepest honesty.

Sharon Brown: 00:37:01

. the, The whole idea of, um,, drawing in.

Sharon Brown: 00:37:07

The things , that frighten you.

Sharon Brown: 00:37:09

Like the fire is really good for working with fear.

Sharon Brown: 00:37:12

Yeah.

Sharon Brown: 00:37:12

And oftentimes, , what we find is that, being willing , to test the

Sharon Brown: 00:37:19

idea that maybe that opposite pole, the pole that you hate and don't

Sharon Brown: 00:37:25

like, that maybe you need a little bit of something of that, , , that can.

Sharon Brown: 00:37:30

come up around the fire.

Sharon Brown: 00:37:31

Hmm.

Sharon Brown: 00:37:32

Um, to have that courage.

Sharon Brown: 00:37:35

. . I just

Amanda Lux: 00:37:35

love that you're such a student of life and mysticism and

Amanda Lux: 00:37:40

many traditions and ways of thoughts, and I just admire that in you very

Sharon Brown: 00:37:45

much.

Sharon Brown: 00:37:45

I, I, I, well, and, and I feel very fortunate, , to have had,

Sharon Brown: 00:37:49

when I was a small, small child, uh, I had some experiences of.

Sharon Brown: 00:37:56

, well, children are magical beings anyway.

Sharon Brown: 00:37:59

Right.

Sharon Brown: 00:37:59

And so I, I remember some of my moments of magic and being able to

Sharon Brown: 00:38:05

pull words out of people's mouths and, you know, some of those things.

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But I knew from the time I was little that, um, it's not all as it seems.

Sharon Brown: 00:38:14

Yeah.

Sharon Brown: 00:38:15

And so that's really been my life purpose is to help people.

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get some of that.

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find a way to, , connect for themself and trust, like you were

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mentioning, trusting yourself.

Sharon Brown: 00:38:29

Yeah.

Sharon Brown: 00:38:29

Yeah.

Sharon Brown: 00:38:30

Um, yeah, I feel , really fortunate.

Sharon Brown: 00:38:34

Uh, I am a student.

Sharon Brown: 00:38:35

, we're never done learning, you know?

Sharon Brown: 00:38:36

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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I

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love that,.

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. Thank you so much for listening to

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to the Divine, I am so grateful for Sharon Brown for discussing how to

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align your energy through the fire.

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With me today, and I just want to let you know that you can learn

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more about the sacred fires that Sharon hosts in Olympia on Facebook.

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And you can learn about fires near you from this tradition.

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, by going to find my fire.org or sacred fire.org.

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if you wanna Learn more about our upcoming polarity classes

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that are in person on beautiful land here in Olympia, Washington.

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Where our school is being hosted, you can learn more

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about that at elevationhive.com,

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as well as other events and things going on.

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So I really appreciate you listening, following, reviewing, and just

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participating with your energy.

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It is such an honor to be in sacred community with you.