THE DEATHS CAUSED BY CARLOS CASTANEDA

 

Several people died because of Carlos Castaneda, and here I will mention some of them.

FIVE WOMEN COMMITTED SUICIDE

Five of the women closest to Castaneda disappeared shortly after he died in 1998; they were:

Nury Alexander, Castaneda's adopted daughter

Taisha Abelar, one of Castaneda's witches

Florinda Donner , another of Castaneda's witches

Talia Bey, the president of Cleargreen, the company Castaneda founded to market his teachings

Kylie Lundahl, the leader of tensegrity instructors

Since then, nothing more has been heard of them, with the exception of Nury, whose skeletal remains were found in Death Valley.

It is suspected that they committed suicide, and this shows how Machiavellian Castaneda was, who intended to turn his warriors into "free beings," but in reality made them so existentially dependent on him that when he died, these women, despite having a lot of money and years of life ahead of them, preferred to take their own lives because they could not conceive of continuing on Earth without their "Nahual."

I detail their disappearance further in this other chapter (see link).

A WOMAN JUMPED OFF A BRIDGE

In 2002, a woman named Janice Emery jumped from a bridge crossing the Rio Grande Gorge near the town of Taos in the U.S. state of New Mexico.

But she did not do it to commit suicide, but to imitate Castaneda, who in several of his books claimed that he had jumped into the abyss from a cliff and that this allowed him to "open the wings of his nagualistic perception" 

But instead of gaining access to the "Other Reality" described by Castaneda, Emery killed herself.

I detail this case in this other chapter (see link).

A MAN MURDERED HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW

The researcher Manuel Carballal in his book "The Secret Life of Carlos Castaneda" mentioned the case of a man who killed his brother-in-law under the paranoia that he was vampirizing his energy.

And in the court ruling, Castaneda's books were listed in the records as having incited this crime. 

MORE CASES

Above I mentioned the cases that have been made public and that I have learned about, but surely there must be more cases that have not been revealed of people who also jumped into a abyss or killed influenced by what Carlos Castaneda wrote.