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Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah is a novel by writer and pilot Richard Bach. 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 was the author's follow-up to 1970's Jonathan Livingston Seagull.
978-1-4953-4501-2 Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant Student is the 2014 novel by writer and pilot Richard Bach . The first Illusions book was published in 1977 and was an international best-seller, telling the story of a pilot who encounters a messiah who has absconded from the "job" of being a messiah.
The book takes influence from the works of Frank Podmore, Joseph Jastrow and Ivor Lloyd Tuckett dealing with the "fallacies underlying psychical research". Rawcliffe critically examines claims of the occult, parapsychology and spiritualism concluding that they are best explained by psychological factors such as hallucination, hysteria, neurosis and suggestion as well as "delusion, fraud ...
In rare instances, it can include delusions of immortality. [9] Syndrome of delusional companions is the belief that objects (such as soft toys) are sentient beings. [10] Clonal pluralization of the self, where a person believes there are multiple copies of themselves, identical both physically and psychologically, but physically separate and ...
A delusion [a] is a false fixed belief that is not amenable to change in light of conflicting evidence. [2] As a pathology, it is distinct from a belief based on false or incomplete information, confabulation, dogma, illusion, hallucination, or some other misleading effects of perception, as individuals with those beliefs are able to change or readjust their beliefs upon reviewing the evidence.
Elon Musk and other conservative online personalities are riffing on an idea about the X owner buying media outlet MSNBC.. Donald Trump Jr. tagged Musk in a quoted post Friday hinting at a ...
The House Ethics Committee secretly voted earlier this month to release its report into the conduct of former Rep. Matt Gaetz before the end of this Congress, according to multiple sources with ...
Here's how "Gladiator 2" massages history in the name of cinematic drama: A break in the blood and gore: Pedro Pascal (left) jokes with "Gladiator II" director Ridley Scott and co-star Paul Mescal ...