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The Truth About Hair - Covered Up Since The Vietnam War

9/29/2011

57 Comments

 
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This information about hair has been hidden from the public since the Vietnam (sometimes spelled 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 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 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 casualties and failures of performance led the government to contract expensive testing of these recruits, and this is what was found.

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   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 Native American 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.”

Additional Notes:

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.

Something more about long hair in history:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_hair#Cultural_history

57 Comments
Lynn Adams
3/31/2012 08:31:47 am

My middle-aged son sent me the above article with the comment:

"Thanks, Mom for letting me have long hair as a child."

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Apparently Apparel link
3/31/2012 10:57:52 am

Lynn,

That's simply great! Both of you had a chance to connect with this article - I feel like reaching just one or two people sometimes is juust enough. I too stopped cutting, rather, started growing my hair out the minute I posted this article, back in September of last year. I definitely think there is more to it, as I have had an amazing six or seven months so far with long hair, I'm getting back in touch with my Native American roots, I can feel it!

Thank you so much - I hope you liked this article/website! I really put my heart into it. Information is free...and t-shirts are my artform.

I hope you enjoy both.

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Richard Shropshire
4/30/2012 05:25:40 am

The Virl Society, a German occult cult, also believed in the perceptive qualities of very long hair on women. The cult died along with Nazi Germany.

john Harrod
5/4/2012 06:49:54 pm

Are you familiar with Stanislaw Lem's Galactic Constructor, Trurl, who built a machine that would write the finest poetry in the Universe? It was asked, challenged to write a poem... about a haircut. Make it... lofty, tragic, noble.. in illiteration, every word beginning with the letter S....
"Seduced, shaggy Sampson snored...
She scissored short. Soon shackled slave,
silently scheming, sightlessly seeking,
Some savage spectacular suicide."

I quite agree, if not in science, at least in spirit. My ex, with whom I am quite good friends, always pressured me to keep it short. So did my father when I was young. When my wife left, in 1994, I never cut my hair again. I trim off some split ends from time to time... nothing drastic. It's still down to the middle of my back. I feel the power!
YrsTrly,
john H.

paul link
4/30/2012 03:34:22 pm

Show me some scietific instrumentation on these 'forces'. Sounds like a naturalist tall tale. There are no nerves in hair. Hair is dead material. Folicles. Make me believe in follicles.....more specifically folllicles with hair in them!

The experiment was obviously biased. The subject knew what awas up. I mean, you cut somebodies hari off and play pranks on them they get wise real quick.

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Superluminal Elf
5/1/2012 12:56:18 pm

What you "believe" is your own affair "Paul"; no one can "make" you believe anything, nor should they try. Do your own homework and due diligence, if you are truly interested to learn more —which appears highly doubtful.

The purpose of science is to discover reality, not to help skeptics hide behind their prejudices.

brewer
5/3/2012 11:53:04 am

If you want to test this theory try cutting a dog's whiskers

john Harrod
5/4/2012 07:01:00 pm

As much as I agree with the concept, in spirit, intellectually and scientifically I have to agree with Paul... But in this case, spirit wins me over. To heck with science, looks where it's gotten the human race so far... we were better off when we sleeping in teepees and hunting buffalo.

ChewyBees
5/6/2012 04:03:15 pm

"Always with you, what can not be done..."

Guess what, the antennae on your car is dead too. Except for the connection to the radio and the battery. I guess that's your follicle.

As far as 'make me believe', what a load that is. No man can ever crack the locked mind through words or debate. It ultimately takes a tortuous brainwashing to accomplish that. Since that hopefully will not happen, I guess we'll all have to continue to deal with locked minds until a higher level of sensitivity reaches us all. When that happens, you will have no where to hide anymore with your conscious determination to prevent anything outside of poor mentorship and worse imaginative creativity interfere. It's a looping life you lead, one of the same cycles of dispassionate meandering, until the last cycle gives out and you have to dirt nap it our until the next cycle begins.

You are a subroutine running lower level subroutines ad infinium. Time for a CTRL ALT DEL, find a task manager, and find out the problem with our services

Jesse
7/16/2013 04:04:49 pm

both mammals and reptiles have evolved for millions of years. they have feather's because their scales/skin evolved into feathers.. hair grows out of the skin and itself is made of skin and is connected the the nerves beneath the skin. its not so far fetched that another creatures tool that allows it sense of touch. i.e the skin to adapt in all kinds of ways.

Skaev
3/25/2014 03:20:30 pm

So i am replying to this comment, where i would prefer to be able to reply to some of the ones that were addressed to it.

