Castaneda married Margaret Runyan in Mexico in 1960, according to Runyan's memoirs. He is listed as the father on the birth certificate of Runyan's son C.J. Castaneda, even though the biological father was a different man. [16] .

Jan 30, 2012 · Carlos Castaneda's ex-wife believed that a key figure in his spiritual bestsellers — Mexican shaman Don Juan — was an extravagant fiction, drawn in part from conversations and activities the...

Apr 12, 2007 · Along with his then wife Margaret Runyan (whose memoir, "A Magical Journey With Carlos Castaneda," he would later try to suppress) he became fascinated by the occult.

Margaret Runyan Castaneda met Carlos in 1955 – 13 years before the publication of Castaneda’s first book “The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge.” She met Castaneda when her dressmaker’s daughter delivered some garments to her apartment.

Sep 8, 2021 · To suggest that they were married in 1960 and divorced in 1973, and yet their son has never found any divorce papers, seems to imply the long-held rumour that he ‘escaped’ from his past life in South America (in which he had a wife and infant daughter) is true.

MARGARET RUNYAN CASTANEDA: A Magical Journey With Carlos Castaneda. In the Fall of 2005 I had the opportunity to meet with and interview Margaret Runyan Castaneda, the former wife of the author Carlos Castaneda, near her home in Peoria, Arizona.

Aug 31, 2017 · Facts about his private life were also unclear and contradictory; according to the memoirs of Margaret Runyan, who claimed to be his wife, he may have been married back in the 1960s in Mexico, whereas according to his death certificate, which stated that Castaneda had not ever married in his lifetime, he either divorced her or was indeed never ...

Jun 19, 1998 · “Much of the Castaneda mystique is based on the fact that even his closest friends aren’t sure who he is,” wrote his ex-wife, Margaret Runyan Castaneda, in a 1997 memoir that Castaneda...

Jun 10, 2018 · Margaret Runyan was Carlos Castaneda’s second wife. The couple separated after only six months of marriage but did not officially divorce until 1973. During their separation, Margaret Runyan had a relationship with a businessman named Adrian Gerritsen and had a …

Feb 5, 2001 · Margaret Runyan Castaneda was married to Carlos Castaneda (1925-1998) from 1960-1973, during which he wrote his first three books.