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Summary: Introducing 5-MeO-MALT - The Other God Molecule            -5-MeO-MALT is a little-known research chemical that’s as powerful, if not more powerful, than 5-MeO-DMT.  Leo’s had some ridiculously powerful God realizations on MALT.  MALT is not as well documented as 5-MeO-DMT.  Because of this the potential dangers are higher with MALT than with more common psychedelics like LSD, shrooms and DMT.             Do not do research chemicals unless you are mature and understand exactly what you’re getting yourself into.  The responsibility is on you to use these substances very carefully and to follow all safety protocols and guidelines.            -Don’t expect MALT or any psychedelic to be a magic pill that solves all your inner issues.  Drugs won’t let you side step the need for inner work, meeting your survival needs intelligently, grounding between trips and proper integration.            -The descriptions of MALT in this episode are based on Leo’s experiences.  There aren’t many trip reports out there, so we’re dealing with a tiny sample size.  Your experience will likely be different because Leo’s a very experienced psychonaut who follows proper safety protocols.  He’s done hundred of trips and years of inner work.  You might have to spend years working up to the kind of beautiful trips that Leo has experienced on MALT.            -In this summary, DMT refers to 5-MeO-DMT and not n,n-DMT. ___________________________________            In a nutshell: 5-MeO-MALT is more loving, gentle, feminine and erotic than 5-MeO-DMT.  MALT has all the same qualities as DMT, but in a different flavour. It’s holistic, very stable and great for contemplation and trip exploration (more on that below). Visuals are mild.  It has a lower body load than DMT. Start with a low dose then work your way up.  Be responsible.  Ensure that your set, setting, and dosages are proper. At high doses, MALT packs an epic mindfuck that will melt your whole reality down to a puddle.  Say goodbye to all sense of “other.” If you have big fears about solipsism, don’t take MALT.              MALT & Dosing: The trip lasts 90 to 120 mins when plugged.  Only 20 to 30 mins when vaped. Dosing is similar for MALT as it is for DMT. Plugging starter dose: 8-10 mg Vaping starter dose: 5 mg Plugging is perfect for MALT. Vaping is more intense and more likely to lead to a bad trip.  The trip is a lot shorter too. Micro scoops are more accurate than milligram scales.  Scales can be wildly inaccurate, unless they're laboratory grade.  But scales are fine for measuring shrooms and maybe even DPT.                        -Make sure to post your trip reports!!  Leo’s excited to get feedback about MALT and start gathering data. @Gerhard has good trip reports about his experiences with MALT on his channel.  They can be found here. The MALT mega-thread can be found here.  It has a few trip reports too! ____________________________________               -MALT has enormous potential to psychologically and spiritually heal people.  It deserves to be explored and researched.  We're making history by talking about it.  Even most serious psychonauts don't know about MALT, and they’re missing out!             Leo discovered MALT by experimenting with various research chemicals.  He didn’t invent it in a lab of course, which is too bad.  I was hoping he had a secret drug dealer name, à la Heisenberg.             -There’s a powerful love component to MALT.  If you want to discover the Absolute, Infinite Love of God this is an effective way to do it.            -MALT will show you that everything is an infinite hallucination, infinite imagination, that absolutely everything you thought was real is unreal.  Things like science, math, logic, reason, language, society, humanity, the Earth, human history.  MALT will take you to Infinity and God realization. You will be coming face to face with God.            -MALT is not a recreational psychedelic.  Don’t do this at a party around a bunch of people in a loud setting.  Do this with a serious spiritual intent.             -Leo’s never had a bad trip on MALT, but this doesn’t mean that you won’t have a bad trip.  Leo starts with low doses and observes all proper safety protocols (set, setting, dosage).            -Exploration can be dangerous and risky, so you need to be aware of those risks.  How much risk are you willing to handle?  Misusing MALT can cause genuine injury, both psychologically and physically.  If you give a normie MALT and just blast his consciousness, he’ll have a bad trip because he's not prepared.   Your Body and Senses on MALT            • MALT has no tolerance just like DMT. You could dose often, but you shouldn’t do it more than once a week.  Don’t do it multiple times a day either.  It can become addictive.              • MALT has very mild visuals.  Slightly stronger visuals than 5-MeO-DMT, but not nearly as many as n,n-DMT.  There’s no fractal geometry.  It has a faint neon, magenta tint that’s very beautiful.  It has more colour and flavor than 5-MeO-DMT.            • MALT is much more comfortable, manageable and less nauseating.  It still has a body load but less so compared to DMT.  A lower body load means you can focus more on contemplation rather than body discomfort.            DMT has a pretty strong body load for most people, especially when you're coming up.  You can feel nauseated or get all tense.  