Norman Spinrad

The Mind Game Norman Spinrad

A down-on-his-luck Hollywood director's actress wife is taken over by a Scientology-like mind game cult called Transformationalism. She disappears into the bowels of Transformationalism. He's determined to rescue her, to the point where pretends to be taken over too. Is he or isn't he? As he delves deeper and deeper (or higher and higher depending on what who believes), he's no longer sure himself. A novel about the power of cults, show biz and cults, and just maybe the nature of "reality"-assuming there is one. One of the real such cults took a certain offense with the author, there was a mysterious burglary with nothing of value taken, a few other such mind games...