world and which will raise mens soul to joy. We find it, we lose it, wrestle for it , we find it again, we laugh, we moan. Go for the moan for man. Its the pathos of people that gets us down, all the lovers in this dream.A Beat was a raw, used person exposed to lifes harshness. As Kerouac says, "Go For the moan for man."In 1945, Allen met Jack Kerouac at Columbia University. The moment that Allen first talked to Jack, he fell in love with him. Although Allen and Jack grew close together, Jack was not aware of Allens homosexuality.As Allen started to change his outlook on life, he started experimenting with altered consciousness, through drug use. The first event that triggered this fascination was a trip to the dentists office. Allen was having dental work done and the doctor needed to use nitrous oxide to knock him out, so Allen complied and the nitrous amazed him. The feeling of being lightly conscious in a near unconscious state over powered him and took control of all of his senses. He was intrigued to the point that every time he went to the doctors office he brought a notebook to record the sensation. He asked the doctor if he come back and experiment going in and out of consciousness.The universe is a void in which there is a dream hole the dream disappears the hole closesThe feeling that Allen received was powerful enough to want to experiment not only with drugs, but with life.Although Allen tried marijuana before his new drug interests arose, he did not prefer it because he was interested in the spiritual or holucinalgenic drugs such as: peyote, lysergic acid diethylamide, cilia sybin, and mescaline. These drugs helped him to develop different ways to form lines in poetry and develop different ways of thinking in life. He started looking into the Buddhist religion and Zen ideas. In a time of conservatism and Christianity, society did not accept alternate religions or moral values. This sta...
