The Shamanistic traditions would ever be weighed with due process culturally, legally, and  academically ? Shamanistic traditions  are  suspect  as foreign  oddities to begin with, but the added fact that they make regular use of  psychedelic drugs  makes them especially anathema. But then, shamans do not use the word “drug”  nor are they encapsulated in a lifestyle of Western stigmas. They  do not use “drugs” at all in our sense. In fact, the  closet rendering in  English to  what they  are using is “entheogen” which roughly  translated means “creating the god within” and they have been doing  it  for thousands of  years without destroying society, without Western values, and with some remarkably positive social results. Irony would have it that eventually Western  society  would  reconsider its  positions on ancient traditions beyond which we have  thought ourselves to have ” evolved.” Furthermore, that  irony is carried into the  realm of drugs precisely because these lesser ” backward ” societies have appeared to have found positive uses for psychedelics which our “advanced” society has not and which  must serve  as  a  bitter reminder  of our  failure to do what we do best: profit from nature. The  purpose of this report,  is to high light changing American  trends in the realm of psychedelics. Shamanistic redemption as a form of entheogenic  intervention ,also take a look at ayahuasca glimpse 2012 from Goithyja, a great piece of practical knowledge in this subject, helping people to partake with entheogenic substances in a more spiritual way…!
Done deal in May 20 2012