Since 1999, China has experienced the most concerted campaign of propaganda and disinformation that the world has ever seen—one using every communication channel and the communist regime’s entire mass media arsenal. The key target of this campaign has been people who follow the ancient spiritual practice of Falun Gong. In the most literal sense, their voices have been silenced amid a cacophony of venom and lies. Here, they have the opportunity to present their stories of perseverance, faith, and personal evolution, straight from the heart.
Since the 1970s, Eastern and New Age spiritual practices have planted roots in the English-speaking world and Western Europe. In recent years, they’ve also expanded to countries that were once behind the Iron Curtain.
A recent Falun Dafa experience sharing conference in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, drew over 100 participants from all over Eastern Europe—from Russia to Serbia—where they discussed the personal growth they’ve experienced as a result of the spiritual meditation practice.
Kerka, a practitioner from Plovdiv, Bulgaria, first saw the instructional book for Falun Dafa while walking with her boyfriend, with whom she had a child. She had been thinking of leaving him at the time, but that changed as she delved further into the practice.
“Little by little everything in my life began to transform,” Kerka said at the conference. “We never parted, but in fact, Dafa helped me to understand what a family truly is. We got married and started over. All aspects and relationships in my life received blessings. The situations, which seemed impossible and complicated, improved.”
