Psychometry for beginners and how to develop psychometry.
PSYCHOMETRY
This section is an archive of a selection of articles about Craig's experiments with Psychometry on the BBC. In the psychic world Psychometry is generally defined as the ability to use Extra Sensory Ability to get information about a person by holding an object that they have owned. Psychometry is often used in Psychic Circles as a starting point for clairvoyance and mediumship.
PSYCHOMETRY
Do not undervalue the
importance of psychometry or get frustrated because you want
to dive straight into mediumship. Develop extremely accurate
psychometry and your mediumship is likely to become just as
accurate.
Reading the vibrations from an object
is called Psychometry. The word comes from the Greek "Psyche"
(Soul) and "Metron" (measure) and therefore literally
means: "measuring of the soul." The term was coined
in the mid-nineteenth century by Joseph Rodes Buchanan, an American
professor of physiology from the Eclectic Medical Institute,
in Covington, Kentucky. Buchanan noticed that some of his students
could distinguish different chemicals when they are wrapped
in thick brown paper and discovered that some of these 'sensitives'
could also describe from unopened letters the contents and character
of the writer.
Psychometry is used in psychic archaeology, psychic criminology
and is an important part of Spiritualist training for the
development of mediumship. In the UK the law states that psychometry
must only be used as a training aid as to hold an object while
purporting to be making a link to the spirit world, is an
infringement of the provisions of the Fraudulent Mediums Act
1951. It is argued that the information obtained from psychometry
is not a spirit link if it is being obtained from an object.
No tools or aids such as tarot cards, crystal balls and so
on are required to make contact with the spirit world and
must not be used as part of a mediumistic reading. It is therefore
necessary to put the object down when moving from a psychometry
reading to a mediumistic one
The Development of Psychometry
For an accomplished medium the vibration link from a personal
object held at the start of a sitting can act as a stepping-stone
that links them in turn with the vibrations of communicators
from the spirit world. The novice can also use psychometry
as the foundation for their clairvoyance that may eventually
grow into a mediumistic gift. Grounding in psychometry trains
the intuition to sense qualities of the owner's character
from an object. This same intuitive skill can eventually be
developed into the ability to sense the personality and thoughts
of a spirit communicator.
