my thoughts.
i just got done reading a book called Mutant Message from Down Under by Marlo Morgan.
at first, i thought the book was terrible, and couldnt understand why it was part of our required reading for this course, but as i read i became more and more interested with the contents and ideas it held.
it was based on a tribe of native people from the Australian Outback, and their rituals and beliefs. there were some things added to the story purely for content, and those things were obvious. as i read, i started to wonder just how much of this was fact, and how much was fiction. im not sure if the Aborigines were an actual Australian tribe or not, or if this was in fact, based on an actual tribe with name changes or some fictional fantasy made up by an author with a lot of thoughts about how the world works. this tribe, relied on each other for comfort, healing, and enjoyment. much as people do now. there were subtle and major differences though. they were not judge mental nor were they harsh to the people they relied on. yet, they were kind and accepting to the people their tribe mates were. they accepted them for their talents and helped them find new ones. they worked with each other on things they considered themselves "weak" at. i cant believe how thought provoking this book was. it took me a little under four hours to finish this thirty chapter book once i got started. some parts were dull, but it all helped place the story. they used telepathy to communicate, and described to the marlo, the foreign american acupuncture doctor, the way that telepathy worked. their tribe told no lies, half stories, or partial truths. they kept no secrets from each other. because of this, their souls were free to receive and send messages telepathically to each other, because they had nothing to hide. this was thought provoking to me. i kept wondering if there was any truth to this, if people actually were pure hearted, and not necessarily never "screwed up" so to speak, but learned from their mistakes instead of repeating them over and over, if we could ever become this "pure". in all obviousness this would go against most ancient religions, a prime example being christianity, that we are human, we make mistakes, and we always will. that we would always tell lies and never be perfect. and i dont think that we ever would be what most deem "perfect", but not telling lies isnt being perfect. what i have gathered from christian beliefs, jesus was the only person who never told a lie, never had evil thoughts, and was never greedy, jealous, scornful, lustful...ect. honestly i dont believe in a world like today that we could ever not have one of those thoughts, or commit devious acts of jealously, hate, spite, whatever. i keep thinking about a quote in the book a character named Sewing Master makes. she says, "It seems business has become a hazard to Mutants. Your businesses were started so people could get better items collectively than they could get for themselves and as a method to express individual talent, and become part of your money system. But now the goal of business is to stay in business. It seems so strange to us because we see the product as a real thing, and people as real things, but business ins't real. A business is only an idea, only an agreement, yet the goal of business is to stay in business regardless." if you just think about that for a minute, every bit of that statement is true. if you recall past history lessons of our past, we started out trading, bartering, ...ect. for things we needed, and used our individual talents to attain our material things of value. but now, most big business is about greed, and gaining more and more money. it doesnt make you a happier person one way or the other. you just continue to grow a stronger attachment to the material things life has to offer, and instead, you are forgetting the emotional and mental things that will forever be intact. we can lose anything material quickly, a fire, repossession, what have you, but will you ever forget how someone helped you out when no one else would? or how a friend stayed with you during a hard time in your life? material things can be lost forever, but memories, no one can steal or demolish those. those are yours to keep forever. so many times everyone is worried about whats to gain for them out of every experience they are encountered. im challenging myself to forget about what i might gain as opposed to what others might gain for me having doing what i did for them. not in a selfish sort of way. although i have a feeling when you think this way, it will be ultimately rewarding.
constantly though out the book they use herbal remedies instead of taking medicine to heal things. i wonder if we could ever go back to such things after having such an advanced world surrounding technology. relying on your senses of taste, touch, smell, sight, and sound to guide you instead of a constant left brain way of thinking. using logic and reasoning for everything that happens to you throughout your life. i dont know if that would even be possible, but it would be amazing to find out.
it also talked about emotional programming. i believe emotionally programming has a lot to do with things. the example that kept coming to my mind was the "placebo effect". giving a sugar pill to someone who expected and thought it to be something completely different. whatever that may be. but they believed that it was something, and when they thought it was something that would cure them or help them it did. i seriously wonder if emotional programming has anything to do with all these sprung up diseases and "incurable illnesses" today. if a doctor walks up to a terminally ill cancer patient and tells them, "Sorry, there's nothing else we can do for you." wouldnt you not physically, but also mentally believe that there was nothing left for you to do but wait to die. yes you would. it talked about how you believed how you felt emotionally about something is what registers. i believe that. if someone says something that hurts your feelings, its not what that say that makes you upset, its how what they say effects you emotionally. you dont get upset over what they say, you get upset because of how it makes you feel. right? i think so. it also brings up another good point about healing. it isnt doctors or specialists who heal you, its your body that heals you. if you break a bone, you might have someone who sets the bone back in place for you, but your body is who does the healing. not anything else.
i could write so much more but i need to go to bed. geesh. who thinks about this stuff at 6:15 in the morning? i have to get up in 45 minutes.
