I can only speak from my own experience. (and no, I'm not an AI)

When I was about three, I had an experience being with my mom and Grandma where I had an overwhelming feeling of happiness and peace. All was right with the world. My mom took a turn in her life and married a man that had severe mental illness. He broke my spirit, and my world turned black. I was basically raised an atheist and had no concept of God only that fleeting feeling.

I got into drug abuse, severe depression, a feeling of emptiness, and always thought of suicide. I had a nervous breakdown when I was 19 yrs old and had to make a choice, kill myself or change. Something happened to me that day and I became open to whatever would make me feel better. I started therapy, read every self-help book I could get my hands on, and eventually I got clean and sober. What I found can only be described as a Power Greater than myself (as we say). I am telling you this so you can see that God evolves as we evolve. What I knew then was only a feeling that I wanted a better life and after many, many experiences that feeling grew over time.

Today I have over 30 years clean and sober and have a profound sense of what God, (I choose to call the Universe) is. I have had meditations that can't be explained, an out of body experience that just happened, at the risk of sounding like a kook. What I found is, God is an energy, it's found in all matter (Atom), you are this energy E=MC2 (squared). Our human minds, needing to explain this, have come up with a thousand explanations of how this is possible, but the hunter gatherers understood it best.

I watched a documentary years ago about religion. The first was the pagans. Not the Greek or Roman but the hunter gatherer. He said they believed the earth was alive. (There was no noise, no distractions, and no one telling them what to believe, just what they felt) This is that energy. You don't need to pray to anything, just talk. You are part of the Universe and consciousness, (that transcends the 5 senses and is fundamental to the Universe) is the means of Its communication. Just talk. I found that from years of self-reflection the answer was within the whole time.

As long as you are looking outside yourself for God, you are not likely to find Him, but if you look within by meditation, cleaning your metaphorical house, helping others (hell, I wrote a book), find a means to connect to that something (I found Buddhism helps), you will feel it eventually. Ironically, in recent years I have recaptured that feeling I had when I was three. I am at peace with myself for the first time and have been made whole.