![]() ![]() Photo by USGov (National Archives) Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Among his many novels are On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur, and Visions of Cody. I thought I was going to die the very next moment. Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), the central figure of the Beat Generation, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922 and died in St. I felt sweet, swinging bliss, like a big shot of heroin in the mainline vein like a gulp of wine late in the afternoon and it makes you shudder my feet tingled. Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922, the youngest of three children in a Franco-American family. I realized it was only because of the stability of the intrinsic Mind that these ripples of birth and death took place, like the action of the wind on a sheet of pure, serene, mirror-like water. ![]() I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember especially because the transitions from life to death and back to life are so ghostly easy, a magical action for naught, like falling asleep and waking up again a million times, the utter casualness and deep ignorance of it. I could hear an indescribable seething roar which wasn't in my ear but everywhere and had nothing to do with sounds. “And for just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological time into timeless shadows, and wonderment in the bleakness of the mortal realm, and the sensation of death kicking at my heels to move on, with a phantom dogging its own heels, and myself hurrying to a plank where all the angels dove off and flew into the holy void of uncreated emptiness, the potent and inconceivable radiancies shining in bright Mind Essence, innumerable lotuslands falling open in the magic mothswarm of heaven. ![]()
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