Seeking the Divine is not a task or something on a to-do list. It takes no more and no less than a lifetime, in my opinion. My suggestion to someone who (hypothetically) had asked me how to begin to search for God, would be:

Spend a week on your own in the wilderness. No phone. No human contact. Pray and meditate on the world around you and what it means to you. Consider the sincerity of your search.

Pick up the scriptures and have a read. All of them. As many as you can stomach. The Bhagavad Gita, Bible, Quran, Talmud. Consider their portayal of the creator of the universe, and how humankind relates to the Divine. Consider the conflict between them and examine the historical veracity of their claims, and the integrity of the messages themselves.

Pray and meditate. I don't think God is remote at all, She just needs to be treated with respect and sincerity.

But... I don't think many people have time for any of this kind of thing. After all, we have Playstation 2 now... and microwave burritos.