If you remember – the book starts with blotched-looking lined pages – a facsimile of a notebook – and handwriting, telling a fable about a Master who comes to “the holy land of Indiana”. Here’s the start of the second chapter of the book. The ending of this book is, perhaps, predictable – but I remember it packing a huge punch when I was a kid. They also experiment with things like walking thru walls, walking on water, moving clouds, etc. He begins to “train” Richard … first of all, by giving him a ratty little book called “The Messiah’s Handbook”. He is referred to as “The Reluctant Messiah”. How is that possible? But as Richard and Donald keep hanging out – it becomes apparent that this Shimoda is quite an extraordinary individual.
Shimoda has a mystery about him … his plane is spotless, first of all. And one day he meets a fellow barnstormer – whose name is Donald Shimoda. He sleeps in his bedroll beneath his wing, he lands in isolated fields and takes people up for rides. Illusions tells the tale of a man named Richard who is a barnstormer in the midwest. (Bach, when he got divorced from Leslie and caused a shitstorm among his most loyal fans, said that one of his major mistakes was NOT adding the words “Everything in this book might be wrong” at the end of Bridge Across Forever. Also: the fact that the book ends with the words “Everything in this book might be wrong” is very enlightened. There are still snippets from “The Messiah’s Handbook” that I reference in my mind, from time to time – some great stuff there. I was in high school – I think I was a junior. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah – by Richard Bach. until he meets Donald Shimoda - former mechanic and self-described messiah who can make wrenches fly and Richard's imagination soar. For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and sparks firing in the cylinders. 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. that even the darkest clouds have meaning once we lift ourselves above them. In Illusions, the unforgettable follow-up to his phenomenal New York Times bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach takes to the air to discover the ageless truths that give our souls wings- that people don't need airplanes to soar.
In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane.
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