The Sacred Parallels of
Psychedelics x Bitcoin
Freedom within. Freedom without.
About Me
I’ve been exploring psychedelics (300+ experiences in) for the last 11 years, and studying Bitcoin (100+ hours in) for the last year.
One unshakable thing I’ve noticed are the perfect and profound parallels between them both.
In fact, I would credit my accelerated rate of adoption into Bitcoin with my deep experiences with psychedelics.
So I created this presentation to capture my thoughts.
If this resonates with you, please consider passing it on to someone who would enjoy exploring this intersection.
Thank you, and please enjoy 🙏
My Intentions
Ignite wonder in Bitcoin-curious psychonauts and psychedelic-curious Bitcoiners by revealing how beautifully Bitcoin and psychedelics reflect one another—two mirrors showing the same path to freedom from different angles.
My hope is for those who deeply understand why psychedelics are so profound yet can be misunderstood as just another drug, can now begin to see why Bitcoin is so profound yet can be misunderstood as just another crypto ponzi scam (or vice-versa).
Note: This is a 'level 2' presentation that assumes you understand the basics of psychedelics and Bitcoin.
If you are new to Bitcoin, please first consider reviewing my Level 1 Presentation before moving ahead.
The Direct Link of Mental Health x Financial Debt
There is a direct link between the global mental health crisis and the mounting burden of debt placed upon individuals and nations. In the same summer of 1971, one signature severed mind from medicine and money from metal—changing both inner and outer freedom for generations.
Classifying psychedelics as a Schedule I drug severed the connection between people and their intuition. When the US officially came off the gold standard, it severed the link between money and energy. It is my belief that these things cannot be kept separate. - Maxx Mannheimer
Fundamental Truth
True freedom begins the moment you claim full responsibility for your life, and dare to shatter the illusion that anyone else holds the keys to control your life.
No one owes you a rescue or a fix. You, and only you, can choose to wake up to that Truth.
When you are ready, reality re-arranges itself—and powerful allies like psychedelics and Bitcoin appear to help you walk the path.
Bitcoin and plant medicine (psychedelics) both encourage self-discovery and responsibility, emphasizing the pursuit of meaningful life values over instant gratification. While neither is a magical fix, if one walks such a path long enough, it can only result in positive outcomes. - Tom Taber
Though two seemingly different technologies, they both present one sacred invitation:
Freedom.
Freedom is dangerous to those who profit off your captivity.
I. The Call to Awakening
Your Arrival is No Accident.
Sacred Parallel: Only When You Are Ready
Psychedelics
The medicine finds you when you're ready to meet yourself.
Bitcoin
Bitcoin 'clicks' when your old money story and illusion cracks.
Both invite you to arrive when you're meant to — not before. Awakening is not scheduled nor forced. It's summoned.
Sacred Parallel: The Courageous Entry
Psychedelics
Asks of you to surrender everything you thought you knew of yourself.
Bitcoin
Asks of you to surrender everything you thought you knew of money.
Both are NOT for the faint of heart. They will make you question your whole reality. They require COURAGE.
Sacred Parallel: Self-Liberation or Nothing
Psychedelics
An invitation, never a prescription. If someone tries to "sell" you the journey, it short-circuits the very inner authority the medicine reveals.
Bitcoin
A protocol, not a promise. If someone pushes you to buy, you inherit their conviction instead of forging your own through study.
Both teach freedom cannot be outsourced, rather earned through self-initiated awakening. You must step across the threshold by choice, guided by your own curiosity and courage.
Sacred Parallel: Dismantaling Blind Faith
Psychedelics
They cut out the middle-man of belief systems. Reality is validated through the direct felt sense of your own consciousness, not a priest, therapist, or doctrine.
Bitcoin
It cuts out the middle-man of money. Value is secured by transparent code and global consensus, not a bank, politician, or decree.
Both shift you from "because they said so" to "because I can see, verify, and feel it myself." Trust is no longer loaned to institutions; it's reclaimed as direct knowing.
Both are invitations, not impositions.
You must choose to wake up.
Freedom requires courage.
II. The Death of Illusions
The Old Must Die for the New to Be Born
Sacred Parallel: Egoless Technologies
Psychedelics
A living technology of consciousness. It mirrors your inner landscape without steering it, carrying zero personal agenda.
