What is psychometry? Psychometry has various different fields, such as mathematics, but in this context, we are going to talk about psychometry as a form of extrasensory perception.

Psychometry is a form of scrying which involves gaining knowledge about an object, person, or place by touching or being near it. We can accumulate information about people or events attached to or who have interacted with the object or place purely by touching or entering it. We work a bit like an Apple Find My app, but without the technology, just using our own personal inner tools, without the need for technology.

All objects have a history or energy on them or beaming off from them; think of it like atoms, moving particles and frequencies; it is connecting to a certain energy field.

This is why you may sometimes hear psychics talking about clearing energy off objects, so it doesn't leave negative energy behind from the previous person or place.

Psychometry can be read through a photo, jewellery, watch, or metal object, for example. When I do psychometry I get a mixture of clairvoyance and clairaudience and often times names of people or places. Many people think that metal seems to emit the best type of energy field from which to read from.

Psychometry first appeared as a term labelled by Dr. Buchanan in the mid nineteenth century. He was researching spiritualism and phrenology, (like palm skull reading). He claimed that the person holding the object would be able to sense and replay the energy information stored in soul of the item.

William F. Danton also did psychometry experiments in the mid to late 1800s with his wife. and wrote a book called, "Nature's Secrets and the Soul of Things". "Psychometric Researches and Discoveries".

In the early 1900's German physician Gustav Pagenstecher also did some psychometry experiments in Mexico City. He claimed that the psychometer could sense information about an object through vibrations that are emitted from it.

One of his patients Maria Reyes Zierold when having hypnosis treatments to help her insomnia correctly described the things that were happening outside the room, not within her distance of vision. In 1919 Dr. Pagnstecher took his discovery to a local medical society, doing a controlled test and they were amazed at her Zierold's abilities.

Similar experients can be done in the room with psy cards, where the person does not look at the cards, but is able to sense, without looking, which cards the other person is holding.

It is debateable whether psychometry works through theory 1), the past having an invisibly vibrational form on that from which all matter exists as vibrations on a subatomic level. They exist within a “cosmic hologram,” and psychometers can to access this information at any time. Or, theory 2), it exists as an energy form through aura energy fields. personal information was linked to an object through an imprint left by the owner’s aura or energy field. They left an energetic, "fingerprint", on the object, from which psychometers can tap into and interpret the energy. I am a fan of the second theory.

Psychometry has been portrayed as a skill in popular films, such as Star Wars with The Force.

In the popular Gothic film, The Crow, Brandon Lee takes the memory energy from the policeman's head and transmits it to himself, using his hands as a tool to transmit, he is able to keep the memory stored in himself and then later passes and transmits not only his memory, but real pain onto the "bad guy". The Crow is his spirit animal that helps him "see".

In the later nineteenth century demonstrations of psychometry became a popular part of stage acts and séances, with participants providing a personal object for "reading" by a medium or psychic. It is also commonly offered at psychic fairs as a type of psychic reading.

In some instances psychometry has been used in police detective cases, just like the military have used remote viewing in some cases.

This type of reading, like psychic readings have not been officially fully proven and still subjectively classed as a pseudoscience.

What is the Crystal Ball and How Does the Crystal Ball Work? Crystal ball reading is a form of scrying, (or seeing the unseen). I call it a form of, "energy reading", a bit like psychometry. Scrying had been used by specularii have been using them for thousands of years, going back to Celtic Druids in Britain, Gaul and Ireland, during the Iron Age. Gauls were great scryers and often gazed into reflective surfaces, such as water, to, "see the future", as part of divination. They were wiped out by Christianity by 600 AD. It travelled to Rome by the invasion of England Julius Ceasar.

Transparent sea-green beryl globes have been found in tombs from the Merovingian period in Gaul and the Saxons in Medieval England, both as a magic object and as a fashion accessory. Merlin carried a crystal ball for King Arthur for emergency readings. Beryl is thought to be more magnetically charged than other minerals and they could be more apt to connect with the psychic energies of the moon. 

Scrying is the art of gazing into a reflective or translucent object such as a crystal, glass, water, or a mirror, to gain mystical insight and to open up your intuition. The scryer can then gain the information from their subconscious. Scrying can be done with hundreds of reflective surfaces, but the most popular way, (perhaps thanks to history), is through crystal balls, the other popular way is a black obsidian scrying mirror.

