Kristine Stiles is an art historian and expert in auto-destructive art. Lecturing at Duke university, USA, her research has brought her into contact with the Institute of Parapsychology, founded at Duke by the late J.B.Rhine in the 30's, dedicated to the exploration of unusual experiences that suggest underlying and as y et unrecognised human capabilities such as telepathy, clairvoyance and psychokinesis and which uses precise scientific principles to test these.