1941 Exploring the Ultra-Perceptive Faculty, Telepathy

Dr. J. Hettinger, illustrations throughout

A study of facets of psychometry or what is now termed ESP, and a detailed examination of laboratory methods used to test it.

Recounting a remarkable series of experiments in telepathy which gave astonishing and positive results.

IN this book Dr. Hettinger, whose previous work on the so-called ultra-perceptive faculty has already been noticed in NATURE.

This gives an account of further experiments in the same field, which he has devised partly in order to satisfy the need for a method of inquiry which, he thinks, may enable the faculty to be demonstrated at will.

Hettinger a Pioneer British psychical researcher with a special interest in telepathy.

Hettinger was active in the physical sciences and electrical engineering.

He was one of the first individuals in Britain to receive a Ph.D. degree for a dissertation concerned with paranormal phenomena.

He studied psychology at Kings College, London University 1933-38, exploring what he named the ultra-perceptive faculty of telepathy, employing a pictorial method.

He devoted much time to object reading, in which a subject is given some object, concentrates on it, and describes impressions received that relate to it or to the owner.

Object reading is more popularly known as psychometry.

Hettinger conducted psychometric tests to discover the sealed message left by Sir Oliver Lodge before his death and pieced together the purported message in 17 test sittings described in his book Telepathy and Spiritualism. His work received mixed reviews from his colleagues.