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The dark legacy of Carlos Castaneda
The godfather of the New Age led a secretive group of devoted followers in the last decade of his life. His closest "witches" remain missing, and former insiders, offering new details, believe the women took their own lives.
By Robert Marshall [2007-04-12]

  • Chacmools taking dictation...

    Thanks for your kind words Amy. I remembering reading that you had a book out but I've got an ever growing long list of books to get around to reading and haven't gotten down anywhere near that far yet.

    As to who told me about the dictation thing, I'm not certain. It's been more than a few years ago. I believe what I was told was that she took dictation of some sort of last proclamation or whatever as Carlos lay dying of cancer but that it was burned because they decided it was too crazy. Anyone on the meds they give dying cancer patients will tell you it doesn't make for clear headed, lucid thinking. And that's with normal people; I can only imagine what an flights of perverse fantasy this Carlos character might have gone to. Or perhaps I should say I hope I CAN'T imagine those outer limits.

    I think it was one of the people I emailed about Caren from alt.dreams.castaneda but I would have to plumb my email archives to be certain. It it's important I can plumb away. mentalpix(at)fastmail(dot)us

    -- Mike Jackson
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    Thursday, April 12, 2007 03:03 PM
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