From the publisher's website: When attorney-turned-psychic Nancy du Tertre traveled to St. Petersburg to train with Russia’s most renowned psychokinesis experts to learn how to bend metal with the mind, she discovered, that instead they were bending her mind. Her surreal descent into a strange world of Russian psychic training resembled both a Cold War science experiment and a psychological thriller.
In The Cult of the Occult: Falling Down the Russian Rabbit Hole, du Tertre takes readers deep into a shadowy Institute where the promise of learning to move objects with the mind is tangled with something far more sinister. The Institute keeps du Tertre and her fellow American colleague in a state of total isolation, locked in rooms for hours, deprived of meals, bathroom breaks, and often sleep, lied to about the training, blackmailed, and deliberately confused. At the center, is Roza, the mercurial second-in-command to the founder of the Institute, the so-called “wizard,” Vadim Medvedev. Roza’s method alternates between friendliness and heartless cruelty – classic prisoner methods used for interrogation and brain-washing.
Further information at the publisher's website: White Crow Books.