With the decision to either persist in the afterlife or return to his world, Fletcher chooses the latter. He is resurrected in the very midst of the flabbergasted Flock, some of whom fear and decry his supernatural reappearance. Jon whisks Fletcher to safety, complaining about how difficult it is to convince birds that they are free and that they could prove it themselves if they just practiced, like he did. Fletcher asks Jon about his insistence in believing they should "love" the ignorant Flock. Jon replies that he means they should practice to "love the good in every one of them, and to help them see it in themselves". Jon also reveals that Fletcher is ready to become a teacher himself. Jon's body suddenly begins to fade away, he requests that Fletcher stop others from thinking of him as anything silly like a god, and he gives a final piece of advice: "find out what you already know". On his own, Fletcher now faces a new group of eager students. He begins passing on Jon's sentiments that seagulls are limitless ideas of freedom, and their bodies nothing more than thought itself. Realizing this baffles the young gulls, he understands why Jon told him to slowly take teachings step by step, and he instead starts with a simpler lesson on flight. Privately musing on Jonathan's conviction that there are no limits, Fletcher smiles at the implication of this: that he will see Jonathan again, one day soon. Part Four in 2014's re-print, Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition In 2013 Richard Bach took up a non-published fourth part of the book which he had written contemporaneously with the original. He edited and polished it, and then sent the result to a publisher. Bach reported that he was inspired to finish the fourth part of the novella by a near-death experience which had occurred in relation to a nearly fatal plane crash in August 2012. In February 2014, the 138-page Bach work Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant Student was published as a booklet by Kindle Direct Publishing. Illusions II also contains allusions to and insights regarding the same near-death experience. In October 2014, Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition, was published, and this edition includes Part Four of the story. Part Four focuses on the period several hundred years after Jonathan and his students have left the Flock and their