THE BLUE SCOUT WHO TRANSFORMED INTO THE HUMAN NURY ALEXANDER

In 1993, HarperCollins published Carlos Castaneda's ninth book, "The Art of Dreaming," the chapter seven, titled "The Blue Scout," recounts Castaneda's experiences with a special entity he called the Blue Scout, whom he rescued from the world of inorganic beings and who materialized in the physical world of humans, transforming into a young woman.

In this book, Castaneda is informed that scouts appear in dreams as energy-generating beings, and that ancient sorcerers used them as 'vehicles' that took them to the realm of inorganic beings.

So Castaneda begins to follow scouts in his dreams, and is soon led to a world of countless tunnels in which he encounters different dark shapes that are spherical, bell-shaped, or large and undulating like candle flames. (p.111)

CASTANEDA'S ENCOUNTER WITH THE BLUE SCOUT

During a dream visit, Castaneda glides through the tunnels when he stops "in a tunnel that seemed somehow larger than the others. Then my dream attention became fixed on the size and configuration of that tunnel, and I would have remained stuck there if I had not been made to turn around. My dream attention then focused on a mass of energy a little larger than the shadow entities. It was blue, like the blue at the center of a candle flame." (p. 120)

Castaneda realizes that this blue form is not a shadow entity but a strange entity, and he ignores the efforts of the scout who brought him to tell him to leave. “Suddenly a considerable force turned me around and placed me right in front of the blue form. As I looked at it, it transformed into the figure of a person: very small, thin, delicate, almost transparent.” (p. 120)

He tries unsuccessfully to determine its gender, asks the emissary about it, and then speaks with the entity. He senses a barrier between them that he cannot break and then experiences a variety of reactions:

“I even felt euphoria because I knew that the scout had finally shown me another human being trapped in that world. I only despaired at the possibility that we might not be able to communicate, perhaps because the stranger was one of the sorcerers of antiquity and belonged to a different age than my own. ... The more intense my euphoria and curiosity became, the heavier I grew, until a moment when I was so massive that I returned to my body and to the world.” (p. 120-121)

Castaneda says that he then found himself on the UCLA lawn, in a line of people playing golf.

"The person in front of me solidified at the same rate. We stared at each other for a fleeting instant. She was a girl, perhaps six or seven years old. I thought I knew her. Upon seeing her, my euphoria and curiosity grew disproportionately, causing a reversal. I lost mass so quickly that I became once again a mass of energy in the realm of inorganic beings. The scout returned for me and quickly led me away." (p. 121)

Castaneda wakes up startled and spends much of the next two days trying to figure out what happened. "After a few days, a dark and mysterious certainty began to take hold of me, a certainty that gradually grew until I had no doubt about its authenticity: I was sure that the blue patch of energy was imprisoned in the realm of inorganic beings." (p. 121)

Castaneda travels to Mexico to consult with Don Juan. Castaneda describes his dream practices and the emotional impact the vision of the girl had on him.

Don Juan advises him to ignore it and consider it as "a brazen attempt by inorganic beings to indulge their fantasies," commenting that "if too much importance is given to dreams, they become what they were to the ancient sorcerers: an inexhaustible source of indulgence." (p.122)

Don Juan suspects that the inorganic beings are trying to trap Castaneda by deceiving him, and when Castaneda objects that he knows that this girl exists, Don Juan snaps: "There is no girl... That bluish blob of energy is an scout. An scout trapped in the realm of inorganic beings." (p.123-124)

Don Juan also opines: "The bluish patch of energy was from a completely different dimension than ours; it is an scout who became stranded and trapped like a fly in a spider's web." (p. 124)

CASTANEDA SAVES THE BLUE SCOUT

Castaneda returns to Los Angeles, and in the next dream session, he enters the shadow world, and his dream attention is "inevitably drawn to that mass of energy. Within seconds, I was beside her. ... Suddenly, the blue form transformed into the little girl I had seen before. She tilted her long, slender, delicate neck to one side and said in a barely audible whisper, 'Help me!' ... I froze, driven by genuine concern." (p. 124)