Bitcoin
Self-governing code. It enforces rules without rulers, value without CEOs, consensus without coercion.
Both operate free of ego, acting as pristine mirrors—not masters—so the only authority you meet is your own.
Sacred Parallel: Pills of Perception
Psychedelics
The Red Pill — Slip beyond the emotional-spiritual matrix: you suddenly notice your own thoughts, feelings, and patterns in a whole new way.
Bitcoin
The Orange Pill — Exit the monetary matrix: you start to see how money actually works, beyond what banks and governments tell you.
Both show you a new reality re-rendered the moment you swallow. Once you see, you can't unsee it; the old world never fits the same again.
Sacred Parallel: The Great Unveiling
Psychedelics
Dismantles the identity, stories, and conditioning you carry about who you are, what hurt you, and how you "should" behave.
Bitcoin
Peels away the story we're told about fiat money, exposing inflation and central control for what they are.
Both pull back the curtain towards Truth— not to hurt, but to reveal for your own sake.
Sacred Parallel: Rites of Initiation
Psychedelics
A ceremonial crossing— the ego dissolves, and you re-enter life carrying a clearer, deeper truth.
Bitcoin
A financial rite of passage — the fiat worldview falls away, and self-sovereignty is born.
Both are powerful initiations. There is a "pre" and "post" you from this initiation. Something old is laid to rest so a more authentic, liberated self can emerge.
Both demand the death of comforting lies.
Both birth a more authentic existence.
III. Inside-Out Sovereignty
Freedom Within. Freedom Without.
Sacred Parallel: The Root Question
Psychedelics
Invites the inquiry "Who am I really, beneath every story?"
Bitcoin
Challenges you to ask "What is money really, at its core?"
Both fundamental questions pry open the floorboards of everyday assumptions and awaken conscious living.
Sacred Parallel: Freedom Remembered
Psychedelics
Remind you that nothing in your core was ever truly broken.
Bitcoin
Remind you were never meant to work for what someone else can easily print.
Both remind you that your liberation isn't bestowed by systems; it's an original birthright you get to wake up to.
Sacred Parallel: Heal the Root, Not Symptoms
Psychedelics
When you heal yourself, you heal the world… by changing how you relate to others and the world.
Bitcoin
When you fix the money, you fix the world…by changing the incentives steering markets, politics, and culture.
Both show when we change the source code, the downstream effects are monumental, including solving global issues like famine, endless wars, mental depression, environmental degradation, intergenerational inequality.
Sacred Parallel: Power Back to the Individual
Psychedelics
Reveals and restores the power of self when we separate spirituality from organized religion.
Bitcoin
Reveals and restores the power of self when we separate money from central banks.
Both pry spirituality and money loose from the institutions (church & governments) that once claimed to own them.
Freedom starts inside — but must be mirrored outside.
Personal sovereignty births collective sovereignty.
IV. Unlearn the Lies
Trust Yourself Again.
Sacred Parallel: Break the Ancestral Cycle
Psychedelics
Pulls back the curtain on the passed down beliefs running your life, finally reminding that you can consciously choose who you are and what to let go of.
Bitcoin
Exposes the generational money programming wired into society that you inherited, finally inviting you to opt out of a rigged system into a fair one.
Both offer liberation the moment you strip away programming you never consented to.
Sacred Parallel: Mirrors of our Inner World
Psychedelics
Non-specific amplifiers that dial up the volume of your every feeling & thought to watch your inner movie.
Bitcoin
Non-specific amplifier that turns up the awareness on how you relate to risk, trust, and time to reveal your financial mindset.
Both work like mirrors: reflecting exactly who you already are on the inside.
Sacred Parallel: Seeing the Matrix Code
Psychedelics
Brings your unconscious patterns, societal conditioning, ancestral trauma — things that normally operate invisibly — into plain sight.
Bitcoin
Illuminates the invisible rules of money creation, debt, and control that no one taught us was happening.
Both expose the unseen code shaping your reality so once you see it, the illusion breaks.
Sacred Parallel: Insight Needs Integration
Psychedelics
After an experience ends, the practice begins. Day-by-day choices alchemize revelation into real change.
Bitcoin
The "aha" moment is easy; the real work is living by the conviction every day with money habits reflecting that.
