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Line 70: Traditional Chinese cultural thought and opposition to modernity are two focuses of Li Hongzhi's teachings. Falun Gong echoes traditional Chinese beliefs that humans are connected to the universe through mind and body, and Li seeks to challenge "conventional mentalities", concerning the nature and genesis of the universe, time-space, and the human body.<ref name="Schechter">{{harvp|Schechter|2001}}</ref><ref name="Chou">{{cite book |last=Chou |first=Kai-Ti |title=Contemporary Religious Movements in Taiwan: Rhetorics of Persuasion |publisher=[[Edwin Mellen Press]] |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-7734-5241-1 |location=Lewiston, NY}}</ref> The practice draws on East Asian mysticism and traditional Chinese medicine, but claims to have the power to heal incurable illnesses. Falun Gong describes modern science as too limited, and views traditional Chinese research and practice as valid.<ref name="zhao">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Zhao |first=Yuezhi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tiFY59xGHBkC&pg=PA209 |title=Falun Gong, Identity, and the Struggle over Meaning Inside and Outside China |encyclopedia=Contesting Media Power: Alternative Media in a Networked World |editor-first1=Nick |editor-last1=Couldry |editor-first2=James |editor-last2=Curran |location=Lanham, MD |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-7425-2385-2 |access-date=23 September 2016 |archive-date=5 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405191339/https://books.google.com/books?id=tiFY59xGHBkC&pg=PA209 |url-status=live }}</ref> Li says that he is a being who has come to help humankind from the destruction it could face as the result of rampant evil. When asked if he was a human being, Li replied "You can think of me as a human being."<ref name="Allen-Ebrahimian">{{Cite magazine |last=Allen-Ebrahimian |first=Bethany |date=September 23, 2017 |title=The German Edition of Falun Gong's 'Epoch Times' Aligns with the Far Right |url=http://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/media/german-edition-of-falun-gong-affiliated-epoch-times-aligns-far-right |url-status=live |magazine=[[ChinaFile]] |publisher=Center on U.S.-China Relations at [[Asia Society]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171028135010/http://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/media/german-edition-of-falun-gong-affiliated-epoch-times-aligns-far-right |archive-date=October 28, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Time World 1999">{{cite magazine |last=Dowellc |first=William |date=May 10, 1999 |title=Interview with Li Hongzhi |url=http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2053761,00.html |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |access-date=30 January 2021 |archive-date=1 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181001083402/http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2053761,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="bbc2001-05-08">{{cite news |date=8 May 2001 |title=Who is Li Hongzhi? |publisher=BBC |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1223317.stm |access-date=20 May 2010 |archive-date=5 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160505225343/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1223317.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> According to the founder Li in his book, ''Zhuan Falun'', he claims to have cultivated supernatural powers starting at age eight.<ref>{{cite news |title=For Whom the Gong Tolls |author=Peter Carlson |date=February 27, 2000 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2000/02/27/for-whom-the-gong-tolls/bab9382d-0b90-44da-b4ae-cef517460652/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=30 April 2023 |archive-date=12 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210812131858/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2000/02/27/for-whom-the-gong-tolls/bab9382d-0b90-44da-b4ae-cef517460652/ |url-status=live }}</ref> According to [[Radio ===Exercises=== | |||