Over the last couple years, there’s been a lot of articles and videos floating around in the “spiritual” and “new age” cultures talking about how alcohol is “bad” because it opens one drinking it up to “negative entities” - thus the name, “spirits.”
Here... I call bullshit.
The theory goes a little something like this, and is made out to sound reasonable...
“In alchemy, alcohol is used to extract the soul essence of an entity. Hence its’ use in extracting essences for essential oils, and the sterilization of medical instruments. By consuming alcohol into the body, it in effect extracts the very essence of the soul, allowing the body to be more susceptible to neighboring entities most of which are of low frequencies (why do you think we call certain alcoholic beverages “SPIRITS?”). That is why people who consume excessive amounts of alcohol often black out, not remembering what happened. This happens when the good soul (we were sent here with) leaves because the living conditions are too polluted and too traumatic to tolerate. The good soul jettisons the body, staying connected to a tether, and a dark entity takes the body for a joy ride around the block, often in a hedonistic and self-serving illogical rampage. Our bodies are cars for spirits. If one leaves, another can take the car for a ride. Essentially when someone goes dark after drinking alcohol or polluting themselves in many other ways, their body often becomes possessed by another entity.”
Now granted, there are people who do not do well when drinking.
Yet to write off alcohol altogether as some sort of satanic potion that is a threat for everybody... I don’t think so.
”Why do you think we call certain alcoholic beverages ‘SPIRITS?’”
How about because the distillation process is one in which the essence of the natural, earth-grown ingredients are extracted...?
Ever had a really good scotch...?
With the senses turned on, you can taste and smell the spirit of the region it came from in Scotland... the spirit of the malt, the spirit of the peat burned to dry the barley... the spirit within the water sourced from the fresh sea-side springs.
Or a good wine can transport you into sensory dimensions, grasping not only the spirit of the fruit it was fermented from, but the spirit of the tradition - the spirit of the love and passion poured into the process, the spirit of the family legacies of the vineyards passed down through generation to generation.
Or a fine craft beer... the tongue gleaning not only the spirit of the hops and fruit or whatever unique ingredients might have gone into the brew, but the artisan spirit...?
Yet, some self-righteous, spiritually-narcissistic assholes are gonna come around and claim that all alcohol is “bad,” the name “spirits” derived from what they preconceive to be “negative” entities...?
Ha.
Let’s try this...
Somebody drinks, loses control, and does stupid shit. Was that a “spirit” “possessing” them because they drank a “spirit” and opened the door for the “negative entity” to take over their body...?
How about, they simply lacked the degree of character, self-discipline, self-awareness, and self-control to manage themselves responsibly?
Not everybody takes well to alcohol. So if someone doesn’t act dignified when drinking, might it be reasonable to suggest it is their responsibility to know and stay within their limits?
Or is it just that these newly “woke” “spiritual” new-agers judging alcohol as some sacrament of the devil have difficulty accepting that their fabricated belief systems fail to accurate portray the reality that each individual soul is responsible for their own actions and development - including dealing with the consequence of their wise use or destructive misuse of substances to alter their own consciousness, rather than pointing fingers and blaming external “entities” as the reason for stupid choices and actions?
If you blame alcohol for acting unresponsible you're really doomed. Have you seen a lot of people doing this? Because it's them, putting consciously alcohol into their mouths. That's not a spirit doing this.
But I really like Etymology for some reason. It shows hidden meanings of all kind of things. Whether the meaning is true or not. That's for you to decide.
I often refer to the perspective on alcoholism as some sort of “genetic” or “inherited” “disease...”
Sure, a person might be wired to have highly addictive tendencies towards drinking... but ultimately, it’s their free will of choice to determine whether to take the first sip or not.
Perhaps easier to say when not walking in another person’s shoes.
Though who knows, perhaps such experiences as alcoholism aren’t ours to judge anyways - being part of a person’s soul contract, something they need to go through to learn lessons - and it’s all perfect, no matter how fucked up it might all look on the surface.
(Which reminds me of something kinda off topic, but fuck it... check out THE DIRT on Netflix when you get a chance. SO good!!! 😁😎)
All right let's see. It's been a while since I watched something on Netflix. Maybe my ex-girlfriend kicked me out of her account haha :D
very true.
As for etymology... definitely some cool discoveries to be made there.
And great you mentioned the “whether the meaning is true or not” - given it might not always be, as not all language is pure, some of it founded with certain cultural biases, or from lower levels of awareness that were common hundreds or thousands of years ago.
And then sometimes, language still doesn’t perfectly suffice to communicate the essence of what’s being attempted - meanings getting distorted as trying to translate aspects of experience that don’t alway lend themselves to logical description in limited language.
