Ordinarily it is elders who are cautious and the youngsters who are keen to fly. Donald initially captures Richard's attention when a grandfather and granddaughter pair arrive at the makeshift airstrip. Both are in the business of providing short rides-for a few dollars each-in vintage biplanes to passengers from farmers' fields they find during their travels. He meets Richard, a fellow barnstorming pilot. What if a Siddhartha came to our time, with power over the illusions of the world because he knew the reality behind them? And what if I could meet him in person, if he was flying a biplane, for instance, and landed in the same meadow with me?'ĭonald William Shimoda is a messiah who quits his job after deciding that people value the showbiz-like performance of miracles and want to be entertained by those miracles more than to understand the message behind them. 'What if somebody came along who could teach me how my world works and how to control it?. The two main characters enter into a teacher-student relationship that explains the concept that the world that we inhabit is illusory, as well as the underlying reality behind it: Illusions revolves around two barnstorming pilots who meet in a field in the Midwestern United States. Illusions was the author's follow-up to 1970's Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

First published in 1977, the story questions the reader's view of reality, proposing that what we call reality is merely an illusion we create for learning and enjoyment. Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah is a novel by writer and pilot Richard Bach. Print ( Paperback) & AudioBook ( Cassette)

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