The Hidden Battle Within; Addiction, Possession, and the Return to Spiritual Sovereignty

An exploration into unseen forces of Spirit

For as long as humans have been on Earth, alcohol has been here with us. It is the organic result of fruits and vegetables fermenting; a powerful medicine and a gift from Nature. And certainly for all that time, humans have availed themselves of it. We have toasted the Divine with it, and drowned our despair in it, and it is no accident that alcohol is commonly referred to as “spirits”. The Latin word ‘Spiritus” means ‘breath’ which is the animation of body; Life. Another meaning is "‘Soul’. This echo in language is not just metaphor; it’s metaphysical truth.

The spiritually perceptive have long recognized alcohol to be a door opener; a portal. It weakens the boundaries of the human energy field and invites in unseen forces. What begins as a “buzz” can become a possession. Not merely psychological…not merely physical and chemical; Spiritual. And Spirit is the umbrella under which body, mind, and emotion reside. Chapter 3 of the Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book states “We know that no real alcoholic ever recovers control” and “we are convinced to a man that alcoholics of our type are in the grip of a progressive illness. Over any considerable period we get worse, never better. We are like men who have lost their legs: they never grow new ones”.(p 30) Throughout this book, which has endured and continues to be read and shared for eighty five years, the many, many voices who contributed to its wisdom individually and collectively reiterate that no amount of willpower or desire to quit is enough on its own to recover from the grip of alcoholism. What is needed to be successful is Divine assistance. Recognition of the need for spiritual intervention is confirmation that the harms are stemming from the level of spirit and not the flesh. This identifies the true nature of the beast.

Possession is real. It’s just been rebranded.

In earlier eras, what we now call “alcoholism” was correctly identified as possession; and that language wasn’t primitive. It was precise. A person under the influence of alcohol often speaks and acts as if another is in control….. because often and especially in the case of an alcoholic, something else is. The resulting memory gaps, personality changes, violence, shame, and spiritual disorientation are all hallmarks of spirit intrusion. And not always one spirit, but many, drawn to the openings in the energy field created by trauma and intoxication.

In modern terms, we call this a “disease.” But the word dis-ease originally meant “a lack of harmony in the being.” The word being is holistic, not linear and limited in the myopic way that scientism views it. Today, the meaning of the term has been sterilized, stripped of its spiritual roots, and pathologized by the psychological-industrial complex and it carries a disempowerment frequency it. I first became very much aware of how this limited perception is imbedded within the framework of the AA program as I sat through my very first Al Anon meeting with other family members and listened to people speaking of their feelings and their experiences. “The disease causes this”…”the disease does that”; each time I heard these discordant statements repeated by people I felt the hollowness within. Certainly, an addiction to anything is the result of a lack of harmony in the being….and certainly it is not chosen nor is it a result of character weakness; they got those things right! However my interpretation of all illness is that it never originates in the physical body, therefore looking at it from this lens is not only disempowering, it will always miss the big picture. From the point of view of the creators of the AA Program, the intention was to remove the stigma and self-blame from the sufferor of the addiction to make room for healing to occur. Certainly that is a necessary part of healing anything, however it is also limiting and does not acknowledge the true spiritual root of the problem.

Why is Alcoholism the most difficult addiction to break?

While other addictions (street drugs, prescription meds, etc.) also carry spiritual baggage, alcoholic possession is uniquely difficult to clear. Why? Because it’s not just the strength of the individual spirits (Soratic spirits, as Steiner coined them) that have attached themselves to and ride in on the substance itself; it is the egregores….. collective, energetic beings formed by human thought, emotion, and repetition. Alcoholic addiction has a long and enduring pattern that is woven throughout humanity all the way back to our genesis:

• Its pervasiveness across all cultures.

• Its ritualization in religious sacraments, celebrations, grief, and warfare.

• Its acceptance and even glorification in society.

• The ancestral links that pass down addictive patterns spiritually.

This egregore acts almost like a meta-parasite, able to plug into an individual through both personal trauma and collective unconscious resonance.

Alcohol has been with us for thousands of years. It has been ritualized in war, religion, celebration, grief, and culture. Every person who has fallen into its shadow; every suicide, every alcohol-driven crime, every broken family, every blackout….as well as the rippling effects of harm and suffering of all those indirectly harmed in some way has poured emotional energy into the growing mass (a psychic field) of the alcohol egregore. It has taken root and with each victim that is claimed, the parasitic energy mass has grown and strengthened….becoming a vast, semi-intelligent hunger.

You don’t just battle the bottle. You battle a devouring spiritual entity fed by millions over millennia.

The Forgotten Rite - Exorcism.

