IPEC, the coach training program I completed has a Myers-Briggs-like assessment for gauging a person's level of consciousness. It's quite good but they charge money to take it. That's just one example.
It's not hard to design a questionnaire which will assess a person's level of consciousness.
Here are a few same questions:
On a scale of 1 to 5, rate how much you agree or disagree with the following statements:
Nothing is bad in the world. The world is perfect exactly as it is. I am able to give love freely to all living beings. Fear is an illusion. All living beings are interconnected. Science is a partial, narrow, relative way of understanding the world. If the body is destroyed, my true self will not be harmed. Morality is a relative human invention. Every religion is part true, and part false. I am responsible for creating my emotions. All evil is done out of lack of consciousness & ignorance. Etc.
An unconscious person will not be able to strongly agree to any of the above statements because their ego is too insecure and because their everyday experience does not demonstrate the above truths.
To an unconscious person the above questionnaire will appear stupid, childish, hopelessly unrealistic, and even delusional. Which precisely tells you their level of consciousness.

That 1/4 tsp you mention is not used for measuring the substance, it's merely used as a mixing container. Such a sized spoon is big enough to mix basically any dose of psychedelic that is safe to consume.
When you suck up the substance + water mixture from the spoon using the syringe, the suction will pull up all particles of matter, even if its not fully dissolved. Of course a few particles tend to remain on the very bottom of the spoon. But you can even suck those up by adding a couple more drops of water after your first suction, and doing a second smaller suction. If done carefully, that second suction should ensure that you get 98%+ of the substance into the syringe.
Use the microscoop to stir the substance into the water.

Firstly, you DO get some access. You have some access to it even now. You've been using God's creative aspect your whole life. What do you think your mind is? Don't take your mind for granted. It is a powerful creative force.
Secondly, there are still limits because that's what it means to be human. You cannot just grow wings and fly off into the sunset. Because God has imagined a rule-bound world. That is what your current state of consciousness entails. If you were to radically change your state you could grow wings and fly away. Which you can do in your dreams, for example. But you tell yourself that that doesn't count. Well, that's your mistake right there. You are imagining that dreams and reality are two different things. They aren't. They are just different states of consciousness.

You're not getting it.
MONEY is the hierarchy!
Money means nothing without a hierarchy of wage slaves who will work for you to get your money.
There is no escaping society other than through death.
You can live alone in the woods but you will still be intimately tied into society regardless of how much money you have.
If you watch Life Below Zero you see just how badly people who live alone in the remote Alaskan wilderness depend on society to save their ass. They could not live otherwise.

In this work you are not after a "picture of reality" you are after pure reality itself, which means all picture must be discarded.
If you want pictures of reality, go study science. Inquiry is not about pictures. It's about BEING reality.
This notion you have of "reality" has to go. It's just a concept. Deconstruct it. What is this thing you call "reality"? Notice it's just an idea. What you see in your direct experience is prior to your notions of "reality".
Strip all knowing from the present moment until you are just left sitting in your room with no idea what anything is. Even remove the idea that you are alive, sitting in a room. Or that were ever born. Strip it all off! Try to get to pure raw sensation without any ideas or images of what it is. Don't worry about missing out on reality. Everything that is true is independent of interpretation or images in the mind.
The fact is, you do not know what anything is. Period. Try to get your mind to see this. Don't just think it, experience this not-knowing.
One of the biggest reasons you are stuck is because you have an image of "an external reality" in your mind. You are taking this image to be reality when it is not. This image must go.
Consider the possiblity that there is no such thing as external reality in the same way that there is no such thing as Santa Claus.

