Okay, that is ridiculous and funny if you think someone took it seriously, although because of the very low level of general knowledge in China the third eye thing is a lie that would not appear impossible to the average person in the mainland the way it would to us.
Was this before the crackdown? Before 2000? The CCP has put out a lot of anti-Falungong and anti-qigong propaganda since the crackdown. I can not even mention qigong to Chinese people born after around 1995 without getting an extremely negative reaction. I don't know much about FLG teachings, but I've never heard this stuff about nuclear power plants. Maybe the book was disinformation from the CCP.
This was a Swedish (former) friend here in Sweden when I studied Chinese 1998 or early 1999. The book was already translated into Swedish. This is not any book about Falungong, I am talking about the FalunDafa, their “Bible” written by their leader Xi Hongzhi. What I mentioned is all in there. It’s not only uneducated Chinese that believe in this stuff, but also well educated Europeans. Even doctors are reading this book and continue being followers to this leader who by own words can fly and has X-Ray vision amongst many other “occult” skills. The book is available on their homepage in PDF format for free.
Michael wrote:Generally, on the topic of persecution in mainland China, from what I have seen, what the Chinese government does not like is for people to believe in anything, not even ideas like communism with Chinese characteristics, or whatever is scratched upon their so-called constitution. The only exception is the belief in money...
What I have noticed is that they try to evoke or infuse more nationalism in ways that are absurd. They’ve advised people to not celebrate Christmas which has led many stores to stop selling Christmas trees or decorations. The development towards this direction, and towards an even more closed society is something that IMO is going backwards. There’s a thin line between nationalism and fascism. ...I’ll guess we’ll just have to wait and see...