My name is Wang Wen (pseudonym). I’m 51 years old, living in Huangpu District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province. I’m now working as a security guard in a community, and I enjoy a calm, happy and warm life after work. However, my life wasn’t like this before. Previously, my work unit fired me and my wife and son left me, making me feel like a total failure and a loser. Now I have passed the age of 50, and I felt deeply ashamed when I looked back on the absurd days I had gone through.
Ignorance resulted in my mistaken belief in an evil cult
I used to be a state civil servant with a stable income and a happy family. As I often felt a little pain in my lower limbs, I went to a hospital for a checkup. The doctor said that I was suffering from lumbar rheumatism and lumbar disc herniation. Once while chatting with my colleagues, I was told by Mr. Guo that the effect of taking medication varied from person to person and that medication could only cure the symptoms but not the disease, and you had to spend unnecessary money on it. Mr. Guo said that many people practiced a kind of special and magical qigong known as Falun Gong and that you could clear all the foci of disease in your body and thus make you truly strong and healthy by “practicing gong” and "eliminating karma".
Considering that Falun Gong could cure my illness, I began to study the “Fa” and practice gong during my rest time, with the mentality of having a try. After a period of time, I thought that Falun Gong could help me purify my mind, so I started to read Falun Gong books secretly at work. Later, I bought a copy of Zhuan Falun and some practicing aids such as tapes. I found some fellow practitioners to practice Falun Gong together with me. After practicing for a few days, I felt that my pain was relieved and that I became more energetic (because I had enough exercise every day). Therefore, I accepted and appreciated this kind of gong from the bottom of my heart and thought that Falun Gong could really cure diseases.
The more I practiced Falun Gong, the more I became obsessed with it. I didn’t want to go to work or return home, but only wanted to practice gong. Since I became a Falun Gong addict, I didn’t care about anything in my family, which attracted strong dissatisfaction from my wife and resulted in frequent quarrels between us. My parents and parents-in-law tried to mediate between us, persuading us not to get divorced. However, at that time, I thought I would be considered too attached to affection for the family in that way, and that if I didn’t discard human attachments, I wouldn’t be able to “go to the next level” and “reach consummation” in the future. Consequently, I filed for divorce with no demands for property and rented a house for me to live in.
I was dismissed from public office for remaining impenitent
In order to "go to the next level" more smoothly, I began to contact and communicate with other Falun Gong practitioners in secret. They told me to be absolutely loyal to “Master” Li Hongzhi. Recently, “Master” had assigned us an important task of pasting propaganda leaflets, so I got many Falun Gong leaflets from my fellow practitioners. I believed that if I finished the task assigned by Master, I would be able to raise my "level" and achieve "consummation" earlier. However, I was caught by the police on duty while pasting a leaflet. As a result, I was fired by my work unit for violating laws. I not only lost my job but also lost my wife. My wife said to me, "Your obsession with the evil cult has seriously affected the lives of our children and me. We’d better get divorced."
My obsession with practicing Falun Gong harmed my son
Although I lost my job and my wife left me, I didn't take it seriously. I planned to set aside a room in my house for practicing Falun Gong. With the practicing room prepared, I often invited a group of fellow practitioners to practice gong and read "scriptures" at my home. In such an environment, my son simply lost interest in his study. He practiced gong with me every day after school, and as a result, his academic performance ranked him at the bottom of his grade.
After my son finished his 4th-grade year, I went to his school to apply for suspension of schooling for him in the hope he could concentrate on practicing gong with me at home. Also, I instilled in him the idea that as long as he practiced hard and ascended to higher "levels", everything would be fine, and he would reach consummation and become immortal. Since my son took a break from school, I felt that his mood and complexion were better than before, and he became more energetic. As we all know, children are fond of playing; without the pressure of schoolwork, they naturally feel relaxed in their hearts. But at that time, I attributed all the positive changes in my son to the miraculous power of Falun Gong.
One night, when I returned home from “spreading the Fa,” I checked the “homework" I assigned to my son but only to find out that he hadn’t recited any of the "scriptures." I was so angry at that moment that I picked up a bench and threw it at him, asking him why he hadn’t practiced gong and recited the “scriptures”. The next morning, as I was going out to "spread the Fa," I thought of my son's performance the day before. So I got a large lock to lock my son at home. Before I left, I scolded my son, reminding him to concentrate on reading “scripture” and telling him I’d check his “homework” when I came back in the evening. But my son just stood there with a drooping head without making any response. When I came back in the evening, I found my son curled up on the floor and his body was hot and feverish. Then I immediately carried my son on the "practicing platform" in the practicing room and reverently placed the hanging image of Master to my son's side. Next, I brought my frightened wife into the practicing room, and we prayed together for Master's "law body" to make its power felt to save my son. Just at that moment, a neighbor happened to pass by and called the 120 emergency number secretly. Shortly after, an ambulance arrived to take my son to the hospital.
My son was hospitalized for more than half a month. He was diagnosed with suffering a fractured calf bone, which led to a subsequent fever and then to meningitis due to delayed treatment. As a result, my son was left with lingering problems and was prone to illness later. This incident cast a shadow on my son's young mind and created his unsociable personality. After learning about my son’s situation, my ex-wife lost all trust and confidence in me. She thought that my son had been deprived of his humanity as a result of the so-called “mind cultivation.” Finally, she sued in court for the custody of my son.
I returned to a happy life after retracting from the wrong path
After this painful and unforgettable experience, I finally came to realize the truth. Li Hongzhi said that practicing cultivation could "eliminate karma," and that he would help cleanse the body and eradicate the disease of practitioners in another space so that they would no longer get sick. However, my son got nothing but illness from “practicing cultivation.” According to Li Hongzhi, as long as you did the following three things-clarifying the truth, sending forth the righteous thoughts, and studying the scriptures, you would reach consummation. However, I did exactly what he said but ended up with no results. After the anti-evil-cult volunteers had a sincere and patient conversation with me, I thought back to my painful experience as a Falun Gong practitioner and finally realized the evil nature of the Falun Gong cult. Honestly speaking, I had a difficult struggle in my mind about quitting the cult at that time. However, I started to doubt Falun Gong bit by bit, and gradually, I gained a new understanding of the evil cult.
From then on, I was determined to be a good person, working hard and making up for the lost time. Meanwhile, with the help of the government, I applied for a public rental house and found a job as a security guard in the community. I worked proactively day in and day out. Now, I am living a comfortable and stable life. Here, I’d also like to advise those still obsessed with Falun Gong to wake up to reality as soon as possible, break the lies of Falun Gong, and become law-abiding persons believing in science.
