Tripping is how you earn wisdom.
Unearned wisdom are all these spiritual rats following Ekhart Tolle, Rupert Spira, Mooji, and the like.

I know people who know him.
And Owen constantly makes fun of his own looks. Why do you think he does that? Because he's compensating for it. He knows full well that his looks hurt him. The only ones who don't know it are those brianwashed with pickup theory.
Like I said, Owen is a worldclass bullshitter. That's what pickup is all about.

Being single is not a problem at all, but you will get lots of people tell you otherwise. Ignore it...
Being in a relationship takes a huge amount of self development. 
So develop yourself first before getting into a relationship again.
Also, you are still young, in your 20s you most likely are emotionally immature, so just focus on yourself and make yourself a valuable human being.

@Freyah I use those shallow examples basically to mock many stage Orange relationships/marriages. It's said tongue-in-cheek. I like to amuse myself with silly examples. Silly, but still true. It shows the absurdity of the typical human life.
Of course it does not have to be that way. Relationships are great and I'm all for deep intimate spiritual relationships. If you manage to actually pull that off, you'll be a hero in my eyes. That's challenging stuff.

I don't believe in marriage.  I feel like the most loving thing you can do for a person is to allow them the option to leave if they want to and marriage is a barrier to that.  I understand it is used as a ceremony to cement two people's commitment, but I view it as an outdated thing that is still common in this day and age, but it doesn't need to be.  On top of this, these ceremonies are not unique, they have a certain structure that you have to follow that don't give the couple much room to even explore what their commitment means to them.  I don't like the idea of having to stand up in front of an audience of people and recite my vows, kiss them, put on a ring and eat a slice of expensive cake.  Speaking of expensive, weddings cost money.  So do divorces.  And people change over time, you can't be assured that one person isn't going to outgrow the other one.  It's not easy to stay on the same page, and being expected to do that for a lifetime sounds horrible.
I would rather know that someone is with me because they choose to be and not because they are forced to be.  Just as I want an out if it doesn't work, I want them to have that as well.
That said, I like the idea of collaring ceremonies.  Like wearing a thin gold band around the neck and doing something more intimate and private.  It would mean the same thing, but without the legal system getting in the way, and if the relationship fails, just take the key, open the lock and set them free.  The idea of 'belonging' to someone, and having created a unique and personal experience of that means more to me then following the social script.  
But you know, some people are really into that and they make it work so more power to them.  It all just depends on your personal preferences and in some cases the culture you are raised in.

All 5-MeOs are pretty interchangeable for me.

Inspired by the videos of Gerhard Fourie, I would like to reflect back upon my journey after finishing 500mg of 5-MeO-MALT
 
Firstly I would like to say that 5-MeO-MALT is not like other psychedelics. What you hit on Malt and the way it hits, it is very rarely found in other psychedelics, let alone with other techniques, to consistently and directly make you more CONSCIOUS, more consciousness in consciousness, that's how I would explain it, although you will have to experience it for yourself through dozens and hundres of trips. With time, it is like entering into a carpentry, one individual sees only wood, and the carpinter master sees the different types of wood, how it was cut, the whole process since seed going through life and being cut, how to cut it and then process it, make furniture out of it and conserve it over time, mantain it and so on. In the same way, it is with psychedelics but some domains of inquiry into Reality are more profound wood and obviously this is also the case within the domain of psychedelics. In the end, it boils down to direct experience with how it ends up afecting you and how your life changes after that.
Many moments while tripping that I hope I could communicate to you but you'll have to live them to get the full taste. There has been a lot of purification while working with the entheogen. In multilevel, from mind, to body, feelings, perceptions, sensations, existential aspects of this moment that are purified and reconnected, rehonored, reunited. Not as a new union that is somehow generated by the imaginary substance you just took but because it is actually the case, it is true. This purguing and katharsis has been intense and I'm still going through it. I sometimes feel if there will be an end to cleansing oneself, to healing and self love.
Self-Love is one of the main themes of Malt. It has this beautiful sweet rose loving energetic embracement and cosmic rejoice and relinking to it. This property in fact has been deepening and opening like a rose in every trip. This self-love takes many forms surely but as different tastes of icecream is still icecream, I am becoming more conscious of way I can love myself and others as myself because we are one self being many selves and many selves being one Self. When you start discovering love you realize it is the answer to all problems and questions. The best thing about it is that in truth you don't have to make it more loving or love it more, because it is Already Love. Love is a very good point of Malt. However, I have to say that Malt seems to lack for me the full God Component that I'm looking to fully awaken to. This is the reason why I'll try very soon 5-Meo-DMT because I have the intuition that it will trigger God effectively and efficiently, they call it the God molecule for something. You also need to understand that even though Malt is extraordinary, if you eat your favourite dessert every day you will finish sick of it. That's why exploring the wide buffet of psychedelics can provide variety in tastes, flavours, states, spaces, energy, colours, vibrance, aliveness, presence, holism, brilliance, self-abidance.
I do not recommend this only with psychedelics but with any methodology or lack there of, to awaken. Explore! As Antonio Machado, a Spanish writter once said:

