A story largely follows a action of Japhy Ryder, whose preference for the elementary life & Zen Buddhism influenced Kerouac highly when he began to mature & on the eve of his uncivilized & unannounced profits by using On the Road. the action shifts between a untamed, like troika-day yearn parties & a supposed reenactment of the Buddhist sexual right of the "Yab-Yum" ceremony to the sublime and peaceful mental imagery in which Kerouac tries the nature and severity of transcendence. A guide of the novel occurs as vary around narrative style, using Kerouac working alone as a fire lookout in Hozomeen Mountain's Desolation Peak, in the North Cascades National Park (see as well Desolation Angels). In that cycle Kerouac was pushed to the fragile psychological state because of the lonesomeness & the absence of alcohol, which was already becoming a substance that Kerouac was dependant upon. These elements place The Dharma Bums at a critical junction between what would exist as the consciousness-probing works of numerous authors in the 1960's such as Timothy Leary and Ken Kesey.