Castaneda feels himself experiencing sensations in his physical body, which is asleep in the bed, and the awareness of this causes the other shadow beings to hasten to flee, leaving him alone with the girl. "I watched her and became convinced that I knew her. She seemed to waver as if she were about to faint. An unlimited wave of affection for her enveloped me." (p. 126)

Castaneda tried to direct his thoughts toward her, but felt them blocked "by a membrane of energy that I could not penetrate. The girl seemed to understand my despair and, in fact, communicated with me directly in my thoughts. She told me what Don Juan had already said: that I was an scout caught in the nets of this world. Then she added that she had taken the form of a girl because that form was familiar to us both and that she needed my help as much as I needed hers." (p. 126-127)

Castaneda tries to convey his powerlessness to her, and she seems to understand: "She appealed to me silently with a burning gaze. She even smiled as if to let me know that she had left me the task of freeing her from her bonds. When I replied that I had no ability, she gave me the impression of a hysterical child in the midst of despair. I tried to speak to her frantically. The child cried, as a child her age would cry, out of despair and fear." (p. 127)

Castaneda lunges at her, but his energy mass passes right through her. He then tries several times to lift her and take her with him until he is exhausted. He fears that his dream-attention will soon diminish and that he will not be brought back to that part of the inorganic realm in the future, so this will be his last visit there.

“Then I did something unthinkable. Before my dream attention faded, I shouted loudly and clearly my intention to merge my energy with that of the imprisoned scout and set him free.” (p.127)

Castaneda wakes up from a dream in which Carol Tiggs, Don Juan, and the members of his group “seemed to be trying to drag me out of a misty, yellowish world.” (p. 128)

(Note: By the end of his book "The Eagle's Gift," Castaneda had described his rescue by the Fat Lady and Carol Tiggs from behind a wall of fog, after he had become completely exhausted. The version in "The Art of Dreaming" differs in several aspects, making it difficult to determine whether Castaneda describes the same incident or simply develops a similar theme.)

While most of Don Juan's group avoids physical contact with Castaneda during his convalescence, telling him that they have never been in the shadow world, Old Florinda showers him with attention and explains that "they had drained my energy in the world of inorganic beings and recharged me, but that my new energy charge was a little disturbing for most of them." (p.130)

And he also tells her that "she fought against those master manipulators—the inorganic ones—somehow surviving their death blow." (p.131)

Don Juan confirms this diagnosis, telling him: “The inorganic beings snatched you away, body and all. First they took your energy body to their realm, when you followed one of their scouts, and then they took your physical body.” (p. 132)

And he explains: “The reason you think you are sick… is that the inorganic beings drained your energy and gave you theirs. That should have been enough to kill anyone. But as a nagual, you have extra energy; and therefore, you barely survived.” (p. 132)

He also explains that the inorganic realm “looks like a world of yellow mist to the naked eye… when you thought you were having an incoherent dream [about Carol Tiggs and the others taking you out], you were actually seeing with your physical eyes, for the first time, the universe of inorganic beings. And strange as it may seem to you, it was the first time for us too. We knew of the mist only through the stories of the sorcerers, not from our own experience.” (p. 133)

During his four-week recovery period, Castaneda experienced a strange longing “for someone he did not know.” (p.134)

At the beginning of a nap, when he was starting to feel normal again, “a strange pressure on my temples made me open my eyes. The girl from the world of inorganic beings was standing at the foot of my bed, looking at me with her cold steel-blue eyes.” (p.134-135)

Castaneda leaps out of bed screaming, causing three of Don Juan's companions to rush in. “They watched in horror as the girl approached me and was stopped by the limits of my luminous physical being. We stared at each other for an eternity… At that moment Don Juan entered the room. The girl and Don Juan stared at each other. Without a word, Don Juan turned and left the room. The girl quietly slipped past the door behind him.” (p. 135)

This causes a commotion among Don Juan's companions, who saw the girl leave the room with Don Juan. Castaneda feels like he's about to explode and faints: “I felt the girl's presence like a blow to my solar plexus. She bore a striking resemblance to my father. Waves of feeling washed over me. I wondered about the meaning of this until I really felt ill.” (p. 135)

