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The Oracle’s Eyes- A Changa Ceremony (CT)
November 23 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The Oracle’s Eyes- Afternoon Changa Ceremony (CT)
Date: November 23rd 2024
Time: 2-4 pm
Venue: Muizenburg
Cost: R950
Book: info@wakecircle.com
From the South, we call upon the inner shaman, whom we reverently address as the Oracle, the Seer, or the Great Guide. We seek to awaken our third eye and hearts to a profound understanding, insight, creativity, and divine vision. In these exclusive and intimate sessions, you will be expertly led to connect with this formidable teacher, where life-altering transformations and profound revelations can unfold within a remarkably brief span. The Changa experience is often likened to being thrust into the pinnacle of an Ayahuasca journey, only to be swiftly returned to reality. It’s a challenge to find words that aptly describe what individuals witness, experience, and connect with, as it greatly hinges on one’s cultural and experiential framework.
Changa ceremony (Smoked DMT) provides a unique opportunity to have a profound and deep entheogenic experience in a relatively short time, allowing you to return to a fully functioning ‘normal’ life within two hours.
Given the brevity and intensity of this experience, the facilitation, setting, and the container we establish hold paramount significance. Every subtlety of sound, vibration, and intention takes on profound meaning and resonance. Upon entering our ceremonial space, we commence with a smudging ritual, collectively create our sacred container, and discuss the medicine’s nature and how to navigate it before commencing the ceremony. The sacrament is ingested only after ensuring everyone is fully at ease and secure. Subsequently, the space is gently and subtly guided through an exquisite auditory journey involving vocal sounds, evocative instruments, and moments of silence, itself a potent form of medicine.
As is common with any potent entheogenic substance, the potential for a challenging journey or reception of difficult messages is acknowledged, and we embrace it, for it is within these moments that essential inner work transpires. There is ample space for post-experience processing using Oracle cards and the guidance of experienced facilitation.
These sessions offer a unique opportunity to delve deeply into visionary realms, acquiring swift insights into our lives and the world.
You will need to bring:
Yoga mat/sheep skin/Cushion to lie or sit on
Pillow
Water bottle
LEAD FACILITATOR
Hymn Jay (Hymnj) is the founder of Wake Circle. A spiritual teacher, shamanic facilitator, and medicine singer with an exquisite healing voice, his unique medicine music style has evolved over many years of facilitating shamanic ceremonies. He is a father, leader, and healer of the divine masculine energy. Having walked an earlier life path as an award-winning theatre director, he has since committed his energy to engender transformation through the healing power of shamanic plant medicines, story-healing, and sacred medicine music, guiding people back into connection with their higher power and greater purpose.
About The Medicine of Changa or Xanga
Changa is a relatively new phenomenon invented by an Australian named Julian Palmer. Changa’s popularity has continued to grow worldwide due to its ease of smoking, more powerful effects and longer duration.
It is essentially a smoked version of DMT (Dimethyltryptamine) which is the active ingredient responsible for the visions experienced in Ayahuasca; this experience is significantly shorter, more vivid and more intense than an Ayahuasca journey. It is understood that DMT is naturally produced by the pineal gland in the brain, which secretes small quantities when we sleep to induce dreaming and floods the brain with DMT when we are born and die. In a safely guided ceremonial space, the DMT experience creates a profound opportunity to consciously navigate our capacity for intuition, divination and spiritual connection. As with many entheogenic medicines, it offers us the opportunity to ‘die before we die’ to get a brief glimpse of what lies beyond the veil.
The important thing to keep in mind is that DMT naturally occurs in our brains, so it is not harmful in any way. The MOA in our body breaks it down in our bloodstream very quickly. The only thing to be aware of is that it is specifically smoked, which means that to get the full effect of the medicine, we need to draw the smoke properly and deeply into our lungs. For people who have never smoked, this can sometimes be challenging and requires a little practice.
Recent studies done with Changa have also shown it to potentially have a long-lasting analgesic effect with pain reduction, particularly around musculoskeletal pain and even headaches. As Changa is a relatively new invention, much is yet to be revealed.
Preparing for your Changa Ceremony
To derive the utmost value from any plant medicine ceremony and ensure a safe journey, we must approach ourselves and the medicine with profound humility and reverence. To this end, we prepare our bodies as if embarking on a deep prayer, ridding ourselves of impurities and toxins that could hinder our full presence.
We strongly recommend adhering to a healthy vegetarian diet in the 48 hours before our session.
You must refrain from the use of any intoxicating substances, such as marijuana or alcohol, for at least 48 hours before our gathering. Furthermore, please notify us in advance of the ceremony if you are taking any potent medications, particularly those with mood-altering effects like SSRIs. If you have any concerns or questions, do not hesitate to ask.
On the day of our session, we advise wearing comfortable attire that allows you to sit on the floor or lie down with ease. It is also beneficial to bring a journal to aid in your process. Please bring a yoga mat or a cloth for reclining and a cushion for head support.
Above all else, the most essential items to bring are simply yourself, an open heart, and an open mind.