'By the way, I have just finished reading Karen Armstrong's "The Spiral Staircase."  She is a Brit, former nun from the 60's, and has struggled with this issues of trying to find God and the abuses that always seems to come up in that search.'

Do you mean here the problems which a nun has in trying to find God, or those which anyone has?

If you're talking about nuns, I must say I have no data. However, the general search by many people to find God is IMO not so doomed as you say.

I also think that the 30 odd years that most of us here have expended in looking for God wasn't necessarily lost.

I believe that God resides inside us and can be found by internal contemplation/meditation.

The great problem for a lot of people was identifying our inner experiences with Prem, instead of seeing them as a part of our natural being.