Incredible! The coffee industry is around 270B/yr worldwide. Americans alone spend around 70B on their own for this remarkable blessing. What a gift? What a tasty-zesty and rewarding treat?! How each cup of coffee can be permitted by our society as fundamental to the start of a new day…or? Maybe coffee could be served up as a late-afternoon pick-me-up? Or, what about the go-ahead with dessert and after-dinner meal? Classic! The varieties off coffee are endless too! It’s almost as rambunctious as a glass of wine, plus? It won’t stain your clothing as badly, and your teeth can always be bleached back to white. You might never understand where a cup of coffee came from, but you’ve got to be certain to have it again and again.

In getting serious about coffee-withdrawal, and freedom from caffeine, I wanted to know what the negative impacts of coffee were on the human body, and the mind? I wanted to know whether coffee-ingestion would negatively impact our decision-making skills, or even further? Our connection to the Divine: source/creator/God/higher power/Universe/or, whatever you want to call it? Well? From my own personal experience, here is what I discovered: A sheepishly prodded, Kind of—sort of—maybe—most definitely—YES! And from the basic fundamentalist perspective of what we cumulatively know here’s how coffee works and what i choose now to start my day with.

Coffee contains the active neuro-stimulant, cerebral vasoconstrictor substance known as caffeine (calf-een). According to Healthline.com, the average cup of coffee contains approximately 95mg of caffeine. Meaning? Individuals who are looking for a quick-fix, jump-start in the early morning to start their day are finding it with increasingly larger dosages. It makes sense to interpret caffeine more like a low-brow drug after all as it can become quite a dependency-forming, societally acceptable support-stream to indulge in. It should be made more clear to our society how problematic to humanity’s development of consciousness caffeine can be, but it isn't at all. It is a profit-driver, and weak-enough of a drug to slip under the radar of the majority of people as having a negative impact.

Our motto has always been the old pharmacological adage, “Toxicity is in the dose.” But also, the “buck stops here” slogan pairs well with the obsessive nature of labeling everything and anything outside of the realm of moderation and self-control a “drug.” Coffee is just coffee, I initially thought? I drink it. Mom and dad drink it. They drink it. Everyone drinks coffee! Right? It’s an “everyone is doing it” gradual choice-making theme for rationalizing its’ use.

But hold up: there is caffeine in coffee, am I right? You are right. You are absolutely correct. Coffee is not something that will stop anytime soon. Heroin? Maybe. That is a schedule-1 outfit prohibited by law. Opium? Perhaps, but Pharmaceuticals are hanging onto that one. Poppy fields? All in the same bag. Coffee-beans? Not even close.

I don’t want to lose you here because I will readily agree with a person that at certain times, coffee is a nice and simple pleasure to enjoy. Problematic for some people in over-consumption, but not for every person. Drinking coffee is another lesson in adaptive reasoning, or, in learning to control oneself. Over time? It gets easier to interact with.

But here is where it gets interesting…and I want to lose the science-end of it and cater to a widespread audience for a moment. Something coffee drinkers will likely never become aware of is the impact on the body. Caffeine is what generates the stimulatory, awakening “buzz” feeling. An awareness-like response throughout the entire body. It’s like a hoisting reminder that the individual is awake—and should therefore be doing things. The entry of caffeine into the system sparks activity and productivity. Nothing wrong with being more productive, right? Well? It’s tricky. The question is a little bit more easily clarified under the scientific microscope when a scientist talks about brainwave patterns. Beta; Alpha; Theta; Delta; and Gamma wave patterns where each specific frequency level dominates for a specific type of productive-action. Beta? Good for work. Work, work, work. More work. Stay busy. Keep your head down. Get it done. No time. Gotta go. Work. That’s a good way of describing for it, in general. It is the most-heavily engaged in brain-wave state by current society in the 12-38Hz range, according to Healthline.com.

Alpha? Alpha waves are Jose Silva, Silva Method Training, and are initiated when reaching a state of empowerment and oneness, or a sense of “I own this task…” at 8-12Hz.

