My name is Xiong Jiao. I used to have a happy family: both my parents were senior intellectuals, and my elder brother and I were all ready to embrace the bright future ahead of us after we graduated from universities. At that time, we had an enviable family condition and social status. Unfortunately, all of these had been totally squandered by my father’s wrong decision.
My father mistakenly joined a cult and became obsessed with it, then led the whole family onto a wrong path to “Consummation” by way of “Karma elimination”
My father Xiong Qi was born in 1938. After he graduated from university, he became a deputy director of a military research institute. My mother Liu Yuan was also a senior intellectual and worked as an engineer at the same institute. The family of four with a son and a daughter lived a peaceful and happy life.
In 1995, as the popular enthusiasm for learning Qigong was sweeping over the whole country, a friend of my father warmly introduced Falun Gong to him, claiming that it was a marvelous Qigong he kept practicing with many benefits, including but not limited to helping tone the body, curing diseases by eliminating Karma, possibly reaching “Consummation” in the future, and ascending to the splendid “Kingdom of heaven”.
At that time, my father was going through menopause and suffered from fidgets. After practicing Falun Gong for a few days, he no longer lived a chaotic life with irregular diets, and started to adopt an orderly lifestyle with early sleep and rise, and kept exercising in the morning every day. He felt much better than before and gave the credit to Falun Gong. But actually, it was due to the regular and healthy lifestyle he newly adopted and the result of both self-suggestion and self-regulation mechanism which, however, only had a very limited effect on curing organic diseases and infectious diseases. But my father was fully convinced that Falun Gong had “magical powers”, so he began to buy Falun Gong books and cassettes back home and concentrate on learning “Dafa” so as to “level up”.
Due to my father’s high educational background and work experience as a leader, he was soon appointed by Falun Gong organization as an “instructor” of the exercise station in the city. Since then, my father practiced Falun Gong even harder than ever. He was so obsessed with it that he held the cult book Zhuan Falun (Turn the Dharma Wheel) in his hands all the time, and got himself completely brainwashed by Falun Gong. Influenced by my father, my mother and elder brother also started to practice Falun Gong with him. From this point on, the whole family was in a total mess and previous happiness in this family was gone forever.
While my father was in prison, my mother died from rejecting medical treatment
In July 1999, the state banned Falun Gong in accordance with the law, and made public all kinds of bloodshed cases committed by Falun Gong cult to expose its evil anti-human and anti-humanity nature. However, under the intensive brainwash and bewitchment of his “Master’s” scriptures, my father was full of confusion and discontent at the national act. As the “instructor”, he made and distributed lots of illegal Falun Gong propaganda materials, and illegally organized group teaching and cultivation activities, which eventually caused him to be subjected to public security penalties in May 2001.
After coming back home, with the education and help of the sub-district office and community, my father once stopped “practicing” and “promoting the Dafa” activities, and promised to abandon Falun Gong heresies and break away from the cult. However, due to my parents’ poor health, and my elder brother being unmarried even in his thirties, these disappointments in life kept reminding my father of “Falun Gong” and “the splendid Kingdom of heaven” it promised. So it didn’t last long before my father turned to Falun Gong practice again for relief and deliverance. He purchased some equipment and materials to produce “Falun Gong” propaganda materials and handed them out everywhere. Finally, he ended up being sentenced to 7 years’ imprisonment in September 2014.
Soon after my father came into contact with “Falun Gong”, he talked my weak mother into practicing it as well. As my mother learned from my father, she was gradually becoming obsessed with Li Hongzhi’s fallacies. Although my mother was quite diligent at her cultivation, she wasn’t rewarded with any “fortune”. Ever since my mother became obsessed with Falun Gong, she had been a totally different person. She no longer cared about family affairs, stopped associating with relatives and friends, and isolated her mind in the Falun Gong world. Because of her poor physical condition, she seldom stepped out for outdoor activities. Instead, she kept practicing Falun Gong and learning Dafa at home every day, which made her health condition worse and worse. I tried many times to persuade her to take medical examinations, but she firmly refused, saying that she was eliminating her Karma. She further explained the reason why she was in poor health: she had too much Karma to eliminate, and she would break the rules if she went to hospital, and her “Master” would also stop saving her from torment. Later, she was even reluctant to talk with me simply because I was not her fellow practitioner. I asked her to go to hospital and stop practicing Falun Gong, but she replied that the world was full of pains and the “ Dharmakaya ” of her “Master” was everywhere. Therefore, as long as she sincerely held her belief in Falun Gong, she would definitely reach “Consummation” sooner or later.
