03/27/2026
Tall Trees Have Deep Roots
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"The closest thing to God in physical form is a black woman."
When Sam Cross said this, it made my heart skip a beat of acknowledgment.
This is the truth that patriarchy spent thousands of years trying to bury. It is an erased HERstory attributed to scholars who need to be elevated, celebrated and returned to mainstream merit.
HIStory erased HERstory.
Monica Sjöö and Barbara Mor documented the original dark skinned, earth-based religion of humanity — a global spiritual tradition centered on the sacred feminine as the Source of all life. May The Great Cosmic Mother be our new Bible.
Merlin Stone traced the deliberate suppression of goddess worship and the rewriting of creation itself to center around a male god in When God Was a Woman.
Marija Gimbutas mapped the material evidence — temples, symbols, figurines, sacred sites — of goddess-centered civilization across Old Europe in the archaeological record.
What they each found, arriving from different directions, is the same truth: the original sacred image of life-giving power was feminine intelligence. Sacred. Dark skinned. Embodied. Earth-rooted.
Our species originates in Africa. In a woman's body. What HIStory repositioned as mythology, is a mitochondrial fact. The mother-line is the original line. Matrilineal kinship organized the earliest human communities around the family at the center, community as core, reciprocity as economy, and Nature's wisdom as the thread that held the web of life together.
It was a sophisticated existence that sustained human life for tens of thousands of years until it was deliberately dismantled.
What patriarchy did was erase our origin. A hijacking — as Heide Goettner-Abendroth's research makes plain: feminine symbols were destroyed, cosmologies were rewritten, the mother-line was severed and replaced with the father's name, property, and authority.
Why? Because trees without roots topple over.
If you want to control people, you divide them from their origins, erase their memory of what and who they are. You replace the living Mother Source with a distant, unreachable, fear-based god.
You make the female body, especially the African body, something to be managed, owned, feared, subjugated. You make women competitors instead of allies and sisters. You make the earth a resource instead of a mother connected to all things.
You make people forget.
This is what Joanna Macy calls the work of our time — restoring our relationship to belonging to nature and life itself. The Great Turning she describes moves in three dimensions:
- slowing the damage,
- building new structures,
- and shifting consciousness. That third dimension is the one most people skip.
Consciousness is the living field through which all matter is organized — quantum physics has confirmed what Indigenous and mystical traditions have always known: reality is relational, participatory, and awareness itself. It is the interconnected dimension everything else depends on.
Consciousness shift means creating new realities by clearing the roots of human karma that separated us from it.
In my practice, I facilitate Original Mother Source as a direct conduit in a process of Earthwork — the coming home to wholeness in balance with our universal Nature. As a quantum alchemist, we work at consciousness-level to transform all areas of human separation. The cultural imbalance is already breaking itself down because it is unsustainable. And as it does, it creates an opportunity to break free, to descend into Earth as a rememberance of origin, unified, embodied wholeness.
The spiritual traditions that emerged from patriarchy trained us to transcend the body, leave the earth, reach for a god above and beyond. Earthwork reverses that current. The sacred moves through us. It is the living intelligence of the Source we come from.
That source is feminine. It is primordial origin. It is, as Sam Cross named so clearly, embodied in the lineage of black women — the original carriers of life on this planet.
When people get angry hearing this, it is worth sitting with that anger as evidence of how deep the conditioning runs. We were all shaped by a story that forced us to forget. The forgetting served a manipulative purpose.
Remembering is reclamation.
Tall trees have deep roots. The work of this time is returning to our origins as mother — as the living ground beneath our feet, ready to be recognized, regenerated, restored.
The books are there. Patriarchy is collapsing. The time is now. We are returning to the truth of home as an African, matriarchal lineage.
Start anywhere. Open to curiosity. Let yourself remember.
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