Thee Truth About Hair

[qualia]

The Truth About Hair and Why Indians Would Keep Their Hair Long

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

 

http://www.sott.net/...Their-Hair-Long

I have a shaved head!

[waterboy 2.0]

I have a shaved head now as well, always "felt" better when in the bush with long hair.

Right - time for a Ned Kelly styled beard then.

[Stillman]

I'll say it again, hair is the antennae to the cosmos lol

[glimpse]

I have fairly long hair but its falling out pretty quickly so i read this and started to worry but thought about it for a while and i'm pretty sure that at the rate my back, shoulders, nose and ear hair is growing I have absolutely nothing to worry about...I may even be turning into some kind of super-electromagnetic receiver of some kind, hopefully it will improve my wifi

[whitewind]

Didn't we have this one before?

Does shaving ones pubes lead to sexxual frustration?

Does this mean women are less tuned to the cosmos than men??

[whitewind]

What about clothes and hats?

Do dreadlocks decrease the ability to sense the cosmos?

Is this the reason why Yowie is so difficult for people to find?

[mr b.caapi]

what a load of crap !!! Yoda doesn't have hair...explain that.

[dionysus]

i would have thought more likely that the indigenous americans were'nt passionate about fighting for vietnam. similar occurences have happened many times when people are dragged into wars, for instance, the papuans who were enlisted to fight he japanese along side us in world war two, or the second sino-japanese war, were measurably good soldiers, but when taken over to the island of bougainville because of their apparent ability in war, they stopped fighting as they were no longer in their own land. i think the idea of colonial expansion is as foreign to indigenous populations around the world as the foreigners occupying their land.

[Alice]

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.

 

Visible hair in not alive, it has no biochemical activity. Only the follicles can are living, and they don't get chopped off when you shave your head. So visible hair is about as much an "antenna" as a hat or clothing.

[CβL]

In absence of the actual study itself, I can say that there would possibly be:

1) Some kind of weakening of confidence. Men's hair is tied to strength and adulthood in just about all cultures, and there's a possible effect of making someone feel weaker and more childish by cutting their hair. Ending the placebo effect essentially.

2) The hair acts as a filter to sound entering the ear. Removing the hair all of a sudden (via a haircut) will change the proportion of frequencies entering the ear, perhaps reducing the brain's efficiency at searching for patterns. A large mat of hair for example would eliminate some wind noise (a bit like a cover on a microphone).

Edited August 12, 2012 by CβL

[Lorax]

Visible hair in not alive, it has no biochemical activity. Only the follicles can are living, and they don't get chopped off when you shave your head. So visible hair is about as much an "antenna" as a hat or clothing.

 

Is what conventional science says, but I've had personal experience with dramatically increased growth speed after a trim, i think that shows some sort of communication between the tip of the hair and the follicle and yeh you might say that it's stimulating the follicle directly by pulling on the hair during cutting but i definitely do not get the same effect from a rigorous brush.

Edited August 13, 2012 by Stath

[IndianDreaming]

Grab a bit of hair in your fingers and stick it on an electric fence - you can feel the tick-tick-tick... rub a ballon on your hair and hold it out a bit - your charged hair will rise... so, hair has a strong ability to hold electrostatic charge. It could very well act as mentioned above. There's truth in old sayings too - '...made the hair on the back of my neck stand up...'

[IndianDreaming]

Makes me wonder why they're called 'wisdom teeth' too - maybe that's why there's so many drongos on the planet...

[Wameron36]

Deja vu anyone?

[CβL]

Is what conventional science says, but I've had personal experience with dramatically increased growth speed after a trim, i think that shows some sort of communication between the tip of the hair and the follicle and yeh you might say that it's stimulating the follicle directly by pulling on the hair during cutting but i definitely do not get the same effect from a rigorous brush.

If you actually measured it, I'm almost certain you would find that the growth over days is almost identical. Let's say your hair grow 1mm a day. Let's say you shave it to 0.1mm:

Day 0

0.1mm

Day 1

1.1mm (1000% increase)

Day 2

2.1mm (91% increase)

Day 3

3.1mm (48% increase)

Day 4

4.1mm (32% increase)

...

