Long Hair -- the spiritual significance now scientifically looming

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http://tinyurl.com/m3jqyw

 

Okay, okay, warning to ya that I'm going to stretch things a bit.

 

The above link describes a neatsokeeno gizmo that is as cool as, say, those

3,000 year-old batteries they discovered that might be the electrical source for

lighting used to navigate the tunnels inside the pyramids, or, say, Da Vinci's

helicopter or bicycle.

 

In short the article shows how a kid in India figured out how to use the

photovoltaic properties of HUMAN HAIR to make a solar panel to produce

electricity in significant quantities.

 

Now, this isn't about the " green " movement to me as much as it is a spiritual

" aha. "

 

Think about Samson, think about Arjuna " the long haired. "

 

The above gizmo proves that hair is a conductor of electricity and that

starlight, sunlight, moonlight -- doesn't matter -- when a strand of your hair

is shone upon: an electrical signal, a current, a message is humming along its

length.

 

So, are you ahead of me yet?

 

Seems to me that we have the scientific basis for understanding that how the

" stars are aligned " may indeed be communicating directly with our brains!

 

Samson lost his powers after his shearing by Delilah, Hinduism posits that long

hair is necessary for the siddhis of Arjuna, and virtually everywhere in the

world we find that long hair (hippies knew) signifies that the person is privy

to " inside information " and has " personal power. "

 

Note that women love long hair and that they are required in many cultures to

never cut their hair. Thus we see that women were understood to need their hair

for their womanly intuitions.

 

Note that many cultures require cutting of the hair for various reasons -- death

of a father, becoming a spiritual neophyte, entering boot camp, imprisonment,

etc.

 

I tells ya, you Advaitan wannabes, you may think you're " home free " with your

small mental fingers grasping the tiny intellectual cudgel of " nothing is the

only reality. " You may think that that's all you need to bat aside all the

mysteries of life instead of " entering them and throttling clarity with a

headlock, " but if you can't tell that you're manipulating your " antennae " when

you get shorn, then just how deeply do you really think you're going to be able

to grok Advaita?

 

There's a spiritual depth to ordinary, everyday, common, mundane, un-magical as

it gets, hair.

 

Think then: what about fingernails don't you yet get? What about currents

running across the surface of your skin that also has the photovoltaic

properties of hair? What is completely whizzing over your head about the

spiritual significance of all your electrically sensitive body stuff?

 

You may reject God as a concept, but you're living inside of a gizmo that

processes TRILLIONS OF ELECTRICAL OPERATIONS in ways you didn't even think about

until maybe just now after reading the above article.

 

Oh, you don't need clarity to leap out of the box, but while you're in it, you

gotta at least understand that you are a godlike machine processing such

complexities that today's computers and the code that's running in their veins

are as if tinker-toy constructions. The human experience is as deep as

infinity, and if you're denigrating that bombastic status as " mere illusion "

when so much is beyond your ken, well, it's at best childish, at worst it's an

Oedipal self-blinding act of mindfully embracing ignorance.

 

My hair is short, by the way, so don't listen to me -- I'm not connected -- just

like the rest of you fools -- if you're not sitting in a cave with long hair to

your knees, you don't have the tee shirt yet.

 

Edg