May it be that you are just not able to see or hear the supernatural beings that are called Gods, Buddhas, and so on?
The first answer to the question of life, the universe and everything was, you'll recall, 42. And when that was thought unsatisfying, it was necessary to build a much bigger computer, which we know as Earth. We know these things are true because we have Mr Douglas Adams' word for it.
And my path across the earth, attentive to these questions and their answers, has led me, as you also know, to materialism, not least because none of the alternatives make sense to me. Perhaps the simplest way of putting it is that there's no test that will distinguish the supernatural from the imaginary, nor is there any reason to think such a difference exists.
Maybe you just look at it the wrong way?
Look at what the wrong way, exactly?
or your spiritual vision is not tuned to the right frequency?
I like a good ghost story as much as the next human, and it's a grandpa's lot to see all the Harry Potter movies, which we greatly enjoyed. What have I left out?
Would it be possible for you to explain what you expect to see or hear to get your proof of an existence of God or other spiritual beings?
This is the nub, I think. Either God is real / gods are real, or not. And if not, then God is imaginary / gods are imaginary because there's nothing else they could be.
For God / a god to be real, [he] would have to exist in the world external to self, which is the same thing as nature, the realm of the physical sciences. In that case there must be a definition of [him] appropriate to a real being, such that if we found a suspect we could determine whether it were God / a god, or not. There appears to be no such definition. If anyone has one, at the least, so far they haven't told me.
Leaving only the possibility that they're imaginary.
This fits what we know in other ways. So far, it appears that all cultures around the world have some or other supernatural beliefs, but the sheer range and variety of those beliefs rather underlines the point that they're imaginary. Two explanations for this occur to me. The first is that we've evolved to think in terms of gods because, like a common language, a common pool of stories, and folk-histories, and heroes, and a common set of customs, they're good for tribal solidarity, hence aid survival and breeding. The other is that supernatural beliefs are an artifact of the evolved human trait of interpreting puzzles in terms of explanations. No doubt there are other possibilities, but they don't include real supernatural beings or real magic (the alteration of reality independently of the rules of reality, usually just by wishing).
Or so it seems to me.