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Summary: Inane crap
Review: Jesus is a buddhist. Yawn. I suppose this was revolutionary in the seventies but it is just a silly "mind expanding" tome today. An airplane mechanic runs around giving gems of wisdom such as virtue is imagination, and gets stoned for it. Very easy read and if you are ten it is a good religious book, but it's about as deep as the Celestine Prophecy.
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Summary: perfect!!!
Review: there's just no describing what this book will do for you.. those who have read it know what i'm talking about..
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Summary: La vida es sueño
Review: Al terminar de leer "Ilusiones" resurguieron mis dudas existenciales. Es muy comun el pensar la vida como un sueño. A lo largo de los años hemos visto como diversos autores consideraban a la vida llena de sueños adentro de un sueño aun mucho mayor. Los sueños son los culpables de poder mantenernos con VIDA en este sueño mayor. Sin ellos no vivimos.¡Sinceramente creo que vivimos constantemente soñando! Despiertos...Dormidos... En ningún momento dejamos de soñar con lo amado. deseado, odiado y despreciado. Nuestra vida es un nido ocupados de estos sueños que se reproducen de igual manera en que se desvanecen... Nunca sabremos cual es la realidad...¿Cuando es realmente el momento en que vivimos? El momento en que limitamos nuetros sentimientos, y los dejamos morir adentro nuestro; o el momento en que soñamos y permitimos explorar nuestros miedos y hacer las cosas que ocurran como realamente sentimos María Luz Orlando Brennan
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Summary: A book everyone NEEDs at some point in their life
Review: When the girl of your dreams is lost and gone forever, when your lifes work lies in pieces at your feet, this is the book to reach for. Don't wait for the film - it can't be made. Almost more inspirational than Neil Armstrong's walk on the moon.
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Summary: Just get it!
Review: Often - great books will have a few detractors that never seem to "get it." I was pleased when I glanced at the reviews on Amazon - a unanimous 5 stars from 70 reviewers. That pretty much sums up the response people have to Illusions - *everyone* loves it for one reason or another. I first read this 20 years ago - and haven't found a book to displace it yet. You will love it as well - just get it.
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Summary: A good companion...
Review: I have read almost all of his book and Illusions is the one that touched me most. I love his books because I am fascinated with flying also. No, I don't mean flying airplanes but "flying" as in being free and headed towards the great horizons. Illusions was my companion when I undertook a great journey in my life. I moved from my home to this new strange world called America. Whenever I was homesick, whenever I felt down, Richard Bach and his words carried me through. I just love the book. Changed my view of life and helped me reconstruct my dreams to fit the here and now. 'Nough said. It's great to know A LOT of people think and feel the way I do about this book.
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Summary: If there's one book you read in your entire life, this is it
Review: This is the best book i've ever read. it was inspiring. donald shimoda is a messiah for all to learn from. this book has changed my life. i own 3 copies of it. i carry one with me where ever i go. i bought all my closest friends copies of this book. i only paid about 5 dollars for those copies, but if they'd have been $500 i would still have bought every copy. it's worth your money. if you buy it and don't like it, i'll buy your copy from you. how's that sound?
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Summary: An absolute must-read!
Review: It's been over 10 years since I read this book, but like other life-altering events, it is never forgotten. I often wonder how much better the world would be if people actually lived their lives the way Mr. Bach suggests. I am a recovering Catholic, and have absolutely no use for any of the world's current organized religions and all their attendant hypocrisies, but if I were to start my own religion, this would be my bible. The coolest thing is that you can open the book up to any random page and find a quote that is perfectly applicable to your current life situation. It's like a "magic 8 ball" that really works!
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Summary: "Illusions" is anything but...
Review: I was introduced to Illusions by a man who kept dropping the Messiah's Handbook phrases at group discussions we both attended. I knew what my spiritual beliefs were and when I finally bought the book I saw them in print! At the time I really needed the allegory of the creatures in the river clinging to the rocks and twigs. That was me to a 'tee.' Trying to re-claim a failed marriage and continue a lifestyle that had not served me for 20 years but which I seemed unable to break away from. The toughest question in the book, and one I'm still working on is, "What would you do if God commanded you to be happy?" That puts all the responsibility on me! I want it to be "their" fault when things go wrong and Illusions takes that completely away from me. It also seems perfectly possible to me, whenever I'm reading the book, that we can walk on water and swim in dirt if we choose. Walking through walls? A piece of cake! If I could just hold the fe! eling or belief that infuses me at the moment I'm reading the words, I know it's all within my purview. I gave away so many soft-cover versions that I finally bought the hard cover. Richard & Leslie were autographing "One" at Southcenter Mall in Renton, WA and I got my copy of Illusions signed at the same time. It ranks up there with the Serenity Prayer my daughter cross-stiched for me as one of my most treasured possessions. There are folks out there who just never quite "get it." With just a little, "what if?" in YOUR heart this book really can change your life. It did mine!
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Summary: THE ART OF ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS.....
Review: That's what a teacher is right, somebody who knows how to ask the right questions?... I think Richard Bach is the epitomy of the word "teacher." Like nearly all the reviews mine now stands scattered with, I agree in the words of my co-reviewers, Richard Bach is amazing and, having read all his novels, Illusions marks a point in spiritual literature where the reader has no choice but to realize that Richard Bach and Donald Shimoda are in fact talking to HIM. I have purchased this book 9 times, twice for myself and the remaining seven times for friends.
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