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Summary: Enlightening
Review: This was my second favorite book of all time...It makes you wonder about what your true self is like and how you can reach it. The relationship between Richard and Don Shimoda showed the difference between who we are and who we really can be if we just take the time to look and follow up on what we find within. If you enjoyed "Johnathan Livingston Seagull" this is the book for you.
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Summary: It IS My All-Time Favorite Book
Review: and it has been my favorite book since I read it as a kid in the early 1980s. I'm now a kid in 2003 and I am still buying copies of it to give to anyone who's interested. Says Bach, "Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't."
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Summary: Film Version?
Review: I first read Illusions in 1980 and have wondered ever since why this has not been made into a film. It has tremendous potential. A cross between The Great Waldo Pepper and Inherit the Wind.
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Summary: One of the few books you will cherish forever
Review: I read this book for the first time several years ago. Remembering how I loved it so, I picked up a copy for myself. I read it and enjoyed the whole experience all over again. Then I passed it off to my dying uncle, encouraged him to read it... I don't know if he got a chance to do so before he passed away, but I wrote a note in the cover when I gave it to him to "read it and pass it along to another person who needs it". Now I need to find another copy. This book is something that everyone should have in their library, and a few extras to pass around to those in need.
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Summary: There was a Master come unto the earth...
Review: Richard Bach wrote in the introduction to Illusions The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah "... what if somebody came along who was really good at this... What if I could meet a Siddhartha or a Jesus came into our time... And what if I could meet him in person, if he were flying a biplane and landed in the same meadow with me?"Illusions is an amazing story that explores questions like "Why am I here? What is the meaning of life? Why am I unhappy?" It provides answers to those questions in such an understandable and entertaining way that you will be unable to put the book down. As the book says at the end, "Everything in this book may be wrong." but then again, maybe it's not! I found much in the book that appealed to my sense of rightness, it may not be the one and only truth but it sure felt right to me! Buy a copy of Illusions, you won't be disappointed. Better yet, buy two and share it with your friends and family!
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Summary: A good book
Review: Anyone who reads this book with an open mind, will in all probability be left wondering.....What am I here for...and what am I doing to achieve it??? Please stay with the author through the joy ride and try applying some of his most outlandish suggestions... Believe you me...they actually work. Expect no answers, but definitely look to be full of questions at the end of this 80-100 page book. Anyone who is interested in reading a book that deals with some of the same issues read Paul Omeziri's Descent inti Illusions.
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Summary: All the catch phrases with no actual enlightenment
Review: I want to post a review contrary to every one I read here: I don't think this book is really going to help most people on their journey, one, and two, the holly rollers calling this stuff heretical is so ironic I wish I could sit down and chat with each one for an hour, just for entertainment. Here's my gripe: Yes, the world is fully an illusion. We are all One, and all of this duality is just a big fat movie to occupy each node of existence with conflict/balance issues for eternity. Great, Rich has written a Hinduism for dummies. But he dumbed it down so much as to make it seem that, hey, all you need to do is REALIZE you're staring at yourself everytime you look at a fellow creature, rock, or phenomenon, and WHA-bam, you'll be able to manipulate the whole mess like Sim City 3000. Miracles, bug-free airplanes, impossible feats of yahda, yahda, yahda. I'm not saying that's impossible--I've witnessed a miracle or two in my time; I'm saying that WE, human beings, mere mortals, though we may perform the very miracles ourselves, cannot, do not, will not, can never do so at the demand of our conflicted minds. When we do something phenomenal, like an athelete, like a musician, like a messiah, it is simply through the QUIETING of the ever-chattering voices in our heads to such a point that the devine will, the will of the universe flows through us. When we flutter like a flag in the wind, rather than the rigid pole, we execute the impossible. We move with rhythms beyond our mortal selves. And without fail, the most unrestricted of these movements never fail to be biblical in their effect on our lives and of those around us. This is my gripe with the book. It really doesn't address this issue of Self, and the chatter of our minds. In fact, I felt that it glorified, like a Hollywood movie, the X-man quality of enlightenment--just point your palm at the sky, and pow, you COMMAND a miracle! If you walk away from this book thinking, wow! enlightenment, what a thing to shoot for, I wanna be enlightened, I just have to remember: it's all just an illusion! then you're already turning away from what is ALREADY the entire power of the cosmos inside and surrounding yourself. To think of life as an illusion is to denounce just how REAL it all is as well. Sorry, ya'll, there's no 'easy out' for facing both sides of the equation in every respect. It isn't God, it isn't Illusions, and it isn't this book. If you want a very powerful yet realistically inspirational story about miracles and how they come about, try the Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, or for a philosophical breakdown that pretty much tackles every angle of human thought: try Cloud Hidden, by Alan Watts.
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Summary: What an Illusion
Review: Illusions: according to Don Shimoda, Richard's newly found friend, this is what life is all about. This is a book that not only shows a different view about life, but also offers quite interesting quotations that will make readers reflect about their actions. When reading the passages, you will see that many of them may apply to your daily life and may help you face it in a different way. This is certainly a pass it on book, and this is what I am doing right now: trying to make all of you read a book that will bring joy into you day!
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Summary: Don...
Review: Illusions was not only a bright and intelligable piece of writing but an enlightening and uplifting message of hope. The story of Richard Bach and his newly found friend, Don Shimoda will tickle your imagination and play with your mind. "The Adventures of a Reluctant Messaiah," this book is properly entitled, you will see why! The ideas that Bach's work envokes is really quite amazing, and the ending is pretty abrupt, but hopeful. Actually I cannot find a group of people to promote this book to, it's completely universal! It doesn't matter who you are, please, read this book. -Keith Larson
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Summary: One of the most touching books i have read yet
Review: the book "illusions" was a very awsome book. it moved me in directions in my life i never thought id think about. this book is one of a few books i enjoyed reading, it helped open eyes and showed me that as long as you think about a dream or a goal, u didnt quit until it is forgotten. it takes just a normal guy, who is a mechanic and shows how even mechanics can help change the world in ways they never thought they could. this book can change the lives of many. If you have the book, pass it on to a friend so that they might read it as well, so it can help spread to everyone you know, and everyone you know knows....and so on.take care and God bless.
Peace in the valley,
brad
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