Introduction to Falun Gong & Falun Dafa:

Part 3

Beliefs (Cont'd), web sites, & selected books:

This introduction is continued from the previous essay

Beliefs about illness and healing:

In a book, founder and current leader, Li Hongzhi, contrasts qigong healing treatments with those found in conventional hospitals:

	Hospital tests and examinations cannot detect the fundamental cause of an illness. This is because medical tests can only function in: "... this dimension and cannot see fundamental causes that exist in other dimensions."
	The actual cause of illness is not a virus or bacterial, or some other pathogen. It is karma.
	"The root cause of the patient’s illness is an intelligent entity that exists in another dimension."
	Qigong masters are able to use their super-human vision to see the internal functioning of their client's body, much like a CAT scan. 9

Falun Dafa information sources on the Internet:

	Falun Dafa at: http://www.falundafa.org/
	Falun Dafa: Cultivation of the essential nature of the universe, at: http://www.nh.ultranet.com/~dayong/pgcks.html This is a New England group.
	A Canadian Falun Dafa group is at: http://www.falundafa.ca/
	A list of worldwide contact groups is maintained at: http://www.nh.ultranet.com/~dayong/pgcks.html
	Falun Dafa in North America maintains an large Falun Dafa information package at: http://www.minghui.ca/eng/info_pak/info_index.html
	The China Internet Information Center maintains a list that is critical of the Falun Dafa. It is titled "Safeguard the well-being of the people: Further expose and criticize the cult - Falun Gong" See: http://ppflg.china.com.cn/indexE.html

Books on Falun Gong:

• Ethan Gutmann, The Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting, and China's Secret Solution to Its Dissident Problem, (2014). Read reviews/order this book. Amazon.com customers have given this book a rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars.
  
  
• Li Hongzhi, "China Faun Gong, Revised edition," (2000). Read dozens of reviews or order this book 3.8 star rating.
  
  
• Li Hongzhi, "Zhuan Falun: The Complete Teachings of Falun Gong,"(2001). Read reviews/order this book. 4.2 star rating
  
  
• Li Hongzhi, "Falun Gong: Principles and Exercises for Perfect Health and Enlightenment,"(2001). Read reviews/order this book. 4.3 star rating

Sponsored link:

• Yuan Meng & Long Tu, "Pagoda of Light: A Falun Gong Story from Today's China," (2008). Read reviews/order this book. Too few reviews to rate
  
  
  
• Danny Schechter, "Falun Gong's Challenge to China: Spiritual Practice or "Evil Cult"" (2001) Read reviews/order this book. 4.0 star rating
  
  

References used:

1. "What is Falun Gong / Falun Dafa: Frequently Asked Questions," Friends of Falun Gong Ontario," at: http://dawn.thot.net/
2. "The living Darmah: website of West Covina Buddhist temple," at: http://www.livingdharma.org/ 
3. "Dharma the cat," at http://www.dharmathecat.org 
4. "Introduction of Falun Dafa," at: http://www.falundafa.org/
5. "The Falun (Law Wheel): The Falun Emblem," at: http://www.mindspring.com/
6. "Falun Dafa followers reject cult status," Agence france-Presse, 1999-MAY-3.
7. Li Hongzhi, "Falun Dafa: Lecture in Sydney," at: http://www.falundafa.org/
8. Li Hongzhi, "Teaching the Fa in New York City," at: http://faluncanada.net/library/english/usa/usa_e.doc
9. Li Hongzhi, "Falun Gong: Qigong Treatments and Hospital Treatments," at: http://www.falundafa.org/
10. Li Hongzhi, "Gong potency and supernormal abilities," at: http://falundafa.org/
11. The James Randi Educational Foundation has a home page at: http://www.randi.org
12. Craig Smith, "China cracks down on mysticism," The New York Times, 2000-APR-30, at: http://www.nytimes.com/
13. Craig Smith, "Sect Clings to the Web in the Face of Beijing's Ban," The New York Times, 2001-JUL-5, at: http://www.nytimes.com/
14. "Introduction: 'Totally Expunge Evil, Pursue it to the End.' Explaining the Crackdown on the Falun Gong," Leiden University, at: http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/bth/aalderink/introduction.html
15. "Historical note on the Swastika," Falun Dafa, at: http://www.falundafa.org.il/

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