The idea that God can hear one's prayers can be meaningful only if one assumes that God is a social and intellectual entity. The Buddhist nothingness' does not listen to prayers. It has no discernible social or intellectual existence. Dynamic Quality also does not listen to prayers. It also has no discernible social or intellectual existence.
Cave men are usually depicted as hairy, stupid creature who don't do much, but anthropological studies of contemporary primitive tribes suggest that stone age people were probably bound by ritual all day long. There's a ritual for washing, for putting up a house, for hunting, for eating and so on - so much so that the division between "ritual and knowledge becomes indistinct. In cultures without books ritual seems to be a public library for teaching the young and preserving common values and information
When A. N. Whitehead wrote that mankind is driven forward by dim apprehensions of things too obscure for its existing language, he was writing about Dynamic Quality. Dynamic Quality is the pre-intellectual cutting edge of reality, the source of all things, completely simple and always new... It contains no pattern of fixed rewards and punishments. Its only perceived good is freedom.
You can always substitute 'B values precondition A' for 'A causes B' without changing any facts of science at all. The term 'cause' can be struck out completely from a scientific description of the universe without any loss of accuracy or completeness.