Crystal balls are used for scrying and gazing because they form a spherical lens and any clear ball, (such as Quartz crystals or glass), will have a curvature that bends the rays of light to form a focal point. Think of it a bit like a camera lens taking a photo of the subconscious.

But unlike normal camera lenses, crystal balls have no edge and are omnidirectional. This means that it is ideal for gazing and looking deep within, whatever the direction. Crystal balls have often been viewed as magic fortune telling tools, but they are just a reflection of the subconscious and the crystal ball is a perfect tool for this. When scrying, the person enters into a meditative trance-like state that disregards the conscious mind and lets the subconscious go through the mind's eye and the images are seen in the mind's eye, rather than the crystal ball.

The information is most likely coming from their spiritual connection to their Higher Self. The crystal ball serves as a vessel between the seer and the Higher Self. In other words, they are receiving Universal knowledge from their subconscious minds. This is a knowledge that we are all connected to, but some of us are much more open-minded, making it easier to access this element of "magic." 

Crystals carry an electric charge called piezoelectricity that can be converted into electrical signals. Real crystal balls are amazing, as they often take thousands of years to form, so they hold the energy of Earth, history, and ancestry, a bit like jewellery with psychometry.

But is it witchcraft? You have the logical explanation above... And don't forget that this electric charge is the reason that cut crystals are used in watches, TV, computers and radio transmitters. Crystals can also provide oscillations that can drive- very accurate clocks. A quartz crystal clock will not vary more than a thousandth of a second per day. Crystal balls are also used in photography as lensballs for the fisheye effect. So unless our watches, TVs, cameras and computers are witchcraft as well, then no. Also, looking into your black telephone screen or TV screen is also a reflective screen, which can be used for scrying, such as can water, or a mirror, but obviously not as effective as a spherical ball. How is it possible that we can talk to someone from one end of the world to another without the use of a connecting wire with a mobile phone and can hear or feel their emotions over the mobile phone? People are using frequencies and frequencies are what psychics tune into.

During the Renaissance, there was a revival of the crystal ball, as scholars were influenced by the Arab world, in which mysticism was classed as a form of, "science". Crystal balls were also used in the 16th century by John Dee, a royal advisor to Queen Elizabeth I, and Edward Kelley, a traveling scryer.

Crystal was difficult to cut, so cheaper glass balls formed the explosion of fairground fortune telling in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries and the Roma introduced it to the masses. Roma were persecuted almost instantly because, among other things the Catholic Church wasn’t happy about, fortune telling. They adopted trades where they could pick up tools and travel at a moment's notice, as they were constantly on the move.

Being constantly on the move, the Roma adopted trades that could pick up and go at a moment’s notice and this is how the crystal ball reader in the caravan art image began. By the 1930s, Gypsy-Americans virtually controlled the fortune-telling industry, though not without a struggle that’s cloaked in stigma.

Jean Dixon was a celebrity political prediction psychic, predicting John F Kennedy's assassination and carried her crystal ball with her to read at during parties.

After the crystal ball became more visible thanks to the travelling gypsy Roma, stage magicians in the early 20th century started using the crystal ball on stage. Alexander, The Man Who Knows, would answer audience questions that were placed in sealed envelopes before the show.

Crystal balls can be seen in many fantasy films, Merlin films, King Arthur films and the film, Labyrinth.

Though crystal balls have been used for thousands of years and have been used to advise monarchs, political leaders and important leaders, there is no evidence to suggest that crystal ball reading is a proven science

What is telekinesis? Telekinesis is a subform of psychokinesis, which includes using your mind to influence the world around you, for example, influencing events, healing and changing the shape of an object. Telekinesis is the ability to move and change objects' shapes, levitation, materialisation and healing.

According to Uri Geller, there are 3 stages to telekinesis: one is where the energy is projected into the metal, so that the metal will bend with the tiniest piece of pressure, almost as if effortlessly.

The second stage is when the molecules in the metal contort and twist themselves: when you see the metal bends without being touched.

