Significance of hair in spiritual traditions

[absit]

I also find this topic very interesting.

And I had a magic done to me by removing some of my hair too. Afterwards, I instinctively cut it, but eventually I let it grow again.

I think it does hold some kind deep significance, hence the subjectivities of how all of us prefer to use our hair.

This lifestory of mine, may come in handy;

Sometime ago, I was about to cut my hair, to give it as a present for an aunt of mine who had some quimios, and is now bald. We both agreed on it, and I was really doing it from the heart.

Suddenly, she decided to not take my present for her. "I prefer to be hairless, as I am now", she said to me.

I think this can be argued from psyichology, and other disciplines. It still amuses me, though, how hair is taken to be so intimate to oneself... mainly, because there is quite an amount of people that uses wigs..

Well, its a really complicated matter, as are many things that looks so common.

Regards to you all.

[Celtaur]

Watching this, Joan Jett talks about why she shaved her head as a spiritual thing...

[nventr]

Monks did and still do the tonsure hairstyle. Shave the top of the head but leave the sides. It is to open the energy channels to Grace. Some hair was left to maintain the Passion/Kundalini energy.

[Quintin Adamis]

From my understanding the shaving of the head in Buddhism is in regards to detachment from the ego self symbolic of connection to the spiritual self (in terms of detachment of course). In Sikhism the hair is regarded as highly spiritually significant and is not to be cut as symbolic of connection to the spiritual self. In universal terms, with such vastly different perceptions, are they both false, and only to the individuals culturally based perceptions the significance holds value?

Ive studied this in a few different fields. most things i will relate to magnetism and electricity which are both part of the same energy. Just as light is as well. Similar to a plant's leaves, our hair absorbs these rays. Notice the places hair grows on the head.. it seems to grow in most places except the forehead(except in rarer cases). The eyebrows come to a point. the nose points up. Hair inside of the ears directs towards the inner cavity. hair in the nose as well does the same. Hairs detect vibration.. which can be sound or can be energy. Hair sometimes randomly becomes static and charged. And if we point to more ancient sources, many cultures say NOT to cut the hair. I also have many of my own experiences with this as well. I am also one of those people who was born with a full thick head of hair. Unlike most babies with thin hair or none.

[brifae]

this other thread here goes into this and what i think about hair
http://www.symbolicliving.com/forum/...0817#post20817

[brifae]

I was watching a documentary on aldebaran/taurus constellation nazis and ufo's and the three girls or vrilerinnen were psychics who wore their hair long to act as cosmic antennaes to facilitate communication with beings from beyond for alternate technology through automatic writing with the thule and black sun secret societies, they wrote in ancient sumerian with no previous knowledge. Beings that survived the world flood live underground with this magenetic vril power of antigravity.

[brifae]

kali would do weather magick by braiding or releasing her hair, i am reminded of a fairy tale that a woman would do this so a man would leave her alone while she braided her hair, making him chase his hat in the wind.

This also reflects the tale of samson and delia who got him to cut his hair then he lost his spiritual contact.

[brifae]

plaiting and loosening hair represents binding, or forming a spell, then releasing it to the universe

Also represents kingly (earthly and spiritual power)

I was listening to yale university history lectures on roman history, and the emperors in a period of time (they did not have kings) kept their hair long in the tradition of the franks and merovingians, when enemies of Clovis asked his wife whether they should cut her sons hair or kill them she said kill, because it would mean the sons are not fit for kingly power. After they threw the defeated last Merovingian king into a monastary they cut his hair in a gesture of humiliation and not being able to be king.