What Does Wine Mean in the Bible Read through 2 lenses

The ego lives on what it condemns. Attack is its nourishment, and grievance the cup it drinks from, for a mind ruled by fear sustains its sense of self by feeding on the guilt it sees in others. This is why judgment feels satisfying in the moment; it is the diet of a mind that believes it stays alive by finding someone to blame.

But nothing real is gained at that table, for what is eaten there is only the mind's own guilt served back to it. A mind fed on attack grows hungrier, while the one that forgives discovers it needed none of it to live.

• Bread: the daily sustenance of the ego, the steady fare of blame a fearful mind believes it lives on.
• Wine: the intoxication of grievance, the cup of attack a mind drinks to feel justified and strong.

Wine is the concentrated life-force rising through the body, and taken without measure it floods the mind past its banks, so the man who has just walked out of the flood now drowns in a smaller one inside himself. Drunkenness is consciousness overwhelmed by its own vital fire, sense loosened until judgment sleeps. Within the tent, the covering of the flesh falls open, and what the higher mind kept hidden lies exposed. The same fire that carries a person through the waters can, undisciplined, undo the very self it was meant to raise.

• Wine: the vital energy and inner fluid of the body, sweetness that lifts the mind when measured and floods it when not.
• Tent: the fleshly body pitched around the soul, a thin covering that keeps the inner life screened from view.