Alcohol is taking control…
In two ways :
-It is carried out on the individual in a situation of potential consumption.
It is then the force that pushes them toward the act of ingestion.
The act of ingestion is not actually their own doing. There is a parasitism of the host by the energy of ingestion. Very subtle, almost imperceptible, and so fleeting that, although perceived in the moment, one begins to doubt the reality of such a taking of control.
At this stage, however, not a single drop has yet been ingested; the energy parasitism is at work and leads to the second degree.
-That of being held hostage by the alcoholic substance itself. It sustainably controls the mind. And it seems uninhibited, in the short term at the relational level; subsequently, and more profoundly, it inhibits access to the level of being that allows one to experience serenity. It holds the host captive to the purely mental layers of the mind, which it agitates in all directions.
I can easily imagine that with time and repeated consumption, the barriers put in place tend to dissolve less and less easily, that the partitions erected between the functional and the innermost parts tend to make the latter inaccessible.
Thus, the individual victim of this double hostage situation gradually alienates himself. He limits his potential for accessing knowledge and ends up wandering foolishly on the surface, lost, alone.
Alone, or surrounded by other hostages.
©FJ May 2025
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Notes & Silence 
I have seen it (seriously) suggested that alcohol can be used to remove barriers to a deeper experience.
I have no view.
I may have a view after my Friday night whisky, though…
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Yes…When criticizing such an approach, it has been answered to me, by someone I respected and liked as a master, that T.D., this maste’s master « had helped many people with his whisky »
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This is a powerful way to describe how alcohol can manifest not just as choice—but as coercion from within, even before the first sip. That subtle parasitism you point to—where energy hijacks intention—is more than metaphor. It’s coherence unraveling at its core.
Reminds me of what I’ve called phase-locking with preprogrammed patterns—when a kind of thoughtless alignment guides us before words even form. The insight only arrives later, in the hush after the wave. Understanding emerges not in the act, but in the stillness that follows.
Thank you for naming that invisible architecture of loss and insight so clearly. It whispers of how healing may require reaching coherence before reclaiming control.
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