@How to be wise Very practically for your self-inquiry, start with the premise that only what is strictly in your experience is true.
Under this premise, your face does not exist unless you are looking at it. And even when you are looking at it in a mirror, it still is not "yours" or "a face" because those are concepts, not direct experience. Notice that under this premise even the notion of "Truth" is not real but conceptual. Notice further than even the notion "real" isn't real!
The first most important distinction to make is between concept/thought & actual experience.
But then inquire further.
By deconstructing your web of materialistic beliefs your experience will ultimately become recontextualized into Absolute Being.
The Absolute in none other than what is in your direct experience right now once you strip off all the concepts. But there are a lot of concepts to strip off. Way more than you can presently imagine.
Psychedelics will help you see the Truth directly. Which will then help self-inquiry and deconstruction.
Truth cannot be spoken because it is the the sum total of everything that is the case. You could say that Truth is the physical substrate of reality.
Be careful with trying to conceptualize or imagine Truth. All concepts and images take you away from Truth or Being.
See video: Grasping The Illusory Nature Of Thought.

@Ilya The brain's Default Mode Network is constantly operating in the background, generating your current level of consciousness. Your current level of consciousness is the problem. It must be broken out of. Just being "present" with your Default Mode Network running, doesn't break you out of ego. You're just present as ego.

Ok, I've been avidly meditating for three years now... I've noticed an inverse relationship between high states and low states of consciousness; I'm curious if anyone else has noticed similar effects. Prior to any meditation or consciousness work, I've noticed that my frontal cortex was (engaged) in life: every little detail felt so real and it was constantly vetting, interpreting, and synching information... However, as I've meditated, become more aware, I've become more of a passivist rather than an activist. For example, while driving, I now passively observed street signs, people, locations, but not actively download the information: I have become a passive observer rather than a diligent note taker--I hope that analogy made sense. 
When I become super present I experience "no mind" quite frequently. I will have absolutely no thoughts, attachment, or judgment to anything: I am a mere observer of consciousness. Spiritually, this is blissful and beautiful; pragmatically, it's troublesome... 
I used to be extremely witty, fast on my feet, and quick to recall details; now I'm absent minded and don't really care, lol. I'm 20 years old, I'm thinking maybe it's best I take a break from this whole spiritual thing until my later years in life... I need my sharp, active, and engaged brain now and until I'm 50: I think it's selfish to call everything an "illusion" and opt out of life--all though I understand this paradigm. I still want to make money, build a family, and set my kids up for a good life. I'm curious if anyone else has noticed the meditative side effects? 

There are no fractals unless your are tripping balls.
Samadhi is identical to whatever you're seeing right now. Same stuff is seen, just under a different context.
Samadhi is ALWAYS the case. There can't not be samadhi. The only problem is that your mind is giving your present experience a false dualistic context which makes you unaware of the ever-present samadhi.
Look at your hand for a long time without any thoughts. That is basically samadhi.

@Gerhard I have to slowly build up my yoga because I have some issues with chronically blocked sinuses and sore throat. So yoga has proven challenging for me.
Sure, lots of yoga can work. You just gotta build up to it. And I did not come at this enlightenment thing from a yoga background, I came at it from a self-inquiry background.
But also, keep in mind, a state of Samadhi is not enlightenment.

A) Awakening to Truth does not necessarily end all suffering or pain.
B) Chemical addictions (like alcohol) can be very stubborn and will not change by seeing Truth alone.
C) There are many degrees of awakening. While Alan Watts clearly had some degree of awakening, I doubt he had Buddha-like abiding nondual awareness or a perpetual state of Nirvana.
D) Awakening alone WILL NOT transform or develop the self. It will not clear all the chakras, all the bad habits, it will not fix all the mind's neuroses, it will not make you a good person, and it will not produce emotional mastery or life mastery. Many psychological problems can be distinct from existential understanding.
E) After awakening, life must go on. Boredom can still set in and alcohol could be a nice distraction for some. After all, what is there to do, really? After awakening there is no need to do anything. There is not even the need to do good or be good.
F) You have no control over anything. Whatever happens is inevitable. Alan Watts had no ability to stop anything. Whatever the universe has in store for you, is what will happen, and you are surrendered to that.
Basically, stop expecting enlightenment to make you superman or a saint, or to fix all your Earthly problems.

