Liars

I came across someones blog post a while back stating that empaths always know when someone is lying.  I hate absolutes.  If someone uses words like always and never and other absolute words, be assured that there are exceptions to what they are saying.  One thing I know about people and empaths is that there are not two alike.  There are those who are similar but there are many variations of characteristics.  I would like to make a case about my opinion on empaths and liars.

Can I tell if someone is lying, well sometimes.  It really depends on who.  Can I tell if a hardened liar is lying, well I have not had any success at it yet.  Perhaps it's because I grew up with one.  Or perhaps it's because they are so good at lying that their emotions don't fluctuate when they do, but rather their emotions do fluctuate when the truth comes out.  Emotions are hard.  It really depends on the person and what choices they have made and how they have trained themselves.  Can an empath be trained to detect hardened liars?  Well, I have not heard of any limitation an empath can train to do in detecting emotions.  So I have to say yes.

I hold to a certain truth, that people have two brains.  They have an analytical brain which is the one we are used to, and they have an intuitional brain which is a mystery to most people.  Using the intutional brain, the empath feels other peoples emotions and/or pains.  Based on that information he/she can deduce what is going on.  It takes knowledge of emotions to figure out what the emotion means.  Much of this knowledge is based on self knowledge via experience.  Another source of this knowledge can come by observing the individual's behavior or situation.  It takes analytical knowledge to be able to interpret emotions to give an analytical conclusion.  The interaction of the analytical and the intuitional brains is where the rubber meets the road for empaths and their ability.  The ability to detect if a person is lying depends on knowledge and training.

The empath has to also figure out the levels of emotion.  People have their own emotional signature.  You can tell one from another based on their emotional signature.  It's kind of like seeing their face.  You can also tell what their current emotional state they are in.  These can be done on the fly in a matter of seconds.  To get deeper information requires more time, and may require a deeper state of meditation.  Given all the time in the world, an empath could write a lot on a person's past, present, and future.  The empath also needs to be in a good meditative state to be able to get to a depth of knowledge.  The ability to detect if a person is lying depends on time and meditative state.

So to say that an empath can always tell if someone is lying is a farse.  An empath can learn to detect if people are lying, but it takes time, meditative state, knowledge, training, and on the liars ability to lie.  Nothing is cut and dry.  Everything is fuzzy, as in fuzzy logic.  We try to approximate truth with our analytical minds, but truth is more elusive than we like to think.