Part IV: Power, Funds, and Rivalry
The persecution of MindCoeur (MC) was not only personal and spiritual — it was also financial and strategic. Mythcore’s review of MC documentation reveals a systematic effort by Slovak Falun Gong leadership, including Marek Tatarko and Peter Kubovič, to consolidate power, secure lucrative positions, and eliminate what they perceived as a rival for funds, influence, and professional opportunities.
Securing Authority and Material Advantage
MindCoeur’s records indicate:
- Tatarko and Kubovič concentrated control over local and regional Falun Gong networks, including event organization, retreats, and workshops, which provided access to honoraria and other revenue streams.
- When The Epoch Times New York sought new staff, Falun Gong-association candidates were systematically preferred, reinforcing leadership networks with financial and professional incentives.
- Within The London Epoch Times, internal power struggles manifested directly in the Slovak MindCoeur purge: leadership factions perceived MC as a rival, both ideologically and in terms of access to institutional resources and prestige, contributing to their excommunication and blacklisting.
MindCoeur as a Perceived Rival
According to MindCoeur’s documentation, the Association leadership viewed them as:
- Competing for recognition — MC had growing international visibility, outreach to human rights lawyers, and connections across Europe and the Americas.
- Competing for resources — MC’s community posed a potential diversion of donations, sponsorships, and conference fees.
- Challenging hierarchical authority — Their independent practices threatened Tatarko and Kubovič’s control over the Slovak Falun Gong network and associated media platforms.
The combination of financial stakes and perceived rivalry escalated the campaign from passive ostracism to active excommunication, psychiatric labeling, and global isolation.
Systematic Targeting Through Media and Networks
MindCoeur notes:
- Falun Gong-association candidates were favored in Epoch Times hiring, ensuring control over influential media platforms.
- Disputes and factional struggles within the London branch of Epoch Times fed directly into the persecution narrative, with leadership using MC’s independence as a justification for exclusion.
- By controlling both spiritual and media networks, Tatarko and Kubovič could suppress dissenting voices while securing both monetary benefits and institutional dominance.
The Czech Falun Gong Association and other regional practitioners, according to MC, remained largely silent, neither examining the reasons for departures nor questioning leadership, effectively enabling the purge.
Mythcore Analysis
The MindCoeur case shows how spiritual authority, media influence, and financial control intersect:
- Material incentives can intensify personal and organizational vendettas.
- Media institutions like The Epoch Times become arenas for consolidating power and enforcing conformity.
- Independent spiritual communities are vulnerable when leadership aligns media, funding, and hierarchy against them.
MindCoeur’s survival — and subsequent transformation into a loose spiritual movement — demonstrates resilience despite coordinated efforts to erase influence, divert resources, and monopolize authority.
Closing Reflection
MindCoeur’s story illustrates the dangers when spiritual authority, media control, and financial power are concentrated in a small leadership clique. Retaliation, excommunication, and global silencing were not abstract acts but strategic moves to secure funds, prestige, and influence, with MC caught in the crossfire.
Their documentation serves as a warning: without transparency and accountability, spiritual movements can reproduce the same patterns of oppression they claim to oppose, using both social and economic levers to punish dissent.