Relations with God

I do not like the common misconception (above) that all deists believe that God abandoned the universe and has no interaction with it... It is not a reasonable presumption, in my opinion.

While the belief in an impersonal God was often a function of Classical Deism, Modern Deists have reasoned some other potential scenarios. Perhaps God is still around, turning the crank on his natural phenomena machine? Perhaps the relationship between God and creation is neither Impersonal or Personal, but something beyond the two... Transpersonal.

trans·per·son·alAdjective:   

Of, denoting, or dealing with states or areas of 

consciousness beyond the limits of personal identity. 

Maybe our communication with God is more intuitive and fluid that we realize. When a person digests, they do not sit and consciously think, move these stomach muscles in and out, secrete more acid... When we digest, it is more like our brain runs a subconscious program that just does the work as we continue about our own conscious business. I think that God interacts with us in the same  fashion.

This definition of Deism taken from the Instititute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (ieet.org): 

"Deists rejected blind faith and organized religion, and advocated the discovery of religious truth through reason and direct empirical observation. Deists believed divine intervention in human affairs stopped with the creation of the world. They rejected miracles, the inerrancy of scripture, and doctrines such as the triune nature of the Christian God (trinitarianism)."

The Modern Deist will agree with all these except they will put a strike through "Deists believed divine intervention in  human affairs stopped with the creation of the world." For God so loved the world that he gave us minds, by which to perceive Divinity with.

physical mechanism

I don't think a deist's perspective has to reduce all religions to human mythologies with only ethics and meditation in common. I am interested in the study of neurotheology (or spiritual neuroscience http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurotheology), which in some cases seems to indicate that our brains were designed to have religious experiences and a person can train their brain to have them more often. I think the part of our brain used during times of trance, spiritual awe, visions, meditation or prayer is simply the physical mechanism by which we communicate with the divine.

Dark Matters

I have been thinking about Dark Matter recently. It can't be seen. It can't be felt, yet it is 80& of the mass of our Universe. It is the reason we have a universe. It is supposedly flowing through everything, undetected, omnipresent. Sounds a lot like God, right? However, if God is only 80% of the mass, then God is finite... which seems difficult if God is eternal to also be finite.... So I was wondering, what if Dark Matter is more like an organ of God? The Higgs Boson Particle is another organ. The Earth itself would have to be an organ, and the Sun... and gravity...