Natural Hair Growth

A Natural Urge to “Go Natural” on the Mucusless Path

Mucusless Diet Practitioners Prof. Spira, Haneef, and Brother Air showing their Dreadlocks

Written By Prof. Spira on May 28, 2013 in response to a question about natural hair.

Natural hair growth and “going natural” was certainly something that my body told me to do. I really didn’t read much about it or even talk about it with others a great deal. Ehret addressed it a bit in the Mucusless Diet Healing System, and I had talked about it briefly with some folks in the mucusless community, but my body is what truly told me to go down the natural path.

As I became cleaner and my consciousness raised, it just did not make sense to me to cut my hair anymore. Many people assumed that I studied Rastafarian philosophy, which I hadn’t at the time, or that I was becoming some kind of hippie.

Back-to-Nature Consciousness

Once I wrote a short piece comparing the European back-to-nature movement with the development of the Rastafarian back-to-nature consciousness. In retrospect, both were progressive for their time periods.

Yet, both had flaws and fell off to a certain extent, getting further away from the initial principles (psychedelic drug, free sex, lack of motivation/lazy in the European model vs. chronic marijuana smoking as a religious experience, getting further away from a strict plant-based diet in the Rastafari Movement). One day I might do the necessary research to finish my article on this topic. (Read about the Euro back-to-nature movement
HERE )

Cover of Gordon Kennedy’s picture-filled book on the history of the back-to-nature movement. Check it out HERE.

After I’d started growing my hair out, Brother Air and I talked philosophically about dread locks being the human’s spiritual antennas, although we need to get clean enough to really use them. And people have used both abstract metaphysical philosophies and laws of physics to explain the power of uncut, un-altered hair for humans. Also, it has also been emphasized that hair growing in a spiral shape, which is necessary to grow dreadlocks, is a sign of cleanliness.

During my first year into the diet I shaved and remembered how I could feel the new hairs growing into my cheeks. It was very uncomfortable and I realized that it made no sense for me to shave like I’d been doing. Why would I use a sharp blade to cut off something that is a part of me, when it is so uncomfortable to do so?

Since I was no longer trying to fit into to societal norms, but defining my own reality, it made no sense to me to try and keep up appearance. So I’ve never shaved since. From time to time I might trim my beard a bit with scissors, but shaving is out. In future I’m sure that I will not even do that.

Arnold Ehret on Natural Hair Growth

As Ehret pointed out, cutting hair shows the decline of humankind. As we get sicker we feel the need to shave off hair, etc. Even many of the European founding fathers of the United States still had long side burns and mustaches. Even British judges still wear those white wigs, perhaps subconsciously wishing they were dark dreadlocks.

The modern cutting short of the feminine as well as the masculine hair on the head, and the alarming expansion and earliness of baldness have accustomed even an artistic eye so much to this appearance that we no longer become conscious of the fact of how seriously the aesthetic and harmonic figure of humans are disturbed by the voluntary and involuntary “hair decapitation.” Humans who are not only intellectual, but also are an aesthetic product of nature, “the crown of creation,” are being robbed of the splendid crown of their heads—the hair. They could be called “living skulls,” these beardless, colorless, and expressionless heads of today!

. . .  The lack of beauty and therewith the unaesthetic appearance of hair and beard has become so general that in course of time the need of shaving and use of the clipper have come as a matter of course. In our time of equalization and all-leveling it is preferred, and rightfully so, to cut off these odor-, and so to speak, revelation-organs of inner humans instead of furnishing by ugly, disheveled, uneven, and hereditary morbid hair, a living proof for the descendants theory. Therewith, we can understand the maltreatment of the hair. The thought has practically given rise that the getting ugly of one organ or of the entire organism means its inner morbidness, i.e., nature reveals internal physiological disturbances of an organism through disharmony of shape and color.

The seriously ill and dead organisms are its extremes. Doubters of my point of view and bad nature observers may here be reminded of the law of exception from the rule; and as regards humans, of the fact that neither hygienically nor aesthetically have we any imagination left of the ideal beauty and health of humans living under perfectly natural conditions. If the pleasure in the beautiful is a sentence in the favorable sense, then the displeasure felt by an aesthetic eye in looking upon the disharmony of shape and color must include to a certain degree the recognition of the pathologic. (Arnold Ehret in Rational Fasting)

 A sketch of Ehret following a 40 day water fast.

Natural Hair Growth: Conclusion

There is much more that can be said about the transition toward a more natural lifestyle. For my discussion of the biblical story of Samson, which characterizes the cutting of one’s hair with the loss of all their spiritual and physical strength, see my note in the Annotated Mucusless Diet Healing System. Many people seem to find certain back-to-nature inspired practices and pursues the ones they feel comfortable with. Some people may not be drawn to stop shaving or cutting their hair at first, but feel compelled to stop using all forms of refrigeration for their food.

Others may become passionate about making sure every body product, from oils, to lotions, to soaps, are made with only the finest natural organic ingredients (or, stop using them all-together). And there are still nudist colonies filled with people who are back-to-naturists at heart, but many of which are not vegan as most of their historical predecessors (such communes came directly out of the plant-based European back-to-nature movement).

The point is that such decisions are not normally made based on prescription, but rather on an internal awareness and urge to take oneself to higher levels of being.

Peace, Love, and Breath!

Prof. Spira

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