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Summary: This story is true
Review: Marlo Morgan is a friend of mine. She is amazingly loving and accepting, keenly perceptive and 100% honest. If you've spent any time around her, even just by going to one of her presentations, I'm sure you have been struck by her honesty. Some untrue assumptions have been made in these reviews. She lives a simple life and is extremely generous. She is quite involved with a group of older Australian aborigines who were taken from their families as children by non-aboriginal Australians (see her latest book, Message from Forever). She works for justice and for peace. She is deeply connected to and committed to the aborigine friends she writes about. Still, you are all getting from the book exactly what you are supposed to get from it. For me, each time I pick it up and read, I feel like I'm coming home in a sense. Its meditative for me, bringing me to a place of calm and happiness. I wish for all who read it to be enriched in some way. Thanks to Marlo and her book, the first words our daughter heard when she was born in our home and wrapped in her mother's loving arms were, "we love you and we support you on your journey."
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Summary: For Adding Depth to your character by culture and maturity
Review: This book there is no clone for.I believe thier Dreamtime they were nude and so nude on earth.This book says they are leaving this Plane of reality,to new guardians.That Makes me sad.I hope more of ther culture will be preserved in Libraries,there is one movie,Photography and books.I would love to meditate in sacred opal lined caves the made for religious ceremonies.They have kabongs which are totems,Oracle of the Dreamtime by Donni Hakason is good with this book.
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Summary: resonate.
Review: I love it when people get upset about the facts vs the fiction involved. All I know and feel deep inside of me is that this book resonates. For all those stuck up people who see things otherwise, kudos to you: you'll be drowning in doubt until you open your heart and begin to look at things beyond the facts.
Peace light and love.
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Summary: Thought Provoking Misinformation....
Review: When I originally saw Marlo Morgan on a CNN interview I dismissed her story as utterly unbelievable, but upon seeing the beautiful and cover at a bookstore I was compelled to buy it anyway. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and many of the concepts it promotes. One particular quote on death I found so insightful I shared it as a final message sent to dying friend. It saddened me to find (after speaking to some white Australians and doing some Internet research) that I was naïve. The book has some wonderful concepts and I have no regrets about the feelings it stirred or giving the quote to my friend. Alas in my opinion it is no more than White American woman's wonderful fantasy. It saddens me that she seems to have greatly insulted the people she so admires, and I hope the monetary gain she has received is being used charitably. However I believe positive ideas and acts can be sparked by inspirational books of dubious sources. The question of the authorship of Chief Seattle's inspirational speech is one example. If someone is sent down an erroneous path but still achieves a new level of enlightenment, is the flawed path to be considered bad? Below is an overview by ROBERT EGGINGTON http://www.dumbartung.org.au/ Robert Eggington is a Noongah man form the southwest of Western Australia. The traditional heritage of his people is embedded in the south west forest regions. The word 'Noongah' means 'person', by which collectively the Aboriginal people of the southwest region identify themselves and their homelands. As the coordinator of the Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation, Mr Robert Eggington organizes strategies to oppose cultural appropriation and exploitation. Before compiling the present and the previous reports, he has traveled extensively through outback regions, consulting with Aboriginal people about their response to the Book "Mutant Message Downunder". In early 1996 Mr Eggington led a delegation of elder representatives to the United States, to formally protest the content and implication of "Mutant Message Downunder". The contingent of Aboriginal elders represent the Voice of all Aboriginal people regarding cultural exploitation and appropriation. Overview In 1990, Marlo Morgan published a book, "Mutant Message Downunder", which chronicles the journey of a middle-age, white American woman with a group of 62 desert Aborigines, the "Real People", across the continent of Australia. The book was written after the fact inspired by actual experience. "Mutant Message Downunder" quickly attained popularity with the new age movement in the United States and consequently the book was picked by giant publishing firm Harper Collins. To date over half a million copies of the Harper Collins version have been sold in the United States and Europe. In her lectures, Ms Morgan speaks of her actual experience with the "real people" and States that she is an Aborigine. A survey of Aboriginal groups in Central and Western Australia failed to uncover any indication of Ms Morgan's presence in the area, or of the existence of the "real people" tribe. Aboriginal groups believe Ms Morgan's desert journey to be utterly fabricated and that her book and teaching's lack any credibility whatsoever. It is deeply offensive to Aboriginal People for a white woman to be misrepresenting Aboriginal culture for self-promotion and profit. Aboriginal people are appalled that Ms Morgan's false Message is being accepted as fact by a naive American and European marker and are extremely concerned about the resulting long term implications for their culture. This report details the process undertaken by Aboriginal groups and initiated by their response to "Mutant Message Downunder", which has lead to a unified voice of opposition to the exploitation of indigenous cultures throughout the world.
