Though peyote... has been used for hundreds of years by Mexican Indians, it only became popular... after Carlos Castaneda... wrote "The Teachings of Don Juan" in the 1970s... Now, the Mexican government and the Indian community that uses peyote in sacred ceremonies are warning that peyote is under threat.
My hope is expressed well in an editorial from the Buffalo News by Bishop Joseph Sullivan (ret.) of the Diocese of Brooklyn, who wrote, "Catholic teachings compel us to work toward the elimination of unjust structures and to treat people with dignity, regardless of their state in life or their beliefs.
Falun Dafa is said to be the result of his reorganizing and writing down the teachings that were passed to him.
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When he reached the northwest border then separating China from the outside world, he met Yin Xi, the official in charge of the border crossing, who asked him to put his teachings into writing.
In his teachings and writing on the philosophy of science, he drew heavily on those of his Harvard colleague Willard Van Orman Quine.
They had passed off their own "low morals," he wrote, as divine teachings.
Mahayana Buddhism, while it has no such strict canon, considers that all its adherents must accept the authority of the sutras (basic teachings written in aphorisms).
What Sinai further meant was the initiation of a people into a whole way of life, elaborated in the written and oral teachings of Torah.
In northeastern Guinea, where he first established himself, he wrote down his teachings in a book called Kitāb rimāḥ ḥizb ar-raḥīm ("Book of the Spears of the Party of God").