The onus of proof of an argument is not on the listeners.
Telling someone to perform their own study on an assertion that you have made is a deflection of the worst kind.

If you want to make a statement, make an assertion or otherwise present an argument for people to accept, then the obligation of proof is on you.

The negative tone that people have used to attack Paul's comment is a terrible way of trying to discredit his comment. His request for scientific rigor to be applied to the study is a legitimate one.

Should he do some of his own study? - Probably.
Does his lack of study in the area make the article correct? - Absolutely not.

Archie
5/29/2015 07:42:07 am

Who wrote this article? Why are there no authentications? Interesting tale.

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John D link
3/31/2012 10:49:44 am

Hair as an antennae (plural)

I laid out electronic circuit boards for a profession.
All current creates radio radio waves as a matter of fact.
Alternating current is changed to direct current by means
of a diode.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diode#Solid-state_diodes

Diodes are either made of selenium or germanium.-fact-
Hair follicles contain selenium.
Selenium is needed for hair to grow.

http://www.livestrong.com/article/292637-minerals-needed-for-natural-hair-growth/

Hair needs copper.
link:http://www.pamrotella.com/health/copper.html
also check out 'copper peptides'.

Hair contains copper. It acts as an antennae.
Radio waves are received by the hair, converted in to
DC current by the selenium in the hair follicles.
The selenium in the hair follicles can be of varying strengths
therefore even possibly creating some transistors as well.

It is my supposition that the current goes directly to the
brain, which just happens to be very close to the hair
follicles.

We are radio receivers.

The evidence of the indians with long hair having an extra
or I would say different sensitivity/awareness is because of the long hair. If you have short hair you will be receiving
wave lengths of higher frequency. Longer hair will receive
lower wave lengths.

This is all natural physics and chemical facts.

I'm gonna let my hair grow long again and see what happens.
I'm also going to start taking copper supplements.!

You welcome, JD

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Apparently Apparel link
3/31/2012 11:02:09 am

Wow John!!!

You just blew my mind! It's really amazing the information you just presented. Thank you!!!

I'm going to look into copper myself, and I'm already working with magnetized water, which is helping grow my hair faster. If you have not read that article, I suggest you do.

http://www.apparentlyapparel.com/2/post/2012/02/the-unusual-effects-of-magnetic-water.html

Thanks again for commenting, just what I was hoping for. My suspicions were correct, this is entirely true!!!

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sistertongue link
4/29/2012 11:24:41 am

Well, I keep my hair short. BUT, I have my fabulous exotic bird feathers sticking up from the back of my head. A friend asked me if I wanted feathers and my reply was, "you mean like a rare exotic bird? Of course."

Years later, I was working at a reception desk and a woman approached the desk to check in. She then stated that she worked for Naropa Institute and further stated, "That's how you know." nodding toward my head.

"Know what?" I responded.

"The feathers. That's how you know which instructors are the true shamans and which are not," she replied.

Reallly?!

I immediately called my haircutting friend and informed her that she had been unknowingly cutting shamanic hair styles onto people.

I also had another friend who was extremely psychic. She developed allopecia and, in response, shaved her head, though wore a hat at all times, as she was picking up things quite directly with a bald head.

So, really, the length of hair is quite irrelevant. It all depends on the awareness level and abilities of the person with relationship to their hair. We all experience it in different ways and length really isn't the big issue.

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Italics Mine
4/30/2012 11:01:12 am

If I take copper or selenium supplements will that help restore hair in my receeding hairline?

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Valen Wolf
4/30/2017 03:19:51 pm

Dear John
Does your theory explain why I think I'm hearing music when there is actually none playing, anywhere in my house?
Radio frequencies?
Trust me, it's a really odd sensation!!

Anyone??

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John Dolk link
4/1/2012 11:39:32 am

COPPER DEFICIENCIES

After responding to your article on hair and looking for web sites
on 'hair and copper' I discovered a link between Copper
deficiency and aneurysms as well as a host of other illinises
caused by copper deficiency.
As I had a stent put in my main artery due to a large aneurysm
it most likely saved my life. Since my mother and others in
my immediate family have had aneurysms I notified everyone
in my family tree.

My thanks have to go to you for your wonderful article. If it
wasn't for your article I would not have discovered the truth
about copper deficiency.

I plan to buy copper supplements for everyone in my family
and do a lot more research.

