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?