Both spark the vision, but that insight alone is not the transformation — the integration is. Without it, you risk falling back to the same old habits and life.
Sacred Parallel: Truth is Experienced Beyond Words
Psychedelics
The dictionary has no words for the moment the self dissolves and Truth emerges; only the journey writes its own language in your body and it is felt in your soul.
Bitcoin
We lack the language to express the feeling of truly owning money that no one can print or seize; you begin learning its grammar only after completing a real transaction.
Both remind you can't think your way to Truth — you experience it, feel it, and become it — and let the words catch up later.
It’s not about learning something new.
It’s about remembering what was buried.
V. A New Relationship with Time
From Urgency to Eternity.
Sacred Parallel: Expanding Time Horizons
Psychedelics
Reveals the long arc of healing, that it is a lifelong journey. No quick fixes with a silver bullet.
Bitcoin
Rewards patience for playing the long game with the inevitability of its price despite volatility.
Both reorient you from short-term dopamine to long-term wisdom, nudging you to think in decades, not moments.
Sacred Parallel: Borderless & Timeless
Psychedelics
Originates as ancient medicines, evolved into universal sacraments shared across all cultures for thousands of years and beyond. No single tribe or doctrine can claim them.
Bitcoin
Digital money that moves anywhere the internet reaches — no borders, no gatekeepers, no permission slips. Transcends governments and generations to come.
Both operate beyond politics, passports, and passage of time. They represent technologies that belongs to all people, accessible in every era, for eternity.
Trade the hurry of seconds for the wisdom of centuries. Once the rushing dissolves, life finally unfolds.
VI. The Compassionate Revolution
With Love is the Only Strategy
Sacred Parallel: Honor the Sleeping Baby
When we walk into a room with a baby sleeping, we don't wake them up; we tippy toe around them so they awake at their own time. We too must honor the timing of others' spiritual awakenings, even if that means it is not in this lifetime.
Psychedelics
The journey must be an invitation and a personal calling, never an artificial push… otherwise the struggle gets blamed on you. And they have been robbed from experiencing one of life's magical gifts.
Bitcoin
Shove someone into the market and every price dip is your fault. Curiosity has to be germinated on its own. Then they can truly understand the purest money known to mankind.
Both respect free will as sacred. Growth is self-timed. Awakening cannot be coerced. Let each soul wake when it's ready.
Sacred Parallel: Patience with the Status Quo
Psychedelics
Offers a path to sustained healing that triggers the monopolistic medical and religious systems rooted in control and compliance, and thus calls them "drugs."
Bitcoin
Offers monetary irrepressible freedom that unsettles banks and governments accustomed to debt and inflation as levers of power, and thus calls them "scams."
Compassion isn’t just patience; it’s fluency in another’s reality. To introduce a new paradigm, our responsibility is to meet each person where they are at and translate insights into the vocabulary of their life so wisdom can land in their hearts.
Sacred Parallel: Many Paths, One Heart
Psychedelics
When the work turns rigid—whether in sterile labs or strict ceremonial rules—we drift from the medicine’s purpose. The journey thrives when each person is met where they are, free to choose their own rhythm, always rooted in love and guided by reverence.
Bitcoin
When voices insist there is only one “true” way to 'hodl' or run a node, the open-source spirit shrinks. The network flourishes when every participant stewards their keys, code, and conviction in the manner that fits their life.
Both remind real sovereignty blossoms in diversity. Honor every path, choose love over dogma, and lead this revolution with compassionate stewardship.
Sacred Parallel: Stewards of the Next Seven Generations
Psychedelics
Gives you the courage to face the pain your ancestors couldn't, cut the chain of inherited trauma, and gift your descendants a new story written with conscious choice instead of unconscious programming.
Bitcoin
Allows you to store your time and energy in a monetary form that preserves generational wealth enough to retire your entire bloodline, immune to decay, entropy, and manipulation.
Both stretch your vision beyond a single lifetime. One heals the bloodline, the other safeguards its prosperity. Together they transform survival into sovereignty for the next seven generations to come.
The revolution isn't violent.
It’s quiet, compassionate, patient — and inevitable.
Final Invitation
Re-read every parallel above—but this time replace “psychedelics” with “spirituality."
What you may realize is that Bitcoin IS a form of spiritual awakening.