Flyboy

Ahh but don't you see, that's the point. You can't know that. Your paradigm can tell you that, or you can believe other people, but all of those things are delivered to you through your senses to begin with. Thus, as far as your being is concerned, the senses are a priori to reality.

I would argue that psychedelics allow you to experience the truth of concepts you read about, and that this experience is tremendously valuable for knowing you are on the right path. While they are "drugs," I think they exist for a reason... perhaps as lights in the darkness to help us find our way back to What We Are. You can use the light to throw a dance party, but that isn't why it exists. Food for thought.

I'm halfway through the Book of Not Knowing. If you want to pursue enlightenment I HIGHLY recommend it! It's a great compliment to Leo's videos... providing an incredibly detailed deconstruction of the process of thought, conception, and construction of self.

@Leo Gura You can buy extra screens for the GVG, using 6 or 7 at once usually minimizes the run down. But you're right, herb seems to help too. I use a tiny bit of peppermint as a base usually.

Though there are many ways to smoke DMT, many consider the Glass Vapor Genie as the gold standard for a DMT vaporizer. However, even the GVG has a bit of a learning curve, and it is fairly expensive ($110). @Leo Gura Have you tried sublingual harmalas? Only about 30mg is necessary ~10 min before smoking. It tastes bad but seems quite effective and very much changes the trip IME. @Marten You can take multiple hits, but given the potency and how long you are trying to hold the hit for full absorption, I'd personally recommend trying to get the whole thing in a single inhale. It helps to liquefy the DMT first with a little heat, then fully exhale and take a loooong slow inhale and hold until time stops

I would also add that DMT has a narrow "window of vaporization", meaning the heat difference required to vape vs burn (and therefore inert) DMT is quite small. This can result in "failure to launch" on even a very normal dosage. This can be dangerous because you might try to smoke 50mg, have almost nothing happen, and then try 75mg. If you nail the vaping of the 75mg, you will experience something you Do Not Want To Experience. 30mg is a breakthrough dose if vaped perfectly. This also applies to cleaning your pipe. If your pipe has DMT leftover from a previous hit, you can easily accidentally over-do the dosage on a follow-up hit. Bottom line, go slow, be patient, try it with an MAOI, and respect the immense power of this molecule.

No, not a huge effect, though the MAOI has its own effects at higher dosages. However, it slows the speed of DMT down a lot, so it is not only less scary, it also lasts quite a bit longer. You probably want both of these things!

I'd do the whole thing personally (an 8th is 3.5 g). That's a pretty average intensity mushroom trip that anyone with a little experience should be able to handle. 2g would be a very light dose unless you are either very sensitive or it's your first trip. If you want to make it MORE intensive, a hit of weed on the come up will significantly amplify the effects. Just be ready for that if you choose to do it.

I had an incredibly scary DMT experience myself, where it felt like "game over" and that the simulation of life would not continue. My ego was pulverized unwillingly, and it felt like dying. After much reading and reflection, I now realize that this could have been a beautiful experience if I'd been ready for it and been able to let go, but at that point I certainly was NOT. I still have some latent fear from that experience, BUT I have found a couple things have really helped: 1. Meditate before the experience. Really get into the moment and present and at peace first. 2. Use an MAOI! This made a tremendous difference. 30mg sublingual Harmine will transform the experience into something crystalline and smooth and beautiful. I had no fear after the first hit, and took 3 more as I floated up and down in a beautiful state of consciousness. You can get Harmine legally from online vendors, so there's no reason not to try this. There is so much to explore and learn with this molecule. Don't give up.

The most powerful is whatever changes you the most, or allows you to realize the most growth. I think for a novice the high psychedelics would likely scare the hell out of them and they may never use one again, so obviously no growth is achieved. Mushrooms or LSD might be far more effective at first, and at higher dosages some may get more out of even these "classic" substances than something like DMT. 5-MeO seems to work in a specific way that makes the direct-experience realization of no-self more achievable, but as Leo has said many times as well, this doesn't happen in isolation--it is the capstone of all the work, reflection, and intent you have put into your own growth leading up to that point.

