'I needed to know whether my beliefs would overcome every one of the problems,' he says. 'Chatting with his messiah, Bach learns that the plane crash took place because he wanted it to, even prayed for it, as a kind of test of his mental abilities.

But reviewer Ron Charles took issue with the author's fall 'into the dark trap of the New Age movement: the metaphysical recklessness that implicitly blames victims for their illnesses and misfortunes'. Publisher Scribner, called the book a story for people ' who know there's more to this living than meets the eye: they'll be right there with Jonathan, flying higher and faster than they ever dreamed'.Īn early review from the Washington Post said Illusions II was written in Bach's 'signature tone of carefully modulated bliss'. 'There's no blessing that can't be a disaster, and no disaster that can't be a blessing,' writes the author, who on 14 February will also release a new 'complete' edition of Jonathan Livingston Seagull. The short ebook tells of how Bach met his 'spirit guides' – including Jonathan – following his plane crash, when his plane, known as Puff, clipped a power line. And 'Kindle Singles gave me the opportunity to share my story immediately.' 'But after I was very nearly destroyed in an accident aboard my seaplane, I wondered if it were not an accident at all, but a test,' he said in an announcement from. He has now touched on Jonathan again, both in a just-published followup to his 1977 spiritual memoir Illusions written after he nearly died in a plane crash in 2012, and in a new edition of Jonathan Livingston Seagull, out later this week and including 'the never-before-published Part Four'.īach said he never intended to write Illusions II, which has just been released as a Kindle Single and is his first comment on his near-death experience.

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