do you know How many times the Earth has been destroyed?

The following is a part of lecture (The Past, Present and Future of Falun Gong) by Harold White Fellow, Benjamin Penny, at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 2001. Fanlun Gong, China Scientology. Recently, its media are more interested in "2012". Li Hongzhi is the founder of Falun Gong. Here comes our story:


The third part of the doctrines of Falun Gong that I want to discuss briefly is its general worldview. Li maintains that ‘The planet we are living on has been destroyed many times, and every time after the planet has regrouped, humankind starts to multiply again’. The evidence Li provides for this is that there is archaeological evidence for highly developed civilisations earlier—much earlier—than the time when humans are supposed to have evolved on earth. For instance, ‘In the museum of the National University of Peru, there is a large rock on which a figure was engraved, holding a telescope observing celestial bodies. This figure is more than 30 000 years old … How could there be a telescope 30 000 years ago? There is an iron rod in India whose iron content reaches over 99 per cent. The use of modern smelting technology cannot even produce iron with such high purity as it already surpassed the level of modern technology. Who created that civilization? Human beings should have been micro-organisms at that time, so how was it possible to create these things?’ These two examples, along with a two billion-year-old nuclear reactor in Gabon and some frescoes in the Alps, belong to the same repertoire of quasi-archaeology made famous by Erich von Daniken in the late 1960s in the West. But where von Daniken and his ilk see such phenomena as evidence of prehistoric extra-terrestrial technology transfer, Li sees them as proof of civilisations on earth prior to our own. Thus, ‘there existed more than one period of civilisation before our civilisation. Through unearthed relics, we have found products that are not of only one period of civilisation. It is thus believed that after each of the many times when human civilisations were annihilated, only a small number of people survived and they lived a primitive life. Then, they gradually multiplied in number to become the new human race, beginning a new civilisation. Later, they were again exterminated and would then once again produce a new human race’. Li says, ‘I made a careful investigation once and found that humankind has undergone complete annihilation 81 times’. Several times in his writings, Li says that we are living in the ‘last days of Last Havoc’, the last of three phases of evolution of the universe, and that he has chosen this time to make Falun Gong public. This mix of an ideology based on moral purification, the enhancement of personal power, the cyclic destruction of civilisations, a ‘last days’ message, and a master who proclaims that his message offers salvation to humankind—combined with very real persecution in its homeland—goes a long way to explaining the potency of Falun Gong both in China and overseas.

do you know How many times the Earth has been destroyed?

Once, that I know of. The Noetic Flood.

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"When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less."

~C.S. Lewis


Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.


~W.B. Yeats

Totally the wrong forum for this. I'd say this should be in the unorthodox theology thread, from what I know about Fanlun Gong (aside from him and his followers being pursecuted by the Chinese gov't).

There are some things here that seriously undermine the foundation of the Gospel of Christ. I would advice that we should stay clear away from the theology of this guy.

T oddest post I read in these odd days. someone told me Falun gong is qigong (like yoga), but my husband think its kinda biz cult. Hv seen many Chinese in yellow med'g falun gong in NY streets last year. Wt odd guys they r