psychometry
Americannoun
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Psychology. psychometrics.
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the alleged art or faculty of divining facts concerning an object or a person associated with it, by contact with or proximity to the object.
noun
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measurement and testing of mental states and processes See also psychometrics
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(in parapsychology) the supposed ability to deduce facts about events by touching objects related to them
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Origin of psychometry
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The definition varies depending on whom you ask but here, in addition to animal telepathy, the school offers instruction in angel-channeling, mind-reading, psychometry and communication with spirits of the dead.
From The Guardian • Sep. 10, 2018
But according to our psychometry reading, which is governed by our individual psychic powers .
From Time Magazine Archive
This, I insist, is a point of which we must not lose sight, lest we ask of psychometry more than it is obviously able to give us.
From The Wrack of the Storm by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
The above incident is typical of this class of psychometry, and many persons have had at least flashes of this phase of the power.
From Clairvoyance and Occult Powers by Panchadasi, Swami
The phenomena of psychometry are also dependent upon these radiations, as will presently be explained.
From Clairvoyance by Leadbeater, C. W. (Charles Webster)
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