You may have to work through bodily tension in order to access the deeper, metaphysical, existential aspects necessary for contemplation and consciousness raising.            • You’re still very much in control of your body with low to medium doses of MALT.  Because it doesn’t distort the visual field very much, you’re less likely to lose control of your body.  Although that could happen if you take too much of it.             High doses or breakthrough doses of MALT can create such deep states of infinite consciousness that you won't really be able to walk around very much.   Your Consciousness on MALT            • MALT is holistic and very stable.  Because MALT is stable with a long trip time, you can stay in the God-realization state for much longer than with DMT.  You can also experience long strands of thought which makes it great for contemplation.  Shrooms can give you short, twisty, loopy thoughts, which makes it less holistic.            • At high enough doses, terrifying levels of Oneness, Love and Ecstasy are possible.  (It’s almost as euphoric as watching Cap’ lift Mjolnir for the first time ?)             Yes, it is possible to experience so much Love and Unity that it scares you and drives you crazy.  Leo talks about this here in his interview with Curt Jaimungal.  Part of your spiritual work is raising your capacity to experience greater and greater levels of love and bliss.            • Too much MALT can unravel your mind and reality.  You can potentially develop mental disorders and lose grounding in your life.  You might start acting out in unhealthy ways with your relationships, career, money, your physical body, etc.            • MALT is very solipsistic.  If you want to maintain the illusion of other people, this substance is not for you.            • It'll blast away all your ideas about enlightenment and the stuff your gurus have taught you.  All of that is nonsense compared to what MALT can show you.   Substance Purity             -You have to be careful about the purity of whatever substance you’re taking. One way to judge purity is by color.  The closer it is to white or off-white, the purer the formulation.  If a substance is darker in color, you should start with an extra low starter dose. Just make sure you’re not having any allergic reaction to impurities.  Your body should feel good and comfortable, like nothing's being damaged.             -Start slow, dose gradually (by 5 mg), until you figure out your personal breakthrough dose.  Check for allergic reactions or weird sensations.  Does it feel healthy or toxic?               -MALT is naturally brown.  The MALT Leo used was the color of brown sugar.  Other trip reports say it looks like hot chocolate powder.             Route of Administration            -Don't assume you can handle a medium dose right off the bat. MALT is very easy to overdo and overuse because it's very potent.  The most that Leo has done is 22 mg plugged.  That caused a crazy deep trip.            Plugging Plugging is the recommended method for MALT.  Leo has a video on plugging.  Summary is found here. You can plug the freebase or HCL version, but freebase must be dissolved in vinegar or coconut milk. Here’s a video on how to do that.  Freebase is also 10-20% more potent than HCL. A trip lasts 90 to 120 mins when plugged. For plugging, start with 8 to 10 mg.  That will produce a solid trip, maybe even a breakthrough trip (Leo had a breakthrough at 10mg).  After that, you can increase your dose by 5 mg for each subsequent trip.            Vaping You can vape MALT, but it’s more likely to lead to a bad trip.  It makes the trip more intense and short.  It’s also bad for your lungs. MALT is so extremely potent that it’s easy to overdose and blast yourself into a trip you can’t handle. The HCL version doesn't vape as cleanly as the freebase version. A trip lasts 20 to 30 mins when vaped. For vaping, start very low, like 5 mg, and gradually work your way up.  Even 10 mg will be very powerful.  15 mg will probably be stratospheric.   Comparing Different Psychedelics             -Structurally MALT is quite similar to 5-MeO-DMT.  If you have plenty of experience with DMT then you'll feel right at home with MALT.             -MALT has some crazy deep potential for Love realization, while being less intense than DMT.  It’s quite a potent combination!  MALT trips are longer, so you can explore the space a lot more practically than DMT.             -MALT is more feminine, loving, pleasant and positive than DMT.  DMT is amazing, but can be rough, masculine and brutal.  DMT is very radical in how it deconstructs your ego-mind and takes you straight to God realization.             -MALT is more gentle.  DMT just blasts you to infinity.  DMT can be so shocking that it's difficult to understand and integrate post-trip.  MALT is less of a blast to infinity.  (Although you can blast yourself with any psychedelic at a high enough dose.)              -Don’t assume that all 5-MeOs are the same or good, there are bad ones too.  Each psychedelic feels different.  5-MeO-MiPT feels more erotic and physically stimulating than MALT.  Whereas, salvia and 5-MeO-DPT feel dangerous, nasty and sinister.  Leo’s also tried 5-MeO-DALT and said it was “not worth taking.”             -Having breakthroughs on DMT changes the characteristics of all other psychedelics afterwards.  It probably changes the characteristics of MALT too.             -MALT is holistic and very stable.  