My name is Guan Minggang. I was born in August 1959. After graduating from university, I joined the ultra-high voltage transmission and transformation division of an electric power company, engaging in technical work. The desirable job position and high salary income paved a sunny road for my future. However, I went astray on the wrong path later. I fell deep into the mire of the Falun Gong cult, which had caused me great regret. It was facts that made me see the truth clearly; it was the science that restored my rationality; it was love that brought me back to my conscience.
I loved Qigong when I was young. In order to improve my health, I began to practice Falun Gong in February 1996, and soon I became an assistant at the local practicing site. A year later, I was appointed as the regional deputy chief by the Falun Gong Assistance Center in our city. Soon after, my mother and my wife, except my son who was just born, became devoted Falun Gong practitioners under my guidance.
In 1999, the government outlawed Falun Gong, so I stopped practicing and spreading Falun Gong for a while, promising that I’d make a clean break with Falun Gong. However, my heart was still full of thoughts of Falun Gong, and I continued to respect Li Hongzhi as my "Master". In early 2002, a Falun Gong backbone member from Northeast China, bringing illegal propaganda materials with him, came to Shanghai to carry out “underground” activities. I thought that I had to perform well and accept the test from "Master" at this critical moment. So, I asked my wife to accompany the Falun Gong member from Northeast China to incite those who had already quit the Falun Gong cult to carry out organized illegal and criminal activities. Finally, I was sentenced to 5 years and 6 months in prison. Meanwhile, my wife was also punished by law.
With the help of kind-hearted people, I had got a chance to calm down. I studied law, logic, and psychology in earnest, reviewed my experience of practicing Falun Gong, and analyzed Zhuan Falun and Li Hongzhi’s teachings and scriptures from beginning to end. I compared them with the religious classics such as the Sutra, the Bible, and the Quran. Only when I analyzed a problem in an objective and rational way of thinking did I recognize the reactionary nature of the Falun Gong cult and the sinister intentions of Li Hongzhi.
It was under the mind control of Li Hongzhi that we, deceived by his “scriptures", had done things that pained our friends and pleased our enemies. Also, we thought what we had done were noble and sacred things. Now, when I came to realize the truth, I felt ashamed of myself.
The Falun Gong cult has now become an anti-China tool of hostile forces inside and outside China. If we, the former faithful followers of Li Hongzhi, were punished for stubbornly resisting the government’s measures and breaking the national laws, Falun Gong’s websites would slander the Chinese government for “violating human rights” and “persecuting Dafa disciples.” If the former Falun Gong practitioners broke with it after being educated and transformed by the government, the Falun Gong cult organization would call them "demons and traitors" and vow to eradicate them with its so-called “functions”. In a word, Li Hongzhi tried to use this stupid method to threaten Falun Gong practitioners in order to continue to place them under his mind control. In the past, I didn’t dare to make a clean break with Li Hongzhi's Falun Dafa because I was gullible enough to believe in the so-called "Dharma-door of Non-Duality" and afraid of retribution in the form of "extinction of body and soul”. Now, I think it is ridiculous since I have regained my rational thinking.
In order to survive, the Falun Gong cult, which is at the end of the rope, often spreads rumors of Falun Gong members being persecuted by the Chinese government to confuse people's minds and beg for mercy from hostile forces overseas. I have felt the care of all sectors of society for us - the former Falun Gong practitioners who once went astray - and the sincerity they have shown in educating, helping, and saving us. I am full of hope and confidence about my future life. I believe that I will never lose my way in life again after experiencing this most painful lesson.
I feel deep regret and guilt for my past behavior, and I hope that people will learn from my experience and wake up to reality so that they will refrain from becoming the victims of the Falun Gong cult!"
