A nightmare had finally passed! The sun rose again in Guo Xiuyan's heart. She was grateful to the community volunteers from the bottom of her heart. If it hadn’t been for their help, she would have been struggling in the abyss of an evil cult for an unknown amount of time. She could never forget the harm caused by Falun Gong, but what she missed most were those fellow practitioners who were still practicing hard at home. She wanted to say to them through her own painful experience: "Don't think that one person practicing Falun Gong will benefit all of one’s family members. In fact, it will only harm rather than benefit them. This kind of harm is something that will not be erased or eliminated for many years to come.
In August 1996, Guo Xiuyan, a native of Dongnanzhuang, Xin'an Sub-district Office, Huangdao District, Qingdao City, had an unfortunate exposure to Falun Gong. At that time, she was in her early twenties, and her daughter was only six months old. She was dragged into the Falun Gong evil cult by her aunt Song Yongmei. On one occasion, her aunt Song Yongmei came to visit her from Jiaonan, Huangdao District, bringing her a copy of Zhuan Falun. Her aunt told her that Falun Gong was a good exercise and that practicing it would cure all diseases.
Guo Xiuyan decided to have a try, partly because she suffered from inherited asthma, and partly she didn’t have to spend money learning the exercise. When reading the book Zhuan Falun, Guo Xiuyan was gradually attracted by it. She loved it so much that she could hardly put it down. Finally, her mind was trapped by the heretical ideas spread in the book. She wanted to go along the path pointed out by “Master” Li Hongzhi, to cure her illness, bring benefit to her whole family, become "a good person", and “reach consummation as a Buddha”.
From then on, Guo Xiuyan kept practicing Falun Gong with her fellow practitioners at the practicing site. For the convenience of taking care of her six-month-old daughter, Guo Xiuyan carried her daughter to the practicing site and put her in a casual place during her practice. She was quite upset when she heard her daughter crying from time to time. "Master" Li said in Zhuan Falun: If you want to "ascend to higher levels", you have to let go of your feelings for your parents or children; and if you don’t let go of these feelings, you can't practice. Based on her understanding of “Fa-principles", Guo Xiuyan thought her daughter was an obstacle to her practicing and a demon hindering her from "reaching consummation as a God". Thus, she left her daughter to the care of her father-in-law and mother-in-law so that she could practice Falun Gong without any interference.
However, Guo Xiuyan’s daughter, who was less than one year old, often fell ill due to the lack of motherly care and love from her. Whenever her father-in-law, mother-in-law, or husband took her daughter to the hospital, Guo Xiuyan would object to it. On one occasion, Guo’s daughter got a burn, and her wound got inflamed for not being treated in time. Later, Guo’s family members had her daughter cured of the burns by using medication. With the estrangement between Guo and her family growing deeper and deeper, she was more and more reluctant to talk to them, preferring instead to talk with her fellow practitioners about "practicing Gong and studying the Fa”. Her thoughts were completely confined to Falun Gong fallacies.
