Telling the truth

Lucinda Ravensburgh is a truth sayer and a psychometrist. So what does that actually mean?

Psyche /ˈsaɪki/ is the totality of the human mind, conscious and unconscious + Metron (to measure).

Here, psychometry is the ability to scry an object by touching it. Or token-object reading, sometimes called psychoscopy. The term psychometry in this form was coined by Joseph Rodes Buchanan in 1842. “The past is entombed in the present!” He claimed.

As a part of clairvoyance, psychometry is a staple of the fortune teller kit. But how do they do it?

How that is done is a matter of conjecture. Some would suggest that there is an energy field around objects that helps store and transfer knowledge regarding the object’s history. An aura, in fact.

In Soul Measure terms, the aura, the energy field of life, contains the whole life of that object, no matter how old, nor what it is made of. The aura charges everything it touches with copies of itself, more like a virus it seems than anything else. So by touching a ring, we add a copy of our soul to an object. An object can then story all the auras it comes into contact with.

Psychically touching an item would be like a using a mental telescope looking backwards. We could know everything that had ever happened to the object. However, the more contact there is between different auras, then the more auras are copied and associated with that object, which then makes it far more difficult to read.

Lucinda Ravensburgh is the TowerVerse character who is gifted with the ability to see the truth in everything she touches. For Lucinda, she will only see the most emotive events. The Token in a Touch of Truth embodied her gift perfectly. The humming bird brooch not only recorded the whole traumatic event (no spoilers here), but the question might be whether it was the brooch that caused the recording, or whether the person observing the traumatic event recorded emotions and memory on the object. In this event, Lucinda saw the truth of the event, and gained a subtle and intuitive understanding of the person as well.

In the TowerVerse, psychometry, or truth reading, features in many cultures. For the clans, they ready themselves as a whole people for the coming of a truth sayer. They carry beads, bones, and other objects in that hope that the truth of the past is recorded for all time.

There is no scientific proof that this ability exists. If there is evidence out there, then maybe one day we will encounter it. That would please me no end.

Parapsychology has been an interest of mine for more years than I want to count. I considered taking a Master’s degree in Parapsychology, but other factors came into play and life went in a different direction. Still, I have read a fair number of books and some dry journals.

Does it exist?

Skeptics would say that it does not. That there is insufficient evidence for articles to be read, or for said articles to store information like this. For me, just because we haven’t found the answer yet, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

Just look harder, I say!

For more: Dr Buchanan, “Manual of Psychometry: the Dawn of a New Civilization,” (1885)

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“A skeptics Handbook of Parapsychology.” Kurtz, paul (Editor)

The European journal of parapsychology.

Advances in parapsychological research

Journal for the society for psychical research.