Steve

"The Power of Myth" by Joseph Campbell; "On the Road" and "Visions of Cody" by Jack Kerouac; "Paradigm Wars: Worldviews For a New Age" by Mark B. Woodhouse; "The New Inquisition: Irrational Rationalism and The Citadel of Science", "Prometheus Rising" and "Quantum Psychology" by Robert Anton Wilson; "Sex" by Bagwan Shree Rajneesh (a.k.a. Osho); anything by Camille Paglia; "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill; "Mind Control Marketing" and "The Irresistible Offer" by Mark Joyner; "Guerilla Marketing" series by Jay Conrad Levinson; and others too numerous to mention. * Comics and graphic novels by Jack Kirby ("New Gods" etc.), Harvey Kurtzman's "Mad" (especially "Mole"), Robert Crumb, "Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers" by Gilbert Shelton, "Ghost World" by Daniel Clowes, "Wigwam Bam" by Jaime Hernandez, etc. * Plus poetry: Shakespeare, Rimbaud, Yeats, e.e. cummings, et al. (sample):

"All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" (C) by Richard Brautigan
"I like to think (and the sooner the better!) / of a cybernetic meadow / where mammals and computers / live together in mutually / programming harmony / like pure water / touching clear sky. / I like to think / (right now, please!) / of a cybernetic forest / filled with pines and electronics / where deer stroll peacefully / past computers / as if they were flowers / with spinning blossoms. / I like to think / (it has to be!) / of a cybernetic ecology / where we are free of our labors / and joined back to nature, / returned to our mammal / brothers and sisters, / and all watched over / by machines of loving grace."