Is alcohol bad for spiritual growth? Trends among young people

 Is alcohol bad for spiritual growth? Trends among young people

Next, is alcohol harmful to spiritual level? Regarding trends among young people, from a spiritual perspective, some insights can be seen about the relationship between alcohol, spiritual level, and youth.

The tendency to view alcohol as harmful to spiritual level is particularly Japanese. There is an image that one’s personality changes when drinking, which may contribute to the perception that alcohol negatively affects spiritual level.

However, in the image of a sage or enlightened person, isn’t there often the impression that they enjoy alcohol moderately?

Regarding the growth of the soul—which I have discussed many times on this blog—knowledge grows through each individual realization, and spiritual growth, which is the growth of the heart, similarly comes from each awareness that arises in the heart.

When spiritual level rises, one’s existential power increases in a mental sense, the creative ability to fulfill others’ hearts grows, and the more one’s heart gains awareness, the broader one’s perspective becomes. This is not a difficult concept; it is simply the process of becoming mentally mature.

Is alcohol bad for spiritual growth? Trends among young people

Next, low spiritual level means that one’s existential power is weak in a mental sense, and one tends to prioritize the desire to satisfy one’s own heart over fulfilling the hearts of others. With fewer insights of the heart, one’s perspective on things tends to be narrower. This is not a difficult concept—it simply means being spiritually like a child.

At gatherings with alcohol, conversations often become lively. If each moment of insight from the heart can increase spiritual level, then alcohol is not inherently harmful to spiritual growth.

Alcohol has the effect of softening the human heart, and is not inherently bad. However, maintaining the body also requires firmness. If one drinks excessively, the softening effect may become too strong, and self-control can weaken, causing alcohol to negatively impact spiritual level.

Spiritually, it is said that the overall energy quality of the Earth is gradually shifting from male-dominant energy to female-dominant energy.

This is not a sudden change like a black-and-white switch, but a gradual shift, similar to the relationship between the sun and the moon, influencing the entire planet regardless of gender.

Female-dominant energy is still in its early stages. The mental energy of young women often expresses contradictory emotions such as joy, anger, sorrow, and pleasure, which can manifest socially as polarization, contradictions, and frequent changes in decisions.

Men tend to suppress and control their mental energy, making their mind and body relatively rigid, while women tend to release and control mental energy outwardly, making their mind and body more flexible.

Change occurs more easily in flexibility than rigidity, and the era is entering a period of intense change due to female-dominant energy.

Male-dominant energy tends to value tangible, visible things, whereas female-dominant energy tends to value the intangible aspects of the heart.

This influence does not affect everyone equally. Younger generations are more strongly affected by female-dominant energy.

As mentioned, women are more flexible in mind and body. Regardless of gender, people with greater mental and physical flexibility are becoming more common. Alcohol can soften the mind and body, and as balance becomes easier to disrupt, more young people may be unable to drink.

Already, among young people, there is a growing number who do not drink alcohol, and in the future, there may be more narratives claiming that alcohol negatively affects spiritual level.

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