Drinking and Spirituality

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Does drinking an alcoholic drink prevent us from being spiritual? What if we get drunk?

isn't one of the main effects of alchohol to loosen inhibitions?  people find themselves saying (and acting) in ways that they wouldn't do when they're sober, because they have put barriers in the way to free expression.  Some of those are the internalisation of social constraints - like no touching, no expressing of deep emotions - the classic phrase of a drunk - "I LUURRRVE YOU", which can't be admitted to or expressed when sober.

it could serve a spiritual effect by allowing the mind an outlet, a desperately needed one, for expressing such behaviours that are normally inhibited.  That way, the self (even if it can't remember it later on), finds itself expressing itself as an integrated self, and other-selves can see what someone is really thinking and feeling.

Dropping the inhibitions allows a greater clarity of self.