Two metrics that Leo uses to gauge different psychedelics is holism and stability.    Holism             -The more holistic a substance is, the more it allows you to think long, deep chains of elevated thought at a higher dimension, especially compared to the thoughts you have during the sober state.             -Some psychedelics make it easier to focus and contemplate.  Ordinarily, it’s tough to focus without being distracted.  This makes contemplation difficult, same with probing deeply into existential questions.  In order to understand advanced topics, you need a very very stable mind with excellent focus.  Ordinary human neurophysiology doesn’t generally allow this, or requires you to train through meditation and concentration practices.            -Some psychedelics can even expand both the length and breadth of your thoughts. Your thoughts can become multi-dimensional, multi-threaded and multi-faceted.  Much like going from a single core cpu to a multi-core hyper-threaded cpu.  Of course, integrating your insights afterwards can be a challenge.             -Unholistic psychedelics will twist your thoughts around, like shrooms and LSD.  Your thoughts can get loopy and twisty, like you have ADD.  That makes it tougher to contemplate because you lack focus and get lost in a myriad of topics and tangents.  That can also veer off into a bad trip, which is not useful for the work of raising your consciousness.   Stability             -The more stable a substance is the more you can explore your trip, probe into it and luxuriate in it.  MALT is remarkably stable, which is part of what makes it amazing.  It allows your mind to expand into a God realization state and stay there for a good 30, 60, 90 mins.              You can deeply reflect upon every aspect of yourself as God and how you are dreaming up reality, your parents, your birth, other people, even the laws of physics, math and the universe.  You get to see in real time how the mechanics of consciousness work and what's really going on with reality.             -Even if you’ve had some God realizations, it’s different than understanding the actual mechanism by which God is dreaming up this dream.  It took Leo many many many trips to understand that, and he’s had to use various substances to access that understanding.   “But Leo, MALT sounds very similar to 5-MeO-DMT.  Is there any point in trying it?”             -The real answer is you won't know what you’re missing until you try.  For Leo, there was enormous value in trying MALT even after using DMT many many times.              Each psychedelic will affect you in its own unique way.   They’ll also affect different people in different ways.  Trying out different substances and comparing them is like having an array of tools in your consciousness toolbox.             -If you can't access MALT don't be bummed out.  DMT is still amazing, so are shrooms, LSD and n,n-DMT. You can still use other psychedelics to access the same basic insights and states of consciousness.  You can also do it through yoga, kriya yoga or meditation if you commit seriously enough.               -The choice for “best psychedelic” isn’t clearcut, unlike the choice for best, most superior Chris.  Different psychedelics are like different flavours of ice cream.            -Be careful about dabbling in psychedelics while thinking that you “know it all.”  Just because you’ve tripped a few times doesn’t mean you understand how deep the rabbit hole goes.  So keep exploring and going deeper and deeper.   “But Leo, you keep having these awakenings and saying that each one’s deeper and better.  How do you know that your latest one is the deepest and truest one?”            -Insights on MALT do not contradict with insights on DMT, they dovetail.  You don’t have to decide “which trip to trust.”  Each trip causes a deepening of the same basic truth of Oneness, God, Love, Infinity, Consciousness, Non-Duality.  None of that changes.             You can explore Truth from different angles, perspectives and flavors and grasp it at different levels of holism.  Then you can integrate the Truth and see how it plays out across your life in ever more comprehensive ways.             -MALT will help you understand Actualized.org's most advanced teachings. (Yes yes, insert joke about squirting…water pistols—pewpew).  You can understand where reality came from, why it exists, what is God, what is Love, what is Truth, what is Consciousness, what is Ego?  What is the purpose of Life?             MALT makes the highest truth crystal clear, but it’ll take more than a couple trips, because you have a lot of psychological baggage and false beliefs to bust through.  You will have to deconstruct materialism, science, your gurus, your attachments, and all your ideas about enlightenment.             You need to lay down a foundation to understand all the radical insights that will come to you through MALT.  But if you gradually work your way up and do the work that’s taught at Actualized.org, you’ll be prepared.   The Legalities of MALT             -This episode provides general information about MALT.  What you do with this information is 100% your responsibility.  Consider the risks and dangers.  They’re not just mental and physical, but legal as well. “But Leo, is this substance even legal in my country?”             -Well, it depends on the country in which you live.  You have to check the laws and check the situation there.  Leo ain’t giving you any legal advice. What are the opportunities and the potential risks?             -Although MALT is fairly unknown, your country might have various analog laws that ban the entire class of psychedelics.  MALT might fall into that category, so do your research!   “But Leo, I don't wanna do anything illegal I don't wanna get into trouble.”            -Some psychedelics might be legal where you live.  There are different types out there.  It’s worth researching.            -Consider travelling to a country where you can do them legally. There are ayahuasca and peyote ceremonies all over the world, or ibogaine clinics that treat addiction.  You have to explore the possibilities and do your research.            -Most people have more options than they realize. If you're serious about enlightenment work and you don't take psychedelics seriously, then you're not serious about this work.    “But Leo, travelling to do psychedelics is too much of a hassle.”             It’s less hassle than spending ten years struggling in meditation and never realizing you're God.  Going to meditation retreats or therapy and buying book after book after book is a lot of work too.  That costs time, energy and money.  Even if it costs $2000 for airfare, hotel and an ayahuasca ceremony, if you have a breakthrough experience into God realization that’s still a bargain.   The Future of MALT            • MALT’s potential to transform and awaken humanity is enormous. The profound love that you can experience on MALT can have powerful therapeutic effects.  Same with it’s capacity to help you introspect into your psyche and observe your ego-mind objectively.  That makes it very powerful for dissolving dysfunctional, psychological tendencies you might have.            • If you try MALT, do it responsibly and carefully.  Leo releases his best content for free because he wants it to percolate through the culture.  Don’t slap him in the face by abusing MALT and giving it a bad reputation through reckless behavior.            • We’re building MALT’s reputation right now, by how we behave.  Your behavior affects the image of psychedelics as a whole field.  So don’t abuse it like a devil, by running through the streets naked on MALT.  You don't just have a personal responsibility to not harm your body.  You also have a greater collective responsibility to give this miraculous substance the right image and reputation.            • Extensive scientific research on MALT is still decades away.  Maybe it can be used to heal PTSD, suicide and depression, the way MDMA is being used.  But, if MALT gets a bad reputation, scientists won’t want to research it.  Society could demonize it, crack down on it and have it banned.  Then its therapeutic potential will be squashed, and the millions of people who could’ve been healed by it will never get to use it.  Do this work with love, respect and consciousness.   The Future of Actualized.org & Psychedelics            -Moving forward, Actualized.org will be emphasizing psychedelics as a teaching tool.  Leo’s done a lot of introspection on this and has to be honest with you: psychedelics are the most direct and powerful teaching tools.             -To really understand the advanced material he wants to teach, you’ll have to use psychedelics.  Leo’s tried many ways to access deep existential insights and they’re simply not as effective at teaching others about the advanced subjects he wants to teach.  Things like the nature of self, of other, of Love, God, Truth, Consciousness, Existence, science and so forth.  If you're not using psychedelics you're simply wasting time.  That's just the bottom line.             (Keep in mind, you don’t need psychedelics for a lot of goals like pursuing your life purpose, or getting a great romantic relationship, or healing psychological wounds, or handling your survival needs, etc.  Your strategies need to fit your goals.)   “But Leo, are you saying everyone should do psychedelics?”            -No.  You should treat psychedelics like a loaded gun.  You shouldn’t do psychedelics if you’re under 21, if you’re immature, if you have addiction issues, if you have serious mental illness, if you are being prescribed mind-altering medication, if you’re not willing to take safety precautions, and if you can’t take 100% responsibility for the consequences of doing psychedelics, among other reasons.            Watch Leo’s episode on “The Top Dangers of Using Psychedelics.” (Summary is here).            -Psychedelics and enlightenment aren’t magic pills.  Get good at basic self-help first.  If you’re pursuing Enlightenment before fulfilling your survival needs, you’re putting the cart before the horse.  They can destabilize your reality if you’re not already grounded or if your brain chemistry doesn’t react well to them.            -If you’re close-minded and don't have the desire to understand reality, then psychedelics won’t work.  It’s why some people can party and trip for decades and never raise their consciousness.            -If you abuse psychedelics, it’s also not going to work.  But if you use it responsibly, carefully and deliberately with the right intentions, it's gonna work.  Leo’s use of psychedelics is always done with extreme caution and with attention to safety.  So, Leo’s not forcing you to take psychedelics (and he’s definitely not sharing his stash with you ).   “But Leo, why are you so gung-ho on psychedelics when meditation and self-inquiry are just as powerful?”           -When it comes to pursuing enlightenment and truly understanding reality, meditation and self-inquiry simply aren’t as powerful as psychedelics.  Sorry.             The thing that’s preventing you from understanding reality at the deepest levels is your inadequate state of consciousness, aka: the level of consciousness that you're occupying right now.             The baseline normie state of human consciousness is insufficient to integrate every facet of the Godhead or understand how all of reality is constructed using God's imagination.            -It is recommended that you maintain a spiritual practice apart from psychedelics for other reasons though.  Meditation, yoga, and self-inquiry will build up your concentration skills and have other health and psychological benefits.  But the truth is those practices aren’t effective at reaching the deepest, most holistic understanding of God.  Meditation alone isn’t going to boost your consciousness high enough.   “But Leo, are you saying psychedelics are the only path to enlightenment?  Then why do so many gurus say otherwise?”            -Psychedelics aren’t the only path, but they’re the most direct path to God realization.             The problem is that your teachers are misleading you.  A lot of gurus who poopoo psychedelics haven’t tried them or don’t quite realize that most people aren’t spiritually gifted.  Sure, people like Jesus or Maharshi don’t need the boost to attain Enlightenment, but that’s probably not you.             A lot of gurus and people who have spontaneous awakenings have natural talent that put them in the top 1% of spiritual giftedness.  That’s why they can get disproportionate results by using easy, mundane spiritual practices.  The bottom 99% cannot get the same results simply through 30 mins of daily meditation.  It’s a deep disservice when the top 1% pretend as though the bottom 99% can stroll along the same easy path as the top 1%.            -It’s a ridiculous failure on behalf of teachers.  It’s more helpful and honest to say that you’re unlikely to be in the top 1% and that you will have enormous challenges that gifted people don’t have to face. The average spiritual seeker could waste 10 or 20 years on ineffective practices and still have no clue about God or Love or Consciousness.            -Why waste all of that time and energy when you can take a psychedelic like MALT and understand directly within 15 to 30 mins.  You don't need a book or a guru or a Leo Gura.  All you need is a psychedelic, a set of careful safety protocols, a genuine desire to understand and a very open mind. You can experience profound epiphanies that will save you years and decades.            -It’s a miracle that these substances exist.  You're not going to believe what this will do to your consciousness.  It will take you to levels that you could never ever reach through meditation or yoga, unless you were to devote 20 years to meditating and living in a cave.  Thing is, even if you did meditate in a cave for 20 years, there's no guarantee you’d reach the depth of consciousness you could on a psychedelic.            -Make sure you’re not in denial about all of that.      “But Leo, why can’t you feed me answers like a baby bird? Gimme proof for God, for love, for solipsism, for the afterlife, for death, for heaven, for for for…  Answer my questions goddamit, especially the creepy ones about your sex life…”            -Leo’s done episodes on all that stuff (even his sex life!)  He can’t keep explaining the birds and the bees of awakening over and over again.  There are lots of things you can only understand through experience and by doing the work.             Talking about something is not the same as viscerally experiencing it for yourself. Leo can’t explain psychedelics to you better than you actually taking a psychedelic.  He spends so much time on the forum and in the comments section and on podcasts or interviews trying to explain God or awakening or Love, when it’d be much easier for people to understand by taking a psychedelic.  It’s easy to waste a lot of time talking in circles around these topics.            -Most people won’t be able to understand Leo’s most advanced teachings without psychedelics.  There are many aspects of reality that can only be understood by experiencing a high enough state of consciousness that you get on a psychedelic trip.  (Basically, you have to be high to understand Actualized.org )   “But Leo, you're just stuck on psychedelics and blah blah blah-baddy blah…”             -If you don’t like Leo’s stance on psychedelics or you think tripping is fake and bad, you can always watch someone else’s content. Instead of trying to convince Leo to reject psychedelics, pick a more attainable goal like making pigs fly.                He has his own unique approach and bias towards spirituality.  To him, the responsible use of psychedelics is a more direct path to awakening than meditation and self-inquiry alone.  (Although those two practices are very beneficial in their own right).  He has to teach in a way that’s aligned with the deepest truths that he’s realized.            -Also, you can still get a lot of value out of Actualized.org even if you skip all of the stuff about psychedelics.  Leo’s non-psychedelic material is good for developing other aspects of your life. It’s also good prep work in case you ever do decide to try psychedelics.  However, don’t expect Leo to change his stance on psychedelics just because you don’t like it.