Can you elaborate a bit on why you consider it the "2nd best" for this purpose and also what was your ROA?
I would have thought the double duration would be a great merit to it, although it seems you are saying since it has a slightly higher propensity for visuals this in your view lowers it from being the pure clear light nondual experince that 5-MEO usually gives, although I have heard of visuals sometimes with 5 also.
Sure, of course. For 5-MeO-MALT, I've tried vaping using a PG+substance mix and I've tried subcutaneous injection. The increased duration does give it a boost in my mind. Working with 5-MeO-DMT, it can be tough when it begins wearing off after 30 minutes and you've only just begun to have some real awareness-based progress. I should also mention that it takes about half the dose of 5-MeO-DMT to attain equal effects.
And yeah, I should have been more clear about the visuals part. I wasn't considering that a negative; I was more so just listing 5-MeO-MALT's characteristics. You're correct that 5-MeO-DMT can create what might be called visuals as well, specifically when the dose starts approaching a breakthrough. But they're quite different from any other visuals I've seen before. It's very much as if you
are the visuals, and they appear profound beyond comprehension and encapsulate divine wisdom. It's a very holistic kind of thing that's impossible to describe or even recall accurately.
One of the main reasons I don't favor 5-MeO-MALT is that it has much more of a stimulant-like effect than 5-MeO-DMT. It's a kind of uneasiness and a feeling of being wired. My hands will literally shake with tiny tremors when I'm deep into a 5-MeO-MALT trip. Additionally, it just feels like it's a slightly lacking in some key ingredient to the unitive mystical experience. I once used 5-MeO-DMT within a few days after to make a close comparison, and the difference was noticeably stark. It was as if 5-MeO-DMT places you right in the center of a road on your way to the nondual. And then 5-MeO-MALT has you going down the same road, but you're off to the left or right, taking an inefficient path, or even traveling in the ditch alongside the road. It just didn't intuitively feel quite as effective of a tool, even though it's more effective for this purpose than any other I'm aware of besides 5-MeO-DMT.
But it's also possible I have a bias of some kind that's coloring my experience, so I certainly wouldn't recommend against at least trying 5-MeO-MALT, especially if you're interested in this kind of practice. There's no denying its power.