PSYCHOMETRY :
(Singular-Psychometrist / Grouped-Psychometrists / Ability-Psychometry)
The apparent 'reading' of the history of an object / item associated with people, either living or dead. The ability to 'read' the history of an object by holding it in the hands. The word 'Psychometry' was invented by an American scientist, Professor Buchanan, in the Eclectic Medical Institute in Covington, Kentucky, in 1842. Buchanan was intrigued when Bishop Polk mentioned to him that if he touched brass in the dark he knew it by a metallic taste in his mouth. Buchanan tested Polk, and discovered that he was able to identify many substances merely by touching them, similar to Derma Optical Cuntaneous Perception. Many of his students showed the same curious ability, being able to identify various chemicals and other substances even when wrapped up in brown-paper parcels.
Extremely sensitive 'psychometrists' were even able to identify geological specimens, and give an accurate account of their history. The article - or inductor apparently enables the psychometrist to receive detailed information concerning the person with whom the object is connected. Psychometry, since its operation often appears to include telepathy and clairvoyance, is considered to be a part of the broad concept covered by the term extrasensory perception.
The psychometrist, a medium or sensitive, usually takes the object, which they like to be a personal object that has had a long association with its owner, a watch or ring or something of the sort, holds it quietly in his hands and seeks to absorb something of the person to whom the object belongs or once belonged. Then a few scraps of information are likely to be related, followed by more and more detailed information, much as a medium often seems to 'tune in' to a sitter before being able to impart detailed information.
Research suggests that, in certain cases (as in some cases of mediumship), the explanation lies in telepathic communication between the mind of the psychometrist and that of the person present who knows the history or associations of the object; but there have been many curious examples of apparent psychometry where telepathy has clearly played no part. It is also evident that a lowered state of consciousness on the part of the psychometrist is favourable to results, and again one is reminded of other forms of mediumship.
The distance between the psychometrist and his subject seems to present no difficulty, and even time seems to be surmountable, for extensive experiments appear to have established that some pschometrists can not only pick up associations from the past history of the object, but also predict ones in its future history. Psychometry has been used in crime detection, but it is by no means infallible and, in common with other forms of mediumship, is treated with reserve by most police forces of the world. It is simply a method of sensing or 'reading' from physical objects; the history of each object (and the history of things and people associated with these objects) which is hidden to ordinary sensibility.
Researchers who followed Buchanan's work theorised that objects retain imprints of the past and their owners - variously called 'vibrations', 'psychic- ether' and Aura - that could be picked up by sensitives. Psychometry is the main technique used in Psychic Criminology.
A similar but a more progressive state of Psychometry exists.
See - TELEMETRY. |