@Anna1 That is wrong. EVERYTHING is Brahman. Your nonduality is incomplete.
If you have 2 things, that is duality!
The distinction between Brahman and world is something Brahman (You) is imagining.
All difference is God's imagination at work. So if you see a difference between things, you can be sure that you created that difference.
It would be wise of you guys to listen to what is being said here.

This will not fly at all.
You need TOTAL superhuman focus to breakthrough.
You have not even begun the work yet. You are kidding yourself still.
You can keep doing passive inquiry for 1000 years and not awaken. So be very realistic with yourself about how you are wasting your time. You have to be brutally honest with yourself about distrations.
Make a clear distinct between when you are seriously inquiring vs just screwing around.

@leintdav000 It's a phase. In the end you should be much more functional by being conscious.
Of course shutting off the mind disrupts a lot of egoic survival schemes, goals, motivations, and manipulations.
You're not realizing yet that the goal of spirituality is surrender of all reality and practicality. You cannot be liberated so long as you're worried about being practical.
After awakening you can pick some of that practicality back up, but while you are working towards awakening the point is to surrender more and more of it.
Yes, this interferes with becoming successful. But the point is that success is a never-ending cycle of suffering.
But there's also nothing wrong with working on success if you feel you need to. Remember, plan out your life in chapters and phases. If you're young you might want to spend 5 or 10 years working on success before you go heavy into awakening work.
So get clear about what you want and then pursue that decisively.
Of course the devil would say that
That line of reasoning is precisely how the ego maintains itself. You must challenge that if you wish to awaken.
The selfish one is you. You are so selfish you cannot even see your own reasoning as devilry.

Search "George Carlin and bullshit".
He's got some great examples of social bullshit.
But of course that's just the obvious tip of the ice berg.
 

@Javfly33 You're unable to figure it out because the truth is so radical:
You have imagined absolutely everything about your life, including your birth, your parents, your memories, the Earth, the solar system, the 21st century, animals, trees, emotions, thoughts, science, fiction, your death, the past, the future, etc.
And you are imagining right this moment that you are not imagining all of that but that it is "real".
So you're manufacturing all of reality while being in denial about it.
If you weren't doing this, you could not exist and there would be no world or other people. So you cannot stop doing it, lest you die.
The truth is you were never born. You merely imagine you were.
Understanding all of this would give you something akin to a psychotic breakdown. But it is called awakening. When you are fully awake, you can hardly understand how you ever believed you were born. Since birth is just imagination.
You are God.
Ta-da!

When the world disappears, what problems are left to solve?
Problems only occur within the relative domain, as a function of survival. They are important to solve, but only from the relative domain. From the Absolute nothing needs solving.
The most powerful way of solving a problem is by realizing it's not even a problem.

Just be ware that many of those negative trip reports can be very misleading. For me the experience is purely positive and pleasant.
Dosages on PsychonautWiki seem to be pretty accurate. Rectal doses are similar to smoked dosages! Making it very potent.
For me, rectal doses go like this:
Light: 20mg-30mg Medium: 30mg-40mg Heavy: 50mg+ But I'm pretty sensitive to all psychedelics, so you may need to dose higher.
Your starting dose should be no higher than 20mg to get a feel for the body load and vibrations.
With rectal administration the trip will start within 15 minutes, hit strong by 25 minutes, and last strongly until 2h30m. After effects tend to linger for quite a long time, at least a few more hours but you'll be out of the breakthrough zone by 2h30m.
Be very cautious with anything above 50mg. It will melt your reality.
DPT does not seem to come in any other form but HCl. The freebase version of DPT is oily and not suitable for storage from what I hear.
Oh, and DPT HCl refuses to dissolve in water at all. You can still make a suspension, but the actual DPT particles will not dissolve. This isn't a problem per se. It absorbs into the body just the same. But emptying the oral syringe is a bit trickier because sometimes the particles tend to stay in the back of the syringe requiring a bit more effort to deliver the full dose.
How To Plug Psychedelics video:
https://www.actualized.org/insights/how-to-plug-psychedelics

