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- August - 2024

Additions to Taisha Chronology

Florinda (then Regina Thal) and Taisha (then Annamarie Carter) from Nov. 1974 Samurai Magazine Taisha Abelar’s Chronology was published here for the first time to coincide with what would have been her 79th birthday, August 25, 2024. Thanks to Paul M., several items have now been added to that chronology, including references to her and

Reflections on Re-reading Castaneda’s Works

A new piece by original Sustained Action contributor (and professional writer/poet) Sandy McIntosh, reflects on having re-read all of the works of Castaneda and his cohorts (Florinda Donner and Taisha Abelar) in recent years. The piece is entitled They Are What We Know.

New Piece on Castaneda True Believers

We just added a piece by original Sustained Action contributor Sandy McIntosh (a one-time workshop goer who is a professional writer and poet), describing an encounter he had with a Castaneda “true believer” who felt threatened by the material we started making available on SustainedAction in 1999. The new piece, which has been added to

Never Before Published: Taisha Abelar Chronology

Taisha pictured in November 1974 Samurai Magazine For the reasons detailed below, this chronology was withheld when the SustainedAction website first went up in 1999, containing chronologies of two of the Witches, Carol Tiggs and Florinda Donner-Grau, as well as the so-called Blue Scout. Those chronologies established that the stories Castaneda told about these women–portraying

Cleargreen Exposed

“The loathsome, despicable deception Cleargreen has engaged in and doubled down on ever since Castaneda died his mundane death involves promulgating a blizzard of obfuscating falsehoods about the disappearance and likely suicides of five of its highest profile former shareholders. This includes two of the three Witches–Florinda and Taisha–they have continued to claim are still alive, and for awhile asserted were somehow guiding and advising their efforts. Their silence regarding the facts they know about where the women went and their transparently bullshit stories about what happened, all just to avoid damaging the ‘brand,’ have certainly been deeply hurtful to the families of those women, and to those of us who also loved and cared about them, depriving them of any sense of closure. These ongoing deceptions have also helped turn the whole Castaneda enterprise into one of the most scandalous and reprehensible cult coverups of all time.”

Castaneda Biographer Ru Marshall

Just added a Menu page to the site regarding Ru Marshall, author of the insightful 2007 Salon article about Castaneda, whose long awaited, thoroughly researched biography of Castaneda is due to be published by Red Hen Press in Spring 2006. The new page includes links to Ru’s own website as well as other articles and

Amy Wallace – New Intro and Answers to Questions

Just added to the site excerpts from Amy Wallace’s book Sorcerer’s Apprentice: My Life with Carlos Castaneda. Also added a new introduction by Richard Jennings giving the background on his relationship with Amy starting at the Omega Tensegrity Workshop in May 1995 and through their “deprogramming” of each other from the cult following Castaneda’s death

Sloppy, Verbose, Pseudo Journalism – Geoffrey Gray’s Alta Journal piece

In sum, despite its length and the author’s claim to be an experienced “investigative reporter,” this piece contains virtually no new information regarding the missing women, other than some further details from the park ranger who found the Blue Scout’s abandoned car and the call Gray received from the current owners of Castaneda’s Westwood compound, who indicate they purchased the property in 2009. Everything else seems to be a summary of material that’s already been long available in the public record, especially here on Sustained Action, along with Gray’s fanciful speculations on that material. Then there are those significant errors, summarized here.

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