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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brother Onam" data-source="post: 211187" data-attributes="member: 18170">3HO came from the mind of Yogi Bhajan, and Yogi Bhajan was appealing to a bunch of white hippies in the 70's; this is the cultural milieu this doctrine sprang from. So while I think there is indeed some truth regarding spiritual energies and hair, and turbans as well, I think anything Yogi Bhajan taught has to be taken with a grain of salt. I get the feeling much of what he taught has an admixture of mytical-sounding mumbo-jumbo to appeal to the hippies he was attracting.What I'm saying is that, while he brought a lot of power and vitality to his understanding of Sikh Dharma, a whole lot of what he taught would never make it through a double-blind test. (As passionately and resolutely as he may have promoted, for instance, the spiritual receptivity of kesh, top-knots and turban, if someone were to conduct a blind test involving a test group of unshorn subjects versus a group of bald Buddhists, I would be very surprised if any scientific proof could be shown revealing undisputably that the long-haired group was significantly more perceptive).</blockquote>