Spiritual life is the bouquet of natural life, not a supernatural thing imposed upon it.
You know who that god is? It’s you. All of these symbols in mythology refer to you. You can get stuck out there and think it’s all out there, and so you’re thinking of Jesus and all the sentiments about how he suffered and all—what that suffering is is what ought to be going on in you. Have you been reborn? Have you died to your animal nature and come to life as a human incarnation?