While in NYC recently, I walked by the group of people who I guess are Falun Gong practitioners. If you haven’t seen it, they had this little setup - on I forget which street - where they had photos and paintings of Falun Gong practitioners being tortured by the Chinese government. And there are also people sitting in simulated torture devices, meditating away peacefully. The whole thing is pretty bizarre, and I never really looked much into Falun Gong before today, when a friend told me she picked up one of their little newsletters to see what they are all about.

It actually seems like they stand for a lot of good stuff. They are all about like personal spiritual development, rather than adherence to the group, etc. Which is why they are deemed so dangerous by the Chinese government. Anyway, I will do a more in-depth posting about their actual beliefs and practices and stuff in a little bit. But I just wanted to get down on paper this crazy shit I found about the originator of the practice, Master Li Hongzhi. Now, they don’t like worship him, or anything like that. And he has instituted rules so that you’re not supposed to ever charge anyone for anything related to Falun Gong, or collect money in it’s name.

So before I paste in this excerpt from a 1999 Time Magazine interview, I just want to say that he’s not a total whacko, and there’s all kinds of good stuff in the principles of this movement. But yeah, anyway, he has a bunch of weird shit to say about aliens. Which is always cool in my book:

…[S]ince the beginning of this century, aliens have begun to invade the human mind and its ideology and culture.

…The aliens come from other planets. The names that I use for these planets are different . Some are from dimensions that human beings have not yet discovered. The key is how they have corrupted mankind.

…The ultimate purpose is to replace humans. If cloning human beings succeeds, the aliens can officially replace humans. Why does a corpse lie dead, even though it is the same as a living body? The difference is the soul, which is the life of the body. If people reproduce a human person, the gods in heaven will not give its body a human soul. The aliens will take that opportunity to replace the human soul and by doing so they will enter earth and become earthlings.

When such people grow up, they will help replace humans with aliens. They will produce more and more clones. There will no longer be humans reproduced by humans. They will act like humans, but they will introduce legislation to stop human reproduction.

…The aliens use many methods to keep people from freeing themselves from manipulation. They make earthlings have wars and conflicts, and develop weapons using science, which makes mankind more dependent on advanced science and technology. In this way, the aliens will be able to introduce their stuff and make the preparations for replacing human beings. The military industry leads other industries such as computers and electronics.

…Aliens have already constructed a layer of cells in human beings. The development of computers dictates this layer of body cells to control human culture and spirituality and in the end to replace human beings.

Anyway, the actual interview itself is much more interesting than my edited version right here, and I recommend checking it out. Also, like I said, to counter the whackiness of this, I’m also gonna post some more stuff about what makes them like a “legitimate” group and why the Communists don’t like them.