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I got my hair backcombed back in apr 2008. I did not really know much about dreads other than from when i had it in my hair back in 2006, but back then they fell out after 3 months and it became straight hair again. So during my time in Iceland i got an idea to try having dreads again, i sort of missed them, but this time i wanted them to be there permanen. Back then this site was not even thought of so i tried out with a lot of natural beeswax and melted it in to a big area of all the dreads, the result being really sharp and heavy dreads, sort of the stiffness of a candle, but permanent they where; and still are. Today they sort of grow thicker and thicker because of all the melted beeswax =0). I have not added any after april 2008, now they have taken a life of their own, and the beeswax slow gets out.

Alright, the First Post was kinda like an intro.
Now, i'm going to pick some brains.
My hair is weird.
I'm half Black and Half White, and my hair is like no other.
It looks like similar to some hair, but it's got a personality unlike any other.
It's never obeyed for more than an hour.
I tried everything when I was younger.
Straightening, Cornrows, even when I wanted it to do what it did, it seemed to find a way to do the opposite.

Well, as you can guess, i'm here to learn how to dread.
I know about the crap I bought and I respect my hair enough to refuse to use it.
So this is where i'm at.
I hired a Loctician to do my hair, we backcombed it, (My hair NEEDS the push)
rubber banded it to start the Lock, and i'm going to start meeting with the Loctician every couple of weeks to get the dreads looked at.

I know that most of you guys like completely natural growing dreads and that's awesome, but I like to make a path for them, you know?
Me and my hair have been through alot. (people throwing gum in it, people taunting me for having it, etc.)
I've learned alot about my hair and my hair is a valuable companion to me.
and as such I take special care of it ALL the time.

I want to find out how people with difficult to tame hair manage to dread theirs.
Tips on what to use when Backcombing.
What Shampoo is best to help Lock and clear bacteria.
What I can do to keep my scalp moisturized.
How I can keep my scalp from being oily.

Basically, what can I do to Keep my Dreadlocks super Clean>?

Well me and my hair have always been close.So much so that it was what people defined me by.I was the dude with the 'Fro.Then I became the dude who looked like Corbin Bleu...Meh, it's always stuck by me, and i've always been a bit overprotective of it.It's gotten me chicks, conversation, friends, pretty much anything I wanted...Til High School ended and I needed to find a job.So about two years ago I decided to end the relationship.It was fun while it lasted, but it was time to move onto other things.I cut my hair, kept it short for a while and went on with life, started making money and everything was good for a time.Now i'm kinda done with my job and making a different life decision soon.So I finally decided to act on my dreams and make myself some dreads.As with most I decided to drop by a certain site and buy a kit.I also hired a Loctician to help me out.After touching the wax she told me it smelled pretty, but she refused to use it.So we went on using some other stuff, mostly non-stick hairspray to help backcombing.After it was all said and done I was kinda puzzled.I saw so many pictures of satisfied customers with beautiful dreads, and I wanted em.Meh, I calmed down and did some dreadhead searches.I hit some Superhippy.com guy barking about the Wax and trying to promote his own crap, Many Johnny Clean defense vids , Johnny is a tyrant Vids, and everything was pretty much saying " Do Not Use Wax ".Only 1 Video made a difference to me. It was this little asshole .I don't know why, but what he said and did really made me want to check out that banner he threw up at the end.So I jumped in and I saw what I needed.The Johnny Clean vs. Dreadlockssite.com argument.Now i'm lost...Because i've no pictures for the Site, check my Myspace for the pics of my old Hair...Myspace.com/Demerick

Trying to start my dreads out of braids. What are the pros and cons? What should I expect?

So,I just got dreadlocks by back combing about 4 days ago..i have very straight hair and they turned out very soft and flat.i got really turned off,but the majority of my friends are dreaded (they're all guys) and they told me to give it time because rome wasn't built in a day.i've put elestic bands at the roots and on the ends,though i 've heard loads of different opinions about the concept.it's just my hair doesnt look like dreadlocks at all.it looks like matted hair and it wont stay in place,so currently i'm pinning up my hair to my head to avoid looking like sonic the hedgehog.i really do looove my dreads,as i really got them because of the rastafarian fact and not just the fashion statement.i really do need help and support as i m thinking i d never get the dreads i longed to have for ages.

