What do you think of causality? It seems there are various ideas about it and I wonder if they can be reconciled. Someone on IRC recently implied to me that the Buddhist and Theosophical ideas are incompatible, though I disagree.

examples:
Mahayana Buddhist causality: dependent arising of all phenomena due to all causes that make the phenomena not be the effect of any one cause (as some people describe it.)

Theosophical causality: arising of all phenomena from chains of cause-and-effect tracebale to the Logos and then Parabrahm.

(I think a Platonic explanation of causality reconciles the above two.)

materialist scientific causality: arising of phenomena because of the nature of phenomena such as like one was a singularity that had a nature that changed it and led to all other phenomena--in our universe. The singularity has also been called a phenomenon of matter-energy membranes in space that made the singularity, and the membranes after changing that also made the phenomneon of particles coming into and out of its changed space. Apparently the membranes were just there because they had some nature too... a nature without beginning or end or related to another aspect of reality without beginning or end.