When Don Juan returns with his enthusiastic companions, Castaneda states that "their main interest was to find out if there was any uniformity in the way they had perceived the scout's appearance. They all agreed that they had seen a small girl, six or seven years old, very thin, with angular and beautiful features. They also agreed that her eyes were steel blue and burned with a silent emotion; her eyes, they said, expressed gratitude and loyalty." (p. 135-136)

Castaneda and Don Juan's companions discussed "the implications of this event. They all agreed that the scout was a portion of strange energy that had filtered through the walls separating the background of attention from the everyday world. They affirmed that since they were not dreaming and yet they had all seen the strange energy projected onto the figure of a human girl, that girl had existence." (p.136)

They had no stories of witchcraft to confirm such an event, although Don Juan opined that “it happens all the time… but it had never occurred in such a manifest and voluntary way.” (p.136)

Don Juan tells Castaneda that he fell into a trap designed just for him, a trap “that takes advantage of your innate aversion to chains.” (p.137)

Don Juan further explains “that by merging your energy with that of the scout, you ceased to exist. All your physicality was transported to the realm of inorganic beings, and had it not been for the scout who guided Don Juan and his companions to where I was, I would have died or remained in that world, irretrievably lost.” (p.137)

Don Juan answers Castaneda's question about why the scout led them to him, explaining: “The scout is a sentient being from another dimension… She is now a child, and as such she told me that in order to obtain the energy necessary to break the barrier that had trapped her in the world of inorganic beings, she had to take all of yours. That is her human side now. Something akin to gratitude impelled her to come to me. When I saw her, I knew instantly that you were lost” (p. 137-138)

Castaneda has Don Juan recount how he gathered his group and Carol Tiggs to extract him, and that everyone received something in return: "You and Carol Tiggs got the scout. And the rest of us got a reason to focus our physicality and direct it toward our energy bodies; we became energy." (p. 138)

To Castaneda's inevitable question, "How did you all do that?", Don Juan replied: "We shifted our meeting points in unison. Our unwavering intention to save you did the trick. The scout led us in the blink of an eye to where you lay, half-dead, and Carol pulled you out." (p.138)

CASTANEDA AND HIS MAIN DISCIPLES CLAIM THAT

THE BLUE SCOUT IS NURY ALEXANDER

In Mexico City in 1993

In 1993 Castaneda gave a lecture at Casa Tibet and about Nury he said:

"I have a daughter who is out of this world, she's frightening, an unbearably skinny girl, but she's a fighter who changed direction in a second, she's a fierce and powerful woman, she comes from another world and another energy."

In Arizona in 1993

From July 23 to 25, 1993, the first workshop was held at the Rim Institute in Arizona, taught by the three Witches and the three Chacmools, and attended by about one hundred people.

Florinda Donner stated  that the Blue Scout was Carol Tiggs's daughter, and that her daughter was the Orange Scout. This prompted questions from the audience about sex and energy holes. Florinda explained that a sorceress could simply cause one of her eggs to begin dividing "by an act of will," but that normally no warrior would want this because it would cause a huge "energy hole." But in the case of the Scouts, she stated that they had their own energy, but no body, so they could be conceived and born without sex and without causing "holes" in the mother.

According to JJ  Stoecker , when Carol was later asked about the scouts, she didn't address Florinda's story about parthenogenesis, but simply twirled around the edge of the platform, like a model on a fashion runway, asking, "Do you see any holes?"

In Hawaii in 1993

From October 14 to 17, 1993, Castaneda and his witches participated in a workshop at Akahi Farms, in Maui, Hawaii.

Carol mentioned that the Blue Scout was pursuing her doctorate at UCLA.

In New York in 1995

From May 26 to 29, 1995, a workshop was held at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York.

Florinda spoke the first night, Taisha the second, and the Chacmools the third; with the Chacmools, Florinda, and Taisha answering questions instead of the speech that Carol was going to give, since Carol had supposedly been injured after the workshop in Mexico.

They talked more in this workshop about the two scouts (blue and orange) than ever before or would ever again, and Florinda stated on the first night that she and Carol had given birth to each of the scouts.