In less than half a year, her body became so thin and weak that she had to lie in bed and let me take care of her daily life. Although she recited the cult book Zhuan Falun countless times, her condition was turning worse and worse without any sign of possible alleviation. Heartbreakingly, one day in March 2015, my mother passed away and left us forever.
If my mother hadn’t practiced Falun Gong, if she had gone to hospital for treatment and kept her mind on recuperation, she wouldn’t have died in such pain. As her daughter, I witnessed all the phases my mother went through, but there was nothing I could do to successfully dissuade her from believing in Falun Gong fallacies, so it left me no choice but to quit my job to take care of her full-time. And I was overwhelmed by deep remorse and the feeling of powerlessness when watching my Mom getting weaker and weaker.
But what happened next made me even more desperate……
My stubborn elder brother died from obsession too and left me all alone
After my mother died, my elder brother and I were the only ones left at home.
After graduating from universities, we all started working. My elder brother Xiong Zhang joined the same research institute as a technician where my parents worked, and I was assigned to Tianjin No.6 instrument factory. At that time,everything was so good that I even felt the whole world was too bright to be true.
However, at my father’s instigation, my elder brother was also pulled into the cult “organization”. Because I was never a big fan of Qigong and my work schedule at the factory was quite busy, especially when I saw how unreasonable and irrational they had become after practicing Falun Gong, I always remained vigilant and stayed alert to it, and I therefore didn’t fall into its clutches.
But my elder brother was not as lucky as me. He got completely brainwashed when surrounded by my parents who were deeply obsessed with Falun Gong. Later, he didn’t even go to work at all and indulged in “cultivation” all day long.
My mother hadn’t been well for a long time. My father and my elder brother used to take care of Mom before the two were obsessed with Falun Gong. But after they started to practice, they began to despise “family affections” and only regarded each other as “fellow practitioners”. As a daughter and sister, I clearly felt the evil nature of the cult, but all I could do was to quit my job and look after my mother. I couldn’t spare any more energy to bring my obsessed father and elder brother back to their normal life.
After the first time when my father was punished by the law, cadres of the residential district, police officers and anti-cult volunteers often visited my mother and my elder brother and helped us solve difficulties in life, which made us feel the care and warmth from society. My elder brother even reduced his attention to “Falun Gong” and somewhat came back to his senses, showing intentions to break away from the cult organization. But from what I knew of him, he wasn’t fully determined in his heart to make a clear break with Falun Gong. That was why he later resumed to practice it again when bewitched.
But this time, my brother’s obsession was getting worse. He frequently visited “Falun Gong” related websites, and fabricated a large number of false articles to deliberately discredit the state, party and government offices. After the second time my father was punished by law, instead of reviewing the wrongdoings of their own, my elder brother turned angrier and more resentful, so he cooked up “articles” to discredit public security organizations and police officers, illegally divulged personal information such as addresses and contact numbers of the director in charge and police officers who were in charge of my father’s case. No matter how hard I tried to dissuade him from the wrongdoings, he just wouldn’t listen. It was really “hopeless” for him.
In October 2017, my elder brother suffered from acute diarrhea at home, but he refused to go to hospital because of Falun Gong fallacies that he deeply believed in. He even once became quite violent to show his refusal for hospital. Just like what my mother did, he held tightly the cult book Zhuan Falun in his hands despite the unbearable pain, waiting for the “Consummation” to come. In the end, my brother, as a loyal and obsessed Falun Gong “disciple”, departed this world forever.
At that moment, I felt as if my heart was ripped out and all my hopes for life were dashed to pieces. Falun Gong preached that “one person in a family practicing Falun Gong would bring benefits to the whole family”, what a bloody joke it is!
Now, as the date when my father is to be released from the prison draws near, I’m looking forward to it on one hand, but on the other hand, I’m also hesitating. Because it’s my deepest hope that my father could completely break away from Falun Gong and then live a normal life for the rest of his life. In the meantime, I’m afraid that he might not be able to take the blow after realizing there is only me left for him in the world as both my mother and brother were gone.
I hate “Falun Gong” with my whole being. It destroyed my happy family, shattered my vision for the promising future, and cost lives of both my mother and my elder brother……
