Richard David Bach is an American writer
Remember his 1970s best seller ‘Jonathan Livingston Seagull’, ‘Illusions’, ‘One’, and ‘Out of my mind’. A hugely popular author noted for his love of flying, and his books relating to air flight, and flying in a metaphorical context. He had pursued flying as a hobby since the age of 17.
Richard Bach attended Long Beach State College in 1955. Most of his books have been semiautobiographical, using actual or fictionalized events from his life to explain his philosophy. This is the way most great men have evolved, generating content from their own living experiences out of life.
The consistent philosophy in his books is that our true nature is not bound by space or time, we are expressions of the ‘is’, non-duality, which is not truly born, or truly dies; we enter this world of Seems and Appearances for fun, learning to share experiences with those we care for, to explore – and most of all to learn how to love and love again.
Bach’s philosophy is strongly influenced by the teachings of Mary Baker Eddy’s Christian Science, which teaches that evil, death, and rebirth are all illusions, and that our true nature is timeless, infinite and perfect. Bach was a member of the Christian Science Church until the early 1970s.