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Summary: Intrinsic Way of Life
Review: I had a chance to read this book recently. It was handed to me from a spiritual group. They said this book was recommended to read from a higher spirit.
We were symbiont with earth nature, but it has been disrupted as we have craved easy civilized life for our sake.
Now, the higher spirit warns us that the end of human beings that happens in 11,000 year cycle is approaching.
The attack on WTC and Pentagon is just a beginning.
The higher spirit says the earth is dying due to too many destruction of nature by human.
Screening of human beings begins when the earth needs to be protected.
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Summary: Mutant Mesage Down Under- incredibly Inspiring- A Must Read!
Review: I absolutely loved this book! It is a must read for anyone and everyone, not just those searching for 'what is missing 'in the world around us. Rather than living life worried about 'possessions and things'listen to the simple message presented in this book. My best friend was assigned this book in one of her college classes... she called me very excited and told me "I had to read this book, I would love it." When she told me the name, I laughed and answered that I had just completed it a few days earlier. At the end of the semester her class had the great opportunity to meet Dr. Morgan, my friend said it was an "extraordinary experience." Not having the pleasure of personally meeting her, I would jump at the chance, her work is profoundly inspiring and moving!! Please READ THIS BOOK! I do not think you will be disappointed!
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Summary: go to http://dumbartung.org.au/
Review: I read this book in 1994, and it read like something written by a new-ager who went to the library to gather some info on Australia, and then put her beliefs on paper with an Aborigine twist on them. Although at the time I was sort of a new-ager myself, even I could smell something rotten. If you read critically, the very language she uses TELLS you that it's a hoax--it's just too new-age! If your interest is to see what Aborigines really believe and practice, and not to indulge your new-age appetite, then get something else. I'm amazed at people who say that they don't care if the story is real or not, because it so appeals to their new-age souls...this book is seriously misrepresenting the people of a REAL, as well as ancient, spiritual tradition. And those people are upset!!If you want to read about how this book has been received by the real Aboriginal community, go to http://dumbartung.org.au/. You'll be glad you didn't buy it. Myself, I'm glad I returned mine as soon as I finished it--I couldn't stand owning it.
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Summary: This book was terrible
Review: This book was terrible, completely devoid of any worthwhile content, and probably a complete hoax or fabrication. The voice is that of someone who is morally sermonizing but unless the reader is completely ignorant, the author comes across as being no more enlightened than a small child who has just begun having their first thoughts regarding the meaning of life. Do not bother reading this book. You can gain much more by reading any of Dr Suess's fine works.
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Summary: Yes, we're Mutants
Review: Here we are, people measuring the quality of a product with starts. Five for an excellency. Rating is the last thing that matters. Marlo Morgan's book. It's not a cry of despair, although I cried when it came to an end. What made me write a review was Mr. Christian's review, stating in a first sentence his professorship. Who cares, Mr. Christian??? Despising everything connected to Mrs. Morgan. I strongly feel that the purpose of the book is fulfilled in its every reader. One picks out what matters. I'm not saying that we have a fine example of master writing but it's not what it is about. I'm sorry, Mrs. Morgan, I owe you an apology for a previous sentece. I know it's pointles to talk about the style and such things. That's not what your book was about. And I'm also sorry for the people who don't see it. I was very, very deeply touched and am very content that I could sense it. I have a strong aversion to a society I live in presently (the USA) and your book revealed many answer to my queries.
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Summary: Urgent Reminder to Connect to Nature
Review: This book had a profound impact on me. As an intuitive woman living in an urban environment, I found this book inspiring in it's representation of life lived in unity with one's natural surroundings. This is the oldest way of life...one where telepathy is the norm. Animals still retain this mode of communication...but humans have all but lost it. The spirit of this book is pure and the message urgently needed. To those of you who are on spiritual paths and especially to those of you who are wondering if it's "normal" to be intuitive, I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Oneness without Integrity
Review: Let me begin by saying that I am a college professor of comparative religions and an ordained minister in a progressive branch of Christianity. I am an admirer of Huxley's presentation of the perennial philosophy, Huston Smith's appreciation of the world's major faith traditions, and Joseph Campbell's conviction concerning the power of myth. I am a mystic by inclination. In other words, I am predisposed to take religion and spirituality seriously. It may come as some surprise, then, that I found Morgan's book nothing short of detestable. I forced myself to finish the wretched thing because I promised a former student who greatly admired it that I would. The first and least of the book's problems is its utterly artless and amateurish style. To call Morgan's prose sophomoric would be to praise it far too highly. One would expect a best-selling author (or her editors) to know the difference between "farther" and "further," "lay" and "lie," "like" and "as," "racial" and "racist," and "mound" and "monolith," to cite but a few glaring examples. An acquaintance who has seen the self-published original says that it was rife with misspellings and grammatical errors as well, making the flawed edition that I read a vast improvement. Mercy. How, I wondered, could a well-educated person write such graceless prose? Eventually I answered my own question. (See below.) The second issue -- whether this is pure fiction, partial fiction, or a factual account -- has been well argued by others. The author apparently claimed from the start, in every possible public medium, that it was based on her real experiences, then hedged, then recanted, then hedged again. Even the aboriginal man named Burnum Burnum, who at first endorsed the book, later expressed his regret for having done so and severed all ties with Morgan. (It turns out that he was an urbanized man who knew little or nothing of the Outback anyway.) After reading the book, I simply cannot imagine how anyone could have even entertained the possibility that it was depicting real people and events. The whole story is utterly preposterous from the beginning. The author (or her alter-ego) is kidnapped, thinking that she is being shuttled to a ceremony to receive an award that no one has ever promised her. During a harrowing four-hour Jeep-journey into the wilderness of a foreign land at the hands of an incommunicative male stranger, she shows no real fear and raises not a word of protest, much less look for a chance of escape. Any normal (or real) person would have been scared witless and thought of survival and self-preservation. Then her clothes, her documents, and her cherished valuables are taken and thrown into a fire, and her reaction amounts to an "Oh, well." On top of it all, the characters in the tribe are so two-dimensional and stereotypical (and Native American!) as to appear completely, albeit ineptly, contrived. Fact or fiction, a story must be plausible; and this one, from the get-go, is not. A third issue annoyed me from the start. Morgan presents herself, vaguely, as a physician and health-care professional, which sets up a nice contrast with the medicinal folkways of her tribal captor-hosts and, of course, adds an air of scientific credibility to the entire account. She further (as opposed to "farther") presents herself as a person in demand for her medical expertise, one who has "lectured in Denmark, Brazil, Europe, and Sri Lanka" (p. 106), apparently oblivious to the fact that Denmark is in Europe. Late in the book, however, she alludes to "the American six-year healing arts programs to become an M.D., D.C., or D.O." (p. 168) I have never known either an M.D. or a D.O. who would sandwich a chiropractic degree between two real medical degrees like that, much less equate their many years of post-baccalaureate study with the high school-plus-two that is the minimum requirement for chiropractors. That led me to suspect what I later confirmed: Morgan is a retired chiropractor! (I dedicate that exclamation point to her. She appears to love them.) The fact that she cloaks that fact under the broad term "physician" and pretends to have real medical expertise of a scientific, clinical kind is disingenuous at best. Also of interest is the fact that Morgan apparently resides, not in Kansas City, Missouri, but in nearby Lee's Summit. Now that "just happens to be" the world headquarters for the original and still main branch of Unity. Not coincidentally, I suspect, most of the central teachings that Morgan ascribes to her alleged aboriginal tribe -- such as "Divine Oneness," "universal abundance," "Jesus as eldest brother," reality is perception, and death as a transition to one's "highest good" -- are barely veiled references to pivotal Unity principles (which, by the way, I happen to find meaningful). As if it were not obvious by now, Morgan's most serious problem is her credibility. That has been so thoroughly undermined by real Aboriginal groups, scholars, and no less than the Washington Post that no thoughful, informed person could possibly believe her account to be factual, her to be truthful, or her "Real People" to be anything but figments of her imagination. The fact that she has nevertheless drawn such a wide and enthusiastic audience (and made millions of dollars in royalities, speaker's fees, tapes, etc.) attests that she had the kernel of a compelling idea. Too bad that she didn't see fit to couch her spiritual truth -- as indigenous and other religious peoples everywhere always have -- in myth or parable, which is to say, the vessel of honest fiction. As it stands, what might have been a useful testimonial to Oneness is tarnished beyond redemption by an author's severe and cynical lack of personal integrity. If she had a treasure to give us, she delivered it in a very earthen, but terribly leaky, vessel.
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Summary: A great book - Who cares if it's true or not?
Review: This is a book that really makes you wake up and question one's own life style and values. Even if every word isn't true, it sure gave me a lot to think about. I don't think anyone could possibly make all of this up. I personally believe that a lot of it is the truth. I had a hard time putting the book down and I would like to recommend it to everyone. My husband and I both read the book on our vacation last year and I could hardly speak to him while he was reading it, he was so absorbed.
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Summary: An arrogant white fantasy
Review: Unbelievable -- an author who has clearly never met an aboriginal person tells us that she, personally, was chosen as the single vehicle for thousands of years of wisdom by a tribe who has decided to die off (actually, aboriginal people are very much trying to survive). Some of the author's claims about aboriginal people are clearly New Age fantasies or misplaced ideas about Native Americans -- for instance, she has aboriginal people making "dream catchers" and being called by Native American sounding names -- things that are obviously erroneous to almost any Australian. On top of it, she uses very insulting language to refer to all of the aboriginal people who are not part of her "Real People" tribe (i.e., they are all lazy, corrupted "..."). Just search in any search engine for "Mutant Message Down Under" to get the real deal and hear from the people Morgan is making all her money off of.
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Summary: New Age Fiction
Review: I would discourage anyone from reading this book, unless of course your intention is to contrast with say, "Footprints Across our Land." Mutant Message Down Under is a fictious blending of cultures and in no way reflects actual australian native cultures or traditions. Some of the author's inconsistancies were so blatent that I decided to do some further research and encountered a review at ... which detailed at length why and how this book is in no way a work of journalistic merit.
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