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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 enrol 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 disappear mysteriously, 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. "When questioned about their failure to perform as expected, the older recruits replied consistently 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, and they couldn't ‘read’ subtle signs as well {as they used to do] or access subtle extrasensory information. "So the testing institute recruited more Indian trackers, let them keep heir long hair and tested them in multiple areas. Then they would pair wo men together who had received he same scores on all the tests. They would let one man in the pair keep his air long, and gave the other man a military haircut. Then the two men retook the tests. “Time after time, the man with long air kept making high scores. Time after time, the man with the short hair ailed the tests in which he had previously scored high scores." THE TRUTH ABOUT HAIR Reported by Cee Young has been changed to protect her privacy) was married to a licensed psychologist who worked at a Virginia medical hospital. He worked with combat veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder. Most of them had served in Vietnam. Sally said: "I remember clearly an evening when he came back to our apartment on Doctors’ Circle carrying a thick official-looking folder in his hands. Inside were hundreds of pages of certain classified 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 Virginia medical centre let him do it, and other very conservative men on the staff followed his example. As I read the documents, | learned why. "It seems that during the Vietnam | n the early 1990s, Sally (her name (Source: RumorMillNews.com, 16 January 2011, http://tinyurl.com/7tfgrdl) Editor’s Note: Due to space constraints, we are unable to reprint the full article including commentary on hair and the nervous system; for this, go to http://tinyurl.com/7tfgrdl. NEXUS ¢ 67 DECEMBER 2011 - JANUARY 2012 www.nexusmagazine.com