Notes: Why Indians Would Keep Their Hair Long

This is a fascinating article about a subject not often talked about:

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.

Coincidentally, I watched the movie Avatar shortly after reading this article and I found it incredible that one of the underlying concepts of that movie was that of the Na'vi using the ends of their long hair (which was always braided) to connect and communicate with nature.

Since I was sixteen, I've kept my hair one step short of bald (going fully bald for a few years in my late teens) Now I'm curious if letting it grow will actually enhance my ability to sense subtle energies in the world around me.

Perhaps letting my hair grow for the six months I was traveling in India last year actually contributed to the way I sensed the world around me and helped shape the new path I'm on today.

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  1. Short hair is also associated with becoming a monk or nun.

     

    It’s over a year since the post. Did your experiments with growing your hair lead you anywhere?

    • I actually haven’t tried keeping my hair long since writing this; it’s just easier to keep it short. My skin gets dry very easily, especially if I’m not in a humid climate, and having longer hair (facial or otherwise) only seems to exasperate the dry skin.

      I’m still fascinated by this though and I’ve thought about what it means for monks and nuns to have short hair. If they do it to disconnect from the physical world so they can explore the inner world, then what does that say about having short hair while exploring both the inner and outer worlds? 🙂

  2. It’s also associated with fascism (at least in England)!

    After I’ve had my hair cut (and I use clippers) I always feel fresher and lighter. It’s not just because I live in a tropical climate-I did this in England too.

    I can’t quite put my finger on what it is. There’s something romantic and artistic about having long hair, and shaving it is perhaps disconnecting (somewhat) from that side of life. We, the monks, and the fascists have to sacrifice something in order to strengthen our resolve to cut to the heart of our way of life.

    I’m just exploring here…

    • And a fascinating exploration it is…

      I wonder if the refocusing of our attention — as a species — toward more inward things, whether that be our hearts and minds or phones and computer screens, has something to do with why shorter hair is far more common today. I’m inclined to think, however, that it’s probably just that modern societies recognize shorter hair is easier to maintain and now that we have easy access to the tools and services necessary to keep it shorter, we do.