A man asked Florinda about the impact of children on our light eggs. In response, Florinda stated that both she and Carol had each given birth to an scout, and that “it doesn’t have that much of an impact, except that one simply has to work harder or run faster. We may have gaps, but it motivates us to work harder.”

(Cid's note: Here Florinda contradicts herself with what she stated in the Arizona workshop in 1993.)

On Sunday night, Nyei Murez essentially gave a lecture on the Blue Scout, reading from a prepared statement. According to Nyei: “The Blue Scout is the daughter of Carol Tiggs. Carol Tiggs gave birth to her. Her energy has a bluish hue instead of the whitish one most humans have. Castaneda found this concentration of bluish energy in the realm of inorganic beings. The Chacmools haven't yet been to that world, but we sense their presence.”

All the Chacmools claimed to perceive the Blue Scout as “foreign.” Nyei said the Blue Scout was “the love of my life; a person and yet not a person.” She described the Blue Scout as “bright, light, slender, ethereal, wolf-like, and beautiful. [Nury] has brilliant blue eyes, ears that hear everything, and dresses impeccably but unpredictably. She is adept at finding the most exquisite restaurant, piece of music, clothing, or antique. She focuses on the truth and is also adept at revealing your deepest secret or discovering your heart’s desire. She is a formidable mimic and can prepare an exquisite feast.”

Nyei claimed to have met Carol Tiggs and the Blue Scout at a tensegrity workshop to which Florinda had invited her.

(Note: This first meeting was presumably before 1993, before they used the term "tensegrity" or conducted workshops. Nyei was apparently referring to the invitation-only sessions in which Castaneda taught the "magical movements" that would later become known as tensegrity.)

Nyei was told that Carol Tiggs was the Blue Scout's mother. And since Nyei had heard that Castaneda's clan was known for stalking and deceiving people, and saw that Carol Tiggs looked only 25 (and seemed to be getting younger), Nyei insisted that "I wasn't going to be fooled so easily."

So Nyei supposedly approached the Blue Scout and asked her, "You're Carol Tiggs's mother, right?"

“The Blue Scout gets smaller and smaller with time. She could be seven years old, and it’s estimated that it will take her about 50 years to reach full maturity. She is precise, meticulous, and temperamental. Castaneda says she’s a real pain. She gets angry easily, like a seven-year-old, when you misbehave, but she instantly forgets about it and invites you to gamble with her in Las Vegas. The Blue Scout loves to gamble, and she used to bet on the horses when Carol Tiggs was away. Now that Carol Tiggs has returned, she is her mother 100%. The Blue Scout was also absent for about ten years, from age seven to seventeen, returning approximately a year before Carol Tiggs. And during Carol’s absence, Florinda and Castaneda took care of her.”

(Note: If Carol returned in 1985, this would place the Blue Scout's "return" in 1984, which is quite false since historical documents show her involvement with the group from at least 1977.)

The clan supposedly learned that the Blue Scout had returned when they went to Mexico to see Florinda Grau (“Old Florinda”).

“Castaneda took the Blue Scout back to Los Angeles where he enrolled her in school. The Blue Scout was very upset by this and did not move or change position for 24 hours, a sign of her extreme anger.”

However, at the end of this period, he supposedly just smiled and asked, "What do I have to do now?"

Nyei claimed that he had been to school in rural Mexico, which is completely false since Nury lived her entire life in California.

She was enrolled in a community college because the school year had already started [and perhaps because she already had her high school equivalency certificate from the continuation school in La Verne?].

She is now working on her doctorate in social sciences and somehow assimilates academic material through a process that is completely different from ours.

The Nagual [Don Juan] cared for her during her early years. Wherever she went [to the Second Attention] she received a peculiar training that makes her naturally very authoritarian.

As Castaneda says, the Blue Scout "doesn't sweat." Wherever she was, she must have been pampered terribly. She can change speed very quickly, and we sense her speed increasing.

“Even though she’s doing a PhD, she’s still like a little girl and falls head over heels for actors. One of her favorites is Bruce McColloch from 'Kids in the Hall'.”

