[Alcohol has become a part and household staple of our lives. Be it social gatherings, parties or even time spent alone- alcohol has become a must. Let’s go have a drink and catch up. Did you have a bad day?, let’s go have a drink and forget about it. It’s available everywhere and the number of choices are plenty. Marketing and advertising work to connect happiness and good times with alcohol. However, the majority has no idea about the impact that alcohol consumption has on our spirituality.
Etymologically, “alcohol” is derived from the Arabic “al-kuhl” which signifies “body eating spirit”. It also has origins from the word “ghoul” which means a malicious devil who eats corpses, found in Middle Eastern folklore. Words like “alembic” and “alcohol” signify “life water” or “spirit”, distilled liquid that came forth through magical experiments in alchemy practices of the Middle East.
Writer Jason Christoff explains that according to the rules of alchemy, alcohol takes out the soul from the object. When we consume alcohol, it extracts the soul essence from our body, making it vulnerable to spirits of low frequency. Often people black out after drinking. This is because our inherent good soul departs as the atmosphere gets too corrupt and a dark element takes over, using our body for their sadistic pleasure. Our body weakened by alcohol becomes merely a vehicle for bad spirits.
Christoff, (and I’ve (Gage) had similar experiences) 'Once through a spiritual vision I could observe a crowded club. I noticed dark and evil entities hovering over the club, keeping an eye over the people enjoying inside. Slowly as few people got incredibly drunk, I saw their souls depart their bodies, linked through a thread, as the intoxication made them uncomfortable. Evil spirits took over seeing empty vessels resulting in immoral acts. This is what is happening when someone has what we refer to as a ‘black out.’
This can also be found in the accounts of Paramahansa Yogananda’s book Mans Eternal Quest, where the spiritual guru explains it in detail.
Having abilities of clairvoyance, empath, and channeling, I can see spirits since my childhood. Many a times I have seen malevolent entities surrounding drunk people. These people often have a crazed, dark look in their eyes that shows they are not themselves anymore.
While studying advertising and its effects on people, we were told how in alcohol advertisements there are concealed messages that are perceived by the subconscious. The subconscious having a strong influence in our decision making, the advertisements target it to sway us from our beliefs. Sexual connotations triggering our primal urge are one of the most used tropes which convince people to buy their product. You must have noticed how people mostly behave completely differently after drinking, leaning towards violent and aggressive behavior. They reflect negativity, distress and darkness and therefore alcohol companies make advertisements in such a way that they tempt the buyer without showing the negative elements.
Alcohol harms the brain cells, nervous system, immune system, liver and leads to weight gain. It depletes our health consistently. Pregnant women shouldn’t consume alcohol as it would harm the baby. With so many side-effects, it’s still so widely accepted, which is very strange; seems like it’s a project by the Matrix supporters to keep the public weak and powerless.
Alcohol is legal everywhere but psychedelics are banned in places like US. Psychedelics have several good uses like mind expansion etc. Psychedelics also have consequences and darkness associated with them too, which we will cover in another article. However alcohol has no benefits. This shows that they are deliberately keeping the public from realizing their full potential.
Alcohol also comes from “kohl”, a powder to outline the eyes which was used in Egypt to protect from evil.
I personally lost my desire for alcohol in December of 2016, working with my Higher Self and healing my Soul and body, the desire disappeared. Prior to this my boyfriend and I would drink every weekend and almost every day. Much of our social interaction was centered around alcohol. As we learned information in the links below and I came to accept what I had been seeing, with my own eyes, for years and I chose to ignore and turn off that version of myself, so that I could “fit in” with society, I stopped consuming alcohol and bring my awareness to love and light around others who are consuming alcohol. Through the process of being authentic with who I am, I embraced these visions, embraced my Soul, and embraced a healthy body.
May this article and the links below inspire a spark of awareness in us all.
Additional information:
- Alcohol is poison. Ethanol Alcohol is the type of alcohol humans consume. It is toxic to the body, so when consumed, ethanol has to be converted into something else – it’s called acetaldehyde.
- Acetaldehyde is a straight up poison. It damages and kills cells indiscriminately, so the body then converts the acetaldehyde into something called acetate – which can be used as a fuel. However your body must complete this process – going from ethanol to acetaldehyde to acetate – extremely quickly, or else the acetaldehyde will flood the system and further damage cells.
