Jack Kerouac's Schizophrenia

James Dean Archetype

Jack Kerouac was diagnosed with schizophrenia by an Army doctor before he wrote, “On The Road”.

His friend here with Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady sounds much more schizophrenic.

Jack Kerouac traveled on Route 66 during the period between 1947 and 1950 while writing On the Road.

• On the Road is a book that was written based on Kerouac's road trips. He wrote much of the book in small notebooks during his travels. Kerouac was part of the Beat Generation, which also included Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and Neal Cassady.

Neal Cassady, who inspired the James Dean character and the Route 66 fantasy, sounds like a psychic:

The lesson to be learned from the John verse in the Bible he mentions is to not be an extremist. He alludes to a depopulation program, says we need them every so many years.

Route 66 became a hunting ground for hitchhikers and runaways.

I once got into a heated argument (inadvertently triggered him) with an old man who volunteered at the wigwam (primitive Indian house) display at a local forest preserve.

I said to the man how cool it would be to live for free with a bunch of people who loved each other, but that made him think of hippies.

He angrily began educating me about economics and human politics. I was just thinking how much easier it would be to live without bills and jobs. “But, that's why they all died”, he said.

Robert Ardrey, a “social scientist” before that was a field, said that we build fences to protect ourselves as much as the fences are there to protect others from us trespassing onto their territory.

He said that war keeps us safe.

Is it true that we need a culling every four decades?

Why were those two schizophrenics so influential and brilliant? What really happened along the route to freedom across America?

When something is so cool, it's crazy.

There's a bad kind of crazy too.

There's good and bad in everything, except when it comes from God.

When something comes from man it could be good or bad, or both.

God made Jesus die on the cross. Was that bad? Or, was it like pruning which needed to be done?

Who was Jesus referring to in John 15:1

“I am the true vine, and my father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.”