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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
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
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
Details of the disappearance of five of the women closest to Castaneda, and the eventual discovery and positive identification of the remains of one of them, Nury Alexander (aka the Blue Scout, née Patricia Partin), near Death Valley’s Panamint Dunes added to the site here. Also added to that page is info about and a
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.
The original Sustained Action website went up in 1999. That version of the website contained material that would be of interest to fellow Castaneda followers (workshop notes, summaries of private sessions with Castaneda) in an effort to lure them into reading the other material (e.g., chronologies of Castaneda and the Witches, reports on likely source
