The Truth About Hair.

[barracuda]

I noticed this floating around the web and thought I'd bring it here for comment.

The Truth About Hair and why Indians would keep their hair long

Reported by C. Young

This information about hair has been hidden from the public since the Viet Nam War.

Our culture leads people to believe that hair style is a matter of personal preference, that hair style is a matter of fashion and/or convenience, and that how people wear their hair is simply a cosmetic issue. Back in the Viet Nam war however, an entirely different picture emerged, one that has been carefully covered up and hidden from public view.

In the early nineties, Sally [name changed to protect privacy] was married to a licensed psychologist who worked at a VA Medical hospital. He worked with combat veterans with PTSD, post traumatic stress disorder. Most of them had served in Viet Nam.

Sally said, ”I remember clearly an evening when my husband came back to our apartment on Doctor’s Circle carrying a thick official looking folder in his hands. Inside were hundreds of pages of certain studies commissioned by the government. He was in shock from the contents. What he read in those documents completely changed his life. From that moment on my conservative middle of the road husband grew his hair and beard and never cut them again. What is more, the VA Medical center let him do it, and other very conservative men in the staff followed his example. As I read the documents, I learned why. It seems that during the Viet Nam War special forces in the war department had sent undercover experts to comb American Indian Reservations looking for talented scouts, for tough young men trained to move stealthily through rough terrain. They were especially looking for men with outstanding, almost supernatural, tracking abilities. Before being approached, these carefully selected men were extensively documented as experts in tracking and survival.

With the usual enticements, the well proven smooth phrases used to enroll new recruits, some of these indian trackers were then enlisted. Once enlisted, an amazing thing happened. Whatever talents and skills they had possessed on the reservation seemed to mysteriously disappear, as recruit after recruit failed to perform as expected in the field.

Serious casualities and failures of performance led the government to contract expensive testing of these recruits, and this is what was found.

When questioned about their failure to perform as expected, the older recruits replied consistantly that when they received their required military haircuts, they could no longer ’sense’ the enemy, they could no longer access a ’sixth sense’ , their ’intuition’ no longer was reliable, they couldn’t ’read’ subtle signs as well or access subtle extrasensory information.

So the testing institute recruited more indian trackers, let them keep their long hair, and tested them in multiple areas. Then they would pair two men together who had received the same scores on all the tests. They would let one man in the pair keep his hair long, and gave the other man a military haircut. Then the two men retook the tests.

Time after time the man with long hair kept making high scores. Time after time, the man with the short hair failed the tests in which he had previously scored high scores.

Here is a typical test:

The recruit is sleeping out in the woods. An armed ’enemy’ approaches the sleeping man. The long haired man is awakened out of his sleep by a strong sense of danger and gets away long before the enemy is close, long before any sounds from the approaching enemy are audible.

In another version of this test the long haired man senses an approach and somehow intuits that the enemy will perform a physical attack. He follows his ’sixth sense’ and stays still, pretending to be sleeping, but quickly grabs the attacker and ’kills’ him as the attacker reaches down to strangle him.

This same man, after having passed these and other tests, then received a military haircut and consistantly failed these tests, and many other tests that he had previously passed.

So the document recommended that all Indian trackers be exempt from military haircuts. In fact, it required that trackers keep their hair long.”

Comment:

The mammalian body has evolved over millions of years. Survival skills of human and animal at times seem almost supernatural. Science is constantly coming up with more discoveries about the amazing abilities of man and animal to survive. Each part of the body has highly sensitive work to perform for the survival and well being of the body as a whole.The body has a reason for every part of itself.

Hair is an extension of the nervous system, it can be correctly seen as exteriorized nerves, a type of highly evolved ’feelers’ or ’antennae’ that transmit vast amounts of important information to the brainstem, the limbic system, and the neocortex.

Not only does hair in people, including facial hair in men, provide an information highway reaching the brain, hair also emits energy, the electromagnetic energy emitted by the brain into the outer environment. This has been seen in Kirlian photography when a person is photographed with long hair and then rephotographed after the hair is cut.

When hair is cut, receiving and sending transmissions to and from the environment are greatly hampered. This results in numbing-out .

Cutting of hair is a contributing factor to unawareness of environmental distress in local ecosystems. It is also a contributing factor to insensitivity in relationships of all kinds. It contributes to sexual frustration.

