My name is Li Yongxu (pseudonym). I was born in 1967，from Yingkou, Liaoning Province. My mother brought up us three children single-handedly. As the oldest child of the three, I studied very hard and was admitted to Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics. After graduation from the university, I was assigned to work with an aircraft industrial (group) company in the north. Later, I was transferred to a Special Economic Zone city in Guangdong, where I worked as an engineer in a large state-owned company Ltd. Everything was going well with me at that time, so I felt a bright future was in store for me.

Getting addicted to an evil cult to cure diseases and keep fit

I had stomach problems, rhinitis, myopia, and bad teeth. To improve my health, I began to practice Falun Gong in July 1997. Under the influence of Li Hongzhi's fallacies, my purpose of practicing Falun Gong had shifted from "curing diseases and keeping fit" to "avoiding being eliminated and achieving consummation as a god". After the Government outlawed Falun Gong in 1999, I blindly followed the demagoguery of the cult organization and preached the evil cult in defiance of national laws and at the risk of sacrificing my bright future. I have paid a heavy price for what I had done over the last 20-odd years.

 “Qigong fever” of the 1990s

The hidden danger posed by Falun Gong evil cult

After I became a Falun Gong practitioner, I no longer lived a chaotic, disorderly life with an irregular diet; instead, I followed the rule of “early to bed and early to rise”, doing morning exercises every day. Therefore, I felt my health improved after practicing Falun Gong. In fact, it was not due to my practicing Falun Gong but my psychological hint and regulation. Moreover, the practice had only a limited effect on our health, and it couldn’t possibly cure any organic disease or infectious disease. If you refused medical treatment after falling ill,  believing in Li Hongzhi's heretical ideas that illnesses were caused by karma, that you couldn’t eliminate your karma by taking medicines, and that only by practicing Falun Gong could you eradicate your karma, it would have severe consequences for you.

Pictures fabricated by Li Hongzhi giving him the “image of Buddha” sitting on a lotus throne

My health worsened for believing in Falun Gong’s heretical ideas

Take me for example. My teeth had been in bad condition, and I had some periodontitis when I was young. Originally, I hoped that practicing Falun Gong would improve my teeth, but after so many years, not only did my teeth not get any better, but they became worse and worse, and finally they all fell off. When my teeth began to fall off, I practiced Falun Gong very hard, hoping that the miracle of "grey hair turning back to black and new teeth growing out”, as Li Hongzhi had said, would happen. During the 10-odd years, my health went from bad to worse, but I never sought medical treatment. My eyesight got worse and worse, my body became thin and weak, and besides, I was often plagued by skin diseases. I had become a toothless old sick man.

Teeth falling off

More tragically, some Falun Gong practitioner lost their lives in the end for refusing medical treatment of their illnesses. They didn’t even have a chance for regret. I knew two such people, who had practiced Falun Gong for many years but never sought medical treatment when they were not feeling well. Finally, they lost their lives. Now I will write down these two cases as a warning for people. As a respect for the deceased, they will be referred to by pseudonyms here.

"Sending Forth righteous thoughts" hadn’t saved Ah Ling’s life

In the second half of 2016, I turned 49, with no fixed job. So I stayed at home practicing Falun Gong and communicating secretly with other Falun Gong addicts. I heard that Ah Ling, a female fellow practitioner in her 40s from the Ningxi community, was in poor health and needed us to "send forth righteous thoughts" for her. This is the usual way for Li Hongzhi to exercise mind control over his followers, to eliminate the so-called evil spirits and old forces in another dimension by making use of specific time and language and achieve the effect of “Fa rectifying the universe and protecting the believers".

Around the Ningxi community

Ah Ling had been practicing Falun Gong very hard for more than ten years. But for some reason, her legs became weaker and weaker, and her health fell into decline. At first, she could move by holding on to the wall, but later she was too feeble to move in this way. So she had to stay at home reading Falun Gong books and practicing Falun Gong exercises. Every time we visited her, we would “study the Fa and send the righteous thoughts” together with her and encourage her to practice hard. She was full of confidence about her recovery and read Li Hongzhi's "scriptures" every day.

