Name: Florian

Age: 29
City: Berlin
A. Experience

1) Could you give me a brief history of your experiences with alterations of

consciousness?
I've started using LSD for the first time at the age of 25. It clearly was a life changer
for me. I've started to perceive the reality from a different view angle and I became
more and more interesting in the psychedelic experience as a mean to expand your
consciousness.
2) Could you describe what happens when you smoke changa, in your own words?
First the vision changes, the image becomes more saturated and things become more
comic like. Then I usually go inwards and start to process things that bubble up to the
surface. Often things that happened in the recent past, things that had some significant
impact on my emotions. It digs through the surface of my consciousness and reveals
the unconscious. It helps me to realize and correct my own behaviour, it helps me to
forgive and to make decisions when I feel stuck.
3) In which context/setting do you smoke changa?
Since it's winter at the moment I tend to smoke it at home.
|My own room is lit up with lots of candles, I have my walls full of wall hangings
with mandalas painted on them. Entrancing music is played like psychedelic chill out
music.
4) What do you do usually when you smoke changa?
I sit, I process and I enjoy.
5) What do you experience when you smoke changa?
See 2)
6) What do you think about these experiences?
I think they have a tremendous benefit for human kind. I really believe that it is more
like medicine than a drug. It is my own experienced knowledge.
7) How do you feel about smoking changa?
See 2)
8) Do you know the exact composition of the changa you are smoking? (ie. Which erbs
are inside, the % of DMT, the DMT source)
Yes, I do. The experience depends also a lot from the plant it has been extracted from
since every plant carries a different alkaloids composition.
9) How does smoking changa effects your everyday life?
More awareness, appreciation of nature, everything that surrounds me: my fellow
humans, the public goods, my own capabilities. Gratitude for life in general. I'm not
sure if it makes me a better person though, but I would put it the way Graham
Hancock once put it: Through DMT I'm trying to be a better person

10) If you had to describe the most significant experience you had with changa, what
would you say?

B. Identity

1) How would you describe yourself as a person?

Nomad, open-minded traveling heart, circus artist, software engineer, geek,
psychonaut
2) Has smoking changa made a difference to how you see yourself?
Yes, every psychedelic has and LSD probably most. I think LSD is more powerful in
that sense than DMT
3) Has smoking changa made a difference to how you see the others?
Yes, same answer 2)
4) How would you describe the society in which we live?
Oh god, I'd rather skip this question :P
5) Has smoking changa made a difference to how you see our society?
Yes, particularly the fact that friends and others that do not live along the psychedlelic
movement judge me for smoking it. They think it is a very harmful substance and
every attempt to convince them fails miserably. To them it is a highly abusive
substance. I feel very sad about this state of a society that gets willingly drunk
regularly and has no respect and only disregard for psychedelics.
6) Do you have any religious or spiritual or supernatural belief?|
spiritual. I've done vipassana a couple of times and have been a regular meditator.
7) Has smoking changa made a difference to how you see those religious or spiritual or
supernatural belief?
Not much.
8) Would you explain how did smoking changa influence your life?
9) How you define your relationship with the supernatural?
I have read a lot about supernatural experiences, but I have never really experienced it
myself.
10) Do you think changa can help you accessing other dimensions or something like the
unknown?
I believe so, but I have never experienced this either.

C. Changa

1) What does the term changa means to you? How do you define it?
Changa is Dmt infused with Herbs that contain MAOI
2) How would you compare changa with DMT?
Very similar but changa is more grounding, more accessible, easier to smoke.

3) How would you compare changa with Ayahuasca?

Changa is different from Ayahuasca since drinking ayahuasca will result in a long
powerful emotional experience whereas smoking changa will result in a short
powerful emotional experience. Ayahuasca takes more commitment since it usually
involves a fasting period and a group to do it with.
4) If you can, please explain me what you perceived to be the differences between
smoking Acacia vs Mimosa Changa? (ndr. Those are two different sources of DMT)
I find Acacia to be a lot more visual! In the beginning I've always smoked Acacia
since I was in Australia but now that I'm in Europe I smoke Mimosa Hostilis is a lot
different.
Mimosa: Less visual, more intricate, faster
Acacia: More visual, more grounding, stronger

5) Which do you think could be the most common use modalities of Changa?
I don't understand this question. Modailty?
6) Which one is the most common use modality of changa for you?
See 5)