City Magick: Urban Rituals, Spells and Shamanism - Christopher Penczak 2001

Museums and Historic Sites
The New Urban Temples

Museums are like cemeteries. They are temples of the dead. While graveyards honor the individual, museums honor whole cultures. We go there occasionally to honor the dead, those cultural ancestors who have passed before us, and to mourn the lost secrets they have taken to their graves. Museums honor dead technology, dead customs, and dead art. We invest a lot of time and money in preserving what we have, and in learning from those unknown secrets, so we do not make the same mistakes.

Historic sites are preservations of legend. What is history now may someday be legend. Tales of battles between continents and countries, weapons, and bombs will one day undoubtedly become as mythic as the wars of gods and ancient men. We still have time to help determine if Uncle Sam and Mother England will be the heroes or villains of the tale. The parks, museums, and sites are rich with this mythic energy. Churches, archaeological sites, old buildings, and memorials all have it. You may feel a shiver where a world-changing event occurred, etched permanently into the etheric records of the area. You may feel spirits of the deceased or unavenged. Time plays tricks at these important places, and we place more power in them as each traveler passes by. Make sure you not only honor, but also understand, the past.

Add a museum or historic site to your next sidewalking jaunt. Most cities have them. The talent of psychometry comes in handy here. It is fairly easy to learn, but difficult to master. Psychometry means to psychically read an object’s past or future by interpreting its energy. Most people use touch to facilitate this process, but you don’t have to touch an object. In most museums, you can’t. You need only connect with the energy. From it, you can glean information, images, and words from the past, present, and future.

EXERCISE 25 - PSYCHOMETRY

Start your sidewalking adventure and go to your intended historic site or museum.

Initiate pranic breathing, as described in Exercise 12 (see page 104). If you have been practicing it, the process is very easy to start and get flowing.

As you exhale the energy through your heart chakra and into your body and aura, visualize the field expanding out further from your body. When you exhale, exhale the prana a bit more frequently than usual to expand this energy field. Make the energy fields reach out and envelop the object of your psychometric exercise. If it is a place, simply expand outward. If it is an object, go far enough for the pranic field to touch the object. If you can physically touch the object, that is even better.

As you breathe in energy from the crown and root chakras, imagine a strawlike tube sucking in energy from the object or place. Imagine it coming into your energy field and passing through your chakras. As it passes through your head, you can see and hear images associated with it. Intend to read the object and let the first thing that wanders into your mind take root. You may get a word or phrase. You may see an image or a series of images. Many see the object through the eyes of those who have held it in the past. Some have a strong sense of intuitive knowing, without any other information. You can have a date, time, name of an owner, or complete history of the object, from how it was made, to its uses, and how it ended up in the museum, or anywhere else. You may even get a glimpse of its future fate. Some talk to the item or the spirit in the object, as if they were talking to any other spirit or being. Sometimes asking for information is the easiest way to get it.

When the process feels complete, retract the energy field around you. As you inhale, feel it get smaller, returning to the normal size of your aura. Disengage from the object or environment. Continue to do the pranic breathing, flushing your entire system of any energy remaining from the psychometric experience.

Ground and balance yourself. Feel your perceptions return to the normal, physical world.