What are objects? Well, that's obvious, it's a cup, a table, a piece of jewelry, a pencil, a lamp, a stone, anything! But the thing is, an object is not really an object is it? It's all just an illusion and we know this from quantum mechanics. Everything is made of energy, namely light. On the tiniest unimaginably small scale everything is made up of atoms and space, and atoms comprise of particles of energy. It's all just an illusion for our senses. So when you're sensing the energies of an object, you're tapping into something that is pure energy anyway. You're reading the energetic signature of a piece of energy. You read energy all the time, you decode our world from the endless sea of coded intelligent energy in which your consciousness resides (the 'unified field').
So what is psychometry? Psychometry is reading the energetic signature of objects through touch. Any object can absorb energy from a previous owner or people in its vicinity, over time. If you tune into these residual energies, they can form a link to previous owners and you can gain a sense of them. Images can form in your mind, feelings begin to erupt within you, and you begin to know things. Psychometry can be used to make spirit contact; linking with the former owners of objects.