"Black White Red #3" by Eternity *** It was nearly 20 years ago when I first heard of Falun Gong . Long before it was trendy and popular in the US, veered off the expected trajectory of my African-American Southeast lifestyle toward something completely new - a gestalt, a fusion of ideas, awakenings and experiences that would included elements of Native American and Far East influences. At 21, I had radically changed my meat centered diet to a vegetable centered diet, and before that, as a teenager, I was a regular practitioner of mindful breathing, dance and yoga. Thereafter, I soon became involved in various self-help groups and also began to practice various forms of meditation, also becoming an independent student of mythology and Jungian psychology, and other forms of healing and intellectual enrichment. It was around the year 2000 that a friend of mine, who was looking to improve his health, told me about Falun Gong, and together we went to a ''cultiv