There is the Theta wave state at 3-8Hz which is a meditative, Creativity-etheric themed state. It is the state before completely checking out, but still having breakthrough ideas.

Then Delta state, 0-4Hz, is checked out, and whereby one may be fallen into heavy sleep, if I’m not mistaken, I believe Delta is the sleep-evoked state that the brain is characteristically known to be encountering REM sleep, so I can’t speak much on productivity, or performance, and apparently neither can EEG’s.

Drinking coffee, and from what we have discovered, re-enforces Beta-wave modalities and frequency states. Basic productivity levels of doing toward completing a specific task. Think, “grunt-work,” or, having to shovel the snow, or “print out the copies for us,” and, “Put your quarter in the slot and keep moving.” And I can get that these are somewhat terrible examples I am giving, but I do hope you can interpret them all as tasks that do not require much strategizing capability, or thought necessity in general. Nothing wrong with that, however, if there is the strong desire for an expanded level of consciousness (check out this book by David Hawkings called, Transcending Levels of Consciousness…) I would be inclined to think that steering away from coffee and caffeinated beverages is a good way of steering clear of the Beta-state blockage where the person is unable to elevate past the Beta levels due to the somewhat restrictive access by these types of stimulatory, chemical interferences. Bottom line? Beta-state is too easy. Plus? After drinking a cup of coffee, a person has barely woken up. Yes. your body is awake—sensorily speaking—but consider it almost like you don’t have full access to the refrigerator full of goodies yet. In my experience? Coffee will keep an individual suppressed and standing by the watering holes at work, or? In doing manual labor-oriented tasks. Again? Nothing wrong or right about any of it. It is what it is.

And magnifying this into the theories and science of consciousness—clearly? Beta-state misses Theta-or, meditative states by a long shot. The hyper-awareness seemingly produced by caffeine could potentially be blanketing the impacts of therapeutic, stress-relieving meditation. Think about it like this: let’s say caffeine is being consumed through coffee. The moment a person ingests the caffeine into their body the experience of life suddenly becomes ALL ABOUT THEM! This driver—this fabulous individual, caffeine takes a hold of the vessel and commands responsibility. KEEP YOUR FOCUS UP. KEEP THE SENSATIONS ALIVE! LADIES AND GENTLEMEN THIS IS WHAT LIVING IS ALL ABOUT! Heightened sense of arousal and compelling command.

Now break that off into meditation and consciousness and an individual’s journey along the route of ascension. What would a person’s interpretation be of their having reached a higher-state of consciousness after a meditation which happened to occur preceding a meet-up gathering for coffee with friends at the local coffee shop? My question then proposed to you, my dearest sweet architect, would be how could meditation be heralded as an “answer” for uplifting awareness when coffee and Caffeine have been screaming in the back-seat of the car-ride the entire time? Is it possible the coffee might be clouding our distinction? our interpretation of a heightened awareness? And what is it we are asking for? What are we ultimately seeking? I would offer that what we seek as individuals is TRUTH.

You are a blessing and a gift to this world. No single other person could hold the light that you have and could potentially offer humanity. Consciousness and true connection will serve out that endeavor. What should you do? Whatever you want. A. But B., keep in mind if you are seeking a higher state of awareness and reaching elevated levels of consciousness limit caffeine intake throughout the day and do not meditate with caffeine in your system. Cleanses through a three day water-fast works very well for that. Our best substitution tip: Ashwaganda oral pill-form which helps enhance focus and mood; provides increases in DHEA production which is the pre-cursor molecule for testosterone. Keep going. Stay persistent in your meditations and in building that connectivity with the brain along with a continued commitment toward elevating consciousness levels and obtaining a fuller level of self. It takes work. Thank you for your time.

If interested in learning more about why we suggest eliminating coffee from the repertoire then check out this study done on Pineal Gland interference from regular coffee drinkers: found HERE

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