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Testimonies China
Inside Lifechanyuan. 6. A Habit of the Soul: Concluding Reflections
Their life is challenging. Their demanding and peculiar lifestyle radiates a quiet beauty.
Inside Lifechanyuan. 5. Heaven, Earth, and the New Era: Xuefeng’s Eschatology
The community’s teachings describe multiple levels of afterlife heavens and hells, and a coming New Era on Earth.
Inside Lifechanyuan. 4. Xuefeng Communism in Practice: Daily Life in the Second Home
The abolition of private property and a radical criticism of the family are rooted more in the idea of the spiritual community as a living entity than Marxism.
Inside Lifechanyuan. 3. Cosmology and Creation
The community’s account of the origins of the universe and humankind is metaphysical, psychological, and ethical.
Inside Lifechanyuan. 2. A Journey Across Time, Spirit, and Borders
Persecution hit the movement after Xi Jinping came to power in China, leading many members to seek asylum in Thailand and Canada.
Inside Lifechanyuan. 1. A Community of Light in the Shadows of Persecution
I was the first scholar to visit the “Second Home” in Thailand of a unique spiritual family that combines Buddhism, esoteric traditions, and religion-based “communism.”
An Uyghur’s True Story: A Family Destroyed After the Concentration Camps
He returned from the camps to find his family gone. Now, his story demands justice.
The Transnational Repression of The Church of Almighty God. 5. The Red Octopus’s Seventh Tentacle: Arresting Those Who Return to China
When it finally succeeds in bringing refugees back to Chinese territory, the CCP arrests, sentences, and tortures them.
The Transnational Repression of The Church of Almighty God. 4. The Red Octopus’s Tentacles #4, 5, and 6: Abductions, Cyber-Attacks, and Anti-Cult Associations
Kidnapping refugees is an extreme step, but the CCP effectively harasses them through digital suppression and the mobilization of anti-cultists.