If you want to develop a 'feeling' for GOD, you can try repeat the exact word many times in your head. Let the sound of the word repeat faster and faster and as its frequency increases it will go over the human hearing range, at which point it becomes a pure 'feeling'.
That is how you can learn to recognize GOD. Keep increasing the frequency beyond and beyond.
The thing about Church and religion is that they served a function: to preserve the original texts of their dogma. Without the air of sacrality or occult, such teachings would've gone the way of Greek or Hindu mythology: a bunch of funny fairy tales with a very shallow moral behind them.
With the coming of the internet there is no more need for Church or secrecy. With the soon to come objective spirituality there will be no more religion either.