The Mind Invaders Book

In my humble opinion, this is the kind of book that really gives the Christian fiction genre a black eye. Hunt is a good writer when it comes to non-fiction, but, like most non-fiction writers, he lacks the artistic sensibilities needed to create good fiction, making the "point" of the novel more significant than the story he is trying to tell. And, while I enjoy some of Hunt's other work, I tend to avoid any of his books dealing with New Age philosophy and the occult, simply because I think he gets too carried away. When someone starts expounding on the "evils" of Harry Potter, I find it hard to take them seriously. Anyway! What we end up having here is an amateurishly written exercise in paranoia: where everybody in the story is either strongly Christian or strongly anti-Christian (as opposed to being mostly apathetic or agnostic, like they would be in real life), where doing yoga or practicing zen meditation is basically an engraved invitation for demon possession, and demons "invade" people's minds by claiming they are extra-terrestrial beings attempting to reach out to the "enlightened." At the very beginning of the story, one such demon-possessed character is lucky enough to be admitted to a hospital where one of the doctors works exorcisms in his spare time. Personally, I can't suspend my disbelief for all of that. I prefer spiritual novels that take place in the real world a bit more, like Stephen King's The Stand, which despite not being a Christian novel, deals with Christian themes in a much more believable, mature (and, yes, worldly) way. However, I certainly don't deny that there is potentially a big audience for this kind of book, and fans of This Present Darkness by Frank Peretti will probably find Mind Invaders right up their alley.