The Lathe of Heaven Allusions & Cultural References

When authors refer to other great works, people, and events, it’s usually not accidental. Put on your super-sleuth hat and figure out why.

A.A. Milne, Winne the Pooh and the Honey Tree (3.5)
Zen Buddhism (5.17)
The Darmachakra (7.96)
ALCU (5.18)
William Shakespeare (5.42)
Macbeth (11.2)
Hamlet (11.3)
Gordian Knot (5.103)
Lafcadio Hearn, Out of the East (6.0)
Aesop, The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs (6.21)
Victor Hugo, Travailleurs de la Mer (7.0)
Fyodor Dostoevsky (7.153)
The Golden Rule (8.54)
Jesus (9.17)
Buddha (9.17)
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (9.40)
Nirvana (9.120)
Victor Hugo, Les Contemplations (10.0)
"Praise God from whom all blessings flow," Protestant Christian Doxology (10.44)
T.S. Eliot, The Four Quartets (11.18)

Zhuangzi (1.0 and throughout)
Laozi, Tao Te Ching (5.0 and throughout)
Historical References
William C. Dement (2.97)
Eugene Aserinsky (2.97)
Hans Berger (2.97)
Ian Oswald (2.97)
Heinz Hartmann (2.97)
Sigmund Freud (2.97)
John Kennedy (3.59)
Abraham Lincoln (3.71)
Thomas Paine (4.40)
Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (4.65)
Reverend Thomas Malthus (5.33)
The Black Plague (6.45)
Apartheid in South Africa (6.49)
The 1812 Fire of Moscow (7.22)
Black Power (7.123)
The Back to Africa Movement (7.123)
Slavery (7.123)
Herbert Spencer, Principles of Biology (7.136)
Ludwig Van Beethoven, Große Fuge (8.27)
Pre-Civil Rights Era (9.17)
Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address (9.18)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (9.18)
Pompeii (9.30)
President Eisenhower (10.5)
Franz Shubert (10.19)
Napoleon Bonaparte (10.56)
Alexander the Great (10.57)

Iron Eyes Cody (7.13)
The Age of Aquarius (7.13)
Bob Dylan (7.13)
Hippies (7.13)
Mary Had A Little Lamb (8.25)
Down by the Riverside (9.34)
MAD comics (10.19)
The Beatles, With a Little Help from My Friends (10.24)
Def Leppard, Rock of Ages (11.2)