By Ben Ezeohagwu
Liars are humans in diversely different shades and tones of contortions…. they all share common characteristics denominators of dishonesty, disguise, intrigue, greed and so on… which connect countless human vices in a chemistry of densely dark entanglement.
Humans may lie for several reasons better known to them. For whatever reasons, no reasons are justifiably worthy in any case.
A German writer, Oskar Ernst Bernhardt (1875-1941) in his work entitled “Questions and Answers” reveals that the: “Physical body is adapted to the harmonious development of the brain, and not to a one-sided one. He who knows the importance of the brain for the human body will readily understand this”. In other words, Healthy development and functioning of the human body dependent on the harmonious co-operation of the human brain parts, namely the frontal brain (cerebrum) and back brain (cerebellum).The back brain (cerebellum) is made to receive fine impressions from above (without) and translate such to the frontal brain (cerebrum) for earthly execution in healthy and balanced manner. These two brain parts are expected to grow in proportionately equal size, unfortunately it has not been so for most humans. In most human beings on earth today there exists over-cultivation of the Intellectual (cerebrum) brain and stuntedness of the Intuitive (cerebellum) brain, these unfortunate condition has brought so much untold chaos on the earth in everything for so long.
Scientists via research findings have shown severally that whenever man retrogresses and becomes pathological liar… a situation when lie/lying has become perfectly habitual in several forms of deceits, disguises, manipulations, greed, etc such individual’s respiratory and heartbeat rates increase abnormally, such individual liar starts to sweat unnecessarily high, mouth goes dry and voice shakes, and brain in a state of heightened alert and stress increases. These consequent processes of lying…taxing human brain abnormally in physical and emotional manner, thereby imparts negatively to human brain… human brain becomes frantic instead of becoming relaxed and freed, in a situation where the human being is honest and genuine in personality. Every liar as highlighted above is bound to the consequences of lying. Liars are never free, always stressed and suspecting others, entangled in a web of disguise and intrigue. Anxiety arises in the brain… because lying activates the limbic system in the brain, the same area that initiates the fight or flight response that is triggered during other stresses. When people are being honest, the limbic system in the brain shows minimal activity. But when telling lies such light up like fireworks display. An honest brain is relaxed, while a dishonest brain is frantic.
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The following are a few basic handwriting features of liars:
Predominant word spacing patterns that manifest sudden pause with blurs, irregular lines and strokes, wavy baseline, unnecessarily increasing and decreasing size of letters in words, Stunted Upperzone letter strokes (such as low stems on d’s, etc) and longer Lowerzone strokes, and disparate of letters and words pressure textures, among others.
Ben Ezeohagwu won the Onigraffiks Prize for Literature (2017). He is Professor of Graphonomy and Chancellor, African American University, Porto-Novo, Republic of Benin.
Email: benezeohagwu@yahoo.com
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