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Chris Laursen will be conducting an experiment in psychometry in the coming months. Psychometry is when people get psychical impressions from specific objects related to the object's history, its owner or other aspects connected to the object.

Chris gives further details below:

A bit about the project

This is a project that I hope to complete by the end of the summer 2007. My goal is not to prove nor disprove psychometry. Call it an experiment of curiosity, if you will. I simply wish to test a range of people, from those who claim to have no psychic experiences to those who have psychic experiences regularly. I will record the results and in the end will compare them with the actual recollections written down by the owners of the objects - which will include biographical details about them as well as in-depth detail on the object they are submitting. It should be fun and interesting! Who knows what may happen - past researchers have yielded truly fascinating results in similar psychometry experiments.

Call for objects

I am currently seeking objects to be included in this experiment. It is okay if you wish to lend an object for the experiment and also participate in it - I plan on collecting about seven or eight objects from all sorts of diverse people, and each "reading" will be of five of these objects. If you contribute an object, it will simply not be included when you participate in this project.

You would lend me the object until the end of August, at which point it would be returned to you. The object should have some special meaning to you - though I would rather it not be a valuable (expensive) object. It also should be able to fit into a shoebox.

Then I will give you a biographical questionnaire to complete, and will ask you to write a page or two detailing the meaning of the object and its history. You will write this information and seal it into an envelope which would be mailed to a third party (I will have no knowledge of the object's history). We can arrange for delivery of the object separately.

Please pass this request to your friends in the Greater Toronto Area

My goal is to collect as many objects from outside of the "PSICAN circle" of people as possible, so I would appreciate if you could pass this request on to your friends and family who may be interested in supporting this project by lending an object until the end of the summer.

Questions?

If you have any questions, simply send me an email. But do not describe the object's history - though it's okay to tell me what the object is since I'll be taking care of it and handling it during the experiments. Once I have collected enough objects for this experiment, I will be detailing its protocol and seeking volunteers to participate!

Thank you so much in advance to those interested in assisting with this project.

Very best,
Chris Laursen

You may contact Chris directly via email at chris at tororontoghosts.org or leave a comment on this blog.