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> > I don&apos;t have a problem with what you say. In very broad terms I agree with  you. >  > It is just that with the [i]all is one[/i] view we are not independent actors, western view points are not independent of eastern viewpoints (and vice versa) > -Not exactly.  Sort of true.-It&apos;s not that eastern thought rejects free will, but it rejects the notion that the actor is in itself, a dependent, non-contingent thing.  Our ego binds us and tricks us into thoughts of true independence.- > My western world view (as do all of ours) have eastern influences. Take one of Christ&apos;s most monistic statements [i]I and my father are one[/i]. Yet our dualistic interpretation of Christianity sets us apart from god.-Christianity was influenced very heavily by Greek philosophy in that it tried to go and MAKE all of these distinctions.  This necessarily creates holes, which the early church waxed over with Dogma.-An old sig of mine warned "An idea formed into a word is at best, a half-truth."  The eastern influence on Christianity was purged with the destruction of the Gnostics.  It resurfaced in a few isolated places, with books such as "The Cloud of Unknowing," and anything written by St. John of the Cross.