Michele’s Reading List

Mutant Message Down Under is the account of Marlo Morgan’s walkabout through Australia’s Outback. What’s special about this journey, is that she joined a very old group of Aborigines.

At the beginning of this adventure, she is literally undressed of everything she has: dress, jewelry, money, documents, etc.; and she is given only a piece of fabric to use as a dress.
Throughout the trip, she learn how Aborigines managed to live in the desert throughout millenniums. How they find water, food, how they communicate and how they cure illnesses.

Many times, while reading the book, I asked myself: “Can this be true, or is it just a piece of fiction?”. Every single time, the answer was: “Who knows…”.
Things like telepathy are far away from are culture, thus we are naturally inclined to doubt it can exist. But we can’t be sure they never existed.

So believing it, or not, is you choice. What’s sure, is that the book tries to deploy a clear message.
We — as in the whole humanity — are driving the World to a point where it will break down. We have to realize that we are just one thing together with all the other creatures in the world.
We have to feel as a unique group. Because we all live on the same planet and instead of fighting because of are differences, we should feel lucky of being able to enjoy such differences: each person, with its bundle of characteristics and skills, is a unique piece of the same whole.

We should understand that we can’t take from the earth and never give back. We should use only what we need, and give back what we don’t really need.
We should respect nature. We should respect other creatures.
We should understand Earth is not ours to use at our will.

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This post was written 2 years, 11 months ago on July 14th, 2005 lunch time.