I do have a page on heaven.
http://www.plateaustudios.com/heaven.html

John

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Jay
4/29/2012 03:17:26 am

I don't doubt the validity of what this article is saying, but I would say it is false to assume having long hair vs no hair is somehow intrinsically better.
It may just be a matter that for native Indians, their bloodlines, their customs, etc. lend themselves to functioning much better with long hair.
Look at eastern/asian spiritual traditions, like the shaved heads of monks, or the wondering long haired ascetic; Each on their own path for spiritual growth yet different means.
For myself I have gone back and forth with long hair/beard to cleanly shaven bald a few times in my life and have noticed there is a definite difference ( other than appearance ) in my approach to life and way of using personal talents/abilities. However, it is a subtle one and not a major factor.
So I think it's more a matter of recognizing that there is something to what the article is suggesting, just not one being better than the other.

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scj7129
4/29/2012 07:22:01 am

Interesting Article!

I think the hair length issue has alot to do with the ethnicity. I myself personally cannot stand long hair, and if my beard/whiskers get too long, I am unable to sleep....just an observation!

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Joe
4/29/2012 01:09:33 pm

White men started growing their hair long in the 1960's, the same decade our borders were opened to massive immigration.
Long hair on my fellow white men didn't have much effect on protecting our borders.
This is bullsh*t.

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Bob
4/29/2012 02:37:55 pm

If hair is so advantageous then why is baldness so dominant in human males? One would think that baldness would have been bred out through natural selection.

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J. Bongiovi
4/29/2012 08:22:08 pm

Because alot of men are at a disadvantage.

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Glenn
4/30/2012 11:04:03 am

Maybe male baldness is a direct cause of our toxic food, air, or water. Anything that can cause testosterone levels to sky rocket can cause 'male pattern baldness' and no doctor will ever admit to it. They'll tell you it's hereditary and can't wait to prescribe some b.s.ointment. The type of baldness may be passed down- ie: both you and your dad only have a big bald spot in the back of your head only, etc. But, the baldness itself is not and could more than likely be avoided alltogether.

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Mervin
4/30/2012 11:59:51 am

Maybe men just go bald AFTER they have passed on their genetic traits. I know I did.

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Mike link
2/5/2015 11:40:16 am

Joe, because, contrary to popular belief, bald guys know how to get laid?

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Mark
4/29/2012 07:08:19 pm

Ohhh wow yes I think I can detect the same, however, not because of my really not-long hair (its shaven), but because of my un-cut finger and toe nails.........

Yeah man dont cut anything and you can speak to the ancient civilisations man.....what a load of rot some people come out with.......long haired people have just got long hair....what on earth will i read next hahahahaha

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J. Bongiovi
4/29/2012 08:40:06 pm

Mark, I just walked past your window and looked inside and you didnt even know it. Had you had long hair.............

LOL J/K.

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Valen
4/30/2017 03:29:14 pm

Bwahahaha!!! Good one!! :)

andrew
4/29/2012 08:16:28 pm

biggest load or rubbish i've ever seen. What a stupid article

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Don
4/30/2012 02:08:39 am

LMAO! Amen, Andrew. It's far beyond asinine.

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Paul
4/30/2012 08:48:25 am

Another knee-jerk reaction: Condemnation without Investigation.

It adds nothing to the discussion unless you can tell us why you think this is rubbish and give supporting facts as to why you have come to this conclusion.

J. Bongiovi
4/29/2012 08:29:33 pm

As a man who has long hair, I agree very strongly with this article......wait.....there's someone robbing a house on the next block.... I must go>>>>>>>>>>

Seriously, humans are just one animal with ESP ability...other animals, especially pets, are far more advanced than we human animals are, when it comes to sensing things that we are oblivous to. The ability lies in the soul..more than the hair....

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Administrator link
4/29/2012 08:40:33 pm

@ J. Bongiovi ,

OK, now that was funny....thank you for your sense of humor.

One thing you are right about, these gifts are located within the Soul/Subconscious mind and anyone alive reading this comment can choose to explore that. Unfortunately, we live in the age of TV warriors so trying to get through the normal way with science or fact isn't going to work. If it's not on TV, majority of people won't even think twice. This fact only makes me want to try harder in sharing information that is different than what "normal" media might have us read.

Again, thanks for lightening things up with your humor. Well said my friend, well said.

AA

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Don
4/30/2012 02:10:07 am

Ah, John...but there's just ONE thing...are you sure it's ESP, and not NOTHING?

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don (t got it)
4/30/2012 07:50:58 am

well it's obvious don does not have any of these abilities. sorry :(

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chris
4/30/2012 09:57:45 am

Great information. Thank You...

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Lauren
4/30/2012 11:06:31 am

How can copper and selenium work for hair? Does it grow lost hair back?

