Suruthi
speaker
1,385 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 11 Jun
Suruthi’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And she's got the font set very large so I can read what she's saying.
And she's like, I'm at the cult show.
And she is at the cult show.
But like you said, Shen Yun itself is not the cult.
It's like the all-dancing, all-singing, though they don't actually sing, the all-dancing branch of the cult.
And it's very, very interesting how they use them.
Though he does say, and this again feels very Scientology-ish, as you work through the system, he does suggest that strict adherence may also be able to achieve the levels of otherworldly talents that he has.
You've got to work through the system.
Do the splits again.
No seeing through walls for you.
Now I've seen some videos of people doing the gentle exercises, the stretches that Falun Gong prescribes.
And it honestly does come across very like beginner yoga at your local leisure center run by some lady named Crystal.
Like it doesn't seem like that big a deal.
And I was comparing it all the way to yoga.
I was always like, oh, she looks like yoga.
But it does actually, to set the record straight, come from an ancient Chinese practice called Qigong, which like yoga, combines meditation, breathing and movement, but did develop in a completely different part of the world and is its own thing.
And when she first appeared on the scene in the 90s in China, Falun Gong blew up almost immediately.
And this, like many a cult we have come across before, Hannah, is because he timed it perfectly.
He emerged in the midst of the Chinese Qigong fever in the 90s.
Because following the death of Mao Zedong, who had spent the previous decades absolutely stomping out all of China's historical, spiritual and religious practices, in the 90s, there was a massive resurgence in interest around things like Qigong.
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