The third stage is when the metal becomes so soft and malleable that it can be broken just by shaking it. Energy is pulled into our body and becomes channelled through our chakra centres.

A great example of telekinesis being used is Uri Geller, who taught me, with his famous spoon bending and watch mending. It is displayed in the great mind-blowing film, The Matrix, where Neo uses his telekinesis powers to bend spoons and dodge bullets and also in the X-Men films.

Tarot cards can reveal the hidden and answers about the past, present and future and illuminating paths, guide you through your obstacles to that bright light at the end of the tunnel. Each card in every type of reading has a different type of energy to it.

Tarot cards first originated in 15th century Italy, Milan. They were used as just a gambling game by the nobility and had no original mystical origins. They were made up of suits and the minor arcana. The major arcana was added later and they depicted scenes from different stages of our lives. The first deck was the Visconti-Sforza.

Somewhere along the line, the cards turned from being just a game of chance into a form of divination. We see this in the cards as tarot readers sometimes, as if a question is repeatedly asked, the same card will turn up over and over again, or a very similar meaning card.

Jean Baptiste-Alliette, (Eteilla), was the first official tarot reader who made a living from it as divination and he has a deck named after him.

Antoine Court de Gebelin in nineteenth century Nimes, France, claimed that the tarot was of Egyptian origin and held the mysteries of Isis and Toth, though there is no evidence for this.

Papus, (doctor Gerard Encausse), a French occultist and physician, who worked for Czar Nicholas as an occult consultant. He was a medium and said that tarot originated in Egypt and wrote the book, "Tarot of the Bohemians" 1889. The deck mainly used during the eighteenth century was the Tarot de Marseilles, it was simple and the major arcana was less elaborate, originated in France, Marseilles and used purely for divination. The French invaded Milan and took the deck back with them and made their own version.

Along came Arthur Waite who replaced the Egyptian mythology on the deck and replaced it with Christian themes like the pope with the hierophant an the papas with the high priestess for example and added other mystical elements to it, probably to make the tarot more accessible to the people of the time. He created a specific meaning for each card and gave it to the artist Pamela Coleman Smith to paint and it became very simple and symbolic: the Rider Waite Smith deck.

Up until late '60's/ early '70's they only really used 3 decks: Marseilles, Rider Waite and JJ Swiss deck. During the '70's, there was a big movement in creating tarot art and created many different types.

Ever thought of a particular person, or had a dream about them and then they call or text you or you suddenly bump into them in real life? My manifestation techniques which I use include bringing ideas physically into life and being. When people talk about manifesting things, they usually only THINK about things, or use affirmations, instead of actually MATERIALISING things.

So not only do you picture your dreams or goals, but you literally MATERIALISE them into a solid atomic particle proof of being.

Think of it a bit like the king, queen, page and knight of the tarot cards. The queen brings about thought and ideas, but she cannot manifest things with thought alone, she needs the knight to actually materialise these things and bring these into reality, into materiality the material life- she cannot do anything without the knight, without any action. Without the knight and real action, these things are just thoughts and ideas and not in a physical state of being.

Examples of manifestation techniques I have successfully used include buying a wedding dress before I met my then future husband. I am now married. Other techniques include singing a song about being lucky after buying a lottery ticket, which won a small amount back on the lottery and carrying around a picture of someone that you miss: they shortly appeared after years of no contact . When I was little my mother used to make me queue up for my betting winnings at the Marks Tey racecourse because she KNEW that most of the time I had won the bet and most of the time I did! Rose quartz crystal is great for manifesting love and has worked amazingly for me, keep it with you and after a few months things start to manifest. Other manifestation ideas include buying a bottle of champagne for your approaching success which has not yet approached but is due to arrive. So by taking things into the physical form BEFORE they actually occur, for example, by buying that wedding dress or that drink, they are already undoubtedly material beings and cannot be physically doubted and the vision and thought becomes much stronger and becomes a reality; there is no room for doubt, because it has already been materialised into something physical and solid and because we live in the physical plane, where society and everything is predominantly physical, turning the consciousness into 3D: just leave the rest to the universe: it will just be a matter of time. Thought is a powerful thing, but imagine how much MORE POWERFUL a thought can be if it is actually turned INTO something PHYSICAL! I strongly recommend you try it!