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In a message dated 8/10/2004 1:16:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
sheran@... writes:

Wild book. I'm not sure I even recommend the book unless you enjoy
something that's WAY out there. lol <<<<


I love _Illusions_. One of my faves---and I've read it again and again. I
keep it in the car to peek into when I'm in a bank line or stuck in traffic.
Sometimes I find the inspiration I need from the page that opens! <G>

But I don't read it believing that everything is "truth". I read it knowing
that it's fiction and that I can take what I want out of it---which seems to
be something different every time (which is a something else the book says as
well! <g>).

If ALL you're getting out of it is the souls' travels, read it
again----"what you think may change!" <g>

To me, right now, it's about stepping outside and looking at things from a
different PoV. Rather important for an unschooling mom! <G>

~Kelly







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kayb85

> If ALL you're getting out of it is the souls' travels, read it
> again----"what you think may change!" <g>

Oh, not all that I got out of it at all! It's just that the point of
how people could believe that people choose their destinies was
brought up, and I remembered that one part of that book and
commented.

I agree, that was only one tiny little part of the book. :)

Sheila

Danielle Conger

Kelly wrote: I love _Illusions_. One of my faves---and I've read it again
and again. I
> keep it in the car to peek into when I'm in a bank line or stuck in
traffic.
> Sometimes I find the inspiration I need from the page that opens! <G>
>
> But I don't read it believing that everything is "truth". I read it
knowing
> that it's fiction and that I can take what I want out of it---which seems
to
> be something different every time (which is a something else the book
says as
> well! <g>).
==============

I read _Illusions_ for the first time a little less than a year ago, and I
read it as an unschooling manifesto because I was immersed in unschooling
and letting it permeate our lives. I remember thinking how unschoolers are
like the messiahs in the book: in the early allegory, unschoolers are the
folks who stop holding onto the rocks for dear life and just let go,
allowing life to carry them along and take them to a new way of
understanding living itself.

Funny how much a story changes depending on what lens we use to read it.
That's what I love about writing!

--Danielle

http://www.danielleconger.com/Homeschool/Welcomehome.html

Dana Matt

> Kelly wrote: I love _Illusions_. One of my
> faves---and I've read it again
> and again.

I've always loved the book, too, since high
school....About 8 years ago my mom got to see Richard
Bach, and had him sign a copy for me, since she knew
it was my favorite :)

Dana
in MOntana



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