In a four month Walk-About in the Australian Outback with a special group of Aborigines, Marlo Morgan learned many things:

Marlo Morgan had been a seeker of knowledge in the alternative healing arts for many years. Holding doctorates in both biochemistry and Chiropractic medicine, she traveled to West Germany to study bioenergetic medicine and the energy system underlying acupuncture. Then she was off to Russia where she became certified in Kirlian Photography Analysis.

With a thriving practice in Kansas City, Marlo Morgan was shocked to find herself, at the age of fifty, suddenly closing her doors, giving away all her possessions, and flying to Australia on a new adventure. She had been asked to participate in a revolutionary concept of treating patients — one in which all aspects of alternative healing would be utilized and incorporated with conventional medicine. Specialists in acupuncture, homeopathy, bioenergetics, sound and color therapy, nutrition, herbs, etc., would work side by side with specialists in conventional medicine to effect "wellness" in a patient.

Marlo soon found herself immersed in a project to help the young Aborigines she saw staggering around the streets sniffing gas to get high. She helped finance and manage a window screen business that was very successful and kept many of the youngsters off the street. Therefore, she was not surprised when she received a telephone call telling her that an Aboriginal tribe on the other side of the continent was requesting that she join them in a special ceremony for her.

Marlo assumed they had heard of her philanthropic work and were going to honor her with a luncheon and a plaque she could put on the wall. She especially hoped she could sample some Aboriginal casseroles.

At noon on the appointed day, dressed in a new suit and matching shoes, she met her guide who arrived at the hotel in an open-air jeep and, instead of taking her to a luncheon, drove silently into the Australian desert. Marlo's new clothes soon became wilted and stained with perspiration as temperatures rose well over 100 degrees. Four grueling hours later, they pulled up to a corrugated tin shack in a cloud of dust. Marlo was beginning to get the picture that this was not going to be the usual award banquet.

Her guide then told her to remove all her clothing and handed her a dirty white rag that she was to wear in a cleansing ceremony before being allowed to enter the shack where sixty-two Aborigines awaited her. After complying with his instructions, Marlo was stunned to see all her clothes, shoes, jewelry, camera — everything she owned — thrown into a giant bonfire. Silently she wondered how she could retain any dignity once she returned to her hotel lobby dressed only in a rag.

After being admitted inside the shack, she went through several more ritualistic tests and was finally told that she had passed and was to be honored by joining her hosts on a four month WalkAbout across Australia, a country as large as the United States.

Protesting that this simply was not a convenient time and that she had other commitments, she stood and watched the tribe disappearing into the desert. Realizing she had no food or water and no way to return to the hotel, Marlo, barefoot and almost naked, was forced to reluctantly follow her hosts.

At the end of the first day, her feet were bloody stumps from walking over thorn infested brush. She could actually hear her feet sizzling in the hot desert sand. One of the Aborigine women took Marlo's aching feet into her lap, wrapped them in special leaves and oils, and sang the pain away.

Thus began Marlo's education in the ways of the Australian tribe whose name, when translated into English, means First, Original, Unchanged, or Real. They are believed to be the only Aboriginal tribe still living the same way as their ancestors of 50,000 years ago. This gentle tribe of Real People, who — in their 50,000 years of existence — have never endangered any species of animal, never destroyed a forest, never polluted a pool of water, never contaminated the air, never killed another human being, nor built a permanent structure upon the land, have decided to leave the planet and have no more children. They are aware of global warming and that as temperatures in the desert reach 135 degrees, water will disappear as well as snakes and other creatures that are a food source.

Not wanting to leave without someone knowing why, without someone from outside their world experiencing their way of life, the Real People chose Dr. Marlo Morgan to deliver their message to the Mutants:

"We Pray the Mutant World Will Hear Our Message and Accept Our Messenger."

Don't miss this exciting opportunity to hear Dr. Marlo Morgan's adventures with the Aborigines of Australia and their special message to humanity.