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The Spiritual Community That Cast Out Its Own – Part V

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Part V: Transnational Silence — Global Appeals and the Failure of Oversight

MindCoeur’s expulsion and marginalization by the Slovak Falun Gong Association, under Marek Tatarko and Peter Kubovič, did not go uncontested. From the earliest days of ostracism after the 2016 NY Conference through the formal excommunication in 2023, MindCoeur sought redress across continents, appealing to spiritual organizations, governments, and human rights institutions. Yet their efforts revealed a striking pattern of international silence and complicity.

Global Outreach Efforts

MindCoeur systematically contacted:

  • Falun Gong and Falun Dafa associations throughout Europe, the Americas, and Asia.
  • Human rights lawyers, including David Matas, and the Independent China Tribunal.
  • Members of Slovak, Czech, and UK Parliaments, as well as selected US Senators.
  • Human Rights Watch and other allied NGOs within the global human rights community.
  • Individual Falun Dafa instructors and exercise representatives.

These appeals were meticulously documented in MindCoeur.org’s archives, reflecting both the persistence of the community and the transparency of its outreach efforts.

Responses — or Lack Thereof

The responses MindCoeur received were overwhelmingly insufficient:

  • A handful of bureaucratic deflections citing jurisdictional limits.
  • Few requests for clarification, with no substantive inquiry into the reasons for MC’s departure or the alleged abuses.
  • Near-total silence from regional Falun Gong associations, including the Czech branch, even though they were aware that suppression was underway.

MindCoeur interprets this silence as transnational repression by omission: the movement’s leadership leveraged both hierarchy and international networks to enforce compliance and conceal abuses.

Transnational Implications

The MindCoeur case illustrates how spiritual movements can wield influence beyond national borders:

  • Global networks can enforce blacklists, communications embargoes, and reputational damage.
  • Institutional inertia and lack of oversight allow local disputes to escalate into international silencing.
  • Material and media leverage — including control over media like The Epoch Times — amplifies the impact, ensuring dissenters are marginalized in multiple spheres.

This creates a situation where internal repression becomes a transnational phenomenon, with spiritual authority, financial control, and media influence acting together to suppress independent communities.

MindCoeur’s Resilience

Despite these obstacles, MindCoeur:

  • Maintained public documentation of their persecution.
  • Reconstituted as a loose, independent spiritual movement (Part III), decentralizing practices and fostering autonomy.
  • Continues to publish and disseminate teachings, ensuring that knowledge and testimony cannot be fully erased.

Their persistence highlights the power of documentation, transparency, and decentralized organization in resisting authoritarian control, even when it spans countries and institutions.

Lessons for Human Rights and Spiritual Accountability

MindCoeur’s global outreach underscores critical points:

  1. Silence can be complicity: Non-response from international bodies effectively supports repression.
  2. Cross-border oversight is needed: Spiritual movements with transnational reach require mechanisms to prevent abuse and protect dissenters.
  3. Transparency protects communities: Archiving and sharing persecution narratives provides evidence that can hold authorities accountable.
  4. Independent resilience is essential: MC’s survival shows how decentralized, autonomous structures can endure where hierarchical systems fail.

Mythcore’s Conclusion

The full MindCoeur saga — from ignored community to excommunication, retaliatory purge, financial and media rivalry, and finally global silencing — reveals how spiritual authority can become a vehicle for repression.

Yet the community’s rebirth and persistent documentation demonstrate that oppression, no matter how transnational, can be resisted.

The MindCoeur series warns all spiritual organizations: authority without accountability, material incentives without oversight, and international networks without transparency create conditions where persecution is not only possible but likely.

MindCoeur’s experience is a living testament: even in the face of systemic, global suppression, resilience and truth can prevail.

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