Eckhart TolleNYT Bestselling author of the Power of Now

The Effect of Alcohol on Awakening | Eckhart Tolle Explains

27 Jan 2023

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This is a YouTube video titled "The Effect of Alcohol on Awakening | Eckhart Tolle Explains" containing a spoken explanation about how alcohol, especially overindulgence, can hinder spiritual awakening and presence. The speaker discusses the impact of alcohol on consciousness and pain bodies, particularly noting effects on men. The content is related to spiritual awakening and consciousness, and although the speaker is not explicitly named Eckhart Tolle in the excerpt, the title suggests it is his explanation.

For those people who are awakening, alcohol can be a hindrance, especially overindulgence in alcohol. You quickly lose the presence again, and it can activate and reactivate a lot of the unconsciousness in you, even pain bodies in some people. In some people, more men than women getting drunk. Overindulging alcohol activates their pain body. So some men become violent when they drink, and they become even more unconscious than they are in their normal state. Much more unconscious. But even if that's not the case with you, if presence is arising in you and you get even, let's say you overindulge once a week, that can represent a significant setback in the arising consciousness.