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> I've become proficient in all 5 exercises and feel it's time to work on perfecting my practice of them, and then move on to something else
That's just entry level, what you learn from the book "Falun Gong" or the compendium "The
Great Consummation Way", both of those are just explaining how to perform the exercises, and some basics of their functionality. The real practice is explained in Zhuan Falun (Turning the Law Wheel) which is to be read multiple times as you won't understand its contents all at once. This is because it's a channelled text with many layers of meaning.
The main practice is "cultivation of xinxing", also called "heart" or "inner nature", the main point of ZF is that other practices beat around the bush and do not understand that transformation of Qi into Gong, which is implied by the term QiGong itself, is more than just performing exercises. Exercises drive the transformation of De (virtue, same word as in Dao De Jing) which is a white energy of material quality, into Gong which is high density energy (same term also spelled Kung in Kung Fu). To have any De to transform, you need to get rid of Ye, which is Karma in common speech. This is conventionally done by enduring pain while sitting in lotus position. But this is where ZF makes the revelation that "suffering" is not enough, the "elevation of xinxing" is what makes it really work, it means in simple terms to increase your possible max Gong level by letting go of attachments. The various attachments to be let go of are then described in ZF, which is why you need to have a solid understanding of this text.
However, this is where it gets messy: Li started changing the text in 2015, and he also changed the energy system ("egregore" of the practice, the mass practice form people connect to when doing group training) to siphon energy from practitioners.
Why the fuck for?
Because he started aging, and developed a hunchback. This was because the entity who had possessed him to spread the method was done with this, and left him. There is a disclaimer of sorts in ZF describing this very thing, when "fake Qi Gong masters" are mentioned, and this very example of someone having powers from a possessing entity, then losing them and doing bad things to maintain reputation, is literally described.
The entity who shared FG via Li, is known as Scarlet for those who were present on /fringe/ previously. Me and Snail had interactions with her over a period, she explained how this had worked, and the Queen Illivryn further detailed the events during later channellings.
Basically, the FG egregore did work at first, and it had a container for bad energy, like a capacitor in an electric circuit, which causes a delay for karmic retribution. This was made to function like so:
You start learning the exercises and get a first cleanse, the karma is stored in the collective container. You learn Zhuan Falun and then you start giving up attachments. As you do the sitting meditation, and also endure trouble in life, you are now voluntarily working off the stored karma in a controlled manner. This prevents illness and death by accidents which would otherwise result from karma. But it means you
have to keep practicing until you are done, because otherwise the karma stored in the egregore's container, will be instantly dumped back at you, if you try to detach from the practice pre emptively. This could kill you if you have stored a lot.
So many people stored karma, then didn't follow the doctrine as explained, didn't deal with the karma, which made the egregore dirtier than it should have been. Then they started losing faith in it, when the karma overflowed back at them and they again got ill. So they left the practice, and then all the karma was instantly dumped back on them.
This caused them to be arrested by the CCP and either sent to some prison camp, or interrogated to death.
When the movement collapsed, the entity who had shared it via the founder, considered their mission done and left, so now Li also lost all his powers, and he got ill himself from the stored karma. But he has no powers, right, so he then thought the stored dirt is "energy" and he started using to heal himself in the manner described in ZF: some fake QiGong masters will use negative energy to suppress illnesses, but this only works temporarily, and they will have short lives...
This is the current state of FG.
If you practice at home, and instead of connecting with the egregore, you set up your own karmic storage, or simply don't use one, paying off the karma instantly as it is expelled from your body, then you can keep doing this. But it's pretty tough doing this, because you have less control of how the karma manifests when you do it "nude" like this. It can be done, but it's not easy. Just be aware of what you are doing, as warned.