The thought of dying is a complicated one. I’ve wrestled with it for as long as I was aware it could happen. Whether you have unyielding faith or are deeply atheistic, I think death as a concept haunts us all in some way. However, it is widely accepted that death is inevitable, and there is quite a bit of peace in that reality. It is a natural, albeit unpleasant to think about, part of the life cycle and can cause a lot of anxiety for some people.
Psychology Tools states that research suggests roughly 10% of people experience death anxiety, with about 3% having an intense fear of death.
Few people, however, make a life-long commitment (pun intended) to circumvent death altogether. That is unless of course you’re biohacker Bryan Johnson. According to LAD Bible, the venture capitalist has undergone some, er … unique methods in order to attempt to live forever.
Johnson’s obsession with fooling time began shortly after he sold his company, Braintree.
In 2013, he sold that company to PayPal for $800 million in cash and ultimately used it as a launch point to get into a literal anti-aging mission, per CEO Today Magazine. A series of businesses and calculated financial risks ultimately led him to found Blueprint, a company that focuses on reversing the aging process in his body to make him biologically younger. The 48-year-old hopes to bring the technology to the masses and allow consumers to live longer and healthier lives by following his biohacking plan.
Johnson has undergone some rather interesting trials and errors in his quest to live forever.
There’s no denying the entrepreneur looks much more youthful than 48, but Johnson is adamant that it goes much deeper than skin-level changes. He’s done everything from intensive sleep studies to taking a drug used for organ transplant patients to including measuring his nighttime erections against his 22-year-old son’s to reverse his “penis age.”
Part of the quest has led him to take some unconventional routes to get to his de-aged state, including taking some powerful hallucinogenic drugs. Because these drugs have shown changes on a cellular level, he wondered if they could cause anything that has some kind of rejuvenation or longevity effect on the body.
Over the weekend of March 21, Johnson hooked himself up to a brain scan to meticulously track the effects of the drug and see how his “open minded” state could affect his goal to live forever. He ended up taking 27mg of the “Mount Everest” of magic mushrooms and had colleagues monitor the experience. He also ran extensive blood panels.
He recounted the experience in a series of posts on X that detailed a rather wild experience.
This was the most profound experience of my life. I am stunned beyond comprehension. This molecule is without peer.
— Bryan Johnson (@bryan_johnson) March 23, 2026
The 27mg dose opened up what felt like pure consciousness and intelligence. A majestic reveal of existence itself. In all its incomprehensible glory and majesty.… https://t.co/Y9hPjkT6qd
He wrote in length about how it was a transformative experience during which he had to have an “ego death” in order to understand the “message” the drug was trying to allow him to receive.
“A single concept emerged in omnipresence: we cannot grok the preciousness of our existence. Yet it is everything we’ve ever wanted and more. The state we long for without knowing it exists. This caused me great pain and heartache. A swell of loyalty and devotion emerged inside me, pledging allegiance to existence,” Johnson wrote. “To become a warrior and caretaker of life on earth. To protect at any cost the candle of consciousness that has miraculously emerged in this part of the galaxy. What awaits will wipe all your tears, soothe all your sorrows, and infinitely exceed your wants.”
When he was asked directly on the platform if this meant he would abandon the pursuit of “living forever” because the drugs often “reveal” to people that eternity exists outside of mortal flesh, his answer was nothing short of vague.
“My endeavor has always been about allegiance to existence, I’d just never met her until today,” he shared.
A YouTube series will roll out over the next few days to reveal what his full “trip” was like, but honestly I don’t need to see it to know the conclusion … I think.
Like many who have gone on spiritual journeys before him, he’ll realize that the body and our time on this earth is infinitesimal compared to whatever awaits us. It’s likely that death is truly only the beginning, and we meet it when we are meant to.
