Encore: The Spiritual Lessons of Locs, Or Dreads, Or Dreadlocks
Note: This is an encore of a post written in 2008, while I was growing my second set of locs. My first set was freeform and the second set was started with two strand twists and cultivated. I cut them in 2015, after seven years, and am now enjoying my TWA (teeny-weeny afro). It was time for something new. I've found the lessons about locs apply to lessons about life and spiritual development. Enjoy, and blessings to everyone on their loc journies. I may rejoin you one day. ********************************************* The Spiritual Lessons of Locs, Or Dreads, Or Dreadlocks Here's a view of a couple of strands of hair. I am now growing my second set of locs. There are some deep spiritual applications in the process. I am not Rasta, so I am not growing true organic dreadlocks. I twist my hair, style it, condition it, etc. I understand there is a large debate in the locked community about how this hairstyle is labeled. Some insist this twisty style be called dreadlo...