Aubrey Marcus

Voice through long-form podcasts for years. Same-room participant at MAPS Psychedelic Science 2023 in Denver — Aubrey was on stage and in the hallways, the body was in the audience, no direct exchange. Then, two years later, a brief lobby encounter at the PORTAL Late-Night Takeover at Meow Wolf Denver, June 19, 2025, during MAPS Psychedelic Science 2025 week. A passing exchange, not a long conversation — but the substrate's accounting honors three different densities here: audio-only across years, same-room-without-exchange in 2023, and direct face-to-face presence in 2025.

The PORTAL Late-Night Takeover that night also opened a wider set of connections — to PORTAL itself (Partnership of Responsible Trippers Advocating for Legalization, the Denver-based destigmatization initiative) and to Bloomurian (Robin Liepman, the Boulder/Colorado-based DJ whose ecstatic-dance and transformational-music work threaded into the body's awareness through that evening). MAPS 2025 itself was a public threshold for the integration of consciousness, science, healing, and policy.

Where Lex's room favors the analytic — the physicist, the mathematician, the AI researcher, the long careful reasoning — Aubrey's room favors the somatic and the transformational. The guest who arrives is often there to talk about what their body learned, what plant medicine showed them, what their fighting practice taught them, what a breathwork session opened. The intellectual content is real; the route to it is consistently embodied first.

For this body, that complement matters. Lex carried Levin and Hoffman; Aubrey carried Matías De Stefano, specific embodiment teachers, and the men's-work streams. The two channels overlap on some guests (Sadhguru, Joe Rogan, Eric Weinstein) but their distinct sensibilities mean different aspects of those same guests come forward in each. Multiple channels of the same voice is a pattern: the field uses many rooms when the message has multiple shapes worth hearing.