PARTICIPANT 090 GUIDE TO SCORING 0 = Nothing in your perception of the object was generally or specifically accurate. +1 = One or two general things from your perception correlated with the object or owner's life. +2 = Several specific things from your perception correlated with the object or owner's life. +3 = Your reading generally was on target, with at least a few specific details, about the object and/or owner's life. +4 = Your reading specifically was on target about the object and/or owner's life. +5 = An incredibly accurate perception of the object and/or owner's life from beginning to end of reading. OBJECT A - "CLEVELAND INDIANS PIN" WHAT PARTICIPANT SAID/WROTE 1 Being a kid 2 The excitement of some kind of large event 3 Plastic chairs 4 Crowds 5 Beer 6 Having to use the washroom 7 Feeling excited about something and years later feeling strange about it or realizing you should have seen it for what it was 8 Mail 9 Grammar 10 Manipulation 11 Cowboys 12 Figure skating and other winter sports 13 Elementary school projects – those games where you take a word like “Calgary” and have to make a sentence starting with each letter 14 Getting in trouble 15 Vacancy 16 Television 17 Budgets 18 Snow 19 Mascots 20 Tension 21 Cigarettes 22 Swinging doors 23 Concrete 24 Loud speakers OBJECT A - ACTUAL BACKGROUND OF OWNER/OBJECT OWNER: The owner of this object is a Caucasian female born in Prince Edward Island in 1973 who resided in Ottawa, Ontario at the time of the experiment. She lived with her boyfriend in an apartment, and had one cat. She was finishing a university degree and working a retail job. She has travelled extensively across Europe, North America, and Japan. She reported having many psychical experiences in her life, namely having a strong sense of things that are about to happen. STORY OF THE OBJECT: The object she submitted was a pin of the baseball team the Cleveland Indians. She obtained the object in 1991 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island and keeps it in a tin case (given to her by her deceased grandmother) on her bedroom dresser. It was given to her by her high school boyfriend who was popular at school. She was dating him and his parents did not approve of the relationship, forbidding him from seeing her again. Around this time, they had an argument and decided to take a few days break from each other. The day that happened, she felt ill – and had a horrible feeling that something bad was going to happen, but she didn’t know what. She went for a drive, and drove by a fatal automobile crash, witnessing the police covering the body. Soon after, the police notified her it was her boyfriend in the crash. He was killed and they gave her the pin he was wearing. Her boyfriend’s parents wouldn’t even speak with her at the funeral. To this day, she still feels his love. RESULT = 0 Owner of object and experimenter found no correlation between what was perceived from the object and the object itself or the owner's life. OBJECT B - "GLASS BALL" WHAT PARTICIPANT SAID/WROTE 1 Travel – something purchased away from home 2 A red or green box 3 Satin 4 House plants 5 Yellow countries 6 Extreme heat 7 Fragility 8 Grey cat 9 Fabrics and textiles 10 Whistling tea kettle 11 Heartbreak or some kind of extreme sadness 12 Sage or thyme 13 From some reason I find this object really sad and hard to look at for some time OBJECT B - ACTUAL BACKGROUND OF OWNER/OBJECT This was a “control object” in the experiment, purchased by the experimenter, Chris Laursen, new from a shop that has good from around the world on Queen Street West in Toronto, Ontario. Once purchased, it was kept in the original bag and hidden away behind books in one of his bookshelves. It was only removed once the Psychometry Experiment commenced, at which point, it was stored on a shelf in boxes with all of the other objects used in the experiment. The idea was to see if those reading could perceive this was a control object in some way. RESULT = +1 There are a few details that pertain to the experimenter in this reading. He does own many house plants (line 4) and drinks tea daily, boiling the water in a whistling kettle (line 10). But no further specific information on the object, circumstances, or owner's life came to light in this reading. OBJECT C - "BROOCH" WHAT PARTICIPANT SAID/WROTE 1 Dark wood dresser 2 Large mirror 3 A grandmother with hair pins 4 Glass bottles 5 Cold rooms 6 Soft beds 7 Value systems 8 Candy bowls 9 Chewy mint candies 10 Train rides / club cars 11 Spite 12 Overly bright sun / lights of some kind 13 and squinting into them 14 Staying indoors, even when it’s sunny out 15 Sad but patient 16 Closets 17 Hair dye 18 Tired philosophers 19 The sound of a television from another room – especially with a laugh track 20 Rum and Coke 21 Closets with closed doors 22 Wall with school portraits or class pictures 23 Very mixed feelings about this object – resentment, but also nostalgia OBJECT C - ACTUAL BACKGROUND OF OWNER/OBJECT OWNER: The owner of this object is a Caucasian, Catholic female born in 1958. She was raised and still lives in the Niagara region of Ontario. She is married with two sons and daughter (all currently in their 20s), and has a dog. She has worked in a variety of administrative jobs. She has travelled in North America. She reported having a variety of highly intuitive experiences in her life, including a religious vision. STORY OF THE OBJECT This woman submitted a replica of a British Royal Family sapphire brooch. It was given to her by her youngest son in 2005 as a Christmas present, purchased from his place of employment. It is kept in a small cardboard box in a chest on the top of her dresser in her bedroom. She values the object because her son put a lot of thought into selecting it. The original brooch had been given to Queen Victoria. The son felt this was significant because it was given to the Queen on the day after his mother’s birthday. The first object this woman submitted for the Psychometry Experiment was lost in the mail (but luckily later retrieved), so she submitted the brooch instead. RESULT = 0 Owner of object and experimenter found no correlation between what was perceived from the object and the object itself or the owner's life. OBJECT H - "BOY AND GIRL STATUETTES" WHAT PARTICIPANT SAID/WROTE 1 I find these kind of terrifying, and not just because one of them is broken 2 I think of being yelled at 3 Hiding outside 4 where it is really hot and sunny 5 but you are under some bushes or leaves 6 and it is cool and dark but dirt sticks to you and branches scratch you and bugs bite you 7 Singing games and 8 swings 9 and coming in through the basement door 10 Hiding under the bed (always hiding) 11 A hairbrush 12 A rabbit 13 Purple walls or shelves 14 A pet or other animal living in a cage 15 Rural community or semi-rural where people still have big backyards 16 Large white house 17 No picket fence, but almost 18 Smell or seafood and salt 19 Stupid crushes OBJECT H - ACTUAL BACKGROUND OF OWNER/OBJECT OWNER: This object was lent by a Roman Catholic housewife born in 1935. Originally from northern Italy, she has lived with her husband in Hamilton, Ontario since the late 1950s. She and her husband are retired, and own many rental properties for income. They are active in their cultural community, have three daughters and four grandchildren – three male and one female. They raise rabbits for food in their backyard, and have a garden. She is well-known in her family for her cooking, and serves very traditional rural, northern Italian dishes. She and her family have gone to resorts throughout the Caribbean and Latin America, but otherwise her travels have been limited to Canada and Italy. STORY OF THE OBJECT: She lent two small porcelain busts, one of a boy, the other of a girl. Made in Venice, they were given as a gift when her husband’s brother and his wife visited Canada in 1972. They are displayed on shelves in their living room with family photos and a few other mementos. The bust of the girl was broken when one of her grandchildren accidentally knocked it off a table where it was displayed in 1999. The woman interpreted this as a portent that her youngest daughter was dead – which never came true – and she was only relieved when her grandson confessed to breaking it. This story is a favourite in the family. RESULT = +1 The owner and her husband do raise rabbits (and occasionally other animals) for food in their backyard, keeping them in cages (lines 12 and 14). But no further specific information on the object, circumstances, or owner's life came to light in this reading.