Hello for the first time Nexus. I am here because I have been awakened. I don't honestly know what it was that unlocked this awareness, but it has changed my life forever.
I have always been open to the use of psychedelics like mushrooms and acid, but I have only ever done them recreationally, never really exploring my consciousness. Only recently, with the discovery of DMT have I allowed my mind to open and experience myself subjectively.
The first few doses I did were quite low, about 10-15 mg in my handheld vaporizer. It was...overwhelming, indescribable as you all know. Even at such a low dose, I felt as though this wild "between-verse" was unstable and just so much dynamic information being poured into me. A few doses later I tried puffing on my vape immediately after coming back from the initial hallucination period. I heard that it won't have an effect until you have completely returned to baseline. I would say that it has a diminished effect, but certainly an effect.
I am only just becoming aware of the power and depth of my consciousness through meditation, so Im still not very good at it. For the longest time, I kept trying to visualize something I thought I was supposed to see. Based on what I've read in books and on forums, based on what I've seen in movies, what I've heard from friends. I kept trying to associate a meditative state with this emotion, this sensation, this visual; and it wasn't until I used DMT until I realized that it was this influence that was keeping me from reaching deep meditation. Expectations bias your ego and thought patterns, and distract you from just letting go. You get so busy trying to see something that you forget to just observe. I am currently trying to be as skeptical as possible to strip away whatever I might expect to experience so that I may experience the truest nature of my trip and state of awareness.
I have yet to try Changa, but with the light research I've done thusfar, it seems like something that might be more condusive to my meditative method of dosing. Instead of taking it all at once, I toke the same amount slowly over the span of 10-15 minutes whilst meditating. The vape is perfect for that. Where the primary experience is in the meditation, and the DMT sort of bridges that gap between alertness and deep meditation. Peter Russel said something like, "It's less important how long you can remain in a meditative state, and more important how easily you can return to it". I find a greater stability in this experience. The visuals are clearer, and I remain more or less in control.
One last thing is: I have yet to break through. I don't want to say Im scared, but the power of DMT is something I respect and feel like I need to explore this lower realm before I dive into the deep end. I do intend to breakthrough eventually but I would like to do so with the stability of meditation. Im curious if Changa is the solution to that.
Good vibes

Hi, welcome to the forum!

Changa may not work too well with vaporizing, because the harmalas need a higher temperature to vaporize than dmt. If you insist on vaporizing and not smoking, I suggest that you look into the possibility of pre-dosing harmalas before vaporizing dmt. This works just as well or even better.

You can swallow 150 mg or more harmala salts or a tea made from 3 or more grams of syrian rue seeds. Or you can take 50 mg harmala freebase sublingually. Or you can vaporize 25 mg harmala freebase seperately. It does vaporize, just a little more difficultly than dmt.

Vaped harmalas take effect immediately. The other routes, especially oral may require up to 30 minutes to take effect.

Finally, as a meditative aid, harmala is quite interesting to be explored just by itself - without any added dmt.

Thank you pitubo. So I guess Changa is best smoked with a bong or bowl.
The more I meditate, the more stability I seem to have in the trip. I imagine it like taking a large enough dose to let the DMT give you enough momentum to break through the wall that seperates our ego from pure awareness, vs meditating and dosing very slowly I'm able to use breathing to control the intensity and clarity. I can approach the wall and slowly pass through it to emerge on the other side. It's like slowly integrating the breakthrough reality into your ego reality. I can then stay there as long as I meditate. But without the momentum of a strong does, I cannot go much further. There is still a separation between my observation and my experience.