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Male Hair Length Reconsidered

CecilW

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We have at least one member here who lives under a Nazirite vow -- beard & hair totally untrimmed.

I've done it in the past 2 or 3 times, and noticed that when doing so, a sense of spiritual connectedness seemed to grow which then receded immediately once I returned to "normal". This has left me kinda "wondering".

Paul said men oughta have short hair, but long ago I was told that in His day that meant "shoulder-length", instead of down the back. And that only the priests were to have their hair "polled", a style more like our modern business or military style.

Then today I found the following article at: http://www.sott.net/article/234783-The- ... -Hair-Long

Thought provoking. If next time you look for me, you see an apparent ghillie suit strolling about, it may be me with HAIR! :lol:
The Truth About Hair and Why Indians Would Keep Their Hair Long

United Truth Seekers
Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:32 CDT

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.

Reported by C. Young

Comment: SOTT can't confirm this story or the research it suggests took place, however, we have wondered on many occasions, what is the use of hair and why so many legends refer to hair as being a source of strength, from Samson, to Nazarenes, to the Long Haired Franks.
 
This particular story sounds like a complete hoax, mainly because they attempt to explain it using "scientific" information that is completely false. Hair has nothing to do with the nervous system, it is actually completely dead - although if something brushes against it you feel that because it moves the hair follicle, under the skin surface, which is alive and has nerves. The statement that hair is "exteriorised nerves" is therefore enough for me to reject this story as a deliberate hoax. Good discussion of it here:
http://www.skepticblog.org/2011/12/22/hair-of-samson/

However that is not to say that there is not a spiritual benefit in having long hair. Just like fasting gives you a greater connection to God, long hair may well do exactly the same. I'm not putting down the basic idea of long hair - I just doubt this particular tale of it.
 
weird

and science's attempt to explain something that may be spiritual gets pretty gobbeldy-gookie.

i think that the full truth is only going to come through the Almighty, but i do recommend some facial hair for men. it is Not something left over from tree-swinging ancestors. it is male and not something to be ashamed of.
 
I have always wondered why, being a very spiritually focused person, I have always felt more "natural" or "complete" with outgrown hair, when every other male in my family has overly short hair.

steve said:
... but i do recommend some facial hair for men. it is Not something left over from tree-swinging ancestors. it is male and not something to be ashamed of.

Unfortunately, some of us don't carry off the "beard look" well enough for our employers to allow it. :(
 
Crossgeared Viking said:
Unfortunately, some of us don't carry off the "beard look" well enough for our employers to allow it. :(
harumph, an obvious case of religious repression.
are you dialing the ACLU? :D
 
this is somewhat long, but check out the statement at the end

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Scienceminded says:

November 15, 2012 at 3:19 am

http://peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2012/02/ ... -hair.html

This article has a little more meat, but it reproduces the same rumor with no citation about Nam trackers. The real meat is in the fact it outlines the uses of hairs in our auditory and olfactory senses which are extremely sensitive and we cannot be unconscious to their stimuli. The question I want to know is that if nerves are triggered at extremely low thresholds in body hair, what would that information mapping to our brain look like? How does it change our behavior, can it really trigger responses like the sense of danger purported in the rumor? Real testing is required. There might be something to it, but it will remain mere speculation until science asks the tough questions.

http://weeksmd.com/2011/12/hair-as-an-e ... us-system/

So polar bear hair is fiber optic to UV light. I wonder if blond people have better vitamin D production in their head? I wonder if human hair is too dark or not the right composition to conduct light as a means to transmit information about our surroundings. Interesting stuff. I wouldn’t put it past nature to encode dozens of information gathering systems that we aren’t consciously aware of in our body.

On a tangent, as far as extrasensory perception goes, I’m quite interested in quantum nonlocality being a possible explanation for why our brains, leveraging the properties of electron interactions in a quantum mechanical universe, could interact over vast distances instantaneously. Recently some physicists have come up with a counterpart to space-time called momentum-space. If we actually understood the underpinnings of reality, we would get a better idea of how nonlocal information transmission could work. Something about an 8 dimensional universe seems right to me

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg2 ... tml?page=1

I know I’m on skepticblog, but I think the amount of experimental evidence on dream telepathy and precognition has shown since Frued’s time (who eventually considered telepathy nearly self evident in the field of psychoanalysis) is substantial enough to warrant more experimental testing. Scientists have already invented cybernetic telepathy with technology. Our brains are far more complicated. If nature has a way for electron interactions in our brain to resonate and manifest in other brains, that would be a HUGE selective advantage to social species, becoming aware of dangers other members of the species experience. Check out the Maimonides dream laboratory studies with Robert Van de Castle for instance. We get something like a 750,000,000 to 1 chance of the statistical data for successful telepathy that Van de Castle exhibited being produced arising by chance. In a triple blind study. It is not woo, it is hard data. Which demands new theories to describe the mechanism by which nature is producing the phenomena. Food for thought.

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Little Big Hair says:

January 15, 2013 at 11:26 am

The danger of skepticism is that it refutes everything, while proving nothing.
 
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