Telemetry (Phycometry)

A method of sensing or 'reading' from physical objects the history of each object (and the history of things and people associated with these objects) which is hidden to ordinary sensibility. The term was coined in the mid-nineteenth century by Joseph R. Buchanan, an American physiologist, who claimed it could be used to measure the 'soul' of all things. Buchanan further said that the past is entombed in the present.

Researchers who followed Buchanan theorized that objects retain imprints of the past and their owners — variously called 'vibrations', 'psychic ether', and aura — that could be picked up by sensitives. Psychometry is the main technique used in psychic criminology.