Hi, I’ve read consistently through the wiki about Carlos but stumbled upon this recent write up. I know the efficacy of the practices aren’t negated but I wanted to know if this article has been read or responded too. Thanks
https://www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a60923618/carlos-castaneda-cult-geoffrey-gray/
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If you've practiced long enough you very little remaining interest in human drama.
Not even your own.
Past or present. Related or unrelated.
And that is chiefly with these type of pieces are obsessed with. They cater to the female-centric crime drama podcast crowd.
A new one comes into circulation every year or two, Pretending (or even believing) that they discovered something new, when all they're doing is rehashing old and inaccurate information for a new set of eyeballs they can advertise to.
Even Corey Donovan/Richard Jennings has pointed out the wild inaccuracies in the information that circulates in these pestilent articles; and he has a verifiable track record of debunking Castaneda (while still insinuating that he validates the actual practices).
Thanks Techno!
We don't believe anyone is missing, and the use of "chacmools" is a good sign the article is misinformed.
Only one "chacmool" is missing, Kylie, and that's because she went with Taisha and Florinda, who were disgusted with Cleargreen's other 2 chacmools, Reni and Nyei, who were making up fake magical passes and giving out bogus explanations so they could keep the money flowing.
I was offered to go along where Kylie went too. I just turned it down, not fully realizing the situation at the time.
As usually, people "exposing" Castaneda don't even know what's going on. They just rehash info from others who don't know what's going on.
Because all they want is money. Another internet article to use for clickbait.
One of these days someone will run into Florinda, at a supermarket perhaps.
And realize, they merely ditched Cleargreen the way Carol Tiggs now has.
We have pictures of where Carol went.
Somewhere she might actually be able to pass on sorcery for real, to people who aren't obsessed with profit.
Carol Tiggs, taken sometime in the last 10 years:
Original photo context (she's on the far left in the back row):
I’d give anything to see Carlos in those pics!😅
There are other pics:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210817032025/http://castaneda-ru.com/viewtopic.php?id=1358
Wasn’t able to get to those.🙏
Try these new posts. I put all of the photos from that forum page into them:
https://www.reddit.com/user/TechnoMagical_Intent/comments/1jurel9/carlos_castaneda_photos_biography_post_1/
https://www.reddit.com/user/TechnoMagical_Intent/comments/1jusi4u/carlos_castaneda_photos_biography_post_2/
Awesome! Thank you!🙏❣️
And one taken in the 1980's:
Love that smile!!!😍😍😍Wow thank you!! I’ve never seen this one!!
And a better quality pic of him on the campus of UCLA in the 1960's:
❤️😍❤️
Thank you 🙏
Maybe I'll clone Carol as "Senior Witch" for the cartoons.
I'm pretty sure she wouldn't mind.
She's likely very frustrated that Carlos didn't pass on their knowledge, and she couldn't do that herself.
We might get back 2 more private students for me to add to the cartoons.
It just takes time I suppose.
So they can see what they're agreeing to.
He did say he went to her house and spoke to her but she said she was going on a trip and didn’t have time to speak to him.
That’s what I thought after seeing an interview with the journalist who wrote it: clickbait! And I thought that when at the end, he refused to answer if the old woman he saw/heard coming up the steps in Tula was real. He refused to say coz the mystery gets more clicks! THAT is not journalism!🙁But the writing was good. I enjoyed it. Not so much the substance.
The strange thing is that articles like that, and others, ignore that Carlos had private students who were around him for years.
They act as if Carlos was still so mysterious, that a single meeting made someone famous.
Like that villain Armando.
His 3 books were likely written by 3 different men, and the publisher borrowed him because his first book was the only thing available to people who wanted to know more about Carlos.
Not realizing, there were many people who got to attend a single bookstore lecture.
Which is all Armando did.
They also ignore that everything Carlos wrote about, works just as he said.
We've done all of it, except for a few things that are pretty much environmentally locked to specific locations.
Like jumping off that magnificent cliff.
But we do know where the cliff is located!
It's just not wise to jump off cliffs without a sorcerer making sure you only do it in your dreaming double.
Better to leap through outer space!
That's safer if you don't have a "spotter".
He mentions at the end he believes they’re alive. Coz the witches told the people who bought the house on Pandora that if they wanna get rid of any plants in the yard, to call them and they’ll come pick up the plants! They were very dear to Carlos, I guess. So that points to them being alive. But idk… I saw an interview with the journalist who wrote the article and the one thing I didn’t like is when he was asked about the end of his article: who was the old lady walking up the steps? Was she even real? He didn’t respond… That left a bad taste. Like he doesn’t wanna say and shatter the mystery coz then the article won’t be read as much.
Ugh I’m so sus of EVERYONE! I don’t trust a single human I don’t know well!😫I hate living in this society- there are so many people who lie to beef up their ego!🥺I wish I could go in the mountains and be a hermit.