I would also add that another ingredient to the attraction of eastern religions is that it attempts to fill in the spiritual void left in the wake of modernism. Modernism argues a completely material universe with all its ethical implications. Western folks raised in that instinctivley know there's more to the world than molecules, so they go for eastern spirituality, especially a spirituality which caters to their personal felt needs yet give them a sense of the transcendant.

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Patrick
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MDiv, RTS Jackson.

"He does well, that discourses of Christ; but he does infinitely better, that by experimental knowledge, feeds and lives on Christ." Thomas Brooks.