Knowing how much she liked this guy, Castaneda introduced himself when they ran into each other by chance and said, “You’ve given us countless hours of pleasure.” The actor took page “Z” from his diary and autographed it “for the Scout.”

When Castaneda looked at the autograph, he saw that the man had signed it as “Kevin McDonald” (that is, another comedian from the show whom Castaneda had mistaken for Bruce McColloch).

“Blue Scout gets very involved when she watches television, and for example she shouts to a character: 'Come on, come on, come on!'”

"When she's not happy, the Blue Scout can be a horrible creature. Her true nemesis is the Orange Scout, with whom she often fights like crazy."

The Blue Scout loves taking everyone to Disneyland and uses it to untangle her threads. She has an energetic effect on the group, often launching 'energy darts' and then retreating. The Chacmools don't see or speak to her for months, and then she arrives and changes things, turning everything upside down.

Nyei then said that the following images, which might seem unrelated, were inspired by the Blue Scout: “The Blue Scout helps us become more resilient and disciplined. She knows other rendezvous points and takes us there. She is a flaming blue arrow, and you must earn her trust.”

Nyei also read the following passage about the Blue Scout: "Meet me at the café, just beyond the border, just beyond the sky… You must speak, and your silence must protect only your own love and not your heart, which has already been given to her." [At this point, Nyei became visibly emotional, and her eyes filled with tears. She paused to compose herself and continued.] "Strange beloved, stirring of an unknown memory. You dance a tango through our blood. Our blue dream, our butterfly that belongs to no one. For you, the intention of everything."

Nyei concluded by saying that the Blue Scout had given herself the name "Claude".

Renata, also reading from a prepared statement, affirmed: "Castaneda found the Blue Scout in the universe of the Inorganic Beings. She had been taken prisoner there and could not leave. He did everything he could to free her, a unit of blue energy that transformed his interpretation into that of a seven-year-old girl. Castaneda nearly died from the energy expended in freeing her. Carol Tiggs and Don Juan brought him back, guided by the Blue Scout."

What Castaneda didn't know at the time was that there was another energy unit behind the Blue Scout—the Orange Scout—which was also trapped. Castaneda's efforts freed it as well.

Don Juan was very worried, knowing that Carol Tiggs would have to give birth to free the Blue Scout. However, the matter of the Orange Scout was even more complicated, because no one wanted to help. Finally, Florinda said, "To hell with it! I'll do it myself!"

She also stated that the Scouts would not allow the Chacmools to teach the public unless people paid them, as their energetic viewpoint is: "Unless people pay a fortune, they won't pay attention."

Reni further stated, "The Blue Scout used to tell us that she was trapped in the realm of Inorganic Beings because of her curiosity, while the Orange Scout was trapped as punishment for her duplicity. But the Blue Scout is also a cosmic thief, even stealing roles and personalities. In the Phantom Theater, she once stole the role of Jesus and played it perfectly. A dream emissary told them that both Scouts were trapped in the world of Inorganic Beings as a result of their duplicity."

“The Orange Scout has to be bold in her theft, because otherwise, the Blue Scout will take what she seeks. . . . The relationship between the two Scouts is complicated and intense. When they first meet, they kiss and dance together. And the next instant they may be fighting. We believe they have been doing this for thousands of years. The Orange Scout is younger than the Blue Scout on this plane. Don Juan used to say that they were both about seven thousand years old or more.”

Kylie also confirmed: “The Scouts won’t do anything unless they’re paid, saying it’s the nature of the universe (though the amount doesn’t matter, whether it’s many dollars or a penny).”

She further explained: “The scouts write and direct the skits. The Orange Scout’s skits are very bawdy, raw, irreverent and funny, while the Blue Scout’s skits are sophisticated and ethereal. The Blue Scout, a great actor, writes great skits for Carol Tiggs, who is also a good actor.”

A man asked if the Chacmools knew where the Scouts came from. This question seemed to puzzle the Chacmools, so Florinda stepped forward to answer, followed by Taisha. Florinda stated that the Scouts “are, in a strange way, our guiding light.” She added, “They act with complete selflessness; even their apparent bickering is a great pleasure to us, for the Scouts know they cannot live without each other.”

