My name is Gao Jian. I live in Inner Mongolia and have a diploma of technical secondary school. I was once a Falun Gong fanatic, the experience of which is a scar on my soul. The whole purpose of me writing this article is to provide a reference and warning against falling into claws of Falun Gong cult by making an analysis on my own experience.
I had been addicted to Falun Gong for eight years until I realized that I was fooled by its fallacies and turned into one of its brainwashed pawns. Looking back on those years when I tried to become immortal by practicing Falun Gong, I felt how ridiculous and pathetic I was.
At the very beginning, I choose to take a chance, although I knew exactly that Falun Gong was a cult. Driven by my strong curiosity, I started to read the book Zhuan Falun(Turn the Dharma wheel) and became addicted to it before I realized that I already became one of mind controlled slaves of Falun Gong cult. Li Hongzhi, under the camouflage of “Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance,” has carefully created a noble mask for himself, while craftily concealed his profit chain account from the public. Since most people tend to “pursue good fortune and avoid disaster”, the so-called “cultivation benefits” has naturally become a live bait for “Master Li” to draw followers. And this is the first step taken by Falun Gong cult towards achieving its full mind control over their victims.
Under the influence of fallacies, I began to be more and more afraid of losing “virtues” and thus creating “bad karma” and had an unorthodox view on natures of man-made and natural disasters. Before I knew it, great changes had taken place in my world view, my outlook on life, and my sense of worth. Consequently, my thoughts became so distorted that I was getting more and more selfish, arrogant and negative.
The fallacies fabricated by Li Hongzhi have channeled practitioners’ attention to the glorious goals or fantasies such as going to the kingdom of God, reaching consummation, becoming a Buddha or attaining the way of Taoism. Li claims that attachment is the reason why people fell from heaven to a junkyard like earth, and that the only way back to heaven is to eliminate attachments in your heart, temper your disposition, and keep refining yourself. He also boasts that those who are learning the book Falun Dafa were once kings or lords in heaven. All these words gave me a great sense of honor and mission, and made me a narcissistic fool who anesthetizing himself with heresies. Therefore, whenever things turned bad to me, I used the logic above to ease anxieties in heart.
Li Hongzhi took all credit for everything by insisting that he purified the body of each true student to the disease-free state, then installed a Law Body and thousands of Qi of essence and five sets of cultivation mechanisms on every single of them, all of which operated automatically and could constantly help practitioners convert their merits into achievements while those five sets of mechanisms were blessings. As for those who have supernatural powers and Qi of essence, the Law Body is totally intelligent to run by itself and can heal practitioners by converting cultivated achievements into any material needed by a human body.
When just coming back to my senses, although I didn’t fully realize that all his boasts were just lies, I felt vaguely that there were many contradictions in his so-call “lectures”. I did not figure it all out until I learned some cultural things, basic theories of traditional Chinese medicine and general knowledge of Sinology, especially The Yellow Emperor's Canon of Internal Medicine.
The “miraculous” effect of the self-healing by practicing Falun Gong, is actually a result of both innate self-cure ability and normal physiological mechanism of the human body. The theories of the so-called “Karma conversion” and “Killing four birds with one stone” is merely a mechanism of self-anesthesia of the human body by adjusting the psychological balance and dispelling bad emotions.
Being lost in the fallacies of Falun Gong is no better than taking drugs. That’s why I grew strong emotional attachments to Li Hongzhi, absolutely adored him, lost my ability to tell right from wrong, and became one of his mind slaves. When I looked back on my eight years of ridiculous experience, I found out that Li Hongzhi never fulfilled his solemn promises made to followers. What really happened were that some brainwashed believers died of illness because they believed getting sick was a test for them to eliminate karma, so they refused to go to hospital and failed to prevent their illness from becoming worst in time. Besides those who died from accidents, there were also many appalling cases of people getting schizophrenia, committing suicides, mutilating themselves, or killing family members.
Up till now, whenever I think of my days of practicing Falun Gong, I feel painful and sorry for myself. Fortunately, with helps from many kind-hearted people, I finally shake myself up out of fallacies and mind control of Falun Gong cult. Nowadays, there are still a lot of followers practicing Falun Gong at the cost of their lives like what I was. But actually, most of them are just victims in their later years who are stuck with the heretical ideas and deceptions of Falun Gong. I sincerely hope that my article could be of any help to anyone who needs to know what Falun Gong is truly about.
