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Summary: This book goes down as one of my favorites of all time.
Review: This is the most spiritually moving book that I have ever read. I highly recommend it! This book truly brought out what I had been wanting to say for a long time. If you only get to read one book this year let this be it you won't be sorry. And as for whether or not it is a hoax, I personally have faith that it is true.
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Summary: Aborigines try to teach modern humans to love each other.
Review: Ever read 'The Celestine Prophecy'? I found this book works along the same sort of lines. In fact, I read this book in one sitting. There're aren't many books I found this good, so I'd recommend it highly for people fed up with the devaluation of humanity in the modern world.
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Summary: A great book, even if you don't believe it's true
Review: This was a great book in my opinion. Even if you don't believe that Marlo Morgan is telling the truth, you can still read it and get a great message from it. I would recomend to all readers.
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Summary: A must for a "real" view of being human w/ love & respect!
Review: When I read this book I would just stop and sob. Why? Because it was the first time I ever heard people living values that meant everything to me and to my deepest needs. It was like finding a home that I did not even know existed. This is a story about living without the ego creating images of falsehood in daily life and presentation. It is a real example of real people living truth - of themselves - in humility and respect on this planet. Honors & Bravo to them and Marlo!
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Summary: A hoax. New Age slop.
Review: I do not know a single Australian, black or white, who does not immediately recognise this book as a hoax. I doubt the author has ever been in the Australian outback. She is cashing on the fact most people know noting about Australia and on the vast appetite for New Age slop and drivel.
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Summary: Inspiring, True, Fascinating, Novel of adventure and wisdom
Review: I hate reading reviews that say things like "this book is garaunteed to change your life, blah blah blah" but I can honestly say, that after finishing this book several days ago (I am now buying another copy so I can lend it out to several people) I have already changed. The wisdom expressed in this book rang true to me. One of the things I most remember from her book, and I use all the time in wishing/praying is to add "if it's in the highest good of everyone everywhere." Also, I teach children, and on all of their "end of the summer/farewell" cards I am writing (taken from this book) "We love you and support you on your lifes journey." Marlo wrote that this is what the aboriginies say to a baby as it enters the world, and is also what they say to the person getting ready to die. I think that's great. I have already given one card out with this saying, and the child came back to me after reading with glossy eyes, saying nothing, but expressing love, and she opened her arms to hug me. I guess she liked it. I know I would. "We love you and support you on your lifes journey." This is only one of the few inspirations in this book...
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Summary: Very Thought Provoking
Review: Marlo Morgan's story regarding a walkabout with the Aboriginals through the Outback was very compulsive reading. I often felt her story about the challenges she encountered was far fetched although in my heart I believe she was reliving a real experience. The unique talents, spirituallity, and keen awareness of the things we take forgranted is a very valuable lesson to us all.
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Summary: I understand the critics, but . . .
Review: Whether this book is fact or fiction, and whether it accurately depicts Aborigines (although if it doesn't, I do agree an aplogogy should me made to the Aboriginal people) is ultimately irrelevent. The life of the book is its message, which is only peacefulness. Other critics have said it presents Westerners as mutant, and while that term was used, the book makes a specific attempt to emphasize that Western society (and every society outside of the tribe), is neither evil nor bad . . . just perhaps, disillusioned.At any rate, I understand why this book is so controversial, but the message of the book is nothing but peaceful and enlightening. I believe it is worth reading.
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Summary: I felt the spiritual message in this book was very important
Review: I read this book a year or so ago and loved it. I plan to buy it (it was loaned to me before) to take on a journey of my own. I figure when I hit hard times on the road alone it will help give me some perspective. I cannot say I know much about Australia's aboriginal peoples but how is this book racist and offensive to them? I thought the people described in the book were very spiritually alive and tuned in to the universe. One thing I have really taken to heart is, each day I like to ask that I live it to my highest good and the highest good of all life everywhere. What's so bad about that? (I do plan to contact the one Australian reader who gave an email address and invited people to ask about why the Aboriginal peoples do not support this book.)Until otherwise convinced, I highly recommend it. By the way, I was not troubled by whether it was fact or fiction (irrelevant) and didn't notice that it was particularly badly written. Hmmmmmm.
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Summary: Beautiful story of simplifying life like the Aboriginals hav
Review: It is a great way to really focus on what is really important in life. I konw I get bogged down in stupid things that Aboriginals would find insignificant and silly to be worrying about. It is a beautiful story about human life and how it should be lived and worth reading at least once a year to keep in line!
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