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...Wacky, perhaps. But is Falun Gong a cult? Not necessarily, if classic characteristics of cults are taken into account. A reckoning...
...newspapers and TV screens were covered with grisly images of smoldering human forms. Before that day, many Chinese had felt the crackdown had gone too far?that Falun Gong posed no real threat. With the immolations, the government's six-month propaganda campaign portraying Falun Gong as an "evil cult" that unhinged its followers seemed more credible...
...evil cult...
...very powerful," says Dr. Gary Feuerberg, a government statistician in Washington, who has been practicing Falun Gong since 1998. It was so powerful, in fact, that Feuerberg found it scary, and stepped back from the practice for two months to make sure he was not being sucked into a cult. He returned. "It change my body and my head," he says. "It makes you a better person...
...rambling dissertation, Zhuan Falun, has only added to accusations that Falun Gong is a cult. Li writes he can personally heal disease and that his followers can stop speeding cars using the powers of his teachings. He writes that the Falun Gong emblem exists in the bellies of practitioners, who can see through the celestial eyes in their foreheads. Li believes "humankind is degenerating and demons are everywhere"?extraterrestrials are everywhere, too?and that Africa boasts a 2-billion-year-old nuclear reactor. He also says...