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Mutant Message Down Under
by: Marlo Morgan |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780060926311 ISBN: 0060926317 Label: Perennial Manufacturer: Perennial Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 208 Publication Date: August 02, 1995 Publisher: Perennial Studio: Perennial |
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  - Amazing AboriginesAfter reading this book once, in record time, I got right on Amazon to purchase my own copy to lend out to my friends/loved ones. Highly recommended! Rating: - Aboriginal wisdomThis book is not for those who must question and doubt everything. But if one is curious about the way life was before we all got so civilized, this book is a must-read. The vital essence of living well and happily can be found in the simple life of the aboriginal in his natural world. The author of this book conveys it beautifully and honestly. Rating:  - True or false?Funny mix of reviews. The aborigines were magically fed by nature. Jesus magically fed thousands with a few loaves and fish. True or false? In Marlo's book, a man with a fractured leg is healed and walks without a limp the next day. Jesus tells a paralytic to rise and walk. True or false? What do you wish to believe? Rating: - Intrinsic truthsThere has been much vilification of this book, or rather its author, since it turned out that it may not have been an authentic tale and many of the details about Australian aborigines are incorrect. However, even if you regard this book as fiction, the book is valuable for its essence, its message. The book describes a protracted "walkabout" taken by the female protagonist, against her will, together with a small group of aborigines, the "real people", through the torrid bush. Some of the things the "mutant" protagonist observed/learnt were as follows: 1) Everything happens for a reason. 2) The world is a place of abundance. If we are without fear, but trustful, everything that we need will turn up (as Jesus himself said in other words). 3) Everyone has multiple talents. 4) Everyone should be accepted as valuable despite appearance, age, or anything else. 5) If so, each person will have worth in the view of society, and will thus have a feeling of self-worth. 6) Healing can be effected without touch but by sending thoughts of perfection to the body, if the patient is open to receiving wellness. 7)There should be no waste, everything being recycled back to nature. 8) We are all one: if you hurt someone, you hurt yourself, and if you help someone, you help yourself. Besides this, the message the protagonist was to take back to her people, the other "mutants", was to respect the environment and find a solution to environmental problems before it was too late. Regardless of whether this "walkabout" actually took place or not, the intrinsic truths expounded by the tribe are veracious, and thus the book is important. The final message of the book is absolutely relevant right now (this review being written in the week of the Copenhagen climate summit, 2009). Though Marlo Morgan wrote the book at the beginning of the nineties, no adequate steps have as yet been taken to solve our pressing environmental problems. I strongly recommend this book. Rating: - Real Aborigines should aspire to be like the Real People . . .Midway through reading this book, which to me was very readable, I learned about the controversy that has surrounded it. Simultaneously, I was also struck by how similar it was in some ways to the message of the movie, "Avatar". If anything, Ms. Morgan is guilty of simply trying to make the story "too real" by couching it as though she actually did walk across Australia under the direction and tutelage of real "Real People". The unbridled success of "Avatar" demonstrates that an openness to this type of message is broad-based, and Ms. Morgan's story predated that movie by long enough to have "scooped" it if she hadn't run afoul of the Aboriginal sticklers for accuracy. If those Aboriginals who are so upset would look at the history they so fiercely defend, they might also do well to ask what their ancient culture has accomplished in their very long time in existence. Has their culture given rise to a timeless spiritual and holy tradition that lifts people up and will last for many generations to come? Going by what the critics have written, the real Aborigines have never reached the spiritual status of that small isolated tribe that Ms. Morgan called the "Real People". Oh, but the Dumbartung did raise an issue about Aboriginal law, that if men learn "women's business", or women learn "men's business", they should be put to death! Coming from such a human-rights low point, what moral position do they have, that they could criticize someone who portrayed them as so much more? Such a display of incredible barbarism - and what gall they have, that the real Aborigines should be so upset that someone portrayed them as having gotten way beyond such primitive customs, even if only in a fictional story. I guess they are proud to be primitive! After completing the book and studying the controversy surrounding it, I was truly disappointed to learn that the real Aborigines are, apparently, nothing like the ones portrayed in the book, and their culture no more enduring than that of thousands of other cultures, now extinct. The Real People portrayed in the book are so much more interesting and worthy of admiration, IMHO. |
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