Apometry

Apometry (apo- from the Greek “beyond” and -metron “measure”) is a set of pseudoscientific practices of spiritual treatment. According to its practitioners, the technique consists in transporting the “astral body” of the sick person to hospitals in a supposed astral world, where spirits would perform the treatment.

The root of the practice was introduced at the VI Pan-American Spiritist Congress by Luiz Rodrigues, a Puerto Rican pharmacist living in Rio de Janeiro, who called it Hypnometry. In the 1960s, it was systematized by the spiritist José Lacerda de Azevedo at the Spiritist Hospital of Porto Alegre, who changed its name to apometry.