Every significant civilisation that encountered alcohol placed it at the exact boundary between sacred and profane. The word "spirits" was not metaphor. The alchemists who named the distilled essence of wine were precise: spiritus vini — the spirit extracted by fire. When you drink spirits, you drink spirits. Seven dimensions of the same substance.
This is not a wellness section. It is an esoteric reference — the astrology, numerology, occult traditions, Vedic and Ayurvedic frameworks, and the mythological history of the world's most consistently mythologised substance. The question is not whether to drink. The question is: what are you actually working with when you do?