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).
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.
However, 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.
The greatest problem when beginning psychometry is to learn to trust your instincts.
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. Place it in a box covered so that you cannot see it.
Do not force impressions, but let colours, sounds, even scenes emerge over a period of minutes. 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. The object will gradually feel warmer - this is a common feature of psychometry and shows that you are making contact at a significant level.
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. 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. You may choose to follow one of the people, noting clothes, furnishings and words.
The imagination is the doorway to the psyche so do not worry that you are making up facts.
When you are receiving no new impressions, open your eyes. 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.
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. As you do so, describe out loud your impressions however unlikely, without trying to rationalise them.
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. 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.
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 - objects and owners - in tandem.
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.
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.
With all forms of personal psychometry you will usually progress from the past through the present, present and future concerns of a person.
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.
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. Hold the article between you so that the joint psychic vibes from you and the other person mingle within the artefact.
Finally touch the object yourself with your eyes closed, if that makes psychic focusing easier. Run both your fingertips and your palms over the surface for a few minutes.
As you became more practised you will be able to distinguish whether a picture relates to the distant or more recent past.
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. (Cassandra Eason)
