"Immortality influencer" Bryan Johnson recently livestreamed his second-ever psilocybin trip "for science." But was it, really? Derek and Julian break down the performative nature of this stunt and discuss the growing right-wing influence on psychedelics culture.
Show Notes
<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/bryan-johnson-shrooms-livestream-trip/">Bryan Johnson Has Discovered Shrooms, and He Really Wants You to Know It</a>
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/technology/david-sacks-white-house-profits.html">Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends</a>
<a href="https://www.gq.com/story/how-the-right-coopted-psychedelics">How the Right Coopted Psychedelics</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

"Immortality influencer" Bryan Johnson recently livestreamed his second-ever psilocybin trip "for science." But was it, really? Derek and Julian break down the performative nature of this stunt and discuss the growing right-wing influence on psychedelics culture. Show Notes Bryan Johnson Has Discovered Shrooms, and He Really Wants You to Know It Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends How the Right Coopted Psychedelics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Immortality influencer" Bryan Johnson recently livestreamed his second-ever psilocybin trip "for science." But was it, really? Derek and Julian break down the performative nature of this stunt and discuss the growing right-wing influence on psychedelics culture.
Show Notes
<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/bryan-johnson-shrooms-livestream-trip/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Bryan Johnson Has Discovered Shrooms, and He Really Wants You to Know It</a>
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/technology/david-sacks-white-house-profits.html" rel="noopener noreferrer">Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends</a>
<a href="https://www.gq.com/story/how-the-right-coopted-psychedelics" rel="noopener noreferrer">How the Right Coopted Psychedelics</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="noopener noreferrer">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Brief: Have Tech Bros Killed Psychedelics?

Dismantling New Age cults, wellness grifters, and conspiracy-mad yogis. At best, the conspirituality movement attacks public health efforts in times of crisis. At worst, it fronts and recruits for the fever-dream of QAnon. As the alt-right and New Age horseshoe toward each other in a blur of disinformation, clear discourse, and good intentions get smothered. Charismatic influencers exploit their followers by co-opting conspiracy theories on a spectrum of intensity ranging from vaccines to child trafficking. In the process, spiritual beliefs that have nurtured creativity and meaning are transforming into memes of a quickly-globalizing paranoia. Conspirituality Podcast attempts to bring understanding to this landscape. A journalist, a cult researcher, and a philosophical skeptic discuss the stories, cognitive dissonances, and cultic dynamics tearing through the yoga, wellness, and new spirituality worlds. Mainstream outlets have noticed the problem. We crowd-source, research, analyze, and dream answers to it.

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