FILE: Marc Benioff, CEO of the software company Salesforce, attends the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 23, 2025.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff ended his Thanksgiving weekend with one of the oddest ways you can spend your holiday: cheering on a friend as they broadcast themselves taking a large dose of hallucinogenic mushrooms. 

The tech CEO joined a livestream on X in which Bryan Johnson, a wellness influencer, took psilocybin mushrooms and tripped on the drug while being filmed. Johnson is a leading figure in the biohacking movement and is conducting a variety of experiments on himself to see if he can reverse aging, including injecting himself with his son’s blood.

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Benioff cast Johnson’s latest experiment in more religious terms, comparing the drug trip to Jacob’s communion with God in the Bible. The billionaire tech CEO joined the webcast three hours into the show and, while Johnson was recorded lying down with an eye mask on nodding his head back and forth, Benioff said the influencer was trying to speak to God.

“Jacob, as you know, ends up with this incredible experience where he is able to talk to God, and he’s climbing the ladder and coming back down and........

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