i'm stoked for so many things right now. spring for starters. i love winter and everything that goes with it but a change of scenery is always nice too. i'm not glad it's finals week but on the other hand that means i get to go home to the beautiful land of North Idaho in a matter of days. today my brother and i went out longboarding for a bit when we needed a break from studying. i have been rooming with him this year and that has been interesting since we haven't shared a room in 7 years. such a great sensation to arc and slash turns across the smooth asphalt with your dreads whipping back and forth. i love the feeling of leaning into every turn, flowing with a rhythm created as you go. i just needed a little bit of outside time doing something. anything!it's wonderful to be physically active again after my injury. i broke my back almost two months ago. i think the downtime recovering from an injury is worse than the physical pain itself sometimes. i still have to take it slow and try not to get too wild for a few months according to the "doctors orders". he's a pretty laid back ortho and i plan to try to follow his advice. no sense in taking unnecessary risks. on the plus side, it's been almost two weeks since i have had any hydrocodone! i wake up sore and by evening i'm pretty achy but i feel like i'm having fewer REALLY BAD DAYS. i don't really sleep good still but things are getting better. i'm just thankful to be on the mend so i can start doing the things i love again.i really like how my dreads are forming. they're a lil different everyday. it seems like i catch myself playing with them all the time, its just fun to touch them. i'll be outside most of the summer so perhaps that will add some "character" to them.by the end of the week i'll know whether or not i will be working at mt hood this summer. i won't be disappointed if i don't get it, i'm mostly just anxious waiting to find out. if i end up spending my summer snowboarding on the glacier so be it, but i wouldn't mind roaming around the Bitteroot Mountains or the Selkirks i call home either. regardless i expect the next few months to hold great memories to be made with friends, family, and nature. i need a break from school. a break from the state of nebraska.i'm just really happy to be switching things up a bit. i'm pleased with the direction my life is going. content with what i see. there is alot i'm unsure about. that's scary but at the same time i want my path to be flexible. thinking outloud is so much better than studying right now. plus i cant sleep. i look forward to sleeping in my new hammock. ah, the vagueness of the future is perhaps what excites me the most. goodnight.

~~~~***~~~~Good Morning~~~~***~~~~I stood up and looked around.It seemed everyone was passed out, laying on the groundThe daze that clears and the soul asks why, but you can't find the answersso you don't replyI step over the lifelessnessand ponder my everyday occurrencesI think to myself"Whatever happened to mother's everyday assurances?"Running through mazes, crossing bridges, painting white picket fences, falling offthat broken ladder,....screaming on the rollercoaster...., only getting madder.................and then you get off.......You wake up while everybody's sleeping, you slow down while everybody's leaping, you save your thoughts worth keeping, you stand up and love yourselfDoesn't it feel good to be free?You throw down those dirty old broken chainsYou wash your hands and cleanse your brainYou remove all those clouds and wipe away the rainAnd you realize there's got to be a better wayYou wake up to find you never went astrayeveryone else is lost, passed out, and laying on the groundAnd I stood up and looked around~~~~GOOD MORNING~~~join me if you will......6/2/02

There is a discrepancy between the meaning of words and the reality of the situations they are applied to. You might hear someone say, "Good food." While they truly mean the food tastes good, and not all good tasting food is "positive" or good in the sense that it is healthy for you. Which to some, is what should matter.What is more and becomes visible with further examination is that the "good" taste is dependent upon the sense of the person tasting it. This, we know, is personal preference, where there is a measure of similarity but also some unpredictable differences. So the usage of the word in the sense of what is "good" is not only incorrect, in the sense that some value "good" as healthy, while it is also incorrect in the understanding that taste is down to a personal preference.The words themselves are incapable of defining the experience what they are meant to share, without the use of more complex expressions and even then they can only act as indicators of personal preference. In many cases they are used in the same format as fact.While only a part of human experience (communication), I believe this discrepancy creates ripples of confusion through the sea of expression of human individuality and society.Similar to Orwell's 1984, these are aspects of communication which limit the more expressive variety of linguistic understanding and slowly re-routes the more expanse out of the system. This occurs when a person who has a wider point of view, comes in contact with a person with a more limited point of view, and the conflict does not result in a positive transmutation of both views. Learning always occurs, but personal growth and internal view point change, sometimes is replaced with ego. When the result is a more distinguished limitation, rather than a reduction of limitations and conflict and a realization of indirect similarity through variety, then the more limited view is pressing the wider view out of it's reach and will ultimately result in a more limited communication experience.For this reason alone, arguing through raw emotion or on the basis of superficial differences, usually does not initiate anything but a degradation of the quality of experience, unless the experiences of differences are based upon truly internal aspect. Even so, the learning experience always occurs, but the learning process can be accelerate by abandoning or transmuting lower aspects of the experience into meaningful ones. This alchemy of reality is occurring constantly within the interplay of the conscious and subconscious mind.The more expressive usage would be to define what is "good" about the qualities being commented on(the context), as well as to incorporate an "I think" or "To me" aspect to the expression. This is yet another context, but it is a constant, that goes without saying.When it goes without saying for so long, in a society which doesn't seek to expand on individuality, individuality is forgotten, and becomes something of an undesirable aspect to the lesser individual, because it is not understood. Unless it is introduced by a third party (neither the individual, or the society commonality as a whole), in a positive and accepted manner, the individual themselves is the only one who can make the expansive change to look to and accept information that is not in their original realm of experience. Your perspective creates your realm of experience in accordance with how much of your free will you give to the forces at play in the world.To include the context of what you are assigning a value to, whether positive or negative, brings about the larger context of aspects, and to restate that it is your perspective alone, indicates that you in essence, include yourself in the equation as well as cease excluding the rest of the world and it's possibilities.

