I don't need a go-between or authority figure, I know that God resides within me!
Well of course. Our own personal god resides within all of us.
It would be stupid to make up a god and not have him reside within you...
New developments in quantum physics show that we cannot know phenomena
apart from the observer.
You think that all gods are made up, but you are very far from proving this.
Also, The burden of proof has shifted to skeptics of an afterlife. You are very far from proving anything at all!