Julian Palmer
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Julian Palmer is an Australian ethnobotanist, writer and psychedelic researcher who created Changa, a DMT-infused smoking blend, in Australia between 2003 and 2004.[1][2] From the mid-2000s, he promoted Changa internationally at festivals across Europe, Asia, Africa and South America.[2] He has worked as an ayahuasca facilitator and appeared on Australian national broadcasters SBS and the ABC.[3]
Active in Australian psychedelic culture since the early 2000s, Palmer has worked as an ayahuasca facilitator.[3] He developed Changa as an alternative to smoking pure DMT crystal, which he found often left users overwhelmed.[2] He advocates for "intelligent" blends and the "sub-breakthrough" experience as a therapeutic tool. St John describes him as expressing "a spiritual anarchist sensibility", favouring individual autonomy over structured ceremonial formats.[2] From the mid-2000s, he promoted Changa across Europe, Asia, Africa and South America at festivals including Rainbow Serpent Festival and Portugal's Boom Festival — a period Vice characterised as "missionary work".[1][2]