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Psychometry, by Colin Wilson.
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Colin Wilson discusses a topic he'd gone into, extensively, in his Philosopher's Stone.
"In one of his most interesting experiments he showed his wife a fragment of Roman tile which came from a villa that had belonged to the orator Cicero. She described a Roman villa and lines of soldiers; she also saw the owner of the villa, a genial, fleshy man with an air of command. Denton was disappointed; Cicero had been tall and thin. But by the time Denton came to write the second volume of The Soul of Things he had discovered that the villa had also belonged to the dictator Sulla, and that Sulla did fit his wife’s description.
"Another impressive “hit” was the “vision” induced by a piece of volcanic rock from Pompeii. Mrs Denton had no idea what it was, and was not allowed to see it; but she had a vivid impression of the eruption of Vesuvius and the crowds fleeing from Pompeii. Denton’s son Sherman had an even more detailed vision of ancient Pompeii, complete with many archaeological details – such as an image of a boat with a “swan’s neck” – which proved to be historically accurate."
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December 16, 2021 - December 16, 2021.
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