A few year later he penned a testimonial for American author Marlo Morgan's best-selling New Age fantasy, Mutant Message Down Under . Tens of thousands of Americans seeking spiritual wisdom believed Morgan's fictional account of her travels through Australia with the Real People, an Aboriginal tribe who supposedly lived in harmony with nature and themselves, and who communicated with each other by telepathy. And in a funny kind of way, he was right. Morgan's make-believe ennobled Aborigines, rather than denigrated them. Burnum Burnum would probably have told the unhappy Aborigines of Marree to lighten up.
Aboriginal cultures change.
With a little bit of Aboriginal blarney, they could easily incorporate Marree Man into their sacred lore. Rather than stopping people from driving to the site or planes from flying over it, as the Dieri Mitha Council is demanding, Marree Man could become a significant cultural site for all Australians. Tell the world that it had been made thousands of years ago, but kept invisible until recently, when tribal elders decided to materialise it so as to promote reconciliation. Or that the elders, using their ancient supernatural powers, had taken telepathic control of earthmoving equipment in order to create a symbol of all the people, black and white, who had loved this great country of ours, and whose spirits had returned to the land. Americans would lap it up.