Volitional impulses are causes of subsequent events, however. The realist's conception of the mind Mental life is always rooted and grounded in bodily existence. The mind is almost spiritual in essence if not actually so. The universe is a cosmos of a kind, orderly to the extent that order is possible within a plurality. The realist describes the world as a naturalist world.
Some realists are atheistic.
Some have a pantheistic conception of God. William James believed in a limited God. Montague believed that God is not finite. He saw God as the totality of all existence and believed that God was self-limited by the freedom which He gave to the individuals making up the cosmos. The God that I believe to be most probable is infinite and eternal like the universe which is His body, all-perfect in Himself and in His to good, but limited in power by that totality of possible and actual beings which is within Himself yet not Himself, and which in what we may call evolution is undergoing the endless leavening and perfecting that such an infinite chaos would require.