Changa on RS

I am very excited to announce that my introduction to changa has been published on the reality sandwich site.
Many years of research went into this work, and I am happy it was well received.
I expected to receive some resistance from those that are devoted to ayahuasca. having been a member of the ayahuasca forums Moderatorship for many years I understand and am sensitive to how much ayahuasca means to people there. I am not shocked by some of the resistance and bias against changa or the notion that it maybe the evolution of what we have come to know as ayahuasca, by those that have for years worked so hard and found so much in what I think many see as THEE holy sacrament of entheogens today. I can understand peoples reactions even if I do not share their resistance or perspective.

The post on RS was met with resistance immediately, I was very excited to here a supportive response however to some of the criticism that I received for the article by RS member Linkx

"Important point that plant-based technologies of the sacred follow the same evolutionary principles as everything else. This means that evolutionary experimentation will occur--as is occurring with this changa--and most of those experiments will be abandoned by evolution. "Evolution meanders as much as it progresses."

Changa is building on the knowledge from two major evolutionary discoveries: (1) the discovery of the caapi/viridis synergistic combination by the ayahuasca pioneers (the birth of ayahuasca itself), and (2) the discovery by Western science that DMT is potentiated by MAOIs--no matter where the DMT or the MAOI comes from.

This data provides amazing opportunities for contemporary plant-spirit explorers to discover ever more effective and useful tools based on the discovery of the abstract DMT-MAOI combo. It is indeed an evolution of the original ayahuasca technology, and purists who a priori oppose such exploration can say what they will . . .

But these new ways of applying the DMT/MAOI synergy must be treated as evolutionary experiments--and again, evolution meanders; changa may be left in the dust and forgotten.

Then again, it may catch on and transcend the brew that birthed it, providing a new way for the voice and vision of the tryptamine to integrate better into our urban non-tribal-jungle-shaman context."

I am embarrassed to say that Linkx may have said what I wished to say better then I said it, but what is most important is that there are people out there that share this perspective and still willing to explore new possibilities with out falling into the old traps of puritanical fundamentalism. This is what really matters to me, and linkx response made it all worth the effort.
Thank you Linkx!!