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I was wondering why drunkenness is encouraged on New Year's Eve & St. Patrick's Day
those who seem to promote this behavior ain't trying to get Folks open to be possessed by beneficial Spirits, i will bet...research time. Why don't many Pagans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, meme presentation about an evilish alcohol cult, the Cult of Dionysis, beneficial uses of alcohol in Spiritual Practice, how did New Year’s Eve become an alcohol-fueled holiday, why is champagne drank on New Year's Eve, and Forbes Magazine tells Us that people drink out of fear and anger will be presented in this article.
why don't many Pagans celebrate st. patrick's day ???
An article in PaganCentric
called
"Pagans and Saint Patrick’s Day: The Real Meaning of the Holiday"
by Claire on March 17, 2009 in General Blog tells Us that
"If most people know anything about Saint Patrick, it’s that his one claim to fame is that he drove the snakes from Ireland. What most people don’t realize is that the snake is a Pagan symbol, and that the snakes referred to in the Saint Patrick mythos are not meant in the literal sense, but refer to Pagans; i.e., Saint Patrick drove the Pagans (specifically, the Celts) out of Ireland (although it could be said, and has been argued, that much has been done in Saint Patrick’s name, but that the man himself was relatively unimportant). So what is celebrated on Saint Patrick’s Day with drinking and much cavorting is, ironically, the spread of Christianity throughout Ireland and the subjugation and conversion of the Celts.
It wasn’t arbitrary that the day honoring Saint Patrick was placed on the 17th of March. The festival was designed to coincide, and, it was hoped, to replace the Pagan holiday known as Ostara; the second spring festival which occurs each year, which celebrates the rebirth of nature, the balance of the universe when the day and night are equal in length, and which takes place at the Spring Equinox (March 22nd this year). In other words, Saint Patrick’s Day is yet another Christian replacement for a much older, ancient Pagan holiday; although generally speaking Ostara was most prominently replaced by the Christian celebration of Easter (the eggs and the bunny come from Ostara traditions, and the name 'Easter' comes from the Pagan goddess Eostre)."
This meme partially answers my question.
It says that the word "alcohol" is said to come from the Arabic term 'al-khul' which means "body eating spirit" in alchemy alcohol is used to extract the soul essence of an entity hence its use in extracting essences for essential oils. By consuming alcohol it in effect lowers your body's natural vibrational frequency, which allows the body to be susceptible to low vibrational entities.
Have You ever felt different. More sexual, voilent, less logical and less rational after drinking alcohol? Are You aware that we already live inside an ancient religious cult who are schooled concerning the dark power of alcohol? It is this cult that populatizes alcohol through the media and government it controls to serve and very ancient and dark agenda.
The Cult of Dionysis
Michael Tsarion says many times that the Cult of Dionysos is still in a position of power within the "big brother" oppressor system. A source says that "DIONYSOS was the Olympian god of wine and festivity.
He possessed numerous shrines and temples throughout Greece and was widely worshipped as a fertililty god. Phallic processions and contests held in his honour were quite common. His main cult centres were the island of Naxos and Mount Kithairon (Cithaeron) in Boiotia--the famed seat of the Bachic Orgies.
In ancient Greek sculpture Dionysos was depicted in one of two forms. The oldest representations portray him as a mature, bearded god dressed in heavy robes and holding a thyrsos (pine-cone tipped staff). In the Classical and Hellenstic eras, on the other hand, he was usually depicted as a pretty, effeminate youth holding a bunch of grapes. Sometimes he was shown drunk, leaning heavily on a companion. Dionysos was also frequently portrayed him as an infant or child in the arms of Hermes or Seilenos."http://www.theoi.com/Cult/DionysosCult.html
Beneficial Uses of Alcohol in Spiritual Practice
It seems that alcohol does open up the body for spirit possession; however, sometimes being possessed by Spirits is a nice "religious" experience. For instance, in Faiths that are based on Ancestral & Nature Spirit worship that evolved from African Voudun to Santeria, and even to Hoodoo, and Voodoo alcohol is used as a vessel or means to help the Loa or Ancestors inhabit the body of one who will receive spiritual communion. The Loa are the African High Spirits who are the "workers" for the "supreme god".
When we work with Spirits who are strong enough to protect us we don't have to worry about bad entities getting in because we are full of goode entities 
a Gate Keeper has the power to control what can get to from the astral field. Not all lower vibrating entities are evil. The lady who first told me about the Voodoo diaspora told me that These Entities are faster and better able to help us that angels because they vibrate at frequencies closer to our plane.
My blogs @ http://citedinfo.blogspot.com/2017/11/part-1what-honest-pure-hearted-insider.html & http://citedinfo.blogspot.com/2017/11/part-2-what-honest-pure-hearted-insider_6.html releaser the information an insider gave me about Voodoo type religions.
a Gate Keeper has the power to control what can get to from the astral field. Not all lower vibrating entities are evil. The lady who first told me about the Voodoo diaspora told me that These Entities are faster and better able to help us that angels because they vibrate at frequencies closer to our plane.My blogs @ http://citedinfo.blogspot.com/2017/11/part-1what-honest-pure-hearted-insider.html & http://citedinfo.blogspot.com/2017/11/part-2-what-honest-pure-hearted-insider_6.html releaser the information an insider gave me about Voodoo type religions.