"Traveler, your footprints
are the only road, nothing else.
Traveler, there is no road;
you make your own path as you walk.
As you walk, you make your own road,
and when you look back
you see the path
you will never travel again.
Traveler, there is no road;
only a ship’s wake on the sea."
 
 
I like to condense experiences with photos that convey the more emotional and tacit aspect of experience that connot be communicated through symbolic language, although a poet does literally that. Poetry is an attempt of the imposible but it is irresistibly done out of Love. Malt is very wavy oceanic sunrise & sunset, like the poem, like the pictures.
It definetely has mode me more conscious both in my daily live and obviously in the trips themselves. It has lead to such crazy Awakenings. How would I describe such levels of Awakening? Imagine you thought you arrived to the end of Awakening, just to Awake; and relize that was only the beginning. This is capable, and Malt has allowed me to do so in synergy and symbiosis with the other aspects of my life. Although everything has its lights and shadows. And so does Malt.
What are the down sides of Malt? Honestly by the Malt itself not many but by the use and what you make out of it quite a lot. The potential for self-deception is always there and the potential of making mistakes as shit happens in everything you need also to be intelligent and wise with your approach and relationship with it. How? It is an ongoing process it will itself guide you but you'll have to learn and a big part of learning is by mistakes and suffering but also Love is a great Teacher. You'll get both in life and also with Malt. Everything according to it's nature. The purging can be intense but it is like medicine in a way, tastes bad but you know it is good and feels nurturing.  Another negative potential, as with any such strong psychedelics, is the risk of bypassing. It is genuinly a shorcut in many ways but also a double handed sword. In a way it is not an error or bug it is a feautre. Human life gets into a differ context while in such states of consciousness. This has to be balanced with outside work, a good and stable life. In a stable and fulfilling life, Awakening becomes easier. Shivapuri Baba
I have also explored the substance in other contexts. This involves some risks but with experience you learn to asses them and deal with them. So in your confidence forged by experience you think, what would feel like to be in a nudist beach while on Malt? How would it be going to the mountain and swim in the river with Malt? How does it feel like tripping with other people in different scenarios? Inside and outside of your comfort zone? How does MALT make me live certain experiences of life? How does it feel like to do this on Malt? I have many trip reports here published on those trips.
Malt has also made me more intelligent. I suspect this is for its holism property combined with its stability. It is a good generator of insights. I feel my brain interconnecting deeper the following days after a good Malt trip. Literaly I can feel the different parts of my brain with river branch like connections. It is a bit painfull but it also feels amazing, like rewiring my own brain, like flexing muscle you can also think so deep and so hard that your brain itself will ache and grow stronger, the same way as in the gym. Malt is good for mind gimnastics indeed
In terms of sensorial and spacious experience. It definetely has made everything more clear and sharp. Like going from 1080p to 4K to 360º, everything feels more itself, like you are a cat with ultra instincs, alert and relaxed at the same time.
Okay, I'll wrap it up. Malt is a unique Entheogen that is very useful for Awakening and Feeling. It has a rose femenine vibe of openeness and gentleness to its unfoldment although it can be brutal as mother nature but in keeping things in balance with a caring and rejuvenating approach. I do think it has the potential to make an impact in the world, if studied properly by psychiatrist, biochemist, psychologist, therapists, coaches and philosophers. We are still in the dark ages of psychedelic research. Doing my bit, I find Malt gentle, I could have handled it as one of my firsts substances if starting with low doses. I really don't feel like you have to build your way up to Malt with other psychedelics. I find it gentle enough and easy to work with, start low and keep experimenting. LSD and mushrooms can be much more difficult to handle in many circumstances, more loopy and twisted. So if you want a good psychedelic to become proffecient at and explore even from the very beginning with intelligent caution Malt is the best I have found.
 

