Newsletter 5/2002

A letter from Romania

A very touching email from Romania reached us. Young students are trying to build up a library and are looking for our support. If you have old books or CDs that you are able to donate, please read this letter.


Dear friends,

My name is Eduard Diaconu and I am from Romania. I write you in the name of a small group of students living here. These days we had the chance to sail on the Internet, and, among all those wonderful things there, we have found a link to you. And, after visiting your website, we were truly amazed by your vision over the human spirit. We are some kind of a research and study Group, trying to evolve our spirit, mind and body. Sadly, here in Romania it is almost impossible to rise from the common mass, especially when you use methods which are generally considered "unorthodox". They have such a limited vision, and anything which they can not understand, they classified it as some kind of "heresy" and never look at it again. You just can not imagine how refractory and rigid they are. But, you can imagine our struggle against the system, our fight for freedom.
After a long struggle, we have succeeded to open a public library. With some help from a local counsellor, we have officialized our Group as a Non Governmental Association. Then, to open this library was relatively easy. Though, we still have some minor problems in finding a proper location for the library. At the moment, it is located in a pretty old building, but we hope that we will find a more proper location in short time. Well, we have just started this "adventure", and those small problems are almost inevitable. What was really important was done. At the moment, our patrimony consist in just six hundred books and almost two hundred magazines, plus some video tapes and music on CD-s and audio tapes. The subjects of all those includes almost all kind of spiritual traditions, from Gurdjieff's teachings until Carlos Castaneda's way. And, even if almost half of books are in English, we have more than 15 visitors per day. We were very surprised by that. People are really interested, especially in eastern traditions. We have such a great desire to read and study your works, but, you see, we have also a big problem. The name of our organisation is "Sundari. Unfortunately, we are just students here, and I can assure you that you will never ever want to be a student here. Our life is so precarious. We are rich in spirit, but the wind is the one who fills our pockets. Well, this is our situation. And now, we are asking for your help. Can we dare to hope that you may have some used or deteriorated books which you do not need them anymore? And, if you do, can you mail us something? Regarding the materials, I can tell you that we can sure make the best use of any books in English, or audio-CDs or CD-ROMs. I just hope that we are not asking for too much. And, if we can do something for you from here, you can sure count on us.

Light,
Eduard & friends.

P.S. Here is our mailing address:

Eduard Diaconu,
P.O.BOX 3-70,
Pitesti Arges,0300,
Romania.

email: dyaconu_rom@yahoo.com