By Kelly Fitzgerald 12/27/17
of The Fix tells us that
"Toasting dates back to Rome where drinking was so essential to a person’s health that the Senate demanded that diners drink to their emperor preceding every meal. Many other cultures including Hebrews, Egyptians, Persians, Saxons and Huns had a custom of pledging the honor of something or someone with a glass. However, this gesture wasn’t always referred to as a toast. This term wasn’t invented until the late 17th century, when it became customary to put a piece of toast or a crouton in a drink, similar to the pairing of lemon/lime and tequila today. The pairing of a snack and a cocktail slowly became referred to as a toast.
The actual clinking of glasses didn’t come about until the early days of Christianity. One theory says that the bell-like noise would ward off the devil, which was most dangerous during times of drinking and partying. Another theory is that clinking glasses together began as a way for nobles to avoid being poisoned. The clank of the glass supposedly sloshed liquid from one drink to the other, assuring the guest that their drink was safe and untouched.
As time went on, Americans adopted toasting as a regular custom, but the sentiment was often directed towards the U.S. as a patriotic gesture. When America was settled, celebrations were held with 13 toasts, one for each state.
Drinking has always been a part of New Year’s Eve. Even the Ancient Romans drank on NYE, but the custom of sipping champagne for this holiday came from the French. Drinkers considered champagne to be fancy and more delicate than traditional wines. Throughout the 19th century, most rich Europeans developed a taste for champagne and the American wealthy class began to drink it as a mark of sophistication. Because it was associated with prosperity it became the drink of choice for New Year’s Eve parties.
All this information may be overwhelming for those of us in recovery, who won’t be imbibing at the stroke of midnight to ring in the new year. However, I believe understanding the history of New Year’s Eve celebrations—that it’s always been a drinking holiday and taking it to the extreme has always been encouraged—provides a small sense of comfort."
https://www.thefix.com/how-did-new-year-s-eve-become-alcohol-fueled-holiday
Why is Champagne Drank on New Year's Eve???
We drink champagne on New Year's in large part due to savvy marketing in the late 19th century.
At first, royal favor made champagne an easy sell to the nobility. But with the rise of industrialization in the 19th century, the nobles were no longer guaranteed to be the wealthiest consumers. Champagne producers dangled their products in front of the newly rich merchant class: an aspirational beverage. Of course, these new customers couldn’t afford to drink champagne every day, but they could afford it on special occasions. Soon they began ordering it for all celebrations. Champagne became de rigueur at festivities from weddings to ship christenings -- to ringing in the New Year. (source)
But another aspect of this question is, why champagne and not prosecco or any other sparkling alcoholic beverage? Kolleen Guy, author of When Champagne Became French also cites the savviness of French marketing in the late 19th century, noting that newspaper ads in the 1880s tied together champagne, family togetherness, and occasions like Christmas and New Year's. The French state didn't want this marketing blitz (or champagne's prestige in general) to spill over to other sparkling wines and accidentally benefit Spanish or Italian producers. Accordingly, the government passed domestic legislation and negotiated international agreements that helped to create and protect the identity of "champagne" as something legally distinct from and superior to all other sparkling wines (see pages 1-9 and 120-122 especially).
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Forbes Magazine tells Us that People Drink Out of Fear and Anger
"Everybody's Getting Drunk at the Holiday Party - And Not Because It's Fun" by
Meghan Casserly
There’s an ugly animal that rears its head every year around this time: the annual company party. From November through the New Year, companies big and small will be hosting events for employees, thanking them for another year of service with a holiday-themed good time. Each year we see new statistics that illustrate how “one-too-many” at the office shindig can lead to infidelity, arrests, car accidents and job loss.
But a new survey out this week shows that the problem might be wider spread than we thought, and it’s author says it paints a pretty bleak picture. According to the survey, 52% of employed professionals say they have seen someone under the influence of alcohol at a company-sponsored event whose behavior crossed the line from embarrassing to inappropriate to downright dangerous.
But what’s new is that we’re not drinking to let loose or celebrate with friends, we’re drinking to self-medicate. And at a time when just about everyone’s expendable, Harris Stratyner, Ph.D., Regional Clinical Vice President of Caron Treatment Center and one of the leads on the survey says it’s a very bad road to go down.
Stratyner says: “In a time when people are dying to find jobs and can’t feed their kids and we see protests and economic challenges and people losing their homes everywhere we look, this kind of pathological drinking amazes me.”
The 34-year veteran of clinical psychology, whose clients include Wall Streeters and Main Streeters says that more and more the urge to over-indulge is coming from a much darker place than the fun (if potentially-awkward) holiday toasts of Christmas parties past. “In the past people were drinking because they were socially phobic or they needed to blow off steam at the end of the year,” he says. “Now they’re over-doing it because their bonuses were decreased, their hours have gone up or their job security isn’t as safe as it used to be.” In short: less fun, more fear, more anger.
So, i made my own holiday to celebrate the Irish Goddess Brigid & the Voodoo Snake God, Damballah.
This is recorded in my blog
F&%k St. Patrick's Day or Happy Brigid's Day with Maman Brigette & Happy Damaballah Day Too @ http://citedinfo.blogspot.com/2018/03/f-st-patricks-day-or-happy-brigids-day.html
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