Day 7

7.1mm (16.4% increase)

....

Day 14

14.1mm (7.6% increase)

So your brain sees a 1000% increase, and thinks "holy s***!", but sees a 16.4%, or 7.6% increase as being less. In actuality, they were the same (as you can see here). Your sensory output vs. sensory input intensity is approximately logarithmic, and as a result, you tend to think logarithmically when you're not explicitly manipulating number symbols. Thus while the growth difference remains constant, the growth rate slows down. Your brain then makes the illogical conclusion that the growth difference slowed down too.

Grab a bit of hair in your fingers and stick it on an electric fence - you can feel the tick-tick-tick... rub a ballon on your hair and hold it out a bit - your charged hair will rise... so, hair has a strong ability to hold electrostatic charge. It could very well act as mentioned above. There's truth in old sayings too - '...made the hair on the back of my neck stand up...'

 

As you know, there's roughly two classes of materials with regards to electricity (more like two sides of a continuum). So on the left side, there's the insulators. These have the electrons in very stable orbits. On the right side, there's the conductors, the electrons are less stable and require way less energy to "kick" out of orbit.

Metals are conductors; traditional ceramics, air, wood and plastic are insulators.

Insulators are defined because they require extraordinarily high voltages (= Energy per electron) to transmit current (storms relative to the earth have enough of a voltage difference to ionize the air, allowing the passage of a current, this is the common form of lightning), and if there's not enough voltage - then they will not conduct anything at all.

Antennae are always made out of conductors, as the electromagnetic waves (i.e. radio waves) can generate a much higher current in the antenna this way (Voltage/Resistance = Current, so as Resistance goes down, Current goes up).

So basically, hair is an insulator - it will not conduct unless there is an extraordinarily high voltage across it. Secondly, the length of the hair restricts its efficiency to higher frequencies (assuming quarter wavelength of 50cm, that gives a frequency of 150Mhz - which as far as I know, nothing in nature can modulate this frequency, it's just insanely too high, this is all ignoring the fact that hair doesn't conduct anyway).

So hair is not an antenna.

Secondly, hair standing up is due to the pores holding the hair contracting. This is otherwise known as goose bumps: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goose_bumps

The saying is true in that it can happen, but nothing to do with anything but your own muscles and a healthy dose of fear.

Wisdom teeth:

Etymology

They are generally thought to be called wisdom teeth because they appear so late – much later than the other teeth, at an age where people are presumably "wiser" than as a child, when the other teeth erupt.^[23] The term probably came as a translation of the Latin dens sapientiae.

[IndianDreaming]

Thats some pretty flash logic there CBL! Especially with the %rate of growth.

With regards to hair being an antenna - We made an ECG circuit back in the days of uni - it was a differential mode amplifier that rejects the common mode signal (static all over your body). At rest, your body has anywhere from 5-10 kilovolts of static just hanging around. When you shuffle your shoes on carpet or rub a ballon on your head - we measured up to 150,000 volt spikes. 150kv is plenty enough to travel along the surface of a hair, and so much infact that the electrostatic forces can lift the hair (which weighs a few hundred micrograms to to about 1mg). The hair, touching your nice moist and salty scalp, could quite easily discharge into your head... So I still believe that although hair may not be acting in the classical sense of a radio antenna, which is picking up a 'modulated' signal, it can definately pick up static discharges and can move with electrostatic forces, which your body can interpret through touch - where the follicle meets the head. An 'electrostatic movement detector' so to speak. The simple experiment to test this being the ballon or 'stick of amber' to charge your head, then move an object near, and feel your hair moving...

The question remains how useful this is: If someone charged differently than you creeps up behind you, is their electrostatic cloud big enough to cause a few of your hairs to re-align? Then you'd feel the movement, or enough to push a few hairs over their limit and discharge into your head? I really don't know, but I wouldn't be too quick to dismiss the possibility. Weirder things have happened, like the blue receptor in birds eyes (and humans) can actually see magnetic lines of force...

Nice description of wisdom teeth! I bet a kid that knows everything would dissagree though

Edited August 14, 2012 by IndianDreaming

[incognito]

Im lucky I have very hairy legs. Like antennae.