Imhotep and the Mysteries of Egyptian Healing

And what is healing or restoration of health? This would be the first question to ask. When we feel pain, the immediate desire is to get rid of it quickly. But what happens when the pain is not physical, but mental or emotional, what happens when disappointments have wounded our heart again and again, and it is so full of scars that there is barely room for one more wound? And how to correct all the physical and emotional imbalances that have led us to this painful present?

Recovering a state of health has become a social myth. We find it in many magazines and in advertisements for consumer products, beauty, fitness, not to mention vaccines, surgeries, prostheses, etc. In fact, it is a myth, because what we call “health” is not something static: life is something constantly evolving. It is an evolutionary process that, for some people ends in death, while for others it never ends, but goes beyond death. In any case it is a “dynamic” equilibrium, an equilibrium at a given moment. But this dynamic balance has to be a state of harmony between the different mental and physical factors that constitute the human being; unfortunately these factors are almost always at war.