Conclusion:

In searching for solutions for the distress in our world, it may be time for us to consider that many of our most basic assumptions about reality are in error. It may be that a major part of the solution is looking at us in the face each morning when we see ourselves in the mirror.

The story of Sampson and Delilah in the Bible has a lot of encoded truth to tell us. When Delilah cut Sampson’s hair, the once undefeatable Sampson was defeated.

My first question would be as to whether all native American tribes kept their hair at length. I don't think this is the case. But I have noticed something interesting about having long hair and and its influence in realms of chi or intuition. I even have a "special" eyebrow hair, just one, which grows to great prominence exactly in the very middle of my glabella, and which I consider my antenna.

[brekin]

Wow! Awesome article!
Robert Graves said something related in an interview years ago, how long hair allows one to pick up
more electromagnetic messages and so one should only use a wooden comb instead of a plastic one.
I'll find the passage when I get home.

[82_28]

My first question would be as to whether all native American tribes kept their hair at length. I don't think this is the case. But I have noticed something interesting about having long hair and and its influence in realms of chi or intuition. I even have a "special" eyebrow hair, just one, which grows to great prominence exactly in the very middle of my glabella, and which I consider my antenna.

Haha. I'm getting those now too, but I try and trim them. I figure it's just that I'm getting old. But this is a fascinating concept, barracuda. Thanks for bringing it up!

[seemslikeadream]

all episodes of calm in my whole life were accompanied by long hair...I had no idea why until now...thanks cudda

[Canadian_watcher]

could account for why more western women than men have a highly developed intuitive / sixth sense & have more sympathy and empathy.

gives another dimension to the Samson and Delilah tale, as well.

(why does it not shock me that the fish has an oddball hair that he nurtures?)

[stefano]

This makes absolute sense to me. I mean just think about any cat you've ever lived with, those things use their whiskers more than their eyes.

Not unrelated to hippies growing their hair long, or monks in both Eastern and Western traditions not having any to cut off from the world.



I've always liked my hair long (just above the collar, longer than that annoys me) and have worn a beard since last year. Originally in protest against the razor blade cartel but now I like it, and I do feel more aware, especially when walking in the mountain.

[Searcher08]

That was fascinating - I wondered if the results would map across cultures and found (with what has to be the least likely web address on RI )
http://www.hairlossexpert.co.uk/baldnes ... tions.html

Often men who are losing their hair feel that they are losing their youth. The suggestion that being bald proves you are more virile has been undermined by medical science and is not very reassuring. History, however, tells a different story. There are many different cultures worldwide where Baldness or the removal of part of the hair has traditionally been the mark of a warrior. Even some female warriors have chosen to remove their hair to demonstrate their warrior spirit.

The Aztecs
Aztec people used hairstyles in a very formal way to mark out different social roles. Warriors had a style called quachichictli, or 'shaven one', from which the very word for warrior derived. This involved shaving the hair at the sides of the head and leaving a narrow strip of tufty hair down the middle.

This hairstyle was not just ornamental. In close combat, the portion of hair most easily grabbed by an enemy is that just above the ears. Shaving this could save a warrior's life.

The Cossacks
The Cossacks, a Slavic people who have lived on the Asiatic steppes for centuries, have a proud military tradition. Only a warrior with seven years' experience was allowed the honour of having a special military haircut, or 'chub'. The hair all over his head was shaved except for a single strand at the crown, which was worn as a ponytail. This meant that even men with receding hairlines could demonstrate their martial status.

The Japanese
Samurai warriors wore their hair tightly pulled back into topknots. This could place stress on the hair at the front of the head and lead to an early receding hairline. This was not, however, considered a problem by the Samurai, for a very practical reason.

One of the reasons for the success of the Samurai was their early adoption of high quality armour – including helmets. These helmets, however, could get very hot when warriors were exerting themselves during combat. It therefore became standard practice for warriors to shave the tops of their heads to make it easier to stay cool and achieve victory.

Native Americans
Several Native American tribes, including the Mohicans, Wyandot and Mohawks, chose distinctive hairstyle to represent their warrior status. Sometimes the mohawk cut would involve a high, spiked-up ridge of hair along the middle of the scalp, with the rest shaved bald. On other occasions, it would involve shaving everything except for a curl towards the front of the scalp.

