It is called psychometrizing when just by touching an object you can see the person who is the owner of this object, or who made this object, or see events or places related to this person.
And in this article I'm going to share with you the information I found in theosophical literature about this supernormal faculty.
WILLIAM JUDGE
On psychometry he wrote the following:
« Some years ago it was proposed that psychometry should be used in detecting crime and for the exposing of motive in all transactions between man and man.
This, the alleged discoverer said, would alter the state of society by compelling people to be honest and by reducing crime. Now for those who do not know, it may be well to say that when you psychometrize you take any object that has been in the immediate vicinity of any person or place of any action, or the writing of another, and by holding it to your forehead or in the hand a picture of the event, the writer, the surroundings, and the history of the object, comes before your mental eye with more or less accuracy.
Time and distance are said to make no difference, for the wrapping from a mummy has been psychometrized by one who knew nothing about it, and the mummy with its supposed history accurately described. Letters also have been similarly treated without reading them, and not only their contents given but also the unexpressed thoughts and the surroundings of the writers.
Clairvoyants have also on innumerable occasions given correct descriptions of events and persons they could never have seen or known. But other innumerable times they have failed.
Without doubt if the city government, or any body of people owning property that can be stolen, had in their employment a man or women who could declare beyond possibility of ever failing where any stolen article was, and who stole it, and could in advance indicate a purpose on the part of another to steal, to trick, to lie, or otherwise do evil, one of two things would happen. Either criminals or intending offenders would abide elsewhere, or some means of getting rid of the clear-seer would be put into effect. »
(Path, July 1892)
BLAVATSKY
Colonel Olcott mentioned that Blavatsky could psychometrize, and he related the following anecdote:
« There were eleven people present, including Mr. and Mrs. Hume, Mr. and Mrs. Sinnett, Mrs. Gordon, Captain M., Mr. H., Mr. D., Lieutenant B., H.P. Blavatsky, and myself, who were at Mr. Hume's house.
Of course, occultism and philosophy were topics of conversation, and psychometry was also touched upon. Mrs. Gordon, having obtained Madame Blavatsky's consent to attempt a psychometry experiment, went to her room and retrieved a letter she had inside a plain envelope, which she gave to Blavatsky to psychometrize.
Blavatsky held the envelope to her forehead for a moment, began to laugh, and said:
- "This is strange. At the moment, I only see the top of someone's head with hair standing up like spikes all over it. But I can't see the face. Ah, wait! Now it's slowly beginning to appear. Of course, it's Dr. Thibaut, of course!"
And indeed, the letter had been written by Dr. Thibaut to Mrs. Gordon. And the psychometrization experiment gave them all the greatest satisfaction. »
(Old Diary Leaves II, chapter 16, p.237-241)
FRANZ HARTMANN
Dr. Hartmann narrated the following event:
« In the year 1886, after my return from India, I made, accidentally, the acquaintance of the wife of a German laborer. This woman was without any better education that than of her class, but in possession of extraordinary occult powers.
She could cure diseases at a distance, could heal wounds, ulcers, and sores, and could stop bleeding without seeing the patient, merely by “sympathetic” remedies, for instance by putting a blood-stained rag, coming from the patient, into a pot which contained sulphate of iron, after which the bleeding would cease.
This woman had never heard of what is called “psychometry,” so I concluded to try an experiment. I gave her a letter which I had received in a mysterious manner in India. It was a so-called “occult” letter, supposed to come from a Mahatma in Tibet, and was received through H.P. Blavatsky.
I asked the woman to hold the letter to her forehead and tell me what she saw. She did so and gave me a description of a Buddhist temple with a gilded roof, inscriptions, etc., and also of people whose dress she described. All this was afterwards published in the Theo sophist and verified by Blavatsky.
The event seemed very inexplicable to me, especially as I at that time had some cause to doubt the genuineness of at least some of the “occult letters” received by me at Adyar. I remembered afterwards, that, some months before, I had seen myself during a “dream” in a Buddhist temple in Tibet, and this vision was so vivid, that on the moment of awakening I still seemed to hear the voices of the white-robed persons with whom I had spoken in that place. »
(The Occult Review, May 1907, p.280-281)
What this lady saw corresponds to a secret place where the masters perform their rituals and which was mentioned in private letters by Blavatsky and Mahatma Morya.
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