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Greetings Gabriel!


Thank you for really good letter! I like letters like this - just really busy times. Will replay a bit latter.

Just wanted to give you birthday greetings before new year celebrations ;)

Did you also read news about USA & DMT (erowid page) ?
http://www.facebook.com/notes/erowidorg-the-vaults-of-erowid/5-meo-dmt-added-to-schedule-i/10150124603727265
Here is other latest links you might want to take a look or comment:
http://www.facebook.com/notes/erowidorg-the-vaults-of-erowid/books-the-religion-of-ayahuasca/10150118380072265
http://www.facebook.com/notes/erowidorg-the-vaults-of-erowid/shamanic-ecstasy-channeling/10150118629652265
- if you go down on post history you will find a lot more!


Will see you again soon in mailbox:)

Hello Margus, greetings from Romania. I most certanly felt the calling of the shaman path inside me. I think certan people are more acutely attuned to the spirit world – or the metaphisical universe beyond... As my ancestors before me, i respect the plants that nourished, healed and taught us so much for so long. I’m now studying medicine and hope I become a pshychiatrist and study psichedelics and the human consciousness.

Romanians kept most traditions, but everything spiritual related was shattered and condemned by christianity – this accursed religion that has plagued humanity for millenia. But Romania had a long history of entheogenic use, and thanks to the research of our great historian and antropologist Andrei Oișteanu some of this practices where documented and brought to light. Our entheogens where cannabis (we still use the hemp plant legally but it must have a very low THC concentration to be allowed), Amanita muscaria – grows everywhere in our pine woods, and the „classics”: jimson weed, Henbane, Mandrake, morning glory, Acorus calamus, Passiflora etc. Traditional use of visionary plants in Romania was condemned during the „farmacratic inquisition” in medieval times, but it continued to be used alongside christian practices up untill the late 19th century and completely banned during the communist regime (1946-1989). Small minded fools...

Anyway, getting to the present we still have a very bad view on „drugs”. I think Romania is part of a very small minority of countries that banned Salvia divinorum or Amanita muscaria, we even banned morning glory seeds even if all our city halls still plant them in parks – such absurd are the laws today. I’m very sad because of this, i’m trying to educate people about this, about our past and our identity, but the communist propaganda created a really naive population that’s really easy to manipulate. So state 1 - society 0...
I’ve created a website where i translate important articles about libertarianism, entheogens and spirituality – to open people’s minds about this subjects – to breack the amnesia created by so many dark years of communist regression. And i’ve recived a lot of positive feedback, in specially about cannabis and it’s ability to fight cancer. I’ve met groups of people in Bucharest that go each year to Peru and partake in ayahuasca ceremonies. I’ve met great scholars and scientists that write books about this and we even have a publishing that’s specialized in translating books about shamanism and sacred plants (Elena Francisc Publishing), so even if its still very much underground we grow and we can look with confidence towards a brighter future for entheogens.

Greetings Gabriel! How are you doing?
I noticed, that you are walking the shaman road. I was interested how it is in Romania, are people generally open to these things & is government limiting the resources to explore the consicuness or do they turn blind eye for most of times when is known that group of people are using entheogens ?