A viewer writes: “I work in the service industry – specifically as a bartender. I spent many years perfecting my craft, and consider myself very knowledgeable. Considering that my family owns a bar, and I’ve spent countless hours trying to hone and perfect my trade, I’d hate to just give up on it. My questions are: Because of the effect that alcohol has on people, like lowering their vibration and making them more susceptible to acquiring new spirit attachments, is it okay to remain in my profession? Am I harming humanity?”

This is a decision each person must make. There are certainly benign uses of alcohol as a soothing and relaxing form of recreation that helps people cope with life, and have an enjoyable period where they can have an especially effective calming, and many enjoy the sensations and will have a heightened sense of comradery as a means of lubricating a social experience. Where things become more complex is when there are people who develop alcoholism and are depending on the bars to provide their fix. Under those circumstances, bars do have a moral failing in aiding and abetting self-abuse. While people are ultimately responsible for themselves and their own choices, when you are offering a substance with abuse potential there will be a certain percentage who start on a downward path because it is a slippery slope and seductive and people can become dependent psychologically fairly quickly and coast along for varying lengths of time, but then get into a serious point of no return situation and deteriorate and it can be life‑destroying. So there are always karmic links whenever such things happen and the chain of events involving someone’s downfall will assign blame all along the way to anyone who contributes to the downward course. So this will always be a factor and part of the potentials. We can tell you that this would never be something engaged in by light beings because of the significant negativity, even though a minor percentage of customers being harmed, but this is a human decision that is needed here. We do not judge. We do not tell people what to do.