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Summary: Bending the Mind
Review: Mutant Message Down Under is a book that proves to be an experience that takes its readers away from their idea to today's social facades and almost demands them to examine and learn more about themselves, all between two covers. The story follows an American woman who comes to find herself becoming a part of an ancient civilization and relaying their message of life. Because everyone at one time or another can get caught up in hurried and materialisitic ways of life, Mutant Message is able to point out that what is urgent isn't always necessary, and what is necessary isn't always urgent. This book bends the minds of those people who forget the truest and most basic purpose of life. For anyone willing to open a third eye and think about a different way, this book will hold its reader to a different standard. Mutant Message does not hold a strong plot or even a noticeable climax, but what it lacks it makes up for in a strong message through themes and symbolism.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: Let me start of by saying, as many others have, that if this book was published as fiction, it would be a reasonably pleasant read, documenting a fairytale view of Australia. However, the fact that it claims to be a true is terrible. Whilst I have nothing against spiritualism, new age philosophies, or any kind of world view, I do resent blatant lies. There were numerous factual errors and gross misrepresentations that I noticed as I read it. You may wonder what kind of authority I have to discount this book as fact, and I admit I have very little. However, while I was searching the internet for other people who had been outraged by these lies, i came across a review of the book in the website 'west dot com dot au'.
The positive reviewers of this book, in particular Erica Albanese, would do well to take a look at that page.
If you have heard good things about the story, by all means read it. But don't believe it. I think it is disgusting that an under-researched author can make money from publishing a pack of lies. Please consider this (and the other) reviews carefully before purchasing this book. You are funding dishonest and immoral behaviour.
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Summary: as fiction still fascinating!
Review: The author states in her forward that this is not about all aboriginals but a small select group and they are what this story pertains to. It is listed as fiction and that is what it is. Even though it is fiction, it still has an important message to those of us who are open-minded and like to make up their own minds as to whether or not there is any validity in what she has to say. The author is summoned to Australia and invited to meet with an an aboriginal tribe. She thinks it is going to be a luncheon deal and ends up going on a walk-about with them. What she learned about the nature of these people and their beliefs was fascinating. They were here for over 50,000 years, according to the author (doubtful), one of the first ever. She said they could communicate through telepathy and didn't need to speak because of the purity in their souls-also said because of their purity they didn't need Jesus (this is where we know for sure it is fiction). We, the mutants, cannot because we have too much in our minds that we don't want others to see and want to hide from others, so we can't open up to telepathy. Possessions are very important to us and to them it is not. The simple life, void of jealousy, greed, stress, hate, etc. has made them a people who live to be a hundred and twenty years old. When they finally decide that they want to move on to a new life and leave this one they have a celebration and then they just shut down their bodies and die and come to another phase in their being. Interesting thought. The things that they ate are certainly not what we would be used to and would make many of us gag at the thought, but it was interesting that while we tend to get senile and lose our eyesight and hearing as we age, they didn't seem to, they were very alert and healthy. They had there own system of healing that, if true, would be absolutely amazing, but (?)....! It was interesting also, that, in their secret hide-a-way, they had their history painted on their walls, showing that there had probably been nuclear testing and flying saucers indicating aliens-which at one time I thought could be possible, but upon reflection, I think they would have been man-made and if there were any odd looking characters flying them it would more likely be Satan's demons or the like. According to her story, they have practiced environmental care for as long as they have been on earth and yet have now decided to not have anymore children because the earth is being destroyed an cannot sustain life much longer unless we take better care of it. She says she has been chosen to send their message with hopes that enough will listen. I really enjoyed the book and know that there were many truths in it that we would benefit from, if heeded, and then there are some that each individual needs to realize that are subtle propaganda and dangerous to an unsuspecting Christian. It is a book that will make you think. Give it a try!
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Summary: good lessons, good read.
Review: I learned alot from this book, I don't think it exploited the natives at all, in fact I developed an awareness for thier culture. I find it interesting that the natives in every society are pushed out and regarded as uncivilized. I really think its this excessive consumerism that plagues all these fat americans and beyond as uncivilized. I was completely surprised at the angry reviews this book has received on this board, as I was led to this book by an instructor. I really enjoyed it. I've shared it with friends. Pooey on you meanies!
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Summary: You're all correct on this one
Review: I've enjoyed the mixed reviews on this book at least as much as I enjoyed the book. Most of the reviews are most insightful (into the reviewer if not the book). This book is syrupy sweet new age regurgitation, and it certainly is fiction. If you like that kind of thing (Wayne Dyer approved!), then enjoy. Think of it as 'Spiritualism for Beginners'. Easy to read, easy to put down, easy to dismiss if you don't agree with it.
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Summary: Angry at your censorship
Review: I am very angry at your preventing publication of a critique I know to have been submitted to you by an Aboriginal friend, Suze Collette, of Brisbane. If anyone can seriously critique this collection of lies that enormously damage Aborigines, it has to be an Aborigine. All you are obviously concerned with is the enormous money this evil work is raking in. You should also have a window that allows negative ratings. Technically one can't publish here without awarding at least one star. That is madness for a work that deserves a billion negatives.
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