Psychometry

 

Psychometry is a psychic ability in which a person can sense or “read” the history of an object by touching it. A person takes an object and holds it within their hands. Impressions can appear or be perceived, such as images, sounds, smells, tastes and even emotions. Psychometry is a form of “scrying” — a psychic way of “seeing” something that is not visible to the ordinary eye. These visions start to appear with a person who is holding the object. The object may be anything — a picture, key chain, ring — because energy is stored in everything, living or not. With psychometry, this extraordinary vision is available through touch.

 

A psychometrist — a person who has psychometric abilities — can hold any object and tell you the history behind the object and the person who owned the object, and the experiences the person had while the object was his or hers. A psychic may be able to sense what the person was like, what he did for a living or how she passed. Even though this might not be your profession, everyone has the ability to feel and sense energy. It takes practice. That old saying that everything takes practice is so true when you are trying to build your psychic abilities, and psychometry is one of them.

 

So let’s practice, using the following steps.

1. Choose a quiet location free of noises and distractions. I suggest doing a light meditation first and setting your mind free of the clutter that blocks us from receiving information from the spirit world.

 

2. Sit back with your eyes closed and ask a person to place an object into your hands without saying anything to you. It’s most helpful if you can do this in a group and you don’t know who is giving you the object. The object should be something the person has had in his possession for a long time.

 

3. Quiet the mind once more — be still and let images and feeling come into your mind. Don’t force them; let them seemingly appear. Say whatever you see, hear or feel when holding the object.

 

4. Don’t judge the information you are getting; just be open to receive. The impressions you are getting might be meaningless to you but have great significance to the owner of the object.

 

5. Don’t edit yourself or try to make your statement mean something. Blurt out what information you are receiving; it’s not yours to hang onto. Some information might seem vague, and others very detailed.

 

6. The more you practice and use this ability, the stronger it will become. Your guides need to know how to work best with your psychic ability. You might easily see into the spirit world or hear; sensing feelings easily might be your thing. Don’t give up.

 

When going into an antique shop or an estate sale, make sure to ground your energy so you feel centered. Psychometry is a great way to practice with the spirit world and to realize we all have our own distinct energy and that energy and ourselves never die, we all live on, sometimes in the things that meant the most to us — certainly, our families but also in the objects that we held close to us.

 

The Golden Dawn

 

 

 

 The Golden Dawn

The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn has earned a place in the history of Western esoteric thought. The Golden Dawn reshaped preset conceptions of magic. While the practice of other occult arts was a matter for the history books, the practice of ritual magick had typically remained obscure and individualized. A link between masonry and theurgy had existed, but 19th-century occultists were apt to view the practice as a private undertaking.

The Golden Dawn discussed in their educational essays, a move toward creating new social and institutional sites for magick by using an esoteric order as a vehicle for teaching.  Being a major source of such esoteric philosophy sources and magickal concepts, the Golden Dawn exerted a a great deal of influence on 20th-century esoteric trends.

From 1888 to 1903, the “classical” Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was a major player in  Britain, where the occult was concerned. Despite its later failures, it managed to create a social platform for the study and practice of ritual magic, operating four different temples in England and one in Paris. Some of the better known members were William Butler Yeats, Florence Farr, Maud Gonne, and, of course, Aleister Crowley.

The Order was founded by a group of Freemasons and Theosophists. The key founders were William Wynn Westcott, Samuel Liddell “MacGregor” Mathers, and William Robert Woodman. The Golden Dawn attracted many of its earliest members from Rosicrucian- and Hermetic-oriented parts of  occult society.

 

Source  

Asprem, E. (2016). The Golden Dawn and the O.T.O. In G. A. Magee (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Western Mysticism and Esotericism (pp. 272–283). chapter, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. http://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139027649.024