anyway, i recommend this book. its extremely thought provoking.
at first, i thought the book was terrible, and couldnt understand why it was part of our required reading for this course, but as i read i became more and more interested with the contents and ideas it held.
it was based on a tribe of native people from the Australian Outback, and their rituals and beliefs. there were some things added to the story purely for content, and those things were obvious. as i read, i started to wonder just how much of this was fact, and how much was fiction. im not sure if the Aborigines were an actual Australian tribe or not, or if this was in fact, based on an actual tribe with name changes or some fictional fantasy made up by an author with a lot of thoughts about how the world works. this tribe, relied on each other for comfort, healing, and enjoyment. much as people do now. there were subtle and major differences though. they were not judge mental nor were they harsh to the people they relied on. yet, they were kind and accepting to the people their tribe mates were. they accepted them for their talents and helped them find new ones. they worked with each other on things they considered themselves "weak" at. i cant believe how thought provoking this book was. it took me a little under four hours to finish this thirty chapter book once i got started. some parts were dull, but it all helped place the story. they used telepathy to communicate, and described to the marlo, the foreign american acupuncture doctor, the way that telepathy worked. their tribe told no lies, half stories, or partial truths. they kept no secrets from each other. because of this, their souls were free to receive and send messages telepathically to each other, because they had nothing to hide. this was thought provoking to me. i kept wondering if there was any truth to this, if people actually were pure hearted, and not necessarily never "screwed up" so to speak, but learned from their mistakes instead of repeating them over and over, if we could ever become this "pure". in all obviousness this would go against most ancient religions, a prime example being christianity, that we are human, we make mistakes, and we always will. that we would always tell lies and never be perfect. and i dont think that we ever would be what most deem "perfect", but not telling lies isnt being perfect. what i have gathered from christian beliefs, jesus was the only person who never told a lie, never had evil thoughts, and was never greedy, jealous, scornful, lustful...ect. honestly i dont believe in a world like today that we could ever not have one of those thoughts, or commit devious acts of jealously, hate, spite, whatever. i keep thinking about a quote in the book a character named Sewing Master makes. she says, "It seems business has become a hazard to Mutants. Your businesses were started so people could get better items collectively than they could get for themselves and as a method to express individual talent, and become part of your money system. But now the goal of business is to stay in business. It seems so strange to us because we see the product as a real thing, and people as real things, but business ins't real. A business is only an idea, only an agreement, yet the goal of business is to stay in business regardless." if you just think about that for a minute, every bit of that statement is true. if you recall past history lessons of our past, we started out trading, bartering, ...ect. for things we needed, and used our individual talents to attain our material things of value. but now, most big business is about greed, and gaining more and more money. it doesnt make you a happier person one way or the other. you just continue to grow a stronger attachment to the material things life has to offer, and instead, you are forgetting the emotional and mental things that will forever be intact. we can lose anything material quickly, a fire, repossession, what have you, but will you ever forget how someone helped you out when no one else would? or how a friend stayed with you during a hard time in your life? material things can be lost forever, but memories, no one can steal or demolish those. those are yours to keep forever. so many times everyone is worried about whats to gain for them out of every experience they are encountered. im challenging myself to forget about what i might gain as opposed to what others might gain for me having doing what i did for them. not in a selfish sort of way. although i have a feeling when you think this way, it will be ultimately rewarding.
constantly though out the book they use herbal remedies instead of taking medicine to heal things. i wonder if we could ever go back to such things after having such an advanced world surrounding technology. relying on your senses of taste, touch, smell, sight, and sound to guide you instead of a constant left brain way of thinking. using logic and reasoning for everything that happens to you throughout your life. i dont know if that would even be possible, but it would be amazing to find out.
it also talked about emotional programming. i believe emotionally programming has a lot to do with things. the example that kept coming to my mind was the "placebo effect". giving a sugar pill to someone who expected and thought it to be something completely different. whatever that may be. but they believed that it was something, and when they thought it was something that would cure them or help them it did. i seriously wonder if emotional programming has anything to do with all these sprung up diseases and "incurable illnesses" today. if a doctor walks up to a terminally ill cancer patient and tells them, "Sorry, there's nothing else we can do for you." wouldnt you not physically, but also mentally believe that there was nothing left for you to do but wait to die. yes you would. it talked about how you believed how you felt emotionally about something is what registers. i believe that. if someone says something that hurts your feelings, its not what that say that makes you upset, its how what they say effects you emotionally. you dont get upset over what they say, you get upset because of how it makes you feel. right? i think so. it also brings up another good point about healing. it isnt doctors or specialists who heal you, its your body that heals you. if you break a bone, you might have someone who sets the bone back in place for you, but your body is who does the healing. not anything else.
i could write so much more but i need to go to bed. geesh. who thinks about this stuff at 6:15 in the morning? i have to get up in 45 minutes.
anyway, i recommend this book. its extremely thought provoking.