All (hu)man evolves. When you embark on such a collective journey, you become a part of the largest possible movement. The illusory struggles of everyday life become lessened or transparent by the light of the higher goal which is interconnected with all forms of life. Positivity and love are paramount to the process, as the rules of emotion and human consciousness need to be balanced just as much as the laws of physics and biology do.Terrence Mckenna defined his theory through a series of darwinian observations. Following natural law he explains how our ancestors may have traveled to grassland planes, after the drying of the jungle, in a search for more sustenance. The mushroom, being a prime source of nutrients in the environment, comes into view.With the event of experiments involving the mushrooms one could conclude that they could have a beneficial and naturally productive effect on wild life, especially with the manner and amount that they would've been ingested in, due to the natural food testing behavior of animals in the area. Their visual acuity is sharpened. Muscular tension, stamina, and strength is increased. Higher functions of the cerebral cortex activate for more complex thought patterns, sexual identityl, integration into a community, relaxation etc etc. All indicates that the mushroom bearing ape is the fittest to survive and thus allowed for increased population, genetic expansion and ultimately higher evolution (homo sapien).What do you feel?Whatever you focus on may ignite the fire of your imagination resulting the creation of your future self.

This might come as a shock, or an abnormality to you, but you have always existed, and always will. When you transcend polarity, the dual opposites become one in the same, and the similarity between them becomes an expansive new realm of experience.Follow your heart, it's natural.Define your mind and create a rhythm of history.What goes up must come down. The constant quest for high happiness is the key to suffering. Being neither extremely happy, or extremely sad, but finding acceptance and prosperity through peace, will result in long lasting enjoyment of life.The happiest possible future is created and waiting for you, you just need to accept it. Doubt is literally the struggle to remain where you are, in an ever changing universe.How you feel dictates what you imagine or visualize. What you imagine or visualize dictates the outcome of events in your life and ultimately your future state. By guiding your emotions towards positivity, you can guide your experiences in life to the most variety for your purpose. Decide on your purpose and begin positively guiding your emotions, and then visualizing on where you want to be.I get rushes of energy from the core of my being that produce great emotional, physical, and intellectual stimulation, the energy radiates outward and must be guided towards a productive expression.Keep evolving, keep changing. When you stop altering your understanding of life, your language and your vision, you stop learning.Every day is a chance to be the person you want to be. Every moment is an opportunity to send positivity to yourself and others.The more people I connect with, the more expanse my dreams become. Creativity is a conscious, living energy, does it feel welcome in your life?Pro-Tip: Don't sweat and keep moving.Scientists have actually found a delay between theelectrical impulse of sensation that is found in the chemical and electricalinteractions in the brain, and the actual "I feel it" response of anindividual's awareness. Meaning you are experiencing the brain's idea ofthe perception; not only are you not experiencing the world itself, butyou are experiencing the brain's carefully created image of what it's electrical signals most likely indicate. A very complex way of doing it, why do you think it's like this? Could it bepossible that it's all in your...head? Of course not..you can feelwhat's real...using your brain.Balance your energy, get into a healthy routine, even out your diet, and take charge of how you feel, and your life.Anything is possible, by anyone.Coming together with a purpose, is the goal. The more you involve yourself in sharing of information, expression, and artful emotion, the more you realize who you are and what you have to express. The more you will align yourself with a network and routine that fits the collective goal.Yoga And Meditation Everyday, Aligns the Energy Centers, the Mind and Positively Expresses your Intention to be Healthy.Stop fighting the future and the present will evolve into a state the past cannot hold! Or maybe, accept the future and the past, to become the most real NOW.There is a constant motion of memes and processes on the planet based upon different drives, to accept this wave of oneness, is to be part of a potential shift in paradigms due to the overwhelming view of positivity. Accept and guide the energy towards the highest and most positive potential possibility, allow it to flow, and guide towards healing and awareness.You live out your life, pushing for something positive to happen, with whatever goals you may have, with whatever groups/systems they may be connected with. Focus on the most positive goal, that connects with the most people and is attributed to the highest intentions and most universal change. Be yourself and have fun. I am on a journey, as are you.Separate yourself from desire so that your soul may be free from worldy incarnative cycles, we are eternal, but only when we view ourselves as such.The idea is to transform selfishness into Joy with the art of giving.Every and any time you restrain yourself from expressing or saying out loud, something you feel, believe in, or feel the need to do, you limit yourself from knowing who you really are. In order to best reflect the higher purpose of the creation here we must spread love, light, and awareness by expressive our true creativity and innermost wonders.We are ALL ONE, remove the filters within your body (purify) so that you can properly utilize your emotional, mental, and physical capabilities to add to the creativity of the world.Reality is neither inherently beautiful or disgusting, it simply is. True emotion surpass language and words and strike the soul like prismatic lightning, rumbling for better or worse long afterwords while you reflect on the burned image still fading from your mind's eye.All matter is just energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.Love is the only true emotion. The idea behind it is that love, or the experience of total unconditional acceptance is the most powerful energy in existence, is the common quality in all examples of life, and will cause evolution through self-reflection or realizing yourself through witnessing what you believe to be yourself and then realizing that you are more.