William S. Burroughs’s Naked Lunch is not a work of mysticism in the conventional sense, yet it confronts the same central task as any authentic spiritual discipline: to strip perception of its conditioning and reveal the structures that enslave consciousness. Beneath its grotesque surfaces and satirical anarchy, Burroughs’s work performs a kind of dark yoga, … Continue reading From Naked Lunch to the Naked Mind: Burroughs and the Yoga of Deconditioning