text: Perhaps the biggest difficulty in understanding the Falun Gong movement is that there's really only two sources of information: Falun Gong itself, and the Chinese government. Getting unbiased information on the group isn't easy, however I recommend this lecture given by Benjamin Penny, an Australian authority on religions in China.
  
  https://www.nla.gov.au/benjamin-perry/the-past-present-and-future-of-falun-gong
  
  According to Benjamin Penny, the leader of Falun Gong, Li Hongzhi, considers himself a divine being, one who is offering salvation to mankind. Mr. Li calls his followers "disciples." If they follow his teachings they too can acquire his god-like abilities of precognition, clairvoyance, the ability to transform one kind of object into another, remote sight, and so on. Mr. Li considers himself a prophet, stretching back through Nostradamus and beyond.
  
  Anastasia Lin is one of Li Hongzhi's disciples. She won a privately-owned beauty contest and doesn't represent Canada in any way.