Psychometry

One of the more common forms of extrasensory perception is called psychometry, or "measuring with your psychic sense" the emanations from another person. This too is an example of using an ordinary sense to get information not normally available through that sense.
Impressions gained through psychometry can deal with the past, present, or future. Indeed, as we have seen, from the psychic point of view, all three times states are really one continuous state. Th barriers between a past that is gone forever, a present that is now, and a future that is not yet, do not exist in the psychic realm, which is why a psychically gifted person can see clearly that which ordinarily is veiled.
Psychometry is so common that I am inclined to accept it as a vestigial form of intuition, originally built into us as a natural extension of our five senses but lost through civilization and lack of use. I myself have developed a mild degree of it over the years without looking for it. In experimenting with this gift on hundreds of occasions with carefully selected strangers, I have found that my accuracy rate has been much higher than mere chance would account for.
Sometimes the mere sight of a stranger can bring forth a reaction in a sensitive person. Such reactions, purely emotional and illogical as they are, often turn out to be entirely correct. Artistic and highly developed persons may form deeper or more rapid impressions, but almost all normal individuals have had such impressions at one time or another. This type of hunch is directly related to intuition and thus, to premonition. It is merely a more rudimentary form of the same sense.
People who have true psychometric ability, however, usually must touch an object belonging to the person they wish to explore. This object may be anything from a watch or pocket comb to a letter or lock of hair. It is best not to use an antique or an object that has been carried on more than one person's body for any length of time. The best object is one that the owner personally obtained and that he or she has not lent to anyone else. A ring or anything else worn directly on the body is ideal. The psychometrist touches this object, relaxes a little, and then, gradually, enters the atmosphere of the person being read.
Psychometry works best when there is a rapport between reader and subject. However, for obvious reasons, it is desirable that the reader how little or nothing about the person who is the subject of the reading beforehand(he or she may ask after the reading is completed whether the material obtained was correct or not).
How can a "dead" object, made by man, have the power to transmit information about its owner? On the surface, it sounds absurd. But it really is quite logical. We are living electromagnetic entities. Part of oursellves is forever flowing out from us in the form of radiation. This small leakage of energy is similar to the radiation given off by other living things, or even by such inorganic matter as stars or radioactive materials. This radiation that is forever flowing from the owner of an object coats the object with an invisible, but not immaterial, film of magnetic energy. This small part of the owner clings to the object forever, unless and until it is superseded by the outflow of a new owner, whose magnetic radiation then covers up the previous layer clinging to the object.
But how does it follow that a sensitive person can read actual events or facts from an object, even if it is covered with human radiation? After all, radiation is impersonal--merely a collection of small particles of energy traveling at a set rate of speed. The answer to this lies in the nature of humanity itself. A human being is essentially a unique electromagnetic field, consisting of pure energy, temporarily housed in a denser layer of matter called the physical body. This field is capable of being impressed with emotional memories that are stored in it forever, much as a computer is able to store information and give it back on command.
Your experiences alter your electromagnetic field--which is your personality, uniquely different for each and every human being--and part of this "adjusted" field flows out continually. Some of it covers the various objects you have on your person. When a psychometrist gives a reading, he or she ocmes in contact with the flux--the radiation--from such an object, and gets impulses from it that he or she is able to put into words or word-pictures via his or her own psychic apparatus. Psychometrically gained impressions are always emotionally tinged. Purely logical material does not seem to survive. The outbursts of emotional evergy that accompany traumatic events furnish the raw material that coats objects, people, or places, and that contains the memory banks of the events themselves.
In touching an object, person, or being that wasin the immediate vicinity of an event, we can replay the event much as a tapge player replays a prerecorded audiotape. The events themselves do not possess any active life; the reproduction is faithful, but subject to the limitations of the transimission and the personality traits of the receiver. Therefore, a psychometrically transmitted message may contain part or all of the original event; it may be mixture of event and personal interpretation--since, after all, the receiver is human and not a machine.
So in touching an object coated with its owner's radiation, the sensitive person can partake of the owner's emotional expreiences. It is easy to see that past or even present emotional stimuli, already embedded in the object's personality field, can be read in this manner. But what about events that have not yet taken place?
