Truth Is the Medicine: Psychedelics, Desire, Death & Creating Heaven on Earth with Austin West

Описание: What if the things you’re avoiding—your desire, your fear, your shadow, even death itself—are the exact doorways to freedom?

In this expansive, mind-bending conversation on Spiritual Fxckboy, Benjamen Duffy sits down with Austin West, founder of Enthios, to explore psychedelics as truth-revealers, microdosing as a spiritual practice, desire as a teacher (not a problem), and what it really means to live from the heart instead of the stories of the mind.

From addiction, numbness, and spiritual disconnection to emptiness, paradox, service, and reverence for life and death, this episode weaves Buddhism, Hermeticism, psychedelics, men’s work, and ancestral wisdom into a single core message: truth clears distortion, and love emerges when we stop running.

This is not a surface-level “awakening” talk. It’s a raw invitation to take radical responsibility for your inner world—and realize that heaven and hell are states you’re already creating.

🔥 MAIN TOPICS COVERED:

Psychedelics & microdosing as truth-revealers: meeting the self honestly rather than escaping it

Mind–body–soul integration: awareness, emotion, and intuition as the foundation of spiritual health

Truth, desire & paradox: why all truths are half-truths and desire is a teacher—not something to repress

Emptiness & non-duality: freedom through fluid identity, letting go of certainty, and living in paradox

Shadow, fear & addiction: numbing vs. holding pain, and why repression becomes obsession

Creating heaven or hell: belief systems, media, and attention as world-building forces

Service & purification of consciousness: authenticity, men’s work, and living beyond the ego

Death, hunting & reverence for life: ancestral relationship to food, grief, gratitude, and acceptance of mortality