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Neale Donald Walsch suggests there are five levels of truth telling and each is more challenging than the last. In a world where "little white lies" have become the norm, we are now invited to lift the level of our everyday communication to a new place of total honesty and complete visibility, changing our lives in the process.

The art of lie detection could be as old as the pursuit of truth itself, in whatever form or scope. While folk wisdom dictates that the eyes are the doorway to the soul, Kenny Rogers famously illustrated the use of the eyes in the discernment of truth: “knowin' what their cards were by the way they held their eyes”. In tribute to the Gambler’s wisdom, I offer you this well illustrated piece, Eye Movement and Lying.

Do you ever have a gut feeling about something? Oftentimes our gut is the cornerstone of a truth that eludes our rational mind. It’s funny when you think about it, a location within our mindbody geography that can override our ordinary sensory input and cut to a deeper level.

It may be perennial folk wisdom, but cutting edge science is now listening carefully as well. The traditional lie detector, the polygraph, may be losing favor to a newer test which listens to one’s belly, a.k.a., the electrogastrogram: