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created_at: '2017-06-01T00:45:07.000Z'
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title: The dark legacy of Carlos Castaneda (2007)
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url: http://www.salon.com/2007/04/12/castaneda/
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author: dbcooper
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2018-06-08 12:05:27 +00:00
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year: 2007
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2018-03-03 09:35:28 +00:00
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Whether disciples were allowed to stay or forced to leave seems often to
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have depended on the whims of a woman known as the Blue Scout. Trying to
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describe her power, Ward recalled a "Twilight Zone" episode in which a
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little boy could look at people and make them die. "So everyone treated
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him with kid gloves," she said, "and that's how it was with the Blue
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Scout." She was born Patricia Partin and grew up in LaVerne, Calif.,
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where, according to Jennings, her father had been in an accident that
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left him with permanent brain damage. Partin dropped out of Bonita High
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her junior year. She became a waitress, and, at 19, married an aspiring
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filmmaker, Mark Silliphant, who introduced her to Castaneda in 1978.
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Within weeks of their marriage she left Silliphant and went to live with
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Castaneda. She paid one last visit to her mother; in keeping with the
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nagual's instructions, she refused to be in a family photograph. For the
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rest of her life, she never spoke to her mother again.
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