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Diane
4/30/2012 01:25:21 pm

I do not recommend taking copper supplements unless you have a documented deficiency, except as part of a balanced multivitamin. Copper must be kept in balance with zinc, and most people actually have too much copper relative to zinc, rather than vice versa. But men sometimes take zinc supplements, which can throw their copper balance out of whack. Many good zinc supplements also contain copper to prevent the imbalance.

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paul link
4/30/2012 03:35:31 pm

Show me some scietific instrumentation on these 'forces'. Sounds like a naturalist tall tale. There are no nerves in hair. Hair is dead material. Folicles. Make me believe in follicles.....more specifically folllicles with hair in them!

The experiment was obviously biased. The subject knew what awas up. I mean, you cut somebodies hari off and play pranks on them they get wise real quick.

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helen
5/1/2012 07:55:36 am

I know men with long hair and they have no "sense" at all... :))

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helen
5/1/2012 09:20:19 am

I don't think there is anything mysterious about long hair. One man, John, brings in some interesting scientific facts and a link about hair growth. Others say it has something to do with the soul, etc.

I say it has more likely only to do with the sense of touch. Think about this... You live in the wilderness and sleep in the open air or a tent or tepee. There are wild animals and occasionally savages who might do you harm. You would naturally need to be more aware of your surroundings and so ALL of your senses would become highly developed. Bear with me.

True, hair has no sense of touch BUT even the slightest movement of hair creates a sense of touch on the skin (scalp).

Now suppose you are sleeping on the ground with long hair, do you think you would instinctively sense (in your scalp) even the slightest movement of the ground or air, etc especially if you had developed a hightened sense of touch in your scalp and/or other places.

Now suppose you cut your hair. Your hair would not move as much as long hair and thus far less or no sense of touch in the scalp would be evident, don't you think?

You can grow your hair until hell won't have it and it will make no difference in your smarts or your life UNTIL you need it to sense danger. So for most in our society there is no need to grow long hair and beards if you would rather not.


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Kyle link
5/3/2012 10:24:24 am

Despite the large amount of knee jerk defensive trolling on this thread, I very much enjoyed this post and it's follow up discussion.

Not only is this obviously true to me, it made me consider why both monks and the armed forces use the technique of shaving the human antennae to reduce interference. For soldiers, so they receive and act on orders with less sensory distraction. For monks, to prevent extrasensory inputs from clouding their meditations, which are inner experiences requiring no external inputs.

I feel that people having trouble grasping/accepting this concept are out of touch with their intuition and are subconsciously defending their current state, which is lacking the extrasensory perception to "know" without external sources. I am happy to discuss civil, thoughtful responses if anyone is interested in what I've said, positive or critical. -Kyle

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Nephrite
5/13/2012 09:04:10 pm

To me the fact that both Monks and the milititary shave their heads is NOT to stop interference...because this can be picked up by other sensory appendages that we all possess....but in fact to actually surrender (religiously as in the Monks perception...and unconsciously to the others involved...) our individual 'power' to a force outside of ourselves....it is an act of martyrdom.

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Kyle
5/27/2012 07:37:23 pm

@Nephrite Very interesting, I hadn't thought of it in those terms. I guess i was considering it from a more literal point of view. I suppose not only is the surrender of power, but also individuality, since hair is a very defining feature on a lot of humans.

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susan
5/27/2012 02:08:26 pm

wow, a discussion this long on long hair and no mention of long hair in relation to mechanics. a master mechanic I know told me that there is a tradition, when a mechanic gets a new job he cuts his hair, so a mechanic with very long hair has been in his job a long time and therefore is good.....funny no one mentioned it. lots of good points though.

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Kyle
5/27/2012 07:33:10 pm

@Susan very cool, I'd never heard of that before.

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Mileena Bey link
6/5/2012 02:26:33 am

Awesome story ! I've always keep my hair long I guess I kinda know why now :)

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J-Dub
10/27/2012 12:47:30 am

It would be great if the author could provide some documentation links. I am totally on board with the story in theory, but would like to do my own due diligence. Otherwise it just remains a story...

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5/13/2013 05:04:49 am

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Ellin Callvis
7/4/2013 07:04:54 pm

Well of course!! It makes sense to me, at least. The time of the Vietnam War was when us hippies were raising consciousness higher than it had ever been before - we wore our hair long.
Then something happened... a few of us were shot dead, many jailed, and we also had babies and that caused many hippies to get jobs to support the baby, and jobs meant haircuts.

Haircuts and a few dead bodies... the last best chance the human race had for enlightenment... things are too messed up now and it has to collapse and rebuild before we get another chance...

