Guess what? If you go to April 1 2023 and see the post TAISHA ABELAR'S LOST BOOK - STALKING WITH THE DOUBLE (RESTORED VERSION) you will be able to read a manuscript copy of the book.
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NOTE JUNE 2022 I think Taisha Abelar is in life eternal but physically not in the body she came in with during her life that entangled with Castaneda.
Taisha Abelar, if you don't know, was one of the close devotees of the writer Carlos Castanada, one of his, if you will, "Witches," though perhaps what she was really was more of a "Sorcerer," or, if you will, simply a Yogini with a different cultural and religious sensibility than Hinduism, a sensibility that was about Ancient Mexico.
Today, March 30, 2011, is supposed to be the release date of a book she was writing when she, and the other "Witches," disappeared after Carlos Castaneda's death. This book has had at least one other false start that I've heard about. It has been "at a publishers" for years and the left behind employees of Castaneda's who give workshops have been very, shall we say, studied, in the way they use language to indicate that maybe Taisha is "traveling."
Years ago an employee of a coffee house I frequented turned me on to her first and only book, and it's a book that I've read more than once, several years apart; I like to see how the material sits with me and my own emerging sensibilities.
This book has more than the disappearance of Taisha and a few other cohorts - possibly in a suicide in a mine shaft in the Arizona desert but the bodies were never found - as a mystery.
It is also a publishing mystery. You see, the ISBN, which are printed on the back of most books published so that they can be identified by a code that allows them to be purchased by book stores with ease, are purchased by the publishing house in a block. This sequel will be sold with an ISBN code in that original block. Some interpret this standard practice as indicative that the book was actually written at about the same time, in the works anyway, and suspect that what has actually happened is that Taisha's estate took some notes and turned them over to a ghost writer - or two - or a dozen by now - to turn it into a book akin to the original. So did Taisha actually write this book and will it be anything at all like the original which was written, though she is called a "Stalker," while "in Dreaming?"
In order to turn out a book that is truly Taisha's, if the manuscript (or not) that she left behind was indeed in need of major reworking, the ghost writer(s) would really have to get into her head, maybe even live her kind of life, in which there was NO TIME for anything much besides the search for eternal life of a not Christian kind. And will this ghost writer(s), like all ghost writer(s), who never get credited, remain silent and be possibly the biggest publishing business secret since the supposed secret of who actually wrote Castaneda's books?
I've been fascinated with this story from the beginning when, after the disappearance, it was Taisha's estranged family who wanted her declared dead, some said, so they could benefit in some way from her estate, which was an inheritance from Carlos. Maybe those left-behind didn't want a planned group suicide to dirty up the Castaneda inheritance of magic or maybe, for all we know, it will be Taisha returned to this world, who will do the book signings?
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