This question is mostly for Leo, but would love to hear all opinions as well. I'm on my own journey and have found Leo's deep explorations in higher consciousness work to be fascinating, with more depth and holistic richness than any other single source I've been able to find. However, I have noticed one interesting curiosity... Leo almost never expands on personally using DMT (N, N-dimethyltryptamine) as a psychedelic tool, almost always preferring to speak about 5-MEO. While I have not been able to try 5-MEO myself yet, I have begun exploring DMT in a number of ways and have opened a pandora's box of questions into the nature of the universe and reality. Leo, as someone so interested in exactly this, what is your opinion on the DMT experience, and why do you almost never speak about using it for spiritual work? I would be incredibly interested in your thoughts on these experiences, the entities and hyperdimensional worlds that one can encounter, and how these experiences "fit" into the picture of enlightenment that you have richly spoken of. I deeply appreciate the work you're doing, and would really love a full-length video on this topic if that's something you're interested in creating and sharing.

I strongly recommend https://www.dmt-nexus.me/forum/ as a resource, you will find a plethora of information there. In general you would be well advised to use a reversible MAOI like harmaline/harmine alkaloids (typically from syrian rue or caapi) to potentiate and slow the effects of DMT. If you don't wish to make/smoke changa (which is harmala+DMT infused leaf), I recommend sublingual harmalas (about 30mg should do the trick) about 10 minutes before vaping DMT. The raw vaping breakthrough experience is overwhelmingly powerful and you will likely remember very little of it / it might scare the shit out of you. Most prefer using some kind of MAOI in combination. Pharma-huasca is another popular method, which involves orally consuming about 200mg of harmalas followed by oral DMT 10 minutes later. Depending on the dosage, this route will give you a more manageable 4 hour experience.

Wow, this is very interesting to hear you say! Did my thread asking you why you didn't use DMT encourage you? I hope a video will be forthcoming!

I fully believe that 5-MeO is a life-changing experience. Interestingly, I have heard 5-MeO and DMT referred to as the "Power" and the "Glory" respectively by other communities (almost as if they are twin pillars of high psychedelics). Having experienced a couple of dozen breakthroughs on DMT, I can only say that calling this molecule "lesser" would be doing it a disservice. It is more powerful and mysterious than my brain can comprehend. It feels like waking up from a dream (aka. this reality) into a place made out of light that you have existed in eternally, and in that place meeting beings that are intelligent, sentient, autonomous, and vastly more powerful than yourself. On my very first breakthrough, I was fortunate enough to experience the "central light (also known as the Source)" -- which literally felt like being in the center of a star, surrounded by infinite light and power and knowledge. And in this place a great and powerful voice told me very clearly, "the purpose of life is to love." So, in the context of your discoveries on 5-MeO and enlightenment, I would be very interested to hear how you compare these substances and reconcile the state of consciousness contained within the DMT dimension. Who are these entities? If we are god and god is infinite, are these places as "real" as our own world, and are these beings on the same journey as we are--all manifestations of an infinite intelligence? Why can we access these states? Why is DMT endogenous in virtually all living things, even inside our own brain? I certainly intend to pursue these questions myself, but am only just beginning down this road and would love to hear a very advanced perspective on such things. As far as administration, DMT is more accurately vaporized, not smoked, so the "smoke" is actually quite benign if the product is pure and cleanly vaporized in something like a Glass Vapor Genie. The experience is short in duration, though like 5-MeO and Salvia, time very much disappears in this state of consciousness and trips can feel incredibly long in some cases. Harmalas can be combined with vaporized DMT to slow everything down by a factor of 2, making it much more digestible mentally. I have yet to try Harmalas + Oral DMT, but the MAOI diet is only necessary for a day or two prior, making me think this "pharma-huasca" has great potential for exploration as well.