Guys... stop sending me messages asking for sources!! There are none! This is just something that's been floating around the internet recently. For all I know, it's completely made up.
I posted it because it's an interesting notion.
If it makes you think, job done. Even if that means thinking about how ridiculous you think it is!
Have an awesome day -RB
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 Vietnam 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 Vietnam.
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 Vietnam 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 causalities 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 consistently 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 consistently 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 brain stem, 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.
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Permalink Reply by Shawn on You make me want to grow my hair long.
My wife likes it like that. So it will be a winfinity situation.
Permalink Reply by StyleStacker on Hmmm, maybe rastafarians understand this. I wonder if I should do dreds because last time I had my hair mildly long it was annoying and looked dumb, I've been enjoying short hair for awhile now, but this makes sense and I think it would be a good idea to pursue. I wonder what monks would think about this, being that it is tradition to shave the head.
Also, this makes me wonder about fingernails... how would people take care of that in nature? Wouldn't they get way too long?
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Permalink Reply by kate on StyleStacker, I beleive monks shave as a symbolic humiliation, a subjugation to God or spiritual powers. At least with Anglican church, but the trad is clearly univeral and was probably one of those adopted from existing paganism by "christian" conquerors.
I suspect climbing trees for food and protection would take care of our fingernails.
Rastas wear dreads cos it's to much effort to wash hair when your'e stoned, man...;-)
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Permalink Reply by Fruity Jules on Thank you for this article! Love it!
Yes, this is why I continue to have long hair even though I am close to 60. Conventional thinking says that older women should have short hair. But when you see a teenage girl with long hair you know she is in her power!
(Hairdressers tell you that long hair "pulls down" your face and makes you look older. I disagree. Eating dead food makes you look older! Ha! Hairdressers just love to cut hair. That's what they do! I haven't been to one in 10 years. I trim my own hair. It takes about 30 seconds every few months and it's FREE! And I get to have my hair exactly the way I like it. It's a great feeling to be self-sufficient. The last time I went to a hairdresser he cut my hair short without my permission and charged a fortune.)
Arnold Ehret wrote about this subject, suggesting that hairs are sense organs. He said that for optimal health men should have long hair and some facial hair as well. He also said that hair helps emit your scent which gives information to other people and animals. ; )
I really love and appreciate all the cool stuff that gets discussed on this forum! ♥
Permalink Reply by Anastasia/Champagne Mango on Its all a conspiracy from the governement lol you must look like a hippy!
Too bad I hate beards and I like to see a man's face open and clear.
I love having short hair. Its easy to take care of, and I feel more aware, like I can hear better actually. When hair isnt covering my ears, I literally do. Its also hella cool.
Permalink Reply by PK on RB,
This is a very interesting article and thanks for sharing. Hair is something that has been on my mind recently.
It is interesting in the movie Avatar that males and females were portrayed with long hair, and also in tune with the currents of their environment.
The use of sunscreens is a topic that keeps coming up again and again here on 30BaD. What many people do not realize is that if their hair was long, they would be less likely to burn on their ears and necks, even lower backs if shirtless. And men have the benefit of growing facial hair and women do not need to shave their legs.
Another interesting hypothesis I read recently is do humans really need to go grey? Most animals do not get grey hairs like we do. The theory is that we abuse our hair too much with cutting, styling, products, and or course a bad diet changes things from the inside out. You can read more here:
Peace, PK
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