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Summary: Wow!
Review: What a great book! This inspirational journey forever altered my outlook on life & continues to empower me today. Read this one with your heart....
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Summary: The ball is now in my court!
Review: There's a book club in Portland OR which seems to be led by the only survivor of Jonestown or The Branch Davidians. Talk about mind control! Illusions is written by a pilot - so it exemplifies its lessons in a story about pilots. The lesson I got from it is that I am responsible for my life. Do I cause my own cancer? I don't know, actually. Maybe at some level that I'm not in touch with, I do. But I do believe after reading Illusions that, as Abraham Lincoln said, "A man can be as happy as he makes up his mind to be." This book tells me in simple terms that people, places & things don't make me happy. I can be filthy rich living in a tropical paradise & still choose to be miserable. The key is knowing who "makes" me that way. And I found that key, here.
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Summary: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Review: Well written and motivating. If life is whatever we imagine to be, then the sky is the limit!Other recommended reading: Time To Heal by Linda Pynaker, another novel that encourages you to live the life you want to live!
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Summary: LET GO OF HESITATION AND SEE FOR YOURSELF
Review: If you are considering this book - let me save you time by saying - BUY IT. It's a VERY quick read, you will be done within 1 to 2 days, andwill find that you will not be able to put it down or carry it with you until you are finished. You'll then feel the need to share it with anyone who you know is capable of being open-mided towards spiritual teaching. I found that through narrative, Bach was able to open my world to the ancient teachings, and this book has provided THE inspiration, foundation, and motivation for all of my further study. Although I've read it several times a long time ago, I find myself still at times reaching for it, opening any page, and finding what surprise words of wisdom Illusions has to offer. I and all others who have read it feel very strongly about the value of this book, but find out for yourself, let go of hesitation, and embark on a very spiritually fullfilling read. =)
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Summary: Hands Down The Best Book I Have Ever Read
Review: I used to carry this book with me everywhere I went. It's been with me to Mexico, Belize, Cuba, even Canada! I would lend it to peoplle who hadnt read it, and sing its praises to anyone that would listen. The only problem is, once lent out, there is never a guarantee of its return. But back to the review. As i stated in the title, this is the best book i have ever read. It all makes sense, in a different sort of way. By no means am I suggesting that one should adhere to it as one would a holy book such as the Quran or Bible, but it is a book by which one could live ones life, of understood properly. It was so refreshing to find someone who had managed to put down in words many of the philosophies and ideas i had been toying with in my own mind, and to expand on them and continue them. Sorry to get to into it. Its a dope book. Pick it up.
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Summary: Ageless truths
Review: Ageless truths make the soul fly free with knowledge and wisdom. Enlightenment is exhiliarating and spritually fulfilling.
Arlene Millman
author of BOOMERANG - A MIRACLE TRILOGY
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Summary: A great little fable for the student of life
Review: This is a great little American Zen fable. If you are familiar with various mystic traditions, if you call yourself a "seeker," or a "student of life," if you've already read "Jonathan Livingston Seagull," "The Bridge Across Forever" and "One" you'll enjoy this as more of the same. It has been my little handbook for thinking beyond the practical, scientific, logical, and observable. I enjoy it immensely and reread it every so many years.
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Summary: Half-Decent Fluff
Review: This book has a decent premise behind it: a man who is a messiah but doesn't like some of the requirements of the job(mostly the whole being crucified part). So when crowds start forming he flies away in his biplane and moves on to the next town. The good premise eventually becomes a book of maxims on life. While I generally think of this kind of pop-psychology and as just being fluff, Bach elevates it so being entertaining with engaging characters and interesting ideas. The messiah part is clearly influenced by Doestevsky's writings on reluctant and unneeded messiahs, but is otherwise a wholly original idea.
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Summary: Jesus!
Review: This short book changed the way I look at life in a wierd way. An interesting idea. The story isn't memorable but the ideas behind the stroy and even the wierd things that are said make it a very good book to read. It often made me stop and think, read over things twice to understand, which is a good thing by the way.
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Summary: Jumpstart your perspective.
Review: Sub-titled The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, the book is written as if it were autobiographical. The protagonist, Richard, is a former writer who hates writing, and so he now makes his living flying around the Midwest in an old biplane, giving 10-minute rides from farmers' fields for $... each. It's a lonely, but satisfying life ... and then Donald Shimoda, a former mechanic and retired messiah, comes into his life. Donald also makes his living as a flier, and the two men fly together for a while. Along the way, Donald imparts wisdom to Richard as a messiah-in-training. The idea is that everyone can be enlightened and, thereby, can define one's world accordingly. It's a difficult concept to comprehend, much less put into practice, so Richard relies on The Messiah's Handbook: Reminders for the Advanced Soul, a gift from Donald, to help him along the way. The book is magical: open it to any page and find a pithy maxim which will, in some way, shed light on your day. Those maxims are scattered throughout the book and, collected together, could probably fill one of those teeny giftshop inspirational books. But they're much less meaningful out of context; within the framework of Richard's story, they're rife with meaning. The easy companionship of the two pilots is a comfortable setting in which Bach sets his sometimes uncomfortable ideas. But it's impossible to read Illusions without getting a touch of inspiration, a new sense of purpose for improving one's own life, or at least one's attitude.
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