Illusions - Book Review
I read “ILLUSIONS” by Richard Bach yesterday.
It talks about that in our lives everything we see is an illusion, all that happened or is happening or will happen is a myth that we create for our own selves. It is what we want it to be, happy, sad, too much work, no work, idle, meaningful, useless, whatever we think/imagine it to be, it is that. And when we can understand that we can change the events that shape up in our lives, we can walk on water, we can drown on solid land, get any thing to float and ok any one with diseases, because the world is what we think it to be. If we think the diseased to be healthy, he will become so. If we think water to be solid we will be able to walk on it and so forth. And death is just a state of transition from the current time space to the other. Magic tricks by magician is not anything else but an illusion.
Written well yes, stimulating, but not quite. Seems like a story only. It verges on the category of fiction and preaching. Had it meant to be in the fiction category it would have included more of miracles and stuff called illusions. He tries to guide in that direction, but not quite. So I didn’t get what exactly is this American author here trying to say? Is he trying to give the long seen abilities in the Asian yogis, a logic? Or is he justifying all the unexplained. In that I don’t think he succeeds. Is he trying to write just a story or is there a moral or way of life preaching in it? That he might succeed to some extent. And how is it that the American n other western skeptic audience believing it?
All in all, has moral some teachings in it, but the messiah concept for everyone or for even one-seems to me a bit too stretched.
It talks about that in our lives everything we see is an illusion, all that happened or is happening or will happen is a myth that we create for our own selves. It is what we want it to be, happy, sad, too much work, no work, idle, meaningful, useless, whatever we think/imagine it to be, it is that. And when we can understand that we can change the events that shape up in our lives, we can walk on water, we can drown on solid land, get any thing to float and ok any one with diseases, because the world is what we think it to be. If we think the diseased to be healthy, he will become so. If we think water to be solid we will be able to walk on it and so forth. And death is just a state of transition from the current time space to the other. Magic tricks by magician is not anything else but an illusion.
Written well yes, stimulating, but not quite. Seems like a story only. It verges on the category of fiction and preaching. Had it meant to be in the fiction category it would have included more of miracles and stuff called illusions. He tries to guide in that direction, but not quite. So I didn’t get what exactly is this American author here trying to say? Is he trying to give the long seen abilities in the Asian yogis, a logic? Or is he justifying all the unexplained. In that I don’t think he succeeds. Is he trying to write just a story or is there a moral or way of life preaching in it? That he might succeed to some extent. And how is it that the American n other western skeptic audience believing it?
All in all, has moral some teachings in it, but the messiah concept for everyone or for even one-seems to me a bit too stretched.
posted by Kanishka at 1:10 PM
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