Light drinking and meditation?

[Wannabewizard]

Not at the same time as such.

I have not had a drink in a loooong time, and I don't really care about the drunk part. It's the 'beer is really tasty and delicious' part I miss.
I also used to brew quite a lot, and got pleasant reviews from a wine shop owner who shared my brews with his tasting friends.
I even grew hops from Rhizomes and really connected with the earth, and how powerful Lupulin is. Very sleepy.
If I don't drink anything anymore, I have brew gear to clear out.

However, I do wonder about creating an Egyptian Bast brew in honor of the goddess, as milk is apparently bad for cats.
Pagan festivals might be a fun (and popular) experience.
I have a sacred beers book I have been meaning to try out. Makes you the tribal 'high' chief
Tinctures are of interest as a healer.

It may sound odd, but I have managed to somehow transmute even taking a codeine painkiller into a cathartic and insightful experience. I guess this might be mindfulness in action, along with being in the right 'set and setting' the same as mushrooms.

It might be a deception, I am really not comfortable with a drinking culture when there are so many plants available, but is there a place for brewing and light drinking with mediation/spiritual lifestyle?

Is it 'bad Karma' to brew and then people get wasted?
It's been rattling around my head for a while.

 

[Shade]

Well there were people like Aleister Crowley who not only used them but was quite fond of em, as for karma… people can choose to indulge or not, just my two cents. You do have me curious how good your brew is, lol I personally drink absinthe when I do drink or if I’m at a cultural place I’ll partake in what they serve in moderation, (when in Rome, do as the Greeks do or something like that)
Many illicit substances have their purpose in the occult, I have yet to find any real purpose for liquor or benzo’s though even in moderation. If you are able to come up with a solid justification that’d be interesting.

 

[Wannabewizard]

A lot of it's been by 'accident', which is really more by discovery than a study.
When I first had mushrooms I managed to activate that same energy the day after whilst sober, just by intention and bit of day dreaming.
It could be an autistic 'absorbing' skill?
Sometimes it can be a matter of not knowing how stressed or painful I am feeling, and the 'medicine' provides a relief I did not know I was seeking. This is probably do do with somatic disorders, long term pain and raising mindfulness out of necessity.
I pretty much live a hermetic life without seeing anyone for long periods which may help with focus. It can also promote 'the crazy' when it goes to far.
There is a catharsis in here somewhere.

I have a lot of similar themed questions about culpability and substances, even video games and tabletop gaming 'violence'. Even chess is 'violence', a negative.
Maybe it's extreme, but I have been through extremes enough to wander about it.

I guess I would like to start something social, spiritual, with light drinking and medicinal plants, coupled with hobbies and nerdy tabletop war gaming. My ideal 'church'

The brew I remember best and got highly rated was an American amber, with Mangrove Jacks West coast #44 yeast and American hops. An extract brew and 60 min boil. Got it in software somewhere.
The simplest and nicest economy brew was made with bakery malt extract and Bog Myrtle.
I had no idea they were going to get shared and rated by his friends who ran a tasting club!
Some were bad and not ready, but months later mellowed out.
I say that the intention of love to brew made it better, did not get i'll from it either unlike some commercial brews.
I made it a goal at the time to drink one beer a day to adopt a mild tolerance so I would not get dizzy so easily...
I had a vision of my then current soul parts getting wasted from it so I stopped
Hops make you sleepy and flaccid (so I hear) and were added by the Catholic church to sedate people. Pagans and druids were into Ale with medicinal herbs which gives you energy. All those fertility rights hehe.

I remember hearing something about Scots chiefs using whisky in a shamanistic way, but this might have had something to do with a fungus on heather. No wait, it was Heather Beer
But drinking a spirit to contact spirits would make sense.
I think we have forgotten why we do so many things we used to take for granted, having 'special rituals' rather than every day celebration, like Christmas and so on. There is the Wiccan cake and wine thing.

Benzo's are just synthetic Valerian.
I found out that St johns wort boosts codine. Whoops.
Wild lettuce is strong but very usefull.