My brother made several million investing in Tesla.
But you are much more likely to lose all your money.

The way it worked for me was, I went through a phase of toying around with those ideas, but then emerged out the other end and now when I trip I have zero suicidal thoughts because I just see them as silly nonsense. My mind has stopped even "going there" because I am focused on much grander things.
But there was a phase of maybe a year where my trips would include some suicidal thoughts. Not too serious, but still unnerving. It's a hump I think everyone will have to get over at some point of they trip a lot. Because you cannot avoid facing your own human mortality in this work. At some point you have to confront it. The key is simply to make a commitment to yourself never to physically act on it.

Anyone here who claims to be AWAKE, or to understand what AWAKE is, or what GOD is, or what CONSCIOUSNESS is -- is fooling themselves.
The only one here who understands these things is ME.
This does not mean, however, that I cannot sometimes be full of shit myself. I can. I am not perfect. But not on this issue.
Enlightenment is not AWAKE.
Buddhism is not AWAKE.
Nonduality is not AWAKE.
No amount of meditation is AWAKE.
There will be a lot of bitching and moaning over this issue. But I simply told you the truth.
You've been warned. This is way more tricky than you ever imagined. My function here is to guide people through every trick. But the problem is, they don't want to be guided because they already think they've figured it out. Don't be that guy.

This is different from regular bacopa.  This nootropic contains ebelin lactone, which is a positive allosteric modulator for the 5-HT-2A receptor, which is largely responsible for the effects of serotonergic psychedelics.
I tried taking it with mushrooms, and the trip lasted 8 hours instead of the usual 5 hours.  So the effects are similar to harmala alkaloids (maybe not quite as potent, it’s hard to say from only one experience), but due to a different chemical mechanism, there aren’t the same dietary restrictions as harmala, and the mild physical side effects I get from harmala were also absent.
It also significantly increases the strength of lysergamides.  I tried it with Hawaiian baby woodrose seeds (LSA), and the first half of the trip was much stronger than normal, although the total duration was unchanged.
Cognance also about doubles the potency of cannabis, and has interesting effects when taken by itself, similar to a psychedelic microdose.

I am you.
You typed it.
As already said above, because you want to awaken. You typed it because you are not yet conscious that I am you and you are me.

Just interested in what people think. There's a divorce rate of over 50% now in the US and UK (not sure the stats of other countries) and from an anecdotal perspective there's not many relationships I know where the people involved seem happy, it either feels like they're trying to convince themselves of it or they've just given up and are just going along with it cos they're scared to break up. I'm talking about long term relationships or marriages btw obviously the first year or so is usually smooth. 
I've heard genetically that we're disposed to be attached for 3 years or so which is enough time to procreate and start raising the child. 
Also if you think about it, we're in one of the first generations to be very strict about monogamy in terms of cheating, most generations before us it wasn't really a big deal and was one of those things where it was kind of accepted but not spoken about. 
https://youtu.be/w8SOQEitsJI
 
Anyway check out the video and let me know what you think, I'm not really for or against either just think it's an interesting topic 

Consciousness is Nothing, boundless, no borders.
That´s it, awaken that there is only Dreaming, 

Mostly against, as it is speculation.
I have an investment in Bitcoin. But my financial sitauation is different than most of you. If you don't have lots of extra money then I would not place it in crypto. Stocks are a much better investment.

