Marlo Morgan
12/2020
Spiritual Aboriginal Australia Controversial Appropriation
Hopefully one's name will change several times in a lifetime as wisdom, creativity, and purpose also become more clearly defined with time (46)
Humans cannot exist if everything that is unpleasant is eliminated instead of understood (69)
Healing only has once source... Each person's healer is within (90)
[How you feel emotionally about things] is recorded in every cell of the body, in the core of your personality, in your mind, and in your eternal self (94)
Slowing down the body allows us to look around and analyze the really important wounds we need to mend: wounded relationships, gaping holes in our belief system, walled-up tumors of fear, eroding faith in our Creator, hardened emotions of unforgiveness, and so on (96)
Business is not real, it is just an agreement, yet the goal of business is to stay in business regardless of the outcome on the people or the product and services (107)
When thinking became flexible, joints became flexible. No pain, no more (117)
Most [Aboriginals] marched into the white man's world looking for the promised goodness, which included unlimited food, and died in poverty, the legal form of slavery (142)
But the big difference in humans now and the way they were originally is that mutants have a core of fear. Real people have no fear. Mutants threaten their children. They need law enforcement and prisons. Even government security is based on threatening other countries with weapons. According to the tribe, fear is an emotion of the animal kingdom. There it plays an important part in the role of survival. But if humans know about Divine Oneness and understand that the universe is not a haphazard event but is an unfolding plan, they cannot be fearful. You either have faith or fear; not both. Things, they think, generate fear. The more things you have, the more you have to fear. Eventually you are living your life for things (152)
A gift is only a gift when you give someone what the person wants. It is not a gift if you give what you want them to have (159)
We have taught the Mutant much, and we have learned from her. It seems Mutants have something in their life called gravy. They know truth, but it is buried under thickening and spices of convenience, materialism, insecurity, and fear. They also have something in their lives called frosting. It seems to represent how they spend almost all the seconds of their existence in doing superficial, artificial, temporary, pleasant-tasting, nice-appearing projects and spend very few actual seconds of their lives developing their eternal beingness (177)
Dear Kind Mr. Talk Story Owner,
あけましておめでとうございます！
My name is Brendan Smith, I am a half Japanese man who bought a copy of Mutant Message Down Under from you about a month ago.
This is obviously your decision, but I would recommend you not continue to proliferate this book. After I finished the book and read the controversy on the internet, I was reminded of my experience of reading Memoirs of a Geisha many years ago. In that instance I was upset that I had consumed a fictitious story which had been largely embellished and catered to a Western ear. Being a part of the Japanese culture represented, I found that book particularly troubling.
There are good nuggets of wisdom in this book, undoubtedly. But, to me, it seems to be a fetishization of Native cultures by a somewhat-offensive new-ageAmerican culture. The story seems to be largely untrue and readers can be tricked into believing more than they should; while it is clearly labeled fiction, it still includes supposed-testaments of legitimacy from Aboriginals.
People perhaps may just be better off knowing the controversy before consuming this book whole-heartedly.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlo_Morgan http://danny.oz.au/anthropology/notes/mutant-message.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/truth-goes-walkabout-outback-aborigines-outraged-us-author-makes-million-new-age-fantasy-lost-tribe-bush-1389189.html https://marlomorgan.wordpress.com/helping-yourself-fabrication-of-aboriginal-culture/
I am of the belief that this book should no longer be read. But I am not sure what you believe.
Just wanted to share this opinion with you!
All the best, Brendan