Nature is God: A Black Womxn’s Eco-Spiritual Omnifesto

Introduction
This eco-autoethnographic study explores the worldview presented in Nature Is God: A Black Womxn’s Eco-Spiritual Omnifesto, a reflective inquiry into how nature becomes a site of teaching, learning, healing, and well-being. Situated at the intersections of Black feminist thought, womanist spirituality, and environmental belonging, the work challenges Western binaries that divide spirit from soil and body from knowing. Through the lived experience of a Black womxn navigating aging, embodiment, and ancestral memory, the study examines how sustained encounters with the natural world open pathways to restoration and divine presence.

Goals and Methods
The goal of this research is to articulate an eco-spiritual framework in which nature is understood as both divine and relational. Using eco-autoethnography as method and lens, the study draws upon field notes, embodied observations, and reflective writing generated through repeated practices of intentional sitting, walking, and deep observation in green spaces. These firsthand encounters — rather than external participants — form the primary data set. The analysis employed iterative, thematic coding attentive to sensation, symbolism, emotion, and ecological relationship.

Results
Findings show that prolonged, attentive engagement with the natural world yields three interrelated forms of transformation: (1) emotional clarity and self-restoration emerging through stillness and breath; (2) reconnection to ancestral memory and embodied wisdom sparked by patterns in the land; and (3) an expanded ecological awareness grounded in reciprocity rather than extraction. The study demonstrates that nature functions not as backdrop, but as an active spiritual companion capable of shaping insight, grounding, and well-being.

Conclusions
This study concludes that eco-spiritual practice offers Black womxn a culturally rooted, accessible pathway to healing and ecological consciousness. By naming nature as God—animate, relational, and instructive—the work contributes a spiritually resonant, ecologically grounded framework to ongoing conversations in environmental humanities, Black feminist studies, and spiritual ecology.