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Strange it is that an American friend should give me this book, that I had not previously heard about, and which was a New York Times bestseller in the 90's.

My only concern with this book, was how genuine it is, as a tale. Because I was less interested in the contents, as in learning what a remote Aboriginal tribe might have to say about spiritual matters. The author claims the book as fiction, but Burnam Burnam gives it the thumbs up, which is a significant recommendation.

If this reflects the knowledge and understanding shared amongst Aborigines, before the "white fella" got here, it is they who should have been teaching the missionaries, not the other way around. I don't think there was a single concept that I could take issue with. And perhaps that should have concerned me.

I have now researched this book on the internet, and it seems it is a hoax. Sad. Read this page for a very good refutation of the book: Morgan's Mutant Fantasy

NB In 1996 a group of Aboriginal elders, incensed by this book and the damage it is doing, obtained a government grant to travel to the United States to confront Marlo Morgan and to stop a Hollywood film being made of it. They obtained a very reluctant apology from her which I heard on radio in Australia. As they represented the people of the area in which she claimed to have begun her walk across Australia she had no choice but to admit she had made the whole story up. Unfortunately this admission has gained almost no publicity in the States. For those who still listen to Morgan's message please remember it is the simply the musings of a white woman who has been fully prepared to lie and delude her admiring public.

It would seem, Marlo Morgan is a people of the lie.

love,
Geoff

wow, and I thought it was so very interesting to read.... I thought the people were so far ahead of us spiritually that we could learn from them some very great truth. You just never know what to think. I felt as you did when I first read it. now I am disappointed to hear it was all just made up. I have always felt sad about the way we as "americans" have treated our own native americans, and when I was in AU, I personally heard many white people make comments about the aboriginies in the same ways we use to about our own native tribes here in the US. I think that even though it was a made up story, it makes you think before you judge another people for their particular customs and spiritual processes. Thanks Geoff!
Your American Friend, Ruth

Dear Ruth,

Yeah its sad. Sad for the deception, sad for the folks caught up, sad that the author felt the need to deceive.

love,
Geoff.

Boy, THAT is disappointing to hear. I read the Mutant Message book several years ago and really liked it. I was under the impression some of it was based on a real walkabout she did. Too bad.

I read this book when i was working and travelling around australia, I really did believe the author's intention to spread the message that there really is a whole different way of life that involves simply connecting with God and living in our truest form. I can't believe it was made up ...... for what purpose????? I just don't get it sometimes. Sigh....