Following the River.
Jethro Tull, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Pat MacDonald, Nick Drake, Franz Ferdinand, Blue Man Group, Venus Hum, Adrien Belew, Rush (the early years), Talking Heads.
Lord of the Rings, Princess Mononoke, The Duelists, The Incredibles, Toy Story I and II, The Matrix (only #1), Baraka, Lawrence of Arabia.
Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, The Simpsons
Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, The Marriage of Sense and Soul by Ken Wilbur, Alan Watts, Joseph Campbell, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig, Watership Down and other Adams books, Lord of the Rings, All the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, nearly all Michael Moorcock stories.
The first lifeform that crawled out of the ocean, and decided to stay on land.