Comments on: Jack Kerouac - The Scripture of the Golden Eternity http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2008/09/15/jack-kerouac-the-scripture-of-the-golden-eternity/ Sacred Poetry from Around the World Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:19:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Rosi http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2008/09/15/jack-kerouac-the-scripture-of-the-golden-eternity/#comment-1129 Rosi Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:58:18 +0000 http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2008/09/15/jack-kerouac-the-scripture-of-the-golden-eternity/#comment-1129 Extraordinary insights in this poem - what a pity the movement didn't last in the western world, but there are traces even there today and the beat poets opened up the way. Extraordinary insights in this poem - what a pity the movement didn’t last in the western world, but there are traces even there today and the beat poets opened up the way.

]]> By: myamberdog http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2008/09/15/jack-kerouac-the-scripture-of-the-golden-eternity/#comment-1126 myamberdog Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:58:04 +0000 http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2008/09/15/jack-kerouac-the-scripture-of-the-golden-eternity/#comment-1126 I take everything back I ever thought about Jack Kerouac - the profundity present in these thoughts is as boggling and expansively mind-stretching as any words any spiritual master has ever spoken to my mind...... wish he had carried on more in this vein...... myamber-the-dog I take everything back I ever thought about Jack Kerouac -
the profundity present in these thoughts is as boggling
and expansively mind-stretching as any words any spiritual
master has ever spoken to my mind……

wish he had carried on more in this vein……

myamber-the-dog

]]> By: Ivan M. Granger http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2008/09/15/jack-kerouac-the-scripture-of-the-golden-eternity/#comment-1120 Ivan M. Granger Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:13:57 +0000 http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2008/09/15/jack-kerouac-the-scripture-of-the-golden-eternity/#comment-1120 It's true, Kerouac isn't exactly the poster child for balanced spiritual realization, is he? ;-) But the flashes of real insight are undeniably there in much of what he wrote. Grounding that insight in a life well-lived, that's a skill all its own... Ivan It’s true, Kerouac isn’t exactly the poster child for balanced spiritual realization, is he? ;-) But the flashes of real insight are undeniably there in much of what he wrote. Grounding that insight in a life well-lived, that’s a skill all its own…
Ivan

]]> By: Joey Connolly http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2008/09/15/jack-kerouac-the-scripture-of-the-golden-eternity/#comment-1118 Joey Connolly Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:35:14 +0000 http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2008/09/15/jack-kerouac-the-scripture-of-the-golden-eternity/#comment-1118 For those not familiar with Kerouac's later years. He died a bitter drunk who despised the "hippy" movement that sprang from the "Beat" generation. Nevertheless, Gary Snyder & Allen Ginsburg kept up the Dharma Bum routines and cruised and coasted up and down the Cascade/Coastal Cosmic Cowboy byways, high ways and waterways. For those not familiar with Kerouac’s later years. He died a bitter drunk who despised the “hippy” movement that sprang from the “Beat” generation. Nevertheless, Gary Snyder & Allen Ginsburg kept up the Dharma Bum routines and cruised and coasted up and down the Cascade/Coastal Cosmic Cowboy byways, high ways and waterways.

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