... A lot can be said about the neurotic aspects of believing in a god and higher dimensions. Nonetheless lots of people believe, in a god, in gods, in multiple dimensions, in life after death, etc. You can't help wondering, if you are more or less sociologically or anthropologically inclined, what the purpose of all that is. I mean, one is going to far when claiming believing is something schizotypical, when a very large majority of mankind engages in it. Is there a way out of this dilemma?
There is. By treating the Divine as an attribute of the universe, not as something that is equal to it (pantheism) or something that exists outside of it (theism). if God is, like time and space, of a lower order than the universe itself, we can make room for the mystique that seems to lie hidden in the universe, without getting caught between science and religion, and we can take a stand without having to take a stand.
"Yes and no" I replied to the question if I am an atheist. Now you know why....