I will soon be renaming this thread to: The DPT Mega-Thread
This will be our go-to thread about DPT related questions, tips, techniques, etc.
As usual, no sourcing questions.
Here are some good reference links:
https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/DPT https://erowid.org/chemicals/dpt/ https://www.bluelight.org/xf/threads/dpt-subthread-dpt-dosage-methods-of-administration.399044/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipropyltryptamine https://www.reddit.com/r/researchchemicals/comments/8y7k3j/dpt_dipropyltryptamine/

It's unlikely such people will give you the spiritual support you seek.
This is why, traditionally, shamans and yogis would go off on their own. They leave their friends and family to pursue the spiritual path seriously. Then they return back home with newfound wisdom and know how to handle the situation without needing anything from those people. And/or they make new friends who are on their level.
Being a shaman is not easy! Precisely because you have to go against the grain of society and you will not get emotional support from those closest to you. You must be independent-minded to be a shaman because others will think of you as a witch.
Become as self-sufficient as possible. That's a great way to grow. Later you can swing your pendulum back towards socializing and relationships.
But a shaman needs to be really comfortable being alone in the silence. The emotional support you seek will come from cultivating your connection with God.

This substance seems better suited for that goal. It tends to penetrate deeper than 5-MeO-DMT. 5-MeO-DMT it just a bit too fast, it tends to come and go. This new substance seems to rewire the brain more. Or at least I'm able to use my will/intention to tell it to rewire me. This requires more testing to see what could come of it. Seems like a promising tool so far. I can see this being a tool to purify a lot of baggage, thus leading to better embodiment in everyday life.
I see a lot of potential in it if used properly with the right intentions by an experience student of nonduality/spirituality.
Of course I don't know how well it works for other people. I just know it works great for me.

I said eyes open!
Open your eyes when you read
Look, I'm just giving you my way. Your way may not be my way. Do whatever you want.
The fact that you consider the world of form "a dualistic distraction" is precisely why I'm telling you to keep your eyes open. So your visual field can be recontextualized into Nothing.

Freebase plugs just fine, just as easy as HCl.
It does not burn at all.
Freebase is actually slightly more potent per same volume.
I highly recommend plugging freebase.
If you need help dissolving it, just add a few drops of ordinary household vinegar before adding water.
Freebase actually dissolves easier than oxalate.
Freebase is thus the best form of 5-MeO since it both vapes and plugs great.
Although maybe oxalate stores better. Not sure but my guess is that oxalate will store forever. That stuff looks invincible!

It is does not overload the body and it expands consciousness so much that you are actually able to heal your body through pure imagination. At least my initial trials suggest it can be used this way. How you would use it I cannot say.
It feels very healthy to me. No nasty side effects. I find it very pleasant and therapeutic. It doesn't have any hang over or exhaustion for me.
Of course if done the right way.
Misuse can surely happen and most people would freak out on this substance. It will turn your whole reality inside out. So this one is only for the most hardcore and experienced psychnauts and spiritual seekers.
If your mind is impure, you will be taking a trip straight to hell with this one. If your mind is pure, it will be a 2 hour trip straight to Nirvana.

I discovered a new psychedelic which is as powerful if not more powerful than 5-MeO-DMT.
It is: DPT
Here is my DPT Trip Report video: https://www.actualized.org/insights/dpt-the-other-god-molecule
This will be our go-to thread about DPT related questions, tips, techniques, etc.
As usual, no sourcing questions.
Here are some good reference links:
https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/DPT https://erowid.org/chemicals/dpt/ https://www.bluelight.org/xf/threads/dpt-subthread-dpt-dosage-methods-of-administration.399044/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipropyltryptamine https://www.reddit.com/r/researchchemicals/comments/8y7k3j/dpt_dipropyltryptamine/ Summary:
DPT is for highly experienced users only. It's very powerful DPT can produce horrific trips for some people, so be careful The best way of taking DPT is rectally DPT lasts 2.5hrs at least For me, rectal doses go like this:
Light: 20mg-30mg Medium: 30mg-40mg Heavy: 50mg+ I am very sensitive to all psychedelics so your doses may need to higher.