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Summary: An incredible (and hopefully true) tale that changes lives.
Review: Mutant Message is the incredibly enticing and interesting tale of an American doctor named Marlo Morgan who travel to Australia, to end up doing a walkabout (walk across australia) with an Aboriginial tribe over a period of 3 months. In the period of the three months, more amazing events take place than I think most people living in an American Society have ever seen, (or will ever see) in their entire lives. In this book, Marlo helps readers explore and understand a society in which very few people in the world have ever seen or heard of, mainly because the society is in no way connected to the technological society than any of us belong to. Mutant Message is an eye opening book, that will change your perspective on life, the universe, nature, and every other natural type object or lifeform that currently exists or at what point did. In this book, Marlo basically explains and depicts a new religion (which by reading you learn isn't a religion at all) that involves believing in Divine Oneness, the belief in everything's beauty and love for everything real. After passing this book along to numerous family members and friends, results have shown that nearly 9 out of 10 people have the same reaction to this remarkable story that I did. This is definitely one of the greater books that I have read in my lifetime, and I feel that by not reading it you are missing out on a culture that you may never find or hear of again for the rest of your life without reading this book.
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Summary: The book that changed my life.
Review: I am only 16 years old, but after reading this book you will learn that age is merely a number that modern society inflicts upon us to rate our maturity. This book changed my life. I view society, the world, and people completely differently. I cannot explain how. We have all heard the accusations of this book being fraud. It does not matter. This book will make you treat people better, and give you a higher understanding of the way things really are.
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Summary: Walk with Marlo and learn what it means to be real people
Review: The title interested me, but the story shocked me into an awakening about myself, that was kind of scary. The message that this book provides, is one that I will share with everyone I know who has that 'look' in their eye. If you too want to transend this experience of life as you have been living it, the walkabout awaits you. There are insights here that will echo in your soul and remind you about the value of being one with nature, truth and yourself. Please, give yourself a chance to journey into another world, a real world, and return to Spirit.
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Summary: Chilling reminder
Review: I'd enjoyed reading Bill Bryson's book on travelling downunderand thought this would be further information for me so I borrowed thetapes from the library. From the start I thought oh no its an Americantelling us how to treat our native people and a dyed blonde at that!Must be on a guilt trip after seeing how the USA had decimated itsIndians. How could she turn up in heels and a suit - hadn't shewatched Crocodile Dundee - what did she think Darwin would be like?But gradually as I listened to her story unfold my cynicism abated and Iwas seduced by her wonderful odessey. I had suspected the Aborigineswere an innocent people but Marlo portrayed them as something akin toBuddists or Hindus in their 'live and let live' phillosophy. They'reso different to those we observe in the cities who appear so confusedand despondent. Perhaps if more of these people were made aware ofthis novel they would realise they do have a purpose in this life.Its true as Marlo said - the Aborigines have existed on this continentfor thousands of years without destroying it, yet we have only beenhere barely 200 years and already caused únimagined damage. This is agreat book for the year of reconciliation - its a pity it took someonefrom another country to bring it to our attention in this way. I wantto recommend this to everyone I know I want to read Marlo's next novelnow!
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Summary: Powerful Journey
Review: Simply, could not put this book down. I found it to be very spiritual. Demonstrates that we all have something to learn and to give. Our way of life is good but after reading about her journey we have an obligation and responsibility to make our life and world better. To live in a world without judgement and to accept with grace which we find and to accept oneness.A must read for all
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Summary: Inspirational
Review: I read this book a couple of years ago and really enjoyed it. I recomended it to many friends, most of who enjoyed it also. Don't touch this book though a) if you are you are a skeptic (stick to something more scientific and tangible and languish there where you feel comfortable), b) are offended by simple truths, c) are more deeply concerned whether the book is fiction or non-fiction than the message within d)if you can't get your head round the fact that despite outward appearances all humans belong to one race. For readers with an open mind, you may or may not enjoy the book, but there is a message within for everyone if you care to look.
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Summary: A trip into the forgotten spiritual side
Review: It is a great book and everybody should read it in order to try to keep intouch with the important things of life. We are starting to get so fascinated with the finnancial gains, that we forget what life is really about. When you read about the sweet way how the aborigenes die for example, you have to start thinking about all the "evolution" our medicine brings and keep old people suffering in the hospitals... Just read it, or you will be missing an important message. But read it relaxed and openned.
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Summary: Personally speaking...
Review: I read this book a short while ago. I loved it - and not because I thought it was fiction or non-fiction or because I believed it exampled all of Aborginal culture or any real part of Aboriginal culture or because it was the most profoundly written book I've ever read. It was simply a meaningful manuscript that articulated questions, answers, emotions, philosophies that are relevant at this point of my life. Now,I have read many, many book reviews in my life and quite a few on Amazon - but none as collectively scathing toward the READER of a book - as the ones that focus on Morgan's book. As a satisfied reader of this book, I have been called silly, childish, stupid and it has been implied that all one needs to do is to look at my crass and inarticulate writing style to see that I am basically struggling to hit a 3 digit IQ (which of course would explain why I like this book in the first place.) Amazing! Isn't the magic of any manuscript that the same words can be so many different things to different people?
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Summary: A great read but finally disappointing
Review: I read this book several years ago, and was very impressed. However, when I later heard how some Aborigines representing the tribe she described in her book, had actually gone to the US to protest to the author, I was very disappointed (for more details see another reviewer on these pages), so I only give this book 2 stars. There are many stories which tell universal truths and it does not matter if the story really happened or not: the best of the 19th century novels, for example, or the stories by Carlos Castaneda (in my opinion), or Kahlil Gibran's work. However, I disagree with several reviewers on these pages who say it does not matter whether Morgan's story is true or not; in Morgan's case, many (though not all) of the "truths" are dependent on the Aboriginal setting, and are specific to Aborigines and their history, and therefore I would argue that it DOES make a very great difference. If her message(s) is/are "true", then why dress them up in fiction? If this book is "true" even if the events are fictitious, then why claim (as the author originally did) that they really happened? The fact that this is a work of fiction (the medium) eventually undermines the message, as the reader is left with the worrying thought, "if the events described here are fictitious, then how much faith can I put in the beliefs or philosophical positions put forward?" There is even greater undermining in "Mutant Message", because the author (and many Amazon reviewers) originally claimed the events really happened. The subsequent opposition by the Aborigine elders (a remarkable and unusual event in itself) calls into question the author's integrity, and therefore the integrity of the text. As a reviewer in the UK magazine "Private Eye" put it (reviewing a different book), human beings' need for spiritual guidance is very real and urgent: it deserves a sincere respect and response, something with more integrity than Morgan's "Mutant Message". This book, like so many others, sounds good, but has no real substance. As a work of fiction, it's not a bad story.Those seeking real (as opposed to superficial or trendy) wisdom are advised to look elsewhere. Works of anthropology would probably be more reliable amd insightful, if one is looking for information about Aboriginal beliefs or society. By the way, a similar story about interaction between white men and a native people, also a work of fiction and full of wisdom about life and people's relationship with the land, is "A Story like the Wind" and "A Far-Off Place" by Laurens Van der Post.
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Summary: Listen to real Aboriginal people
Review: It is unfortunate that people still wish to listen to a white American woman rather than the Aboriginal people she claims to celebrate. The Aboriginal people of the area she supposedly writes of have shown that not only was her book a fiction but a ludicrous and expoitative one. It is time that the western world stopped this endless drive to use indigenous people as a resource and respect them for who they really are.
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