Sevan Bomar is one seriously badass interdimensional explorer/teacher who’s dove pretty deep down the etymology rabbit hole. Can’t recall specifics of where he gets into it, but I bet you’d like some of his insights into it...
Let's see. I'll check him out!
But you're right. All kinds of things are very distorted. It can be a rabbit hole indeed.
THANK YOU @rok-sivante!
I have actually distanced myself from this new age spiritual community over the last year or so. Yes some of the things being pushed are a decent idea.. some even great ideas.
However things like the spirits in alcohol just are not logical, like you mentioned in this blog.
The biggest thing for me is the whole vegetarian/vegan thing.. that trap had me for a few year & might I say it was one of the worst things I felt I could continue to do to myself. I was even told if I was a carnivore that I was also a karmavore..
But in fact, the complete opposite works best for me (raw meat). Granted it’s not really that easy for me to stick to that diet thanks to the views of the society I am surrounded by. But I do the next best thing in eating my steaks as rare as I can get them now. Still occasionally choosing raw, especially in the spring/summer time when it’s warmer.
I not only have noticed this tremendous positive change from switching back to meat with myself, but also encouraged my girlfriend to do the same.. her results are also strongly positive, we both are much more healthy now.. oh yea & our systems aren’t too PURE for alcohol/spirits.
"Everything in moderation," as they say...
And then, every body is different - and has different needs at different times.
I don't suppose you know your blood type...? Type O's are certainly carnivores and would not do well without any meat. Personally, I'm a Type A and have found the corresponding diet recommendations to work well for me - chicken okay, though fine without pork and beef. Though any sense of dogmatic rigidity about it would probably be far more damaging than the food itself.
Ultimately, I'd think it'd be say to say that as long as we're in-tune and listen to our own bodies, we'll do alright. It always dictates what does and doesn't vibe, and in what proportions...
Yes, that statement is true. Certainly everybody is different. No one can climb into somebody else’s body, so telling them what to eat sometimes will cause improper things to happen. Sometimes positive outcomes even, it goes both ways.
I know you understand that I was simply staring my own experience. A lot of energy came out of that initial comment of mine, probably read somewhat aggressive.
Yes I am Type-O. When I started vegetarian/vegan I didn’t know about the classifications by blood/diet type.
I now know the blood type classifications exist, and I believe there is truth to them. However again, there are anomalies.
Hence why being in tune with your own body is the strongest move to make.
No, I didn’t sense any sort of aggression. All good. :-)
lolol, fuck, that's me in hell for perpetuity then...
Be careful.. eating all of that meat will cause you to absorb the karma of the animal.. ummm.. eat happy animals?? Maybe that’ll stop them from avoiding meat.
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I'll go see if my chicken has a smile on its thigh....
Maybe give that poor chicken a nice thigh massage.Be careful Some chickens are very ticklish and too much tickling will cause bad karma.
Burn Like the Sun!
Real living human adults actually say that shit?
I need a drink now.
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Brilliant!
'Woke' new agers have nothing but a self created morale high ground to occupy - and that's just to try and justify their empty arguments...
he he.
I can't really judge, though, as went through that phase myself... 🤡
Oh no, judging from a different moral high ground is altogether different!
lmao
Lol.
Perhaps... “judging” objectively with discernment, not condemnation - rather than putting down...
Don't start judging me, on how I judge ! !!!!
lmao...
I would hope anyone in the new age movement would take the time to meditate on that question and come to a logical answer. If alchole was bad, why would Jesus turn water into wine and have people drink it, I would hope jesus would know better.Nice post @rok-sivante
Keep your Kung Fu strong
Amen! 🙌
Why you say Amen brother @rok-sivante ??
In my country or my language Amen is Amiin, the meaning or translate is (Hope or wise).
It's my opinion, hahaha I'm sorry if not interested hehe
Amen is also said at the end of bible verses, it's a metaphor to represent God. Amen is also represented as the (.), which goes at the end of a sentence. When someone says Amen!, it is a metaphor (meaning nothing else needs to be said or end of conversation)@rok-sivante @bangmimi
Thanks for sharing your perspective @bangmimi and keep your mental Kung Fu strong
I tried Scotch for the first time not too long ago and I was really surprised by the "peatyness" of it. It was something quite unlike anything I have ever had before. I don't think it was anything super fancy, but it was still very interesting. I'd actually never heard this argument before. Being raised pretty conservatively, I know that there is fear of lowering your inhibitions and anything in excess can be a vice for you, but I had never heard of the whole "new age" thing. Very interesting.