The Mongols
Like many other tribes, Mongol warriors shaved the hair on the sides of their heads, probably initially for safety reasons, though the style is still worn today by Mongolian soldiers who rarely participate in military action. Hair at the back of the head was tied up or braided so that warriors could show off its length without it getting in their way. This was particularly important because of their very windy environment, where long hair could mean not being able to see.

Warrior Women
Over the past few centuries, European tradition has been marked by shaven-headed soldiers, less vulnerable to being grabbed and better able to wear helmets. The ritualised shaving of heads can also help soldiers to identify with the army to which they belonging, letting go of their old lives. New Masai warriors have their heads shaved for this reason, even though they grow their hair back later.

As a result of this, shaving off the hair became a way for women who wanted to fight for a cause or to earn money to disguise themselves as men and enter European armies. The practice was also adopted by women like Joan of Arc who were open about their identities but wanted to stress that they were soldiers first. It has become increasingly popular among younger female soldiers in recent years, though no army currently requires it of them as many do of men.



For me personally, I once had medium length hair and a beard and shaved it off it felt fantastic - it was like a Sampson in reverse, but maybe that's the Irish ancestry

[82_28]

could account for why more western women than men have a highly developed intuitive / sixth sense & have more sympathy and empathy.

gives another dimension to the Samson and Delilah tale, as well.

(why does it not shock me that the fish has an oddball hair that he nurtures?)

It could also be that Native Americans, aside from their heads have very little to no body hair as well, recognized this and either/or "compensated" with growing hair long or perhaps the need for long hair on the head were genetically selected for as opposed to a full body of hair.

It also could account for the sense of the hair standing up on the back of one's neck and goosebumps. As per Stefano's suggestion as far as cats, it makes some sense when you see a cat in defense mode too. Think of the term "it made me bristle". All in all, very fascinating.

Many years ago I ran into, what I thought of at the time as a lunatic, a dude on the beach in Santa Monica. He explained to me that no man can be holy unless he had long hair and then commenced screaming at people passing by for not having long hair. He scared me then. Today, I would have picked his brain a little more. I think I had long hair at this point in my life, thus I was OK with him.

[Stephen Morgan]

Like the whiskers on a cat, yes, hair is an important sensory input. None of my hairs have felt a blade. Like Samson, I am, dedicated to god by the hair of my chinny-chin-chin.

The bit about warriors cutting their hair is a bit odd, Searcher. The Spartans, perhaps the most famous warrior race, didn't cut their hair at all and sat around before Thermopylae combing their hair to signal their defiance. Better than being a Tegean, isn't it?

[Project Willow]

Many of the figures in my work are bald. When they began to appear that way I researched and found various references about hair as a symbol of sexual power.

Long hair annoys me, I don't like how it feels on my neck, yet I've worn it long these last few years. In fact, it's annoying me right now.

I was born with one long eyebrow that also extended up my temples to my hairline. Maybe I should not have been using the tweezers all these years either, but that's been done before in the art world.

Interesting.

[brekin]

82_82 wrote:

Many years ago I ran into, what I thought of at the time as a lunatic, a dude on the beach in Santa Monica. He explained to me that no man can be holy unless he had long hair and then commenced screaming at people passing by for not having long hair. He scared me then. Today, I would have picked his brain a little more. I think I had long hair at this point in my life, thus I was OK with him.

We meet again. So, want do you want to know?

One of my favorite Sat. Night Fever scenes:



Tony Manero: Would ya just watch the hair. Ya know, I work on my hair a long time and you hit it. He hits my hair.

[Canadian_watcher]

We meet again. So, want do you want to know?

that made my day. cute~!

[brekin]

82_82 wrote:

Quote:
Many years ago I ran into, what I thought of at the time as a lunatic, a dude on the beach in Santa Monica. He explained to me that no man can be holy unless he had long hair and then commenced screaming at people passing by for not having long hair. He scared me then. Today, I would have picked his brain a little more. I think I had long hair at this point in my life, thus I was OK with him.

brekin wrote:

We meet again. So, want do you want to know?

Canadian_Watcher wrote:

that made my day. cute~!

Thanks, sometimes I feel like no one hears my message.

"Don't go wrong
Keep your hair long
Although you may get some static
A keener hairdo is more electromagnetic"

[beeline]

^^^^

Does that guy have a Swastika on his right foot?

[brekin]

Kind of looks like it. My guess is, if so, judging from his appearance he is probably subscribing
to the Indian/Hinduism use of it. Doesn't look like the neo-nazi "skin head" type.
But why don't you ask him?