Fifty Years a Medium – Chapter 4, 1/12 by Estelle Roberts

CHAPTER FOUR,
PSYCHOMETRY

Psychometry is an aspect of mediumship which I have always found fascinating because of the remarkable results it produces. It is based on the fact that everything material pulsates with vibrations. The aura surrounding the human body also emits vibrations which are constantly being absorbed by inanimate objects lying within their field of influence.

Small personal possessions, such as those regularly carried in pockets or handbags, are ideal for psychometrical purposes. Repeated handling of them over a period of time impregnates them with their owner’s vibrations. This impregnation may persist for a long time – often after the object has been permanently laid aside or, as happens in many cases, after the owner’s death.

It is not only from the personal objects that I get the most interesting psychometrical readings. Articles with no personal association frequently reveal strong vibrations gathered from the surroundings in which they were found. Those which have remained undisturbed for a long time – hundreds of years, in some cases – frequently reveal the most interesting historical associations.

How psychometry conveys its “message” to the medium is one of the mysteries of the occult which I have found almost impossible to explain to the uninitiated. It is easy for even the most earthly individual to understand clairvoyance, because he is accustomed to seeing things with the physical eye.

When you tell him that you see spirit forms as clearly and sharply as he can see you across the room, he has no difficulty in understanding what you mean though he may privately think you are a little unbalanced. Similarly with clairaudience. He is accustomed to listening to voices of his friends,

so it does not need any great stretch of imagination for him to understand that there might be people who can hear voices which are not audible to him. He probably does not believe in it as a possibility, any more than he would have accepted the feasibility of radio and television fifty years ago, but at least he can understand what he is saying.

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