BLACK SPIRITUALITY IS THE ROOT OF THE TREE | RELIGION IS JUST A BRANCH
METAMORPHOSIS
Black people have always carried a deep connection to the unseen world. Long before buildings, books, or church services existed, our ancestors moved with the Creator through nature, through rhythm, through breath, and through spirit. No one stood between them and the Divine. They understood that real power rises from within, not from a system created by men. This is the root of Black spirituality.
As time passed, religion grew into something controlled, structured, and shaped by human hands. It created order, rituals, and traditions that were often not born from our culture. These systems guided behavior more than they elevated the soul. While spirituality grows inward first, religion is usually something handed down from the outside.
Throughout history, religion shifted to meet political and economic needs. It became a tool to control the masses, justify power, and shape society. People have fought and died over religious differences, even though the Creator never divided us—people did. Spirit does not need uniforms, titles, or ceremonies to be real.
When we look at nature, we see the truth. Animals follow spiritual law without sermons or scriptures. They move with purpose, honor the seasons, protect their young, and remain in harmony with the earth. They don’t need holy books to understand the order of life. They simply follow what the Creator placed inside them.
Human beings have moved away from that natural order. Many people go to services, speak holy words, and practice rituals, yet their spirits remain disconnected. They move through motions without true understanding, feeling, or connection to the Creator. This is why we must return to our original foundation—our African spirituality—buried but never erased.
Religion can be twisted because it is shaped, edited, translated, and reinterpreted by human hands. Rules change. Leaders change. Laws adjust to benefit those in power. Across history, religion has been used to justify war, slavery, greed, and oppression. When something can be reshaped by men, it cannot be the purest form of divine truth.
True spirituality cannot be bent or altered. It remains constant and eternal. It is the force that guided our ancestors through the Sahara, the Nile Valley civilizations, the forests of West Africa, and the kingdoms of the Congo. It lives in our dreams, intuition, rhythm, healing practices, and inner sense of justice. It does not need permission to exist. It is written into us.
Black people are the first people on this earth. Our spiritual systems are the oldest, strongest, and purest. We honored ancestors, respected nature, upheld the community, and understood purpose. But whenever we strayed from our spiritual laws—not religious laws, but universal laws placed within us—we paid painful consequences. Confusion grew. Division deepened. Weakness spread.
Many of us adopted religious systems forced on us through slavery and colonization. These systems taught us to search outside ourselves for validation and authority. They taught us to fear our own traditions. They taught us to mistrust what our ancestors already knew. But a tree cannot survive if it abandons its root for a branch. Our spirituality is the root. Religion is only a branch.
When we reconnect with our original spiritual foundation, clarity returns. Religion becomes a tool—not the truth. A support—not the source. Our intuition comes alive again. Our inner strength returns. We begin recognizing our direct connection to the Creator, untouched by outside influence. This is where healing begins.
Black spirituality was never meant to be hidden, but the world tried to bury it out of fear. The same power that guided empires and families across thousands of years still lives in us. It shows itself in our music, our energy, our endurance, our dreams, and our natural ability to rise above hardship.
Now is the time to return to what belongs to us. Not in hate, not in division, but in truth. We must remember who we were before religious systems were forced on our people. We must reconnect with the strength of those who lived by spiritual law long before the world was shaped by politics, doctrines, and institutions.
Understanding the difference between religion and spirituality allows us to reclaim our power. We no longer depend on systems to define our worth or relationship with the Creator. The Divine lives within us, not in a building, not in a symbol, and not in words written by men.
This livestream is a call to return to the source. A call to open our eyes. A call to separate what nourishes the spirit from what only controls the mind. If religion helps you, keep it—but never let it replace the root. Never forget the original connection between African people and the Creator, a connection older than any religion on Earth.
As we gather tonight, carry this truth: spirituality is the foundation. It is the root, the life force, the beginning. Religion is only a branch—useful at times, but never the source. When we return to the root, we return to ourselves. And when we return to ourselves, nothing can break us again.
