a reasonable conclusion, but not only one: a living universe. Unfortunately a living universe does not get us anywhere. We end up playing semantic games. If the universe is living so are the rocks in my back garden. I have no problem here, but if we truly do mean this in some literal fashion then living in a sense looses its meaning for me. And that too is OK. I think the distinction between animate and inanimate is ultimately a false one. -> there ya have it again. What is nice for me is that I do not believe in this "monism religion", yet it still leads to the same conclusion as mine. There will be the 10% to 20% unreasonable. But all within those limits should be proven "not reasonable". This monism is great stuff when needed.-I don't know in what sense you are using the word religion. Literally it comes from the Latin to reconnect. If you are using it in this sense then no problem.-Otherwise if you are using it as a theological worldview, I think you are way off base.-For me monism is a description of what I observe (there are different flavours of monism).