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PSYCHOMETRY
If you have ever gone into a house and decided
immediately that it ‘felt right’ or chosen a piece of jewellery or a car for
the same reason and been well pleased with your purchase, then you have
already used psychometry, which is the art of picking up impressions from
inanimate objects. As it is a natural talent, it is a good entry point into
psychic development.
In some people, this ability is developed to a
startling extent. An expert psychometrist can, for example, pick up a brooch
and relate facts about the present and previous owners.
A good palmist Palmistry constantly touches
the palm of a client and frequently gains more information from the energies
he or she feels pulsating in the hand than by adhering to conventional
meaning of the lines, (see my Complete Book of Divination, Piatkus,
1998 for information on intuitive palm reading).
Using an object to pick up
psychic impressions
Psychometric work does not demand that we use
a valuable work of art or a Roman coin. Indeed the best psychometry involves
touching objects to which great sentimental value is attached, for example a
family ring or necklace, an old photograph or ornament that has passed
through different generations in the same family. A teapot around which
family and friends have gathered in joy and sorrow over decades can hold a
whole treasure house of psychic impressions. Psychic abilities operate best
through the channel of human emotions.
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most people do instinctively sense impressions from the past or strong
emotions that are not connected with their own immediate feelings, if they
handle either a family treasure or touch the stone walls at a ruined castle
or ancient monument.
Beginning psychometry
The greatest
problem when beginning psychometry is to learn to trust your instincts.
Initially if
you identify objects by feel and not visually, you can shut out the
temptation to relay on logical processes that will automatically start to
make deductions about the age and likely ownership of the artifact.
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Ask a friend to bring an item that is at
least twenty years old, preferably much older, that is of sentimental
value to his or her family.
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Place it in a box covered so that you cannot
see it.
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Do not ask the other person to hold the
object as initially you are concentrating on the history of the item.
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Ask your friend to leave you alone while you
experiment so that you do not at this early stage feel pressurized to
succeed which can lead to guessing.
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With your eyes closed, put your hands in the
box and hold the article between cupped hands, without trying to identify
it too precisely.
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Move your palms and your fingertips gently
over the surface, probing any indentations, still with your eyes closed.
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Do not force impressions, but let colours,
sounds, even scenes emerge over a period of minutes.
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You may feel yourself moving inside the
object so that it encloses you, much as a crystal ball reader projects him
or herself within the glass sphere
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The object will gradually feel warmer
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this is a common feature of psychometry and shows that you are making
contact at a significant level.
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If you sense nothing, keep fingering the
object, seeing it in your mind’s eye in a setting, which may not be one
that you might expect if you have identified the object.
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Gradually move back from the object to view
in your imagination a table on which the object was standing at its most
significant time, the room and any people in the room.
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You may choose to follow one of the people,
noting clothes, furnishings and words.
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The imagination is the doorway to the psyche
so do not worry that you are making up facts.
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When you are receiving no new impressions,
open your eyes.
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Ask your friend what he or she knows of the
history -
if the information you have received does not seem to tally, it does not
mean you have failed.
Further enquiries may reveal that the pictures
relate to another person who owned the artefact; ions among older family
friends can often provide answers or clues and you will be surprised at your
own accuracy in this initial foray. As articles can pass through many hands
in even a comparatively short number of years, you may never be able to
prove your theory. But in the elusive field of the psychic, demands for hard
proof can sometimes overlook the magical insights into a past era.
Developing object psychometry
The basic technique for all object psychometry
is described above. But once you start to read for friends and
acquaintances, you will find it more natural to look at the item that you
are holding.
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As you do so, describe out loud your
impressions however unlikely, without trying to rationalise them.
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Keep talking, rather than pausing to ask if
the information is correct, which can interrupt the flow and destroy
confidence if the other person hesitates or questions your feelings.
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Recording the sessions means that you can
discuss the details afterwards and have a record to check in family
archives and with older relations any details that may not be known.
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While you are concentrating on perfecting
object psychometry do not ask the person to hold the object, as this may
introduce personal information about their current lives and dilemmas.
Eventually you will happily run the two kinds of psychometry
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objects and owners
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Personal psychometry
This forms a potent alternative to more
conventional divinatory methods, such as Tarot or runes and offers
especially where issues are complex, insight into the links between past
events and future action in the life of an individual.
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Hold a personal object such as a ring,
watch, necklace or a key ring belonging to someone with whom you are at
ease. The item need not be particularly old, but if it has sentimental
value, this will increase the emotional energy that enhances psychic
transmission.
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With all forms of personal psychometry you
will usually progress from the past through the present, present and
future concerns of a person.
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Childhood scenes are most common, perhaps
because at that time the psychic world is at its strongest and so are the
most easily retrievable through psychometry and indeed any psychic work.
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Ask the person for whom you are reading to
hold their possession for a few moments while concentrating on any
questions he or she may wish to ask or dilemmas that are causing concern.
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Hold the article between you so that the
joint psychic vibes from you and the other person mingle within the
artefact.
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Finally touch the object yourself with your
eyes closed, if that makes psychic focusing easier.
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Run both your fingertips and your palms over
the surface for a few minutes.
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As you became more practised you will be
able to distinguish whether a picture relates to the distant or more
recent past.
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Reading the future is the most important
aspect of any personal psychic reading, as it is usually concerns about
the future that has prompted the enquirer to seek a reading. What you are
seeing are potential paths. The key to becoming a good reader is to
present these possibilities as positive options so that the enquirer feels
totally in control of his or her destiny and confident about that future,
however many obstacles lie in the way.
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More information can be found
in Ten Steps to Psychic Power
(Piatkus)
or A Complete Guide to Psychic Development
(Piatkus and Crossing Press/Ten Speed in the US) |
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