A good reference for all of this (and also fun to read) is Wes "Scoop" Nisker's, CRAZY WISDOM.
http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Craz.../dp/1580083463
"Crazy Wisdom will serve as the missing link between sit-down meditation and stand-up comedy."
PAUL KRASSNER
"Ah, the foolishness of the real! This is good medicine."
GARY SNYDER
From CRAZY WISDOM:
"Recent discoveries in science reveal worlds so enormous and so tiny and so strange that they must be the great cosmic joke of some Creator who doubles over with laughter every time a scientist discovers another bizarre twist to the reality puzzle."
"Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it."
JANE WAGNER
"We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?"
NIELS BOHR to WOLFGANG PAULI