Defining Terms

The most difficult term I need to state my view that there is no single manager of the whole is "causes directly." I say this because direct causation of events is what it seems many traditions embrace and what lends potency and status to any candidate for manager.

Features of the manager: directly causes events that are clearly physical and clearly in space and time. Thus, appealing to the manager would be a way of changing future events, assuming that the appeal was accepted.

What does it take to establish the non-existence of the manager? The idea of the manager is real and does exist and does have power. However, this does not prove that there is direct causation since the reality is generated by the mere thought processes; these thought processes can be made more concrete by writing and various forms of image-making: in particular, music where the manager is the object of the songs; art where the manager is indirectly the object of the art; poetry and prose that purpose to be ABOUT the manager.