Mutant Message Down Under
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4.0 • 7 Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
"A powerful message for all of us. I was hypnotized by the simple truths and spiritual lessons. Read it and tell everyone you know to do the same." —Wayne Dyer
This incredible adventure story—and New York Times bestseller—offers us an opportunity to discover the wisdom of an ancient culture and to hear its powerful message.
An American woman is summoned by a remote tribe of nomadic Aboriginals who call themselves the “Real People” to accompany them on a four-month-long walkabout through the Outback. While traveling barefoot with them through 1,400 miles of rugged desert terrain, she learns a new way of life, including their methods of healing, based on the wisdom of their 50,000-year-old culture. Ultimately, she experiences a dramatic personal transformation.
Mutant Message Down Under recounts a unique, timely, and powerful life-enhancing message for all humankind: It is not too late to save our world from destruction if we realize that all living things—be they plants, animals, or human beings—are part of the same universal oneness. If we heed the message, our lives, like the lives of the Real People, can be filled with this great sense of purpose.
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Morgan's much-hyped first novel, a fictionalized account of a ``walkabout'' she took in the Outback with a group of Aborigines, gains from the use of authentic detail, although the storytelling is hindered by the author's heavy New Age agenda and incessant cultural proselytizing. A 50-ish alternative health practitioner from the American Midwest, Morgan was working with underprivileged Aborigine youths in the inner cities of Australia when a group of Aborigines offered her a chance to learn firsthand about their culture. Morgan's account of the tribe's customs, healing methods, food-finding tactics, etc. is absorbing, and her willingness to forgo Western luxuries and to relish the experience is courageous and touching. Less compellingly, the author claims that she was ``chosen'' by the Aborigines to tell the rest of humanity that the so-called ``real people'' are refusing to reproduce because of the ravages of Western civilization, and that Westerners have a limited time to clean up their act. Morgan's rudimentary writing skills are stretched to the limit, and she lessens the power of her story and its egalitarian lessons by adopting the perspective that Western culture is innately inferior to the naturalistic beliefs of the Aborigines. Still, with its high-powered package of New Age philosophy wrapped in an adventure narrative, this book may be the next Celestine Prophecy. (It is interesting to observe that both books began life by being self-published.) Illustrations by Carri Garrison not seen by PW. 250,000 first printing; Literary Guild Special Release; Doubleday Book Club alternate; author tour.
Customer Reviews
Extremely eye opening...
there's a lot of controversy around this book, but one thing, to me at least, seems to be true; that you could learn a lot from these ideas on how to look at life. I highly recommend this book. It can come across a little cheesy sometimes, but I truly have felt that this is a woman's story of true events and have even started to volunteer at Aboriginal and Native Organizations myself. My book is tattered and worn, but I've picked it up again many times only to find myself over half way through before I put it down.
Wrong cover art!!!!
I find it very irritating to see the wrong cover art every time I look at this book. I really enjoy reading it but don't want to see this cover art. Please fix!!!!!!!
Otherwise it would be a 5 stars and more recommended but for this issue!