The creator of biohacking talks psychedelics, plant intelligence, integration, surrender, and why optimizing the human machine was never the final destination.
Psychedelic culture loves a breakthrough. The vision. The revelation. The moment everything suddenly makes sense. We talk endlessly about ego death, mystical experiences, and those flashes of clarity that can make a single night feel like it rearranged an entire life.
Dave Asprey is more interested in what happens after that.
The creator of the biohacking movement has spent decades thinking about how to change the human body and brain. He founded Bulletproof Coffee and the Bulletproof Diet, hosts The Human Upgrade, has written multiple bestselling books, and runs 40 Years of Zen, a neurofeedback program built around accessing and studying altered states.
Ahead of Wonderland, the psychedelics and consciousness conference coming to Austin this October, Asprey and I talked about ayahuasca, plant intelligence, integration, ego, cannabis, spiritual risk, and the limits of chasing transformation for transformation’s sake.
For someone who built a career around taking greater control of the human experience, he kept coming back to a surprisingly simple idea. Surrender.
Science Meets Spirit
I wanted to start with a tension I run into constantly in psychedelic conversations. There are people who want to talk about receptors, brain scans, and clinical trials. Then there are people who want to talk about consciousness, entities, ancestral knowledge and plant spirits. Asprey thinks separating the two is a mistake.
“People who make that division between science and spirit don’t understand where the Enlightenment came from, the creation of the scientific method,” he told me.
His broader point is that reality contains plenty we don’t fully perceive. Humans see only a narrow slice of the electromagnetic spectrum. Forces act on our bodies without ever entering conscious awareness. For Asprey, altered …
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Author: Holly Crawford / High Times