In many years of investigation, I have found that the majority of material psychometrists obtain pertains to the past and present. However, there is also an appreciable amount of information obtained through psychometry that deals with future events and that later proves to be true.
Some people have suggested that psychometric impressions of the future only appear to come true because the subjects of the readings are so influenced by the psychometrist's impressions that they make them come true. But to suggest that the mere prediction of future events or actions makes an individual undertake them does not answer the question at all. Most of the events investigated are of the kind that the subject could not possibly influence, either consciously or unconsciously. For instance, if a psychometrist touches a piece of paper on which the subject has scribbled a few noncommittal words, and then goes on to tell the subject that he sees her carrying a briefcase, she will not, if she has any sense, rush out and buy a briefcase just to make the prediction come true. A few years ago a New York psychometrist said just that to a woman from Australia he had never met before(and never met again, for that matter). At the time, she was a retired musical comedy dancer, passing through New York with her daughter on her way to Europe. Long after this visit she developed an interest in the law, and she is now indeed carrying a briefcase as a practicing trial lawyer.
When a psychometrist foresees future events that cannot be picked up from the unconscious of the subject or deduced in any logical way from his or her appearance, then we must assume that a person's electromagnetic field--his or her personality--can, in some unknown way, also store impulses pointing to the future without individual being aware of them.
Although the majority of professional mediums practicing their skills in the United States consider themselves clairvoyants, many of them are really psychometrists. They require a few words written on a piece of paper or a personal object that has been touched by the subject to get their impressions. The proof of the pudding, of course, is in the accuracy of the information. This is especially important when dealing with future events, as the number of false or partially false predictions from psychometry outweigh the true ones. But even a share of 20 percent of true readings is far in excess of the percentage that might be explained by guesswork, coincidence(if there is such a thing), or other such factors.
Where does that leave you, the average person interested in psychometry? Try it. For one thing, it is absolutely safe. Nobody, but nobody, ever got hurt by holding an object and trying to get impressions of a psychic nature from it. Having done an occasianl bit of psychometry myself and found myself startled when my readings proved accurate, I can describe the sensations that go with such an attempt from firsthand experience.
I touch the object, relax, and wait. If I am successful, pictures, words, and names will literally spring to mind in rapid succession. Sometimes I will get entire sentences, sometimes only vague impressions of things--but they occur far more quickly than I would be able to formulate them as my own thoughts. Also, I have found that there is a difference between my own thoughts and those that flow into my from an object I am holding. That is, my own thoughts are put together "left to right", word by word, and continue to ramble on. Genuine psychometric impressions, on the other hand, come to me "right to left", flowing toward me already constructed. The whole thought comes as one flash--far more quickly and more completely than my own mind could fabricate it.
I advise against using antiques or objecs that may have been used in violence, especially if you are a true medium and not merely a casual psychometrist. I once brought a medium a carefully a wrapped metallic object to psychometrize without telling her what it was. Turning out the lights so that the medium could not obtain visual impressions from it, I quickly gave it to her. With a shriek, she first clutched and then threw it from her. I asked her what was the matter, and she replied, "Terrible...They use it to kill people..stab victims...sacrifice...in the mountains...snow country." The object, as it happened, was a Tibetan dorje--a ceremonial object, consisting of a scepter ending in a sharp dagger, that is used in sacrificial rites.
Among the controlled experiments with psychometry that have been undertaken was one by Dr. Karlis Osis(now rewearch director of the American Society of Psychic Research, but then in the same capacity with the Parapsychology Foundation). This consisted of a series of tests that involved placing various objects in similar cardboard boxes, identified only by code numbers on the outside.
These objectts were then turned over to the experimenter by the owners of the objects. The experimenter in turn--to avoid any conscious or unconscious picking up of impressions from the owners--invited a group of people not connected with the objects to be tested as proxy sitters--that is, substitutes for the actual owners of the objects who would thus be unaware of their nature. These proxy sitters then selected certain objects at random. The medium being tested was shown in and started to read the still-boxed objects. Only after the experiment was completed were the objects revealed and their nature--and the nature of their owners--compared to the information supplied psychically.

taken from "Are You Psychic? Unlocking the power within" by Dr. Hans Holzer

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