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Changa’s Alchemy - Narratives of Transformation in Psychedelic Experiences

Abstract

My interviewees claimed that changa awakened them from the spell of Western media’s mind control, healed them of their psychological and physical issues, relieved them of their addictions, and gave them the ability to communicate with discarnate beings in parallel realities. Changa experiences, and the interpretation of these in an individual or cooperative context, had thus led to significant improvements in their inner and outer lives. The aim of this work has been to explore how changa transforms the consciousness of those who use it. This conclusion will highlight what I feel to be the most significant discoveries of this research. Changa experiences are capable to offer users a different perspective on what reality is, presenting him or her with an unexpected and extraordinary experience, that she or he does not automatically know how to interpret. By introducing this epistemological uncertainty into the subject’s mind, the changa experience demands a sustained interpretive effort in order to become meaningful and acceptable. This effort sometimes requires faith in unverifiable metaphysical assumptions that generates from what consciousness perceives in the alter(n)ate reality that changa presents. Consciousness is obviously not static; it is a constantly evolving process. This process requires each individual (either alone or collaboratively) to select parts of the whole experiencing, placing them in a meaningful pattern, and elaborating on them in order to improve and modify their perception of reality. One may ask whether the transformative effects explored here are strictly inherent to changa (or to any related DMT experience). I believe this is not the case – rather these transformative processes are inherent to consciousness itself, revealing how inter-­subjective (and inter-­dimensional) articulations of reality can result in meaningful and life-­changing interpretations of ‘an extraordinary psychedelic experience’. Although changa experiences are short‐lived, the time required for their interpretation and integration is consistently much longer, often representing just the starting point of a new bigger journey. Psychedelic experiences in general are acknowledged as the root of deeper subjective consciousness (r)evolutions. Changa’s alchemy transforms perceptions radically and quickly, and its transmutative effects can be felt across all the mysterious mechanisms of a user’s inner consciousness. Changa’s alchemy depends from nature as nature depends from our collective consciousness evolution. And who is the alchemist then, if not a mirror of nature itself? ‘Entheogenic alchemists’ attempt to understand the outer and inner mysterious worlds through the instruments that nature has given to mankind. In this light, changa is depicted as the latest discovery of a magical creative tool for hyperdimensional explorations, opening a new interesting chapter in the history of psychedelic awareness.