AUSTIN, TX — Friends of local wellness influencer and part-time geopolitical analyst Andre Toot confirmed Tuesday that after a single heroic mushroom journey, he has successfully validated every opinion he held beforehand while becoming dramatically more confident about all of them.
"I honestly thought psychedelics were supposed to dissolve the ego," said longtime friend and local GOP party bootlicker Dave Smirch. "Andre says the mushrooms simply confirmed that he’s more correct about everything than he previously imagined. It even bolstered his confidence in areas he has no training or background."
According to witnesses, Toot entered the experience ready to dominate the entities rumored to be on the other side of it, but found that they actually were quite soft and submissive to his impregnable ego.
"The mushrooms revealed the truth," Toot explained while vibe coding his new mental health venture website. "We are all the universe experiencing itself, and some of us are destined to drive universal Ferraris and tend to cosmic harems while the weaker parts of the universe point and stare."
Friends report that Toot now has evolved increasingly brazen and ungrounded opinions on monetary policy, quantum physics, immunology, and the mating habits of octopuses among other niche subject areas.
Retreat facilitators in the mushroom space say the phenomenon has become increasingly common.
"We used to spend most of integration helping people process grief," said one facilitator. "Now it's mostly convincing people that seeing impressive fractal patterns doesn’t automatically make them better and more knowledgeable than the NPC’s."
At press time, Toot announced he would be hosting a new men's retreat promising to help participants transcend limiting beliefs by replacing them with his own.