The group believed they possessed an energy from "far beyond." She further stated, "We don't know who the parents of the Girl Scouts are."

(Cid's note: Here Florinda contradicts herself again, since Castaneda had been saying that Nury was his daughter, and on another occasion she had stated that the Orange Scout was the product of a relationship with "a huge, fat Indian from Oaxaca through a process very much directed by Don Juan.")

A man asked Florinda how she manipulated her energy so that the Orange Scout could be born through her. Florinda replied, “As we do in the world.” The Orange Scout was in Florinda “energetically.” The process was largely directed by the Old Nagual (“although he wasn’t there at the time”).

In response to a later question about whether Castaneda had a son and the impact of children on one's boundary, or whether having children creates a hole in one's luminous egg, Florinda stated that a child, especially the firstborn, “does take up the boundary. This makes it more difficult [to follow the path of the sorcerer] but not impossible. Castaneda never had a son. He was given a child to raise, but it was taken away from him when he was six years old. And Castaneda contributed a great deal of energy to the birth of the Blue Scout.”

In Mexico City in 1996

From January 26 to 28, 1996, a workshop was held in Mexico City, in the grand ballroom of the Asturian Center in Chapultepec Park.

Castaneda gave lectures on Friday night, Saturday morning, and Saturday night. He was asked, "What is known for certain about the Blue Scout?"

He replied that it was "my fault" [Castaneda's] that she entered Don Juan's world, because Don Juan always told Castaneda not to go into the realm of the inorganic, but he went and saw the Blue Scout there "like a 7-year-old girl who looked a lot like my father."

She said, "Help me," and he put all his energy into helping her get out. The inorganic beings had captured the Blue Scout to explore.

And Castaneda added: "Carol Tiggs brought her to life. She’s now the daughter of Carol Tiggs. This girl is our epicenter! She can do many things, but otherwise is normal . . . almost . . . The appearance of this scout is confirmation of the extinction of Don Juan’s lineage."

In Los Angeles in 1996

On December 7, 1996, there was an evening session with Castaneda and most of Cleargreen.

Carol spoke briefly, commenting that the Pasadena workshop had been "very strange" for them. She explained that the three witches "didn't have the energy; there was an obstacle and we couldn't overcome it. But thanks to the Blue Scout, who isn't here tonight, but who opened the way, we crossed the barrier and are now with the Nagual."

Carol further explained that when she had to say or present something, "generally the Blue Scout is not present, which you may have noticed, because we have this peculiar relationship."

Carol stated: "She is definitely my daughter, but [and she lowered her head for a moment] Nury is also my mother. And yet, I am also her mother, and in the world of sorcerers these complex and inexplicable relationships exist."

NURY HERSELF ATTACKS THOSE WHO INTERROGATE HER

From July 20 to 25, 1996, an intensive tensegrity workshop was held at the Pauley Pavilion of UCLA, where Castaneda, the three witches, and "Marie Alexander" (the Blue Scout) spoke.

On the second or third day, Nury briefly took the stage to deliver a blistering attack in response to a few people who had apparently come up between sessions and pestered her with questions about what it was like to come from another galaxy or another dimension. Her essential message was “Deal with your own shit!”

She also stated, rather convincingly, that her lack of memory about her life prior to Castaneda’s freeing her from the inorganic’s world had to do with the fact that memory depended to a large degree on one’s physicality. She claimed that in her prior existence, she had not been “bi-pedal” like a human being. Thus, any memory she could muster would have to be somehow converted to one that we–and now she–could understand within our “bi-pedal” experience.

This brief, but memorable outburst had a pretty strong stifling effect on questions at all subsequent workshops regarding Nury’s “pre-birth memories” of her existence as an alien energy “scout.”

OBSERVATION

This is one of the most blatant lies that Carlos Castaneda uttered, and it is truly deplorable that this writer did not care about inventing such a crude falsehood just to give his adopted daughter the status of a supernatural being, but both Nury and Tycho (the Orange Scout) were not extraordinary and they were very ordinary girls.