Hair

Oddly, I can't remember if I have written about this yet or not--as I've been meaning to for a while.... Oh well, maybe if I have, it bears repeating ......

This business of the shaving of the body . . . currently fashionable among young men especially, the arms, legs . . . . the "metro-sexual" thing . . . .

And, the noticeable trend among law enforcement types to have the shaved head augmenting the overly aggressive attitude eager for a beat-down . . . .

Is linked to the conformist pressure upon the businessman, church-goer, politician . . . to have the proper haircut--"clean cut" look . . . .

I recall always as a young boy dreading the time for a hair cut and use to argue that it would "take my power" away . . . . I would site Sampson to my mother, to no avail.
And even now, and for years, I have always tended to feel best when my hair is long; though occasionally, feeling the urge to cut it back, in a kind of "spring cleaning" sense . . . but then, allowing it to come back, long and fairly wild over time.  I never was attracted to the suit and tie and tidy hair and face look of church people, but rather appreciated the long hair and beards of monks and ascetics as just seeming more appropriate to a holy man.  Like Jesus had, for instance . . . .

I came across an interesting story a while back which relates to this area of concern.

During the Viet Nam war, the American special forces department sent out undercover agents to investigate Native American reservations to find especially talented scouts knowing the seeming superhuman abilities of the Indians to track and spy and survive in the wilderness in hostile conditions--their "sixth sense", extra-sensory skills in locating and/or avoiding enemies.

Various candidates were indeed found and enlisted in special scouting units.  But a funny thing happened.  Once out in the combat field, these scouts apparently lost all their special abilities.  They no longer had the unusual skills, intuition and "sixth sense" and serious calamities and even fatalities ensued.  So the army did a study on the situation and performed tests to find out what had happened.

It turns out that the army hair-cut had taken away the Indians' abilities.  Some recruits were allowed to keep their traditional long hair, while others got the shave, and in every case, those with hair out-performed the others in all respects related to almost supernatural sensitivity.

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"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."
 http://www.sott.net/articles/show/234783-The-Truth-About-Hair-and-Why-Indians-Would-Keep-Their-Hair-Long


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Native Americans have traditionally considered that their hair was sacred and was an important connecting link to The Great Spirit.

The Nazarites, of course believed that, upon commandment from God that the razor was never to touch their heads, or they would become weak--hair being a sign of the goodness of God and representing (and perhaps helping?) maintain spiritual power.

I have a few friends who are Sikhs and they are very fine people--devout, honorable and admirably earnest in their dedication to their spiritual practice and belief.  They wear turbans to contain their uncut hair and wear long beards, usually braided up for practicality, believing that the cutting of hair is a sign of conformity to the world.  And that allowing their hair to grow, despite cultural pressures and norms is a sign of submission to the will of God.  In terms of basic bodily health, they consider that hair helps to synthesize necessary vitamin D from the sun and provides the pituitary gland with phosphorous.  I suspect, like them, that our brains are designed with certain chemicals and subtle electromagnetic properties which help the transmission of information from the Spirit to our physical station--for the Christian, from Holy Spirit.

The passage in Corinthians 11:14 "Doth not even nature itself teach you that if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?"

. . . . is the only place in the bible that would imply that cut hair is preferable, while there are many verses which condone and even command the growing of hair . . . . [ie., Num. 6:5-7; Kings 1:8; Judges 16:17; Sam. 14:25-26; Lev. 19:27]

But it is understood, when analyzing the *Greek translation of the Corinthian passage that what was being condemned was not long hair per se, but the feminized styling of men's hair that was popular among the Pagans.  Indeed, the Pagans were noted for cutting their hair short and/or styling in certain fashions.  

I am not asserting any sort of legalistic demand regarding the growing out of the hair, but find the matter interesting and from personal experience confirming of some things.

My wife and I use to joke that it seemed that when our boys got a hair cut--ie., a "buzz cut" . . . they were a little meaner, lol.  The image of a bully is usually one of some kid with a "crew cut" . . . . And then there are the "skinheads" and "punks" who often promote and thrive on anarchy, violence, intolerance, versus the mellow hippy conception . . . . And then there's "female intuition"--perhaps which is related to the woman's tendency towards longer hair . . . ?

The first thing the military does, symbolically, is shave the head--conform and get ready to kill.  And again, I can't help but notice, especially in recent years, how more and more of these para-military type cops and S.W.A.T. unit guys go for that shaved intimidating head/face look . . . more and more of them outright bald . . . . 

Hey, no big deal.   Just making some observations, fwiw . . . . . . bro. t

Black Elk's Prayer

Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
You lived first, and you are older than all need, older than all prayer.
All things belong to you -- the two-legged, the four-legged, the wings of the air, and all green things that live.
You have set the powers of the four quarters of the earth to cross each other.
You have made me cross the good road and road of difficulties, and where they cross, the place is holy.
Day in, day out, forevermore, you are the life of things.

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*[In 1 Corinthians 11:14 the Greek word translated "long hair" is komao which means tresses of hair or locks. It comes from the root word meaning "to take care of" which indicates some kind of preparation to make the hair appear in tresses. Komao appears only three times in the Bible, and all three times are right here in the 11th chapter of 1 Corinthians. The usual word for hair is thrix. It is possible Paul is referring to some pagan practice of fixing the hair in a feminine manner, and this is what he is condemning for men, although condoning for women. Some hairstyles were considered immodest and condemned in 1 Timothy 2:9 and 1 Peter 3:3. At any rate, Paul would not teach anything contrary to the rest of scripture.]
 
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