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- September - 2024
Teresa and Jacobo Grinberg Just added here Professor Jacobo Grinberg’s account of the interactions he and his wife Teresa had with Castaneda and his group in 1991, when the two were invited to become part of Castaneda’s group in Los Angeles. Professor Grinberg declined the offer, and kept secret his interactions with Castaneda per Castaneda’s
Just added to the site is a new piece by former Sunday Group participant and Castaneda scholar David Worrell that succinctly summarizes the timelines covererd by Castaneda’s key books. David also identifies a few of the major inconsistencies between Castaneda’s own books, as well as between those books and that of his colleague, Florinda Donner
Just added to the Explorations pages here a new piece by writer and poet Sandy McIntosh about the ways in which he has used “dreaming” and lucid dreaming to turn and shape them into poetry. Sandy was an attendee at Cleargreen workshops when Castaneda was alive, and also a participant in one of Stephen LaBerge’s
Carol Tiggs, aka Muni Aranha, in 2015 The chronology of Carol Tiggs (aka Kathleen Pohlman, Elizabeth Austin, Muni Aranha) that was originally published here in June 1999 has been updated and expanded (by 40%) to take into account what we have learned about her and her true personal history over the past 25 years. That
Carol Tiggs, back row far left, with her August 2015 certification class as a Sound Yoga instructor David Worrell noted and summarized in 2020 for Sustained Reaction these three very different versions of the story of Carol Tiggs supposed first meeting with don Juan. In reverse chronological order, the first is from from Carol’s first
What if everything about you was a lie? If your origin and whole life story was the fantastic, grandiose concoction of a famous and powerful man who came into your life in your late teens and then dictated how and where you would live, supporting you all the while, for the next 20 years? Who would you be and how could you carry on after that man died? Nury or Nuri Alexander (it’s Nury on her original name change application, but Nuri shows up on other legal documents), a.k.a. Claude, a.k.a. the Blue Scout (born Patricia Lee Partin) found she could not continue under those circumstances. When her inventor/creator ceased being around to maintain her on the absurdly high pedestal he had erected for her, she inevitably fell to earth and died.
Sandy McIntosh, an original SA contributor (and former Tensegrity workshop attendee), befriended Angelica, the woman who would become Castaneda’s doctor in the two years before his death, at Tensegrity workshops. He was on hand when Florinda and Taisha first singled her out to serve as Castaneda’s doctor (and become, briefly, a member of the inner