- This process takes place in the liver. (This is why the liver is damaged with alcohol consumption – it is exposed to at least some level of acetaldehyde during this process, no matter how fast it processes.)
Serotonin:
- Alcohol also has a dramatic effect on serotonin. It is a neurotransmitter associated with mood and wellbeing.
- Many of the circuits of the brain involved in mood and wellbeing employ serotonin. When we ingest alcohol and it’s converted into acetaldehyde, it acts as a toxin on the very synapses where serotonin is produced.
- (In very over-simplified words) - this is because alcohol is water-soluble, meaning, it is distributed throughout the water in the body
- so some amount of acetaldehyde AND acetate crosses the Blood Brain Barrier.
(Alcohol is distributed throughout the water in the body, so most tissues—like the heart, brain, and muscles—are exposed to the same concentration of alcohol as the blood. The exception is the liver, where exposure is greater. Alcohol diffuses rather slowly, except into organs with a rich blood supply such as the brain and lungs.)
- It first makes these circuits HYPER-active. Yes, that means more serotonin. But this quickly wears off, and the serotonin drops, which is typically when people go grab another drink.
- Around the third or fifth drink, there is a zero chance of you recovering that elevated, energized mood (from the serotonin.) At this point, you will just feel more and more suppressed. This is when speech starts to slur, loss of motor coordination, passing out, etc.
* Those who drink even once or twice a week have a lower serotonin levels & higher cortisol baseline – even when they are not drinking. Meaning, these people feel more stress and more anxiety when they are not drinking *
Sleep:
- The sleep that you get after even *one glass* of alcohol is not the same, restorative sleep that you get when you don’t have alcohol circulating in your system. Slow wave sleep, deep wave sleep, and REM sleep are ALL disrupted by alcohol being in the system. It creates lower quality sleep overall.
- It's not even considered sleep; it's called pseudo sleep. It is sort of hypnotic state and you likely wake up throughout the night (whether you are aware of it or not.)
Brain Health:
A recent study looked at the brains of more than 30,000 generally healthy middle-aged residents of the UK drinking a variety of amounts of alcohol / alcohols of any kind. It found that even those drinking (on average) 1-2 drinks per day (or seven total drinks per week) showed-
- A thinning of the neocortex and other brain regions (It reduces your brain’s thickness)
- Scaled with the amount of alcohol people drank (the more alcohol you drink, the more your neocortex will thin)
Cancer:
- correlation between alcohol consumption and cancer rates.
- This is because alcohol can alter gene expression.
For real.
- This means a significant increase in cancer risk. In particular breast cancer in women.
- According to studies, there is a 4 - 13 % risk increase in breast cancer for every 10 grams of alcohol consumed per day.
* One beer = 10-12 grams of alcohol (in the US)
So what does this mean?
- For a person that consumes about one beer per day, there is a 4-13 % increase risk in breast cancer. (Some studies point to a 7 % increase.) If you consume more than one alcoholic drink per day, numbers go up. (There are many studies on this subject. Just give it a google - "Alcohol and breast cancer studies" or whatever.)
This is because alcohol *increases* tumor growth and *decreases* the sort of molecules that suppress and combat tumor growth.
Hormones:
Alcohol – or more specifically, the toxic metabolism of ethanol into acetate – increases the conversion of testosterone into estrogen
This occurs in a number of different tissues
- In females, this might be partially why alcohol can so increase the risk of breast cancer in particular (estrogen can play a role of this.)
- In males, this can lead to: growth of breast tissue, diminished sex drive, increased fat storage, etc. (over time)
Deaths:
- World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that globally, approximately 3 million people die each year as a result of harmful alcohol consumption.
This is the equivalent of one person every 10 seconds.
A lot of people are more addicted to alcohol than they think. This is largely because it is... well, a chemically-addictive substance. But it's also because it's the water a lot of people swim in. It's normal to get drunk and feel hungover in our culture. It's normal to have a glass or two of wine at night.
It's one of the most harmful, addictive, and lethal substances out there, and it was "normalized" - largely because of (shocker) money. But that is a whole other article, which does exist on this website. ]