{"id":6916,"date":"2011-05-22T11:28:17","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T18:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=6916"},"modified":"2011-05-27T08:42:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T15:42:06","slug":"william-s-burroughs-ditched-scientology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2011\/05\/22\/william-s-burroughs-ditched-scientology\/","title":{"rendered":"William S. Burroughs Ditched Scientology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s an article from I09.com about how William S. Burroughs was, for a period, fascinated by Scientology<\/a>.\u00a0 He joined and even used many of the group’s principals in some of his work.\u00a0 But he eventually turned against the group because he recognized that they were more interested in maintaining a corporate hierarchy of secrecy than in pursuing genuine ideas.\u00a0 It’s natural for a writer of Burroughs’ genius to be curious and to find the best in a group like Scientology.\u00a0 It is also natural for him to see through the horse shit and ditch the idiots in a Hollywood Boulevard gutter.<\/p>\n

Here’s a good read about Burroughs and Scientology from Dangerous Minds<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s an article from I09.com about how William S. Burroughs was, for a period, fascinated by Scientology.\u00a0 He joined and even used many of the group’s principals in some of his work.\u00a0 But he eventually turned against the group because he recognized that they were more interested in maintaining a corporate hierarchy of secrecy than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1452,1314,119],"tags":[1865,1866,1864,935,933,903],"class_list":["post-6916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist-2","category-documentary-film","category-writing","tag-cult","tag-i09","tag-nodzilla","tag-religion","tag-scientology","tag-william-s-burroughs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t