Sounds like you are doing it right
General mistakes I observe people make: 
stop after a few trips too high a dose too quickly  trip with sketchy people they don’t know well  don’t integrate what they learn…   the right way to use it would be to listen to your intuition and let it guide you.

@PetarKa Yes, of course! Which is why you can't think your way to enlightenment.
Thinking about enlightenment/truth isn't it, it's just more thinking. Thinking about awareness is not the same as being aware.
This is the key trap of mind: it thinks that it can think itself out of thinking into awareness, but that's just more thinking!
What's required is to realize this trap, and drop thinking (at least for a while).
Thinking is just one mode of approaching life, and then there's an infinite number of other modes.
There is a discontinuous jump between map and territory. An insight -- an ah-ha! moment -- is required here.

There really isn't. It's best not to fool yourself that there is.
Study whatever major most fascinates you or helps your career.
Psychology, philosophy, sociology, comparative religion -- these might fascinate you if you enjoy my work.

@Hardkill
   Because technically he is mentally fit, as Donald Trump doesn't have dementia or other mental defects thwt Joe Bidan was exhibiting before. At least comparison on those terms.
   Comparisons based on the SD stages of development, cognitive and moral development, personality typing and traits, ego development, Integral theory's other lines of development in life and societal domains, and ideologically beliefs indoctrinated by culture and family upbringing, self bias and preferences, among other factors we can see Joe Bidan as the better pick for president than Donald Trump overall, excluded future candidates for presidency.

Thank you
It's funny whenever you say someone is projecting, you can almost always flip it.  I actually heard something super interesting about that...
If you think about it, ANYTHING you've ever "thought" about what "someone else thinks" IS projecting, because all you ever have is your own experience to judge what others are experiencing.  It's probably good to keep in mind how utterly rampant and subtle this is for everyone

I understand.
You need to understand this: You have become a drug addict, and this has robbed your whole life from you. Your number one priority now must be to quit drugs forever and build a sober life. It will be challenging at first, but it will be better than being a drug addict. The good news is that weed should not be so hard to quit. It's not like heroin.
If you need help, consider researching a 12-step program for addicts, where experienced folk can give you support.
It's just addiction. That's all. You can kick it. Once you go sober, the rest of your problems will be much easier to solve. You don't need weed to live a good life. You just need to reach a point of pain where you clearly feel like you never wanna do weed again in your life because it's not worth the suffering it generates.

You are imagining them right now. Take a look.
Your entire life chromosomes have existed in your mind.
Some fool told you chromosomes exist, and you believed him and imprinted that idea in your mind without any second thought.
You have never seen a chromosome. It's an idea you hold. If you are not experiencing it, then it must be an idea.
Looking into microscopes is also an idea you hold.
Sitting on a planet is also an idea you hold.
"But Leo! In school I looked in a real microscope! So what about that?"
Going to school is also an idea you hold.
"No Leo, I really went to school! That's not an idea!"
That's an idea you hold.
How deep do you dare to go?
How much of your life is ideas?

Ahahahaha...
How cute
But how about you point to the line between you and my dick. I dare you.
My dick is literally made out of your mind.
My dick has always been inside your mind.
Ta-da!

Is there?
That's your projection. Animals do not understand such things.
Acting out in ways YOU have classified as male-female does not make an animal male or female.
As always, YOU are the one drawing these definitions as part of how you construct your reality.
YOU do it, but then deny you did it so that it can feel more real for you.
There's not even such a fucking thing as an "animal". You invented "animal" in order to make yourself feel "human".
You invented the line between you and an animal, you and a male/female, you and everything else. You and your lines are bullshit. When you gotta realize that?
Go look at a dick or vagina on your phone. Then realize that is your dick and your vagina equally. Both are literally yours. You are the one who imagines that a dick on your phone is not you. And this imagination is the ego.
You see? Somewhere in your early childhood you bought into the silly idea that a dick must be attached to your body in order for it to be yours. You never questioned how absurd that idea was. You just accepted it like a gullible fool. It never occurred to you that every dick on the planet is yours.
Obviously

It's way more twisted than you imagine.
Human is a social construct.
Being alive is a social construct.
And even social construct is a social construct