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  • The Spiritual Community That Cast Out Its Own – Part V

    The Spiritual Community That Cast Out Its Own – Part V

    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.

  • The Spiritual Community That Cast Out Its Own – Part IV

    The Spiritual Community That Cast Out Its Own – Part IV

    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:

    1. Competing for recognition — MC had growing international visibility, outreach to human rights lawyers, and connections across Europe and the Americas.
    2. Competing for resources — MC’s community posed a potential diversion of donations, sponsorships, and conference fees.
    3. 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.

  • The Spiritual Community That Cast Out Its Own – Part II

    The Spiritual Community That Cast Out Its Own – Part II

    In Part I, Mythcore documented how MindCoeur (MC) was excommunicated and silenced by the Slovak Falun Gong Association, led by Marek Tatarko and his associate Peter Kubovič.

    Part II examines the trigger event and motive behind this purge: the 2016 New York Falun Gong Conference. According to MindCoeur’s documentation, this event set in motion a chain of retaliatory actions that ultimately culminated in a full-scale excommunication and global blackout.

    A Decade of Denial

    For more than ten years prior to 2016, Marek Tatarko systematically refused to invite MindCoeur to major Falun Gong gatherings, including the prestigious New York Conference. MindCoeur had built a reputation for serious cultivation work and global engagement, yet Tatarko consistently ignored their requests to participate.

    This prolonged neglect created resentment but went largely unchallenged — until 2016.

    The 2016 NY Conference — Catalyst for Retaliation

    Finally, in 2016, MindCoeur received an official invitation to the New York Conference. According to MC’s own notices:

    “Tatarko, visibly ashamed for having ignored us for over a decade, realized the oversight publicly. The invitation exposed his long-standing negligence and left him in a position where he felt he had to ‘correct’ the perceived embarrassment.”

    Instead of acknowledging MindCoeur’s legitimacy, Tatarko retaliated. Using his authority within the Slovak Falun Gong Association, he orchestrated a campaign that would label MindCoeur practitioners as mentally ill — turning personal shame into institutional punishment.

    Psychiatry as Cover for Humiliation

    MindCoeur’s statements describe psychiatric labeling as Tatarko’s primary tool of retaliation. What began as personal embarrassment evolved into a weaponized institutional narrative: MindCoeur members were publicly and formally characterized as unstable, delegitimized, and socially ostracized.

    Peter Kubovič, Tatarko’s close associate, is documented in MC records as an active participant in executing these measures, enforcing both the psychiatric smear and broader social exclusion.

    From Retaliation to Full-Scale Excommunication

    The initial acts of retaliation escalated over the next several years:

    • 2018–2020 – Slow ostracism and subtle exclusion of MindCoeur from local activities.
    • 2021–2022 – Denial of public venues, blacklisting in communications, and international isolation.
    • January 2023 – Formal excommunication, public labeling of practitioners as mentally ill, and enforcement of a global blackout across Falun Gong networks.

    This progression, MindCoeur argues, was personal retaliation disguised as institutional governance.

    The Czech Silence and Complicity

    Even as the purge unfolded, the Czech Falun Gong Association and local practitioners were aware that “something” was happening. According to MindCoeur, they never examined the reasons for departure, never questioned leadership, and never engaged with MindCoeur. Their silence enabled Tatarko’s retaliation to metastasize from personal vendetta into collective erasure.

    Lessons of the Retaliation

    1. Personal vendettas can become institutional persecution: Tatarko’s embarrassment over a 2016 oversight became the justification for years of suppression.
    2. Psychiatry weaponized as cover: Mental health labels masked personal motives as moral or doctrinal authority.
    3. Transnational repression: The retaliation extended beyond Slovakia, silencing MindCoeur across networks, parliaments, and human rights channels.
    4. Complicity of bystanders: Czech associations and practitioners’ refusal to act exemplifies how silence enables abuse.

    Mythcore’s Observations

    The MindCoeur case demonstrates that spiritual authority can be weaponized to settle personal grudges. When combined with institutional power, transnational reach, and psychiatric framing, this can result in profound human and spiritual harm.

    The evidence, as documented by MindCoeur, points directly to Marek Tatarko and Peter Kubovič as the orchestrators of a retaliation-driven purge.

  • The Spiritual Community That Cast Out Its Own

    The Spiritual Community That Cast Out Its Own

    Falun Gong has long portrayed itself as a victim of persecution in China. Yet the same movement has exported its own tools of repression to silence dissenters inside its ranks worldwide. The case of MindCoeur in Slovakia is not an isolated event — it is the latest chapter in a disturbing pattern of internal purges.

    A Pattern of Suppression

    For years, individual practitioners in Europe and North America who questioned or expanded beyond official Falun Dafa doctrine were quietly excommunicated, smeared, and cut off. These cases were typically invisible: isolated individuals, labeled “mentally unstable” or “unfit,” their voices erased before they could reach wider audiences.

    In Slovakia, however, this template of repression escalated. An entire community — MindCoeur — was targeted in January 2023 by the Falun Gong Association of Slovakia, under the leadership of Marek Tatarko.

    Psychiatry as a Weapon

    The Association’s first move was to weaponize psychiatry. MindCoeur practitioners were branded unstable — a label designed not only to stigmatize but to delegitimize their very humanity.

    The irony is brutal: Falun Gong has spent decades decrying psychiatric abuse in China, where practitioners were institutionalized to break their faith. And yet in Slovakia, Falun Gong leaders recycled this same tool of repression — not against the Chinese state, but against their own.

    Collective Erasure

    The purge did not stop at stigma. MindCoeur members faced:

    • Barring from public spaces where they once held group practice.
    • Communication blackouts — orders circulated across Falun Gong networks to cut all ties.
    • International isolation — a coordinated effort to ensure MindCoeur could not find solidarity abroad.

    What was once applied against lone individuals became, in Slovakia, a collective punishment.

    From Excommunication to Movement

    Suppression backfired. What was intended to destroy MindCoeur instead catalyzed its transformation. Cut off from Falun Gong’s rigid structures, MC evolved into a loose spiritual movement, committed to independent exploration of consciousness and freedom of belief.

    What Falun Gong leaders cast out as deviance has become, instead, a new current of spiritual resistance — one that documents every abuse and refuses silence.

    A Wall of Silence

    In the wake of its persecution, MindCoeur appealed widely:

    • To Falun Gong Associations in Europe and the Americas.
    • To human rights lawyer David Matas and the Independent China Tribunal.
    • To every member of Slovak and Czech parliaments, members of the UK Parliament, and even US Senators.
    • To Human Rights Watch and allied NGOs.
    • To individual Falun Dafa instructors.

    The response: near-total silence. A few polite requests for clarification. Some bureaucratic deflections about jurisdiction. But overwhelmingly, a refusal to engage.

    This silence is not apathy. It is complicity in transnational repression.

    The Hypocrisy Exposed

    Falun Gong cannot credibly demand sympathy for persecution in China while enacting its own purges in Europe and North America. The case of MindCoeur makes the hypocrisy undeniable:

    • The same psychiatric tactics they denounce are used internally.
    • The same exclusion they condemn is enforced globally.
    • The same silencing they resist from Beijing is applied to dissenters within.

    Mythcore’s Judgment

    What began as a community expelled has become a movement reborn. MindCoeur’s survival is proof that repression breeds resilience.

    But the stain remains: Falun Gong’s persecution of MindCoeur is not an anomaly — it is part of a systemic pattern of silencing, one the world has ignored too long.

    Until that hypocrisy is confronted, Falun Gong’s calls for justice ring hollow.