However, she didn’t get any better after some time, and her condition tended to worsen further. Because of her firm belief in “Master” and the “Fa”, Ah Ling never saw a doctor or take any medicine to cure her illness, because her illness wasn’t considered as “illness” by Falun Gong, but as karma that was discharged from the inside. So how could she have taken medication to cure her illness? Later, some fellow practitioners in her neighborhood learned about her condition, and then they went to her home one after another to “help” her. They practiced Falun Gong, "study the Fa", and "send the righteous thoughts" together with Ah Ling, but none of them advised Ah Ling to go to the hospital for treatment. In the end, she could no longer stand on her legs. Then, her fellow practitioners helped her practice “static Gong” since she was unable to practice “dynamic Gong”. Although they tried to clear her body of the "old forces" by “sending righteous thoughts”, her health remained in bad condition.

When I visited Ah Ling at her home, she had been ill in bed for several months. Because she had been unable to stand on her legs, she gradually got muscle atrophy and had to be carried by her family members when she went to the toilet. Ah Ling had been a sincere practitioner and true disciple who always adhered to the "righteous thoughts". But unfortunately, she still didn’t escape the tragic end: she passed away after going on in this way for nearly a year!

Aunt Liu died for believing in "eliminating karma"

The second case involves Aunt Liu, who was also from around the Ningxi community. She was about 60 years old, with children but no husband. As Aunt Liu was a firm Falun Gong follower, her children, who didn't believe in Falun Gong, had no choice but to let her go her own way. However, since Aunt Liu got ill, her children changed their attitude toward her, repeatedly persuading her to go to the hospital for treatment. At first, Aunt Liu insisted on not going to the hospital or taking medicine. With her health deteriorating, she got very weak and was completely bedridden. Given her condition, her children had to forcibly send her to the hospital. After an examination, she was diagnosed with diabetes and was hospitalized immediately for treatment.

After about a week of treatment, Aunt Liu’s health got better, and she could walk on the ground. However, she insisted on going home when her health improved somewhat. As soon as she returned home, she began to practice Falun Gong, refusing to take medication. When her fellow practitioners heard that she had recovered from her "illness and karma", they went to her home to practice Gong and “send forth righteous thoughts” together with her, helping her eliminate "karma". At that time, she was still very frail and had difficulty in standing up, so two of her fellow practitioners facilitated her practice by supporting her on both sides. Sometimes she was in so much pain that she wanted to stop practicing and lie down on the bed, but her fellow practitioners urged her to persevere. Later, as her health began to deteriorate again, her children refused those Falun Gong practitioners going to her home every day.

Afterward, she could only lie in bed, with her family taking care of her daily life. Someone gave her an MP3 with the recordings of Li Hongzhi's "teachings", so she listened to the recordings every day in bed. But after some time, her condition worsened, and she was sent to the hospital by her children. I once went to see her in the hospital, finding her skin was sallow and her face swollen. She had a hard time talking, so I left her after giving her some comforting words. The hospital could do nothing about it this time, and before long, she died in the hospital. This is another tragedy I know in which a Falun Gong practitioner died as a result of her long refusal to receive medical treatment for her disease.

Both of the deceased mentioned above were devout Falun Gong followers, whose death resulted from their obsession with Falun Gong’s heretical fallacies. Many local Falun Gong practitioners knew about their death. Some of them once “helped” the two victims by practicing Falun Gong and “sending righteous thoughts” together with her, but none of them thought that the two people should go to the hospital for treatment. Furthermore, none of them ever reflected on the tragedies afterward, because they had lost their mind after they got addicted to Falun Gong’s heretical fallacies.

These are the tragedies that I have witnessed involving two practitioners who died miserably under the mind control of the Falun Gong evil cult.