1) Honoring the common root, 2) many branches, and 3) overall tree of our global family and further 1a) communicate and celebrate that common root in all people, 2a) refine our diverse cultural branch-like expressions to be in harmony with our collective roots and global wholeness, and 3a) create authentic access to integral wellness and symbiotic abundance for all people and beings of our global family as ever-increasingly as possible.

1. Honoring our common root by communicating and celebrating that common root in all people proactively.

We understand that we all share the same fundamental motherland – referred to as Africa or Afrika or Meritah (or even Pangea by some), and so on. We understand that the majority of our human history was experienced on this common land and we thoroughly integrate that there are no exceptions to this global reality.

So we engage these understandings by grounding them with our language. Thus, instead of referring to the color of our skin as races we refer to ourselves as one human race with a common fundamental indigenous ancestry, a Black species if you will – in the sense of Black being all-inclusive and native to the motherland of this earth, with our skin as simply hues on the spectrum of Earth. Meaning our skin either looks like rich soil, golden clay, or warm sand. We also go even further by no longer referring to ANY people as outside of the people of color. We are all “colored in” if you will, there are no opaque people and there are no people whose fundamental ancestors are not Indigenous. However for many of us that Blackness has been negated. Not just for people who are considered “white” by others but for people who are considered any other nationality and not considered Black by some. And, yes, for some people this Blackness is recognized. However, even those Black-Recognized people often are Black-Negating for others by negating the Blackness of our collective self, considering and qualifying so many other people as outside of the Black lineage.

Nevertheless, we all have this indigenous and common ancestry, and we feel a fundamental need for us all is to start not only recognizing, but glorifying Blackness in ourselves and all other people. But this does not mean to negate the many other diverse cultural expressions that we all also have, which brings us to the next point.

2. Honoring our many branches as refining our diverse cultural branch-like expressions to be in harmony with our collective roots and global wholeness.

We understand that we have practically infinite cultural expressions, as groups of people and individuals there is so much uniqueness in this world and we celebrate this. However, as we have developed these cultures in relationship to the environments we have migrated to and have been exposed to in our lives and through our particular lineage’s journeys, we shall continue to develop and evolve these cultural expressions from this moment on. All the same, right now we get to do this with much, in most cases, wider perspectives of our common roots and our global family. And by this vein, we see that many cultural expressions fundamentally contradict the reality of our indigenously common roots and global family – having been developed within scarce conditions, these cultural expressions often pin themselves against others and look to fight battles amongst others for what they perceive and create as scarce resources. Even further, they fight battles within the very fundamental indigenous, common, and earth-based realities of themselves as well.

So we engage every cultural expression with a grain of salt, if you will, and question any element that has residue of having been cultivated within scarcity and thus a propagator of separation. And when we find elements of this fundamental contradiction, we don’t demonize the culture, we refine that element of this culture’s expression. For some cultural expressions, finding those elements and refining them have been and will continue to be easy because fundamentally these cultures still associate with indigenously common roots or at least earth and spirit based ways of being. But for many cultures, to refine out the lie and distortion of scarcity and separation will be to practically strip the culture bare. And in those cases we offer the reality that every person is not solely the culture that they have been associated with in this moment. Every person has the rich predominate roots of our indigenous and common lineage and if they must return to those roots in order to find cultural bearing, we welcome them to as long as they come with humility and earnestness to grow from an infant state within that root which we all share.

Thus we work to maintain, within the global wholeness and common rootedness of our global species, our diversity – as the many ways that we can season the same base of this indigenous and common-rooted soup. However, particularly in referencing soup as a metaphor, we know that all of this cultural refinement speak is simply just talk if we do not eradicate the scarcity conditions that have and continue (unnecessarily so, at this point) to propagate scarcity and separation based cultures. And thus, this brings us to our next and final point within this third leg of our Threeality.

3. Honoring the overall tree of our global family by creating authentic access to integral wellness and symbiotic abundance for all people and beings of this global family as ever-increasingly as possible.

We understand that philosophizing about how we can potentially engage with each other from a place of intercultural connection, symbiotic abundance, and integral wellness means very little without the actions to back up these words. Nothing is real for any solid group of people until it is realized within their life-experiences. If we want to experience symbiotic abundance, for instance, not only must we be fed and have our food growing and being raised nearby in regenerative ways, we must also be sure that the rest of the people in our local village have access to the nourishing food they need as well, otherwise we are simply supporting the scarcity that cultivates the conditions within those people to feel urged by survival to steal what we have.

So we engage all of this work completely, beyond just talk. We do. We do as much as possible, as systematically as possible.

One way that we do this is by engaging the most abundant resource in almost all of our communities, that being teenagers. Engaging their freedom and energy and much-known need for direction to be leaders in this field of cultivating symbiotic abundance by the amplification of their own integral wellness within palpable all-inclusive harmonious cultural connection. And we do this by documenting these and many many other efforts we engage with our lives’ commitment to realizing this threeality through our embodiment arm of Wellsprings of Umoja: Rooted Crowns. And finally, we offer ourselves directly to supporting individuals with where they are on their particular journey, to take the next step that is appropriate for them within this larger vision with the services arm of Wellsprings of Umoja: Ori Vitality Arts.

Thus we approach every element of this work equally. Giving our full attention to this as if it’s the most important thing in the world. Because with the climates the way they are, ecologically, politically, socially, etc. we know that not only is it time for this, but it’s our understanding that it is the fundamental thread that could make any future times that we want to live in and want our children to live in, possible. So we do what we can and we hope that you will, if inspired, support us in anyways that you can as well so that we may continue to commit our lives to these efforts and inspire and support many many others to do their versions of the same.

We give thanks to you for reading this. May your life be a drop of the medicine we all need.