Then the 'real' book begins: A young man flys around the country in his airplane, supporting himself by selling flights in his plane. The book starts off with a 'handwritten' and smudged story, written like books in the Bible, by a auto mechanic who discovered the Divine in himself and was followed by throngs of people,who called him a messiah, until he had to disappear. I LOVED this book!! I read it over and over and have given copies to several people. To anyone and to all, may it help shape your life as it has shaped mine. I've seen it in the fiction, self help, and religious sections of books stores at it is unclassifiable in its means to reach its audience. I know this tells you very little about the content of the book, but like all Bach's works it is sweet and inspirational. He found it the next day in a dumpster while looking for some song lyrics he had thrown pout. Years later I recommended past this quirky thing to another good friend of mine, and he promised to put it on the top of his to read list. I told my friend about this and he remarked to me that it was fairly coincidental as he had just received this book as a gift from his brother. And, it happened to be the lucky book of a couple of other people close to me as well. She brought the book into me as promised a couple days later with a four leaf clover as a book mark. I asked what it represented and she told me it was the feather from the cover of a book, called 'Illusions', and it had changed her life. (It was as always, an attempt to get her to lower the jeans) - It was a blue feather tattoo. One day a girl came into the pizza parlor I was working at and I commented on her tramp stamp. If you want to go that route head straight for 'Psycho-Cybernetics' by Maxwell Maltz. Last years phenom book and DVD 'The Secret' tried to express the same ideas in a much less creative manner. The idea that our thoughts can control our lives is a very powerful one and truer than many realize. 'Rarely do members of the same family grow up in the same house.' 'We teach best what we most need to learn.' 'Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours.' Probably my all time favorite. I have seen quotes from this book appear in many locations and use many of them myself when working with students. That always surprised me because I felt that most of the ideas contained here were quite Christ like. I remember that some factions of the Christian right were outraged that the book referred to a Messiah other than Jesus. The fact that the author kind of went a bit off the deep end does not bother me (although it did for a while!) I still believe the ideas contained here are timeless and profound.

Not because the writing was so great but the thoughts contained in it were so close to what I was feeling as a 19 year old away from home and on my own for the first time. I believe this book moved me more than any other before or since.

The adventures of a reluctant messiah