Truth on "Falun Gong"

Today, some people who refuse to come to their senses still say that practicing "Falun Gong" helps maintain people's mental health. Is this true? Facts speak louder than words.

According to the latest incomplete statistics of the 29 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central authorities, the number of the people who have died of practicing "Falun Gong" totals 1,559; and according to the cases that have been made public, seven medical institutions in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei and Shandong have treated over 100 patients with psychological mental obstacles. As for the more than 50 cases in Beijing, most doctors in the column of "Diagnosis" wrote "mental symptoms caused by practicing 'Falun Gong,'" "dysphrenia brought out by practicing 'Falun Gong,'" "mania brought out by practicing 'Falun Gong,"' "depression caused by practicing 'Falun Gong,'" or "affective psychosis caused by practicing 'Falun Gong.'" Under "Main Symptoms," doctors usually wrote "auditory hallucination," "visual hallucination," and "tactile hallucination," in addition to "believing that the wheel of the law rotates in the body," "thinking that the wheel of the law revolves in the belly," "feeling five or six kinds of tangible materials attached to the body," "feeling controlled," or "thinking that the patient's heavenly eyes have opened." The doctors also wrote in the medical records that after the patients came down with the illness, they cried, laughed, refused to eat, had clouding of consciousness or disturbance of consciousness, had delusions of reference, thought they were going to be killed, hoped to go up to heaven, suddenly fell to the ground, felt uneasy, vexed, anxious and upset, wanted to burn things, talked nonsense, practiced "Falun Gong" without end, asserted they had committed crimes, wanted to commit suicide or chopped others with a knife. In extreme cases, some practitioners even regarded those, including their parents, who tried to talk them out of practicing "Falun Gong" as "devils," trying to injure them in any way they could.

Are these forms of abnormal psychology the "mental health" referred to by those who cling to "Falun Gong"? "Falun Gong" controls practitioners' spirits in the guise of building up their health, thus pushing innocent practitioners to a dead end. What is this if not a cult?