How does the pendulum work?
The technical explanation for the pendulum is that it is an example of ideo-motor signals. The non technical explanation is that it is an example of reading your own tells. What is a tell? Every professional poker player knows about tells and he knows that everyone has them. A tell is some, usually very, very subtle obscure, physical reaction in response to what you are thinking. Typically, in a poker game, a player with a bad hand trying to bluff his way through the game will unconsciously give off some very minor signal as to what he is thinking. Something such as a slight twitch, or blood vessel in the neck pulsating, or maybe a small patch of skin will change color. An experienced poker player will quickly learn to read the tells of his opponents. Tells also explain how a so called mentalist “reads” your mind. When the mentalist talks to you, he is reading all your subtle unconscious physical reactions and quickly learns to associate them with specific thoughts you are having. Defe
