(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

The Dancing Wu Li Masters
An Overview of the New Physics
Gary Zukav

The Turning Point
Science, Society, and the Rising Culture
Fritjof Capra

Tao of Physics
An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism
Fritjof Capra

Dropping Ashes on the Buddha
The Teaching of Zen Master Seung Sahn

Zen in the Art of Archery
Eugen Herrigel

Vipassana Meditation as taught by S.N. Goenka: The Art of Living
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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