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Summary: Amazing perspectives to life!
Review: Illusions is without a doubt one of the best books I've ever read. The unexpected concepts portrayed from the opening cover to the last page are captivating. Once I began, I could not put it down until I finished. Every once in awhile it's great to read or view some kind of media that offers to give one a new perspective to life, and Illusions certainly does that. This book is just brimming with incredible (and quotable) phrases and thoughts. I am even planning to use something from it for my senior quote in high school! I highly recommend it to anyone interested in exploring different ideas about life and existance.
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Summary: An out of the ordinary book filled with precepts on life
Review: I enjoyed reading this book, even though it contradicts what we believe in. I know our beliefs vary, but the book contains of quotes from a Messiah's handbook that opposes the way life functions. A Messiah, named Donald Shimoda, wants to quit his job because he is not happy with it. No one is willing to listen to what he's trying to preach on life. Therefore he wants to teach another man, Richard, the principles of becoming a Messiah. This book will make you think about life- maybe even change your whole point of view. If you want to read something quite different, pick up this book.
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Summary: A story of the imagination and life's infinite possibilities
Review: Who would have thought that so much truth, wisdom, and spiritual enlightenment could be contained within this slim story. In Richard Bach's handbook for the advanced soul, we are reminded that we are always free to do whatever we please-to pursue a certain course of action or to choose how we want to feel. We decide whatever we want to experience joy, indignation, frustration, sadness, etc. It is the power of the mind, the imagination, and the heart that will bring us into the dimensions of happiness. This concept is demonstrated in the experiences of Richard, a barnstormer whose encounter with a messiah forces him to reject his conception of the nature of reality from one that is concrete to one that is without limitation. A wall no longer becomes a barrier; it is an opportunity to exercise one's imagination. The value of this story is immense; it will truly renew your spiritual sight and provide you with direction. This text contains universal truths. What is so unique about it is that it appeals to just about all religious and non-religious persuasions, and because it is written to be understood, the message is clear and utterly beautiful.
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Summary: Thought-provoking and uplifting
Review: Illusions is inspirational as well as thought-provoking, for Richard Bach has presented messages which illuminate aspects of our lives. Scattered throughout the story of the Messiah and his student are humor, sadness, complexity, and simplicity, all combined to create a book that will lead you to question your limits in life. The quotes in the book are numerous and applicable; I found "There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts" to be very insightful for me, for it presents advice that I can apply to my every-day life. Some of the lessons are controversial and some are frustrating, but this nature of the book creates an opportunity for debate and creative thinking. In this way Bach has let us, as readers, become our own teachers as we discover things about ourselves and the world in which we live.
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Summary: Illusions touches the heart of the reader
Review: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah By: Richard Bach Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah starts off with a man, named Richard, who is flying to make money. While flying on day he goes over a field and sees a plane, so he decides to go talk to the pilot of the plane because flying is a lonely way to live. What Richard does not know at that time is that meeting this man is going to change his whole life, by the way he will see things and how he will realize that everything he sees may not be always what they appear to be. In Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, Richard as well as the reader, is taken on a life learned lesson that will help them, if they chose to use what they have learned, in making their lives more complete. In Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, there are many quotes that will touch the heart of the reader. One quote that I really liked was, "Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintance will know you in a thousand years." This quote is so real and true in everyway. I hope that everyone will sometime in his or her life is able to read Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, because it is such a good book and sends out a good message to the reader.
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Summary: Trueth has never been speaking as clearly as this bood did
Review: I've passed this bood to as many friends as I have
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Summary: One of my favorite all-time
Review: This book is filled with insights, scattered through the pages and ripe for picking during the second and third and fourth reading.....Easily Richard's finest work, and while more down to earth (?) than Seagull, it challenges the way we look at our selves and our lives even more directly.
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Summary: This story will change you!
Review: I first read this bok when it first appeared in 1977. I thought it was an interestingand enjoyable story, put it away, and promptly forgot about it. Then, several years later, some shattering events occured in my life that made me seriously consider whetherlife was even worth living. I rediscovered ILLUSIONS in my closet and re-read it, and it, along with the Jane Roberts books I discovered about the same time, totally changed the way I view my life, and the "nature of reality". (Incidentally, Jane Roberts and Richard Bach were friends!). I still can't believe that I missed the point of this story when I first read it-I guess, I just wasn't ready for the message-until I REALLY needed to hear it.
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Summary: Wonderful writer.
Review: For all of you out there who believe that this is New Age crap, that's your opinion. But the fact that Richard Bach is a great writer and he phrases everything just so that you understand it, is not something you can deny. First of all, this is not New Age. It's nothing so unreal or unusual, it's just that you high-speak only-terribly-complicated book readers don't like the fact that he doesn't use sentences in which there is double or triple meaning. That's fine. But I still think that this is great. Just great.
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Summary: Mystical and Magical
Review: Richard Bach as author and as the featured character brings the reader into the story as though they were right there. The phylosophy and thought provoking concepts of this book will stay with you long after having read the book. Richard Bach has in this one book revealed a level of consciousness that everyone should strive for. Illusions - as well as the other books by this author are books that you will give as gifts and insist that your friends read them. There is a mystical and magical power within the pages of this book.
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