(A fantasy about the 4th dimension as told by a SQUARE) 

[Harper Perennial has a paperback edition that also includes the pseudo-sequel Sphereland]

: GOOD OMENS : Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett 

(A direct descendant of Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. its funny !) 

[Neil Gaiman wrote the incredible SANDMAN comic series, also recommended]

: MOUNT ANALOGUE : Rene Daumal 

(A novel of symbolically authentic non-euclidean adventures in mountain climbing)

: THE USER ILLUSION - Cutting Consciousness Down To Size : Tor Norretranders
(There's No There There)

: LABYRINTHS : Jorge Luis Borges

: THE BOOK OF FANTASY : Compilation of fantasy shorts edited by Jorge Luis Borges

: HOUSEKEEPING : Marilynne Robinson 

(basis for the wonderful film adaptation starring Christine Lahti. read slow !)

: XENIA : Arkaddi Dragomoschenko [Sun & Moon press !] 

(perhaps the best living Russian poet)

: NO MORE 2ND HAND GOD : Buckminster Fuller 

[Much of Fuller's work is only available through the Buckminster Fuller Institute. 

They sell bound photocopies of his out of print work. www.bfi.org ]

: JOURNAL OF ALBION MOONLIGHT : Kenneth Patchen 

[a lyrical surreal journey on the verge]

: THE AWAKENING OF INTELLIGENCE : J. Krishnamurti

: THINK ON THESE THINGS : J. Krishnamurti

: TAO TEH CHING : Lao Tzu [Harper Perenial translation by Stephen Mitchell] 

(Hold on to the Center)

: THE BOOK - On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are : Alan Watts

: TAO - The Watercourse Way : Alan Watts

: MINDS MEET : Walter Abish [Can fiction explore itself ?] 

(read slow and out loud, the sound of the words purr my brain)

: HOPSCOTCH : Julio Cortazar 

[options are given if you don't want to read front to back -"hopscotch"]

: [poetry] Pablo Neruda (i prefer translations by Robert Bly and Stephen Mitchell)

: ILLUSIONS - The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah : Richard Bach

: LIFE , A USER'S MANUAL : Georges Perec 

(Oulipo novel. history of the world as told through one apartment building) 

[a long book that must be well attended to, but worth it]

: UNCOMMON WISDOM, Conversations with Remarkable People: Fritjof Capra

 : TAO OF PHYSICS : Fritjof Capra

: HYPNAGOGIA - the unique state between wakefulness and sleep : Andreas Mavromatis

: VALIS : Philip K. Dick

: BUDDHISM WITHOUT BELIEFS : Stephen Batchelor 

[an introduction to Buddhism as philosophy without religion, especially for Agnostics & Atheists] 

(spirituality without organized dogma)

: THE PROPHET : Kahlil Gibran

: THE MADMAN : Kahlil Gibran

: THE WAYWARD GATE - Science & the Supernatural : Philip Elliot Slater 

[hard to find, perception alignment akin to Aldous Huxley]

: ZEN & THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE : Robert M. Pirsig

[read it if you haven't ! or if its been awhile]

: ZEN AND THE BRAIN : Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness
Dr. James H. Austin

(A huge 900 page MIT book on a neurosurgeon's look at Zen mind & psychedelics)

: The Art of Looking Sideways : Alan Fletcher

(This beautiful and thick Phaidon Press coffee table "thinking art" book makes everyone who explores my copy buy it. You must get the expensive hardcover, it is stunning)

: What Is Enlightenment ? : 

(Thought provoking Quarterly Magazine on better newsstands that helps you find your place on every spiritual idea. It somehow passionately draws me out, every issue, to vehemently agree and disagree. 

I am amazed at the range of ideas I feel after finishing each issue.)   

: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek : Annie Dillard



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