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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)

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (Illusions #1) Paperback | Pages: 144 pages

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Title	:	Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (Illusions #1)
Author	:	Richard Bach
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special 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.

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Wow, this book... *sigh* When I FINALLY got around to reading this little beat up paperweight, I was sick, in bed, with nothing else to do. I could have just as easily been asleep and equally productive. It was such a disappointment, because not only was it practically free, one of my best friends had good things to say about it. This book was like the dictionary of fortune cookie-isms. The general message seemed to be "Whatever you think, that is what is, also, the opposite of that is as well."

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."

It's a wonderful short tale which has so much philosophy. I can also call it a "life changing book" but this latter depends on the way you'll perceive its messages..

This is a wonderful book! I have read it several times and with each reading I discovered a little part of myself, and remembered those times of miracles I had forgotten.

"Here is a test to find whether your mission to Earth is finished; If your alive it isn't." Why write of the book when it could be more fun to explain the reactions of several other people who have read this one. Before I say anything else I feel it needs a health warning. The symptoms that I have witnessed as people read this book include, delusional psychosis, fantasising in public, maniac attempts at cloud bursting and one very very bruised nose. (A result of a grown man trying to swim in the

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

While I was still in high school, Mother recommended Jonathan Livingston Seagull. I could see why she would like it. Years later, a friend recommended his subsequent book, Illusions. It was more of the same, but at least these were human beings. Like its Messiah Handbook, one may get a lot out of it if one approaches it the right way--sort of like the I Ching.