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| Original Title: | Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah |
| ISBN: | 0099427869 (ISBN13: 9780099427865) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Illusions #1 |
| Literary Awards: | National Book Award Finalist for Religion/Inspiration (Paperback) (1980) |
Richard Bach
Paperback | Pages: 144 pages Rating: 4.15 | 54997 Users | 2209 Reviews
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| Title | : | Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (Illusions #1) |
| Author | : | Richard Bach |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 144 pages |
| Published | : | March 12th 2001 by Arrow Books Ltd (first published 1977) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Philosophy. Spirituality. Fantasy. Classics |
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In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane. For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and sparks firing in the cylinders...until he meets Donald Shimoda — former mechanic and self-described messiah who can make wrenches fly and Richard's imagination soar.... In Illusions, Richard Bach takes to the air to discover the ageless truths that give our souls wings: that people don't need airplanes to soar...that even the darkest clouds have meaning once we lift ourselves above them... and that messiahs can be found in the unlikeliest places — like hay fields, one-traffic-light midwestern towns, and most of all, deep within ourselves.Rating Epithetical Books Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (Illusions #1)
Ratings: 4.15 From 54997 Users | 2209 ReviewsComment On Epithetical Books Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (Illusions #1)
I LOVED this book!! I read it over and over and have given copies to several people.The book starts off with a "handwritten" and smudged story, written like books in the Bible, by a auto mechanic who discovered the Divine in himself and was followed by throngs of people,who called him a messiah, until he had to disappear.Then the "real" book begins: A young man flys around the country in his airplane, supporting himself by selling flights in his plane. One fateful day, he meets a strangeI loved this story. I love taking responsibility for my own life and outcome. I love doing what I want to do, and leaving others free to do what they want. I loved the analogy about all the creatures clinging to the sticks and rocks in the river, but one was tired of clinging and let go to follow the path the river led it down. I loved the point that freedom is watching "your own films" not someone else's films, and the introspection that resulted when I pondered the films I actually like and
Once again a wonderful yet short tale, enjoyed this even more than Livingston Seagull. It's like reading a condensed philosophy, with key points cleverly highlighted using the 'Messiah handbook'. Bach is as ever insightful, shall definitely revisit this after some time has passed."What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls a butterfly."
My favorite part of this book is the mini-story-within-a-story about the village of little critters clinging to the rocks and reeds on the river bottom. It pretty much sums up the singular spiritual wisdom i keep going back to... stop clinging, let go of the securities and comforts and knowns, be prepared to be dashed about painfully on the rocks. This is how to set the soul free. Such simple instructions, so easily implemented, yet so difficult to remember as i attach to mundane narratives and
I believe this book moved me more than any other before or since. Not because the writing was so great but the thoughts contained in it were so close to what I was feeling as a 19 year old away from home and on my own for the first time. I still believe the ideas contained here are timeless and profound. The fact that the author kind of went a bit off the deep end does not bother me (although it did for a while!)I remember that some factions of the Christian right were outraged that the book
fuck a bunch of this.
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