Reading List

(all these books make good emergency fuel for the fire
and the warming of hands/feet and tea water)
 The Fourth Dimension and How to Get There 
 Rudy Rucker - Penguin
 adventures of the good soldier svejk
 jaroslav hasek
 http://www.zenny.com/msiepage.html
 author bio:
 http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hasek.htm
 <U>The Dancing Wu Li Masters
 An Overview of the New Physics</U>
 Gary Zukav
 <U>The Turning Point
 Science, Society, and the Rising Culture</U>
 Fritjof Capra
 <U>Tao of Physics
 An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism</U>
 Fritjof Capra
 <U>Dropping Ashes on the Buddha
 The Teaching of Zen Master Seung Sahn</U>
 <U>Zen in the Art of Archery</U>
 Eugen Herrigel
 <U>Vipassana Meditation as taught by S.N. Goenka: The Art of Living</U>
 Author: William Hart
 Publisher: Vipassana Research Institute
 "The cat that Walks through Walls" 
 "The Number of the Beast" 
 by Robert Heinlein
THE PLANIVERSE
“The year is 1981, and in the computer lab of a large university a group of graduate students and their professor are hard at work on the departmental mainframe, graphically modelling an imaginary two-dimensional world. The project is going well, extraordinarily well, when one student suddenly notices that the world they are building on-screen is… inhabited!�?
So begins A.K. Dewdney’s tale of discovery and communication with the two-dimensional civilization of Arde. Since its original publication in 1984 The Planiverse has developed a kind of cult readership, following in the footsteps of Edward Abbot’s nineteenth-century classic Flatland. As a kind of mental puzzle or brain-teaser, it challenges and delights, inviting readers to imagine just how a two-dimensional world might actually work. But the book is also a Sufi fable, written by a member of the Chishti order, serving as a cautionary tale about the difficulties of communication from one totally alien world to another, and suggesting that it is not only Yendred and his fellow 2-D Ardeans who cannot imagine dimensions beyond those they see.
Source: A’K. Dewdney: The Planiverse – Computer contact with a two-dimensional world; ISBN 0-387-98916-1.
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