The dosha (imbalance) of time and culture

Author: Christopher Chayban

The onset of disease is always the imbalance, whether it be physiological or psychogenic. As I’m sure you know, with your Ayurvedic constitution, for example, when someone says you are a Vata, Pitta or Kapha, this is referring to your “dosha” or excess or “imbalance.” We have so much excess in today’s world, with technology, food, options, you name it. No wonder why people are anxious, we are absolutely out of balance! So I like that Jung always tried to remember the primitive and natural man, something that we (being so divorced from nature), desperately need a reconnection to.

That being said, I wonder if it takes the experience or even a whole “time period” of imbalance, for us to learn about what balance is again. In one sense, it seems like, what the heck were these people doing? Or what were they thinking? On the other hand, it is an ultimate sacrifice for the future, whether they knew it or not. Because we learn from their errors as well as their discoveries. Perhaps, history has its pockets of shadow, pockets of the unconscious, which still contains a certain degree or amount of consciousness in it, that will one day, rise to the surface, or in the reverse, touch our the depths of our core. And we say, “Ah, so that’s what that means,” or “Ah, it was necessary for this to happen first so that I could eventually learn this.” I wonder, what kinds of errors and discoveries or delusions that we are making for the people of the future world.

There is no once and for all. This is an individuation process of the history of the collective, as much as it is the one of individuals.

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