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Joe Armstrong
4/3/2014 04:22:40 am

Ellin, what about aaaaalllll the other worthless schmucks who had long hair out of general sloth and who never did a single damned thing to 'raise consciousness'?! Hmmm? There's been millions of them. And 'hippies' in the 60's and since are among the single most overplayed, over-exaggerated in terms of actual effect, and self-glorifying substrata of humanity ever. Not to mention damned annoying. And you think hippies raised 'consciousness higher than it had ever been before"? Go to India, Tibet, or Nepal. Metaphysical leaps and bounds beyond what hippies ever did.

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BillieJeanBateson link
1/19/2016 05:20:21 am

This was a useful post. I'd never heard of that before. Keep up the good work.

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Heide Zuckschwerdt link
2/19/2016 11:25:27 am

Here is your scietific proof several of you asked for.....

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120111103354.htm

Science News
from research organizations________________________________________
Touching a nerve: How every hair in skin feels touch and how it all gets to the brain
Date:
January 11, 2012
Source:
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Summary:
Neuroscientists have discovered how the sense of touch is wired in the skin and nervous system. The new findings open new doors for understanding how the brain collects and processes information from hairy skin.


Nerve cells, LTMRs, stretch from the spinal cord to hair follicle cells, allowing detection of different levels of touch sensation.
Credit: David Ginty lab
Neuroscientists at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have discovered how the sense of touch is wired in the skin and nervous system. The new findings, published Dec. 22 in Cell, open new doors for understanding how the brain collects and processes information from hairy skin.
"You can deflect a single hair on your arm and feel it, but how can you tell the difference between a raindrop, a light breeze or a poke of a stick?" says David Ginty, Ph.D., professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins. "Touch is not yes or no; it's very rich, and now we're starting to understand how all those inputs are processed."
Ginty and his colleagues study how the nervous system develops and is wired. In trying to understand how touch-responsive nerve cells develop, they set out to build new tools that enable them to look at individual nerve cells. According to Ginty, there are more than 20 broad classes of so-called mechanosensory nerve cells in the skin -- of which only six account for light touch -- that sense everything from temperature to pain. But until now, the only way to tell one cell from another was to take electrical recordings as each type of cell generates a different current based on what it senses.
The team first genetically engineered mice to make a fluorescent protein in one type of nerve cell -- called the C-type low-threshold mechanosensory receptor or C-LTMR. C-LTMR cells stretch from the spinal cord to the skin, and those cells containing fluorescent protein could be seen in their entirety under a microscope. The team found that each C-LTMR cell branched to send projections to as many as 30 different hair follicles.
Mice have three different types of hair: a thick, long guard hair that accounts for only about 1 percent of total hairs on the body; a shorter hair called the awl/auchene that constitutes about 23 percent of body hair; and a fine hair called the zigzag that makes up 76 percent of body hair. The team found that most of the C-LTMR cell endings -- about 80 percent -- associate with zigzag hair follicles, the rest with the awl/auchene and none with the guard hair follicles.
The researchers then similarly marked two other types of touch nerve cells and found that each hair type has a different and specific set of nerve endings associated with it. "This makes every hair a unique mechanosensory organ," says Ginty. Moreover, with their new marking tools, they found that each hair type is evenly spaced and patterned throughout the skin.
The team then wondered how all the input from these individual hairs is collected and sent to the brain. Using a different dying technique, the researchers were able to stain the other end of the cell, in the spinal cord. They found that the nerves connecting each patch of skin containing one guard hair and other associated smaller hairs line up in columns in the spinal cord -- neighboring columns correspond to neighboring patches of skin. They estimate that there are about 3,000 to 5,000 columns in the spinal cord, with each column accounting for 100 to 150 hair follicles.
So how does the brain interpret what each hair follicle experiences? "How this happens is remarkable and we're fairly clueless about it," says Ginty. But he suspects that the organization of the columns is key to how all the various inputs are processed before a message goes to the brain. And while people are not as hairy as mice, Ginty believes that many of the same structures are shared. This study and the new cell-marking tools they developed, he says, open a lot of doors for new research in understanding touch and other senses.
This study was funded by the National institutes of Health, the Johns Hopkins NINDS core imaging facility and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Authors on the paper are Lishi Li, Michael Rutlin, Victoria Abraira, Wenqin Luo and David Ginty of Johns Hopkins; Colleen Cassidy and C. Jeffery Woodbury of University of Wyoming; Laura Kus, Shiaoching Gong and Nathaniel Heintz of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and The Rockefeller University; and Michael Jankowski and H. Richard Koerber of University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
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