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"Once I'd read a few chapters, I was hooked."
-- -- Whole Life Times
"Richly detailed...Fans of Mutant Message Down Under will
enjoy this deeper exploration of aboriginal wisdom."
-- -- Creations Magazine
"Once I'd read a few chapters. I was hooked." -- Whole Life Times
"Richly detailed...Fans of Mutant Message Down Under will enjoy this deeper exploration of aboriginal wisdom." -- Creations Magazine
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Following her modern classic and worldwide bestseller A Mutant Message Down Under, Marlo Morgan's long-awaited second novel is a tale of self-enlightenment about aboriginal twins separated at birth and the searchfor roots that reunites them from opposite sides of the globe. Message from Forever is an incredibly moving story in which the power of purity, acceptance, and openness transcends injustice and degradation, directing is to live our lives in accordance with ageless values and simple wisdom.Express Your Individual Creativity Realize That You Are Accountable Before Birth You Agreed to Help Others Mature Emotionally Entertain Be a Steward of Your Energy Indulge in Music Strive to Achieve Wisdom Learn Self-Discipline Observe Without Judging
10 Messages of Aboriginal Wisdom You Will Explore In Message From Forever
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The brown-skinned face of the eighteen-year-old pregnant girl glistened as perspiration rolled down her face and dripped from her quivering chin. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Prophetic,compelling, and unsettling: an ancient dear memory,
By Bernadette Kinniry (michaelshm@aol.com) (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mutant Message From Forever (Paperback)
I find this book to be prophetic, for it touches on much of the unnamed 'dis-ease'in our own culture, religions, and time in history. Don't know that I've ever read anything so compelling. Our estrangement from nature has caused its own illness, but we've not yet recognized that to be true. I find this book hopeful, and it's a point of no return, I trust, once it has been read. Integrating its' message personally and communally lies before me. I am a Sister of Mercy, so the poor portrayal of my own community hurts. I acknowledge the weakness and brokenness in me and in all of us, and would like to know from Marlo why she chose us to be the callous people we appeared to be in the book. It was difficult to read lots of it because of my love for my community, and at the same time, I am very aware it is time for humility among all of us as a people that we've not prior lived. The portrayal of Caucasian European influence was so painful yet not unknown. In our own becoming, we do need to acknowledge the effects on others and ourselves of past/present attitudes and behaviors, so we can reclaim, as for the first time, our own dearness. It feels like a long road ahead of us, but I'm grateful for the part this novel plays in helping us to see anew. Would like an opportunity to speak with the author. She has a major assignment in our times. Thanks. Bernadette Kinniry, RSM
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Recycled from the leftover notes from her first book?,
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This review is from: Mutant Message From Forever (Paperback)
After reading Ms. Morgans first of her Real People tales, I was left with a sort of warm glow from the lessons contained within the pages, but a little rattled by the heavy handedness. Then I came across the controversy surrounding the actuality of her stated experiences. Still I had liked what she had said in her first book, so I picked up her second. Sadly, I found it to be both a plodding reworking of her first effort that became over burdened with it's own pedantic preachiness. Yes, yes, European man bad, indigenous Australian good. We *got* it the first time. We learn of some of the specific atrocities committed by the acts of the not Real People, but presented in a style that I can only feel was exploitive to Ms. Morgan's own purpose. Cultural jingoism is still jingoismif it purports to be The Answer. I am wholeheartedly against killing puppies, giving hysterectomies to nine year old little girls and ripping babies from their mothers arms. I'm also against high-handed superior lording over others like almost every single European-Australian does in these books. I am all for gratitude and gentle co-habitation with all beings on this planet - but having said that, I got tired of the high handedness of the tones of this book.I also don't appreciate fiction being passed off as fact. Someone seems to be fooling herself. Either that or we're the chumps. Yann Martel had the decency to present his "Life of Pi" as the fiction it is. I think this makes it even more true. Ms. Morgan may want to consider her own lessons. Always Truth. (See the Dumbartung Aboriginal site for feedback from Aboriginal Australians to these books)
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Mutant Message review by Bob,
By Bob Samples (Iowa, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mutant Message From Forever (Paperback)
What a great book! If you want to learn about an ancient view on life and the world we live in get this book. It has taught me a great appreciation for the aborigines, the real world around us and about the potential inside of every person. If you like to learn new things and read stories about great adventures get this book.
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