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Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

by Richard Bach

A barnstorming encounter with belief and reality

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A barnstorming encounter with belief and reality

Set among the fields and small towns of the American Midwest, the novel brings together itinerant pilot Richard Bach and Donald Shimoda, a former mechanic who calls himself a messiah. Their meeting opens onto questions about miracles, belief, and how people understand reality. The flying setting gives those spiritual questions a concrete frame: faith is linked to engines, weather, and the choice to rise above a familiar view. The book’s premise also turns inward, presenting the search for wisdom as something that may lead beyond extraordinary figures and toward the self.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers interested in fiction with mystical and spiritual questions.
  • For readers drawn to aviation settings and barnstorming pilots.
  • For readers exploring themes of belief, miracles, and personal perspective.

Themes

Belief and realityMiraclesSpiritual self-discoveryAviation and flight

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Book overview

In the unforgettable sequel to the bestselling Jonathan Livingston Seagull, two barn-storming vagabonds meet in the fields of Midwest America and embark on an entertaining and sometimes startling mystical adventure that presents a new perspective on reality, miracles, and the way many of us could live--if we're up for the challenge.

In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane. For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and sparks firing in the cylinders . . . until he meets Donald Shimoda--former mechanic and self-described messiah who can make wrenches fly and Richard's imagination soar. . . .

In Illusions, Richard Bach takes to the air to discover the ageless truths that give our souls wings: that people don't need airplanes to soar . . . that even the darkest clouds have meaning once we lift ourselves above them . . . 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.
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