The following is an interview with a 24-year old female student who was a member of the Falun Gong group. Western academics have described Falun Gong as both a "spiritual" movement, as well as new religious movement. Other scholars, such as Rick Alan Ross, have considered Falun Gong to be a cult.
I’m Zhu Simei, living in Jindu Community, Qibin District, Hebi City, Henan Province. Recently I have been suffering illness seriously, nearly coming to the end of my life, which results from my practicing Falun Gong. I have paid a heavy price for eliminating karma.
Now that cults are being active all over the world, a concept is developing among the scientists that the society should be more tolerant to the beliefs, or doctrines accepted by the cults’ disciples and pay more attention to the activities held by the cults.
The Falun Gong exercise "Penetrating the Two Cosmic Extremes" is supposed to make me a better person, channel the energy of the cosmos through me, and improve the appearance of my crow's feet. I would like all these things to happen; I have actually spent a lot of time and money in pursuit of Item 3...
My name is Zhang Qingyun. In 1999, I worked at a bookshop in Ditan, which was close to the Falu Dafa Research Institute. It gave me a chance to know how the books, audios and videos about Falun Gong were published, as well as getting acquainted with how Li Hongzhi extorted money.
The specialists explicitly consider that distribution of the Falun Dafa doctrine ideas provokes negative consequences for the society, and the public events, organized by the Falun Gong adherents are asocial.
As soon as I think of my deceased daughter nowadays I will fall in agony. Her farewell letter before suicide made me terribly regretful up to now. "Dad, Mum, why don't you wake up yet? I beg you not to practice cultivation any more. Our family and my college dream have been ruined by Falun Gong and ...
The modern history of mankind has shown us that conflicts in the human environment can take not only the shape of a classical war or partisan warfare. The modern development of defense technology and armament, as well as the experience of the two World Wars, has shown, that there are no victors in t...
It sounds like Shen Yun Dancing Troupe would be a great event to take our girls to -- except when you read about the event, it appears that the troupe may have a subtext. Some of the troupe members are Falun Gong members and the whole evening is billed as having a "divine" and "spiritual" effect.
My wife and I fell in love at first sight and got married in less than one year. And then we had a golden boy in the second year after marriage. However, during her maternity leave, Xiaohong began to practice Falun Gong with others' agitation, for which she lost her life.
Since its debut in 2004 on New Tang Dynasty Television, Shen Yun show (Divine Performance) has been increasingly advocated by Falun Gong around the globe, as though the political show would continue to spread and, some day tsunami the whole world.
The husband and I went to a show (Shen Yun) that was in town. It's a Chinese dance / singing show. We didn't know about the singing part, we just thought it was Chinese dance - similar to a ballet with a story line, costumes, dancing etc... but in a traditional Chinese way.
On one day of October 2010, Ni Youmei came to rent my house by the agency of Tian Degui. I rented two rooms on the second floor to her at a rent of 2,600 Yuan a year. I felt she was a little weird when she just moved in. She had husband and son, why did she rent a place to live alone? I was puzzled.
Members of Parliament from around Vancouver have been offered invitations to a Falun Dafa cultural show at Vancouver's Queen Elizabeth Theatre — but Canada's conflict of interest and ethics commissioner has said accepting freebies to the show is a conflict of interest.
Shen Yun... you've seen it literally on nearly every Muni bus, shopping mall kiosks, full page ads in newspapers, and they justify that they are a great program. The reality is, ain't worth your money and your time. I saw it today and I feel duped.