It is contested by hermeneutic (interpretive) difficulties in the categorization of the different Taoist schools, sects and movements.
Pneumatism, in medicine, Alexandrian medical school, or sect, based on the theory that life is associated with a subtle vapour called the pneuma; it was, in essence, an attempt to explain respiration.
The later period of his life includes a period of institution building, possibly with an eye to the founding of a new school or sect.
Educated first in Ṭūs, where his father was a jurist in the Twelfth Imam school, the main sect of Shīʾite Muslims, al-Ṭūsī finished his education in Neyshābūr, about 75 kilometres (50 miles) to the west.
And Joe, apparently, is not alone — she's only one member of a group that formed in school, a secret sect of young women, or, as B called it, a "little flock," that chants "mea vulva, mea maxima vulva," and repudiates love in the sole pursuit of sex.
Since all religions are divided into different groups and subgroups, do not simply end with deciding which religion to join, but, which denomination, sect, school, cult, etc., of the particular religion, that you would like to follow.
The stories of Gopi-candra, the cult hero of the Nātha Yogī sect, a school of mendicant sannyāsins, were known from Bengal to the Punjab even in the early period.
Artists are cast as outlaws ("There is no essential incongruity between crime and culture"), purveyors of dangerous ideas (the better to resist "that splendid system that elevates [men] to the dignity of machines"), tellers of gorgeous lies that supplant dull truths, and habitual antinomians, rejecting "the shallow shibboleths of any sect or school".
In his view, however, a true philosopher does not hesitate to re-assess any opinion from whatever source; refusing to align himself with a sect or school, he presents himself as a critical, independent thinker (Repastinatio, 1 8; 359–363).
The differentiation of the school into two main sects, later called akousmatikoi (from akousma, viz., the esoteric teachings) and mathēmatikoi (from mathēmatikos, "scientific"), may have occurred at that time.
