Literature and mysticism, oh my. I was excited to come across passages about the great mystic G.I. Gurdjieff in "Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954."

Windblown World can be had at https://www.amazon.com/Windblown-World-Journals-Kerouac-1947-1954/dp/0670033413/