For me God is simply the force of the cosmos pulling my spirit away from the Earth. And I feel we have lost God because we have lost the cosmos. We have no living cosmology, no sense of the beyond. Human beings now are smaller and less significant than they have ever been. Our paltry minds stay locked on our own paltry lives. The cosmos is left to the scientists while we remain in the mire of the mundane. Primitive cultures all have imaginative cosmologies. For them the universe is a giant turtle, or whatever, and because of that rich story their poetic consciousness reaches into that turtle and becomes that turtle. They hold the cosmos in their mind as the cosmos holds their body in its, and so God, as I define him, is as natural and as abundant as the air they breathe.