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Book Review of 'Illusions' by Richard Bach
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From: Don
Posted: Friday, June 30, 2005
Subject: RE: Richard Bach
Look too close and you'll miss it. If you are looking at this now, you're forgetting the quintessential message. Life is and is not. Everything flows. No beginning or ending there. Human perceptions, limited. Lose yourself in order to find yourself. Sound familiar? Sure it does. Tears and smiles, thoughts and actions. Magic does exist, great power, if you choose to see it and bring it forth. RICHARD : The answer you have sought for so long......( but maybe another question ? ) Yep. I hold the feather. D.
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From: JJR
Posted: Sunday, October 02, 2005
Subject: RE: Richard Bach
>>Look too close and you'll miss it.<<
True. But first I must diligently look here and there for it until I know it is not here or there. And you cannot tell me it is not here or there, I must know this for myself. Give me some more time to look here and there. The futility will dawn on me eventually.
>>If you are looking at this now, you're forgetting the quintessential message.<<
Hey Don, got some advice for you brother: DON'T PREACH! It's my blog and I'll read the thing (including reader comments) when I damn well please regardless of whether a poster thinks it's good or bad for spiritual advancement.
>>Life is and is not.<<
"Life is and is not": said another way, life is an illusion (we perceive it but what we perceive does not exist). I believe that was the whole point of Richard Bach's book, Illusions.
>>Everything flows. No beginning or ending there.<<
Buhhdism ... but did Jesus say something similar? Check out this quote from The Gospel According to Thomas, Logion 18: "The disciples said to Jesus, 'Tell us how our end will come to pass.' Jesus said, 'Then have you laid bare the beginning, so that you are seeking the end? For the end will be where the beginning is. Blessed is the person who stands at rest in the beginning. And that person will be acquainted with the end and will not taste death.'"
If the beginning and end are one in the same, then our existence is a closed continuous loop with no beginning nor end. Background information on the Gospel According to Thomas.
>>Lose yourself in order to find yourself. Sound familiar?<<
Yes. But knowing how to lose the current perception of yourself (in order to gain knowledge of your true self) is the hard part. I'm working on it.
>>RICHARD : The answer you have sought for so long......( but maybe another question ? ) Yep. I hold the feather. D.<<
The answer comes in knowing the question. Possess knowledge of the question and it answers itself ... eventually.
>>Magic does exist, great power, if you choose to see it and bring it forth.<<
One man's magic is another man's carnival trick. Only from darkness does one perceive the existence of magic. I hear you but the above formulation of what I read to be the point (which might not be the intended point at all) does not work for me. Let's try it another way: "Great power resides in each of us and we need only awaken to its presence to bring it forth. Those with no concept of the source of this power perceive it as magic."
>>I hold the feather.<<
Good for you Don. If that be Maat's feather possessed by successfully passing judgment before Osiris in The Great Hall of Truth (leading to admittance into the underworld), then I say to you Booya!!! Not much into symbols myself but to each his own. Symbols are probably an acquired taste like burnt pan bread with grass seasoning.
[Note: The above comment from "Don" came in somewhat anonymously (which is cool by me) with no email address or city, state of residence. Was it from Richard Bach in the guise of Donald Shimoda? Highly doubt it. Probably a fellow walker on his or her path in life as we all are. The comment was likely intended as a general statement to all reading this blog but, for the hell of it, I decided to respond as if it were a personal message directed to me. The occasional tone of annoyance in my reply was meant, on my part, as all in good fun. Don, thanks for the post. I enjoyed formulating a response.]
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From: Joie, Florida
Posted: Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Subject: RE: Richard Bach
I am so pleased to enter a discussion list as I have read and re-read Richard Bach - grew up near his barnstorming Galesburg, and could only wish I'd connected with that experience......yet know at the time, I was not ready. And when I was, his books were/are there for me.
Love "There Is No Such Place as Far Away" - it speaks to me often.
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From: JJR
Posted: Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Subject: RE: Richard Bach
Thanks for the comment Joie. I have not read "There Is No Such Place as Far Away". Based upon the comments of readers at Amazon.com on this book, it has touched many.
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From: Satanitza
Posted: Friday, March 23, 2007
Subject: Richard Bach
I hate Richard Bach. I've just finish to study one of his books at school. It was called "see-gull jonathan livingstone" do u have read this one?
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From: JJR
Posted: Friday, March 23, 2007
Subject: Satanitza
Take a deep breadth Satanitza. Life is full of unpleasant experiences. If being forced to read Jonathan Livingston Seagull ranks as one of your worst experiences in life, then it ain't been all bad for you. BTW, does "Satanitza" translate to child of Satan? Just a thought. [Note: This is an admittedly poor attempt at comedy on my part.]
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From: Doug
Posted: Thursday, May 3, 2007
Subject: Bach
This book touched me deeply when I first read it many moons ago, but even then I knew enough about the Lord to see it for what it truly was: a simple analogy on life as seen through the eyes of an atheist. What touched me was not the insight (albeit filtered through blind eyes), but some of the moments that Bach wrote about. One of them was after Donald Shimdoa died and he wrote, "One river of time stopped for me that day [he died]..." This had the same effect on me that reading Hazel's words in Watership Down did, "My heart has joined The Thousand, for my friend stopped running today."
Writing with this measure of skill is what makes works like Illusions so enjoyable. As a writer I appreciate and respect this kind of skill, which is probably why I enjoy reading God's Word so much. Now there is a book.
- From: JJR
Posted: Sunday, May 6, 2007
Subject: Bach as atheist?
"But the Kingdom is within you, and it is outside of you. When you know yourselves, then shall you be known, and you shall know that you are the sons of the living Father. But if ye do not know yourselves, then you are in poverty, and you are poverty." Gospel of Thomas, Logion 3. Illusions probably ranks as the most probingly introspective book I've ever run across. If one believes God resides within each of us and this is where one connects with the power of God, then the search within is one intimately bound with the divine and not a journey undertaken by an atheist. But everybody's entitled to their opinion.
- From: jesibel
Posted: Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Subject: Richard Bach
I wanted to say I really enjoyed reading all the comments. Thank you.
- From: Caladan
State: Somerset UK
Posted: Friday, March 6, 2009
Subject: Richard Bach
Are you still live or is anything I want to say just fading into the ether?
- From: JJR
State: Mo (USA)
Posted: Friday, March 6, 2009
Subject: Richard Bach
Comment away Caladan, someone is out there.
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