--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > > > On Behalf Of Bhairitu > > Yes and not only drugs but many other things or everything. > > Anyone who has taken some courses on the subject or even > > read some books on it knows that. It's the whole basis of > > ayurveda. > > > > Drugs like LSD are often mentioned as causing vata > > derangements. > > It sees simplistic to me. To take a more extreme case, > > let's say a person does a lot of cocaine, or meth, and > > the brain is effected not only chemically but visibly > > (via Cat scan). Do you think the dosha model is > > sufficient to explain that? > > Let's get all Walden on this issue's ass and cut to the > bottom line: "Was/is the 'dosha model' EVER sufficient > to explain fuckin' ANYTHING, or was it always a cult > phenomenon, useful only when preaching to the converted? :-)
I'm wondering which cult Barry believes Bhairitu converted to... As I said earlier, I don't believe Ayurveda can cure serious mental illness. On the other hand, as Bhairitu went on to point out to Rick, the dosha system was never intended to "explain" anything; it's just a classification system. It's descriptive rather than explanatory. The issue is whether it's useful as such. And of course Barry is *totally* off-base to claim that the dosha system has never been anything but a "cult phenomenon." That's just extraordinarily ignorant; it's difficult to believe that even Barry is *that* ignorant.
