THE LATEST APPEARANCES OF THE NAGUAL WOMAN CAROL TIGGS

Carol Tiggs was the only woman very close to Carlos Castaneda who was known to still be alive after Castaneda died on April 27, 1998 (his other women disappeared and it is suspected that they committed suicide).

After that, Carol made one last appearance at the workshop held from July 31 to August 2, 1998 in Ontario, Canada.

HIS APPEARANCE IN RUSSIA

After the Ontario workshop, 17 years passed with almost nothing being heard from Carol until she finally appeared at a workshop held in Russia in 2015.

Notice

In July 2015, Cleargreen (which is the company Castaneda founded to market  his teachings) announced that Carol Tiggs would participate in a three-day workshop, to be held from September 5 to 7, 2015, in the town of Dederkoi, located on the coast of Sochi, in Russia.

The full title of this event, in which Renata Murez would also participate, was: "Workshop and special event of Tensegrity® and Theater of Infinity® for beginners: threads of our destiny and Intention in our life."

This announcement also hinted that Carol would later visit workshops in Europe, Mexico, and the United States.

Russia was a prominent location for this first appearance, as Cleargreen's followers there have been particularly fervent and devoted, so much so that they have scheduled one or more workshops in this country virtually every year they have organized workshops since 1999.

Their first conversation

Carol gave two talks at this workshop. She began her first appearance with a version of her hypnotic trance induction technique, using the black contact lenses she used for this purpose on several occasions before Castaneda died.

It's a fairly effective technique that she learned from books and videos on hypnotism that ended up for a while in Amy Wallace's garage, and which David Worrell and Richard Jennings had the opportunity to review in 1998.

Since the theme of this workshop was Intention, Carol narrated the story of her first "awakening" of intention after claiming to have spent months in a sanatorium for children afflicted with asthma and other serious ailments.

According to summaries of his talk, this children's sanatorium was more like a concentration camp and even an extermination camp, since most of the children who arrived there did not survive for long.

Carol claimed that she would make friends and form alliances, but then her new friend would get sick and die.

Carol told the crowd that she wanted more than anything to leave this terrible place and that she didn't understand why her father, the race car driver, hadn't come looking for her.

But this ausence was because (unbeknownst to her) her father had suffered an accident and had amnesia, and in the midst of the family drama, she was forgotten and abandoned in this sanatorium.

So Carol ended up there for months until finally fed up with the situation, she finally said, "No!"

The Russian translator shouted, "Nyet!" Carol repeated, "Nyet!" and lowered her hand in front of her. Melodramatically, she declared that this was her awakening to her true self, saying, "Enough! I'm going to change everything!"

She then claimed that it was then that his father suddenly regained his memory, jumped out of bed and asked, "Where is my little chick?" (that was the affectionate nickname he had for her).

So this same day, her father and the whole family went to look for her at this horrible place where they had supposedly left her. And not only that, but the following week, the entire clinic was shut down due to its malpractice.

Carol exclaimed, "No more children died there!" And from then on, Carol claimed she never had another asthma attack!

The crowd was then instructed to stand up and say "Nyet!" to whatever they wanted to change, and Renata joined in, helping to guide the attendees in doing this.

Observations

This is an example of how terrible Carol is at lying because her story makes no sense and is full of falsehoods.

A children's sanatorium in Los Angeles in the late 1950s where children were constantly dying for months without the authorities doing anything?

That doesn't exist in the United States, a country where children are super protected, to the point that you get severely fined just for not stopping your car when a school bus signals that a child is getting on or off.

And that her father forgot about her because he had an accident in a race car competition?

But it turns out that Carol's father was never a race car driver, but a doctor. And besides, Carol's mother also loved her daughter very much; they lived together for many years, so her mother wouldn't have left her forgotten in this sanatorium for months.

Clearly Carol made up this false story to try to elicit pity and have something to "teach" her audience.

Their second talk

In this talk, Carol recounted how she first met the nagual Don Juan Matus.

She recounted that their first encounter was in Mexico City, during a visit to the Art Museum. Carol commented that she was drawn to a painting depicting a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly.

Then an older gentleman appeared behind her and asked her what she thought of the painting. She was an art student and began to repeat what she had learned from her textbooks.

The old man seemed interested in her words, and she felt like the smartest person in the world. The conversation progressed, and she asked her admirer if the painting was about life and death.

The old man was lost in thought, his eyes half-closed, he seemed contemplative, he rocked back and forth, muttered something unintelligible, clicked his lips, opened his eyes again and asked:

   "Excuse me... what was the question?"

She thought the old man was charming and posed no threat, so she repeated the question, and he seemed interested, suggesting that since he was tired, perhaps they could sit down in a nearby cafe to continue the conversation. 

He begged her a couple more times and they finally went. They ordered two sodas and talked about how Carol had come to Mexico; Carol shared much of her personal story. 

Carol realized that Juan Matus knew something more about life and death from the painting of the caterpillar. 

Don Juan brought the straw to his lips, covered his ears with his thumbs, and then blew through the fingers of both hands, making a buzzing sound. He told Carol to do the same until she felt the vibration throughout her body.

Once this was over, Don Juan asked Carol:

    "Tell me now what you think of this painting."

Carol was speechless, and all the knowledge she had acquired from the books she had shown moments before was useless; she only felt vibrations. She looked at Don Juan, whose eyes shone brighter than ever. They both burst into laughter, and Don Juan Matus said to her:

    "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."

After that story, Carol showed the audience that straw the phonation technique.

Observations

Supposedly, the straw technique was the first body energy technique she had learned from Don Juan, but it turns out that  she had in reality just learned this technique as part of her training in Heather Lyle Vocal Yoga, from which she received her instructor certification on August 15, 2015 (a few days before the Sochi workshop).

Here you can see the group photo of the students, Carol is the woman in the back row with the black t-shirt.

Clearly Carol invented this story about her encounter with Don Juan in Mexican museum to involve this technique with the straw, and thus have another "ancestral technique" to teach the audience.

But the height of the matter is that her story contradicts the one Carol had narrated in the  workshop held in Longmont, Colorado, in 1995, where she recounted that she had first met Don Juan in a public garden called the Alameda.

And those stories in turn contradict the story told by Carlos Castaneda where he said that Carol first met Don Juan in Arizona in 1960 or 1961, when she was working in a government office (but it turns out that at that time Carol was twelve or thirteen years old!).

And this assertions shows you the extent to which Castaneda and his disciples did not care about being consistent with the lies they invented .

Carol declined to answer questions

The attendees had placed a box where the public could put slips of paper with their questions, but Carol did not want to answer them, nor reveal what she had done during all these years of absence, and if she had learned anything about the missing women after so many years.

Carol had previously only said that they were "traveling"... and didn't want to say anything more about it.

APPEARANCE IN MEXICO

On April 16 and 17, 2016, Cleargreen announced that Carol would be attending a workshop in Mérida, Mexico, and apparently she did, but I haven't found any notes or summaries online.

NO MORE APPEARANCES IN WORKSHOPS

The other appearances that had been announced never materialized, possibly because Cleargreen's workshops are becoming increasingly scarce.

 WHY DID CAROL REAPPEAR?

We don't know, I suspect it was because she needed money.

CAROL WILL NOT REappear.

Carol was born in 1947, so she is already very old and it is almost certain that her appearance in 2016 was her last.

(Note: these information was compiled by SustainedAction.org)