Trusting the Deeper Truth
…of Great Mystery
Informed by science and the traditions of her Penobscot heritage, author Sherri Mitchell invites us to attend to the stories of our own creation:
Our origination stories begin in the stars... It is from the radiance of that star dust that we were born and the great migration of souls first began.
When we come into this universe, we are born into our first ecosystem, our mother’s womb. There we are nurtured and sustained through an umbilical connection to the body of our birth mother. When we are born into this world, our umbilical connection is transferred from our birth mother to the Earth mother. Our umbilical connection with the Earth mother then nurtures and sustains us for the remainder of our human lives.
Though we have migrated a great distance, the radiance of that star dust still resonates within us. It is the essence of something indescribable that is etched upon our souls. It stirs something deep within us. This stirring is a call of recognition, of remembrance. It continuously reminds us that we are infinitely connected to one another, to the natural world, and to a unified divine source. Evidence of our shared origin can be found all around us. Science has finally caught up with what we have always known, that we are all related. We are all made out of the same foundational elements. It is simply the arrangement of those elements that gives distinct form to what we see before us. We share DNA with every other living being.
Approximately 98 percent of our DNA is shared with primates, and about 35 percent is shared with plants.... We all come from the same originating source, and we all comprise the same foundational elements.
We are part of a uni-verse, a collection of individual notes in one continuous song; the song that sang all life into being. This song is the drone of the musical universe. It is the foundation upon which all structure is built. If we listen closely, we can hear this creation song echoing in our bones.
