Psychedelics are often framed today as medicines for trauma and therapy—but what if they are something more? In this episode, we sit down with Justin Levy, founder of Spirit House in Portland, Oregon, to explore psychedelics as a path of devotion, surrender, and cultural rebirth.

Justin shares his journey from early rave experiences to work with kundalini, capoeira, and ayahuasca, and how these threads wove together into a living spiritual practice. Together we ask: How do psychedelics invite us to crack open and encounter Spirit? What does it mean to center devotion rather than therapy? And how can we midwife a new spiritual culture in the midst of collapse and transformation?

This is a conversation about the terrifying beauty of the goddess, the messiness of birth, and the possibility that spirit is emerging through unexpected places—if we are willing to give ourselves fully to it.

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