There was once a name for what’s really needed; exorcism. In the Christian tradition, exorcism wasn’t just for dramatic cases of demonic screaming. It was for the subtle and real process of clearing the soul from oppressive spiritual influences. In the 1930s when AA was first being developed into what has come to be one of the most enduring and helpful tools to assist people in unshackling themselves from the prison of alcohol addiction, it danced around the edges of identifying the spiritual nature of addiction. It suggested that alcoholism is a form of "insanity" that requires a "spiritual awakening" for recovery, yet it stopped short of directly naming possession or specific spiritual entities. This omission was not accidental, but rather the product of the religious and cultural influences at the time. The founders of the program were very aware of this, and because their goal was to help as many people as possible, focusing on practical, shared spiritual principles and leaving the specifics open to individual interpretation.

Today, our culture has abandoned the exorcist and embraced the therapist. But therapy divorced from the spiritual reality of possession can never truly set the soul free. It can soothe. It can stabilize. But it cannot remove what is not recognized and therefore not seen. It is one dimensional….and we are multi-dimensional. In much the same way that these therapies which work only at the level of the mind and the will do not begin to address the reality of energy: the frequencies held within emotional blocks and ancestral patterns which often become trapped in the biofield, the same limitations exist when the unseen realms of Spirit are disregarded.

The medical and psychological establishments, once rooted in service, have become part of a closed loop system. They name the problem, sell the solution, and deny the spiritual root. They turn people away from their inner sovereignty and redirect them toward chemical treatments, diagnostic codes, and lifelong management. And as a result, true healing always remains out of reach.

But the soul does not seek management, it seeks liberation.

And alcohol is not the only portal.

Pharmaceutical drugs, especially psychiatric medications, chemotherapy and the controversial COVID-19 injections also open the door to spiritual influence. German author Thomas Mayer has experienced and extensively documented the soul-binding and spiritual dislocation observed in individuals who have had their physical and energy bodies contaminated by these substances. He speaks of specific entities that accompany each class of drug, and the condition of the soul after death when these forces have not been resolved. In the late 1800s, Rudolph Steiner observed that cyanide poisoning; a common method of suicide used at the time, severed the Soul from the body and fractured the spirit, resulting in an afterlife condition of spiritual emprisonment which he referred to as being ‘bound to Earth’. An Earthbound Spirit; lost and suffering, chained to the material realm and unable to access the Divine.

The spirits attached to modern drugs are younger, but no less dangerous. They lack the mythic familiarity of alcohol’s spirits, yet they operate with surgical precision. These are anti-life intelligences, connected to systems of control and transhumanism, not healing.

Reclaiming our Souls

Healing addiction does not mean simply stopping the use of whatever substance one is chained to. It is to call the Soul back from all places where it has been fractured and fed upon.

This is spiritual work. This is exorcism. It is Sovereignty.

We must start by returning to language that identifies the truth. Alcohol isn’t just a health risk, It is a portal. Addiction isn’t a brain disease, it is a breach in the auric field. Recovery isn’t merely about abstinence, it is about reconsecrating the self. We must Speak Truth to Power.

There are those who want us to forget this, not because every therapist or doctor is malicious, but because the system itself has been scaffolded to disempower. When you convince people they are broken machines instead of sovereign souls, you can control them. And when they suffer, you can sell them cures.

But a new language is returning. And with it, a new generation of exorcists; not just priests, but energy workers, soul retrievers, and trauma healers who understand that what we’re fighting is spiritual occupation, and not just perceived personal weakness……defects of character.

The questions are not “how do I fix myself?” but “what has attached itself to me, and how do I remove it?”

Sovereignty: The Path Forward

True healing from addiction must begin with the conscious reclamation of spiritual sovereignty. Speaking Truth to Power, aloud, without judgement….and with love, and the desire to stop carrying the weight of what wasn’t ours to begin with. It means strengthening the auric field and energetic bodies through disciplined spiritual practice, clearing attachments and cords that bind the soul to addictive forces, and engaging in protective and empowering rituals that restore wholeness. Addiction must be recognized not merely as an illness, but as a spiritual dis-ease; a fracture in the soul's connection to its own Source. When we acknowledge this, we empower individuals not as patients or victims, but as spiritual warriors and healers of their own destiny. The future of addiction recovery lies in a new paradigm that integrates spiritual truth with physical and psychological support. It invites us to speak openly of possession and energetic interference, to offer tools that awaken sovereignty, and to build communities rooted in transformation and self-responsibility. Only through this deep integration can we break the cycles of addiction and reclaim true freedom; for ourselves, and for the collective soul of humanity.