I agree completely with what Mr. Goldman has to say: We are her to experience; this point needs refinement. First, "dogma" is not necessarily bad. There is good and bad dogma just as there are good and bad politicians to varying degrees. For me, the good dogma is the one that has people thinking outside of "the box" of physical reality. Judeo Christianity is one of the few religions that provide this dogma.

Outside the box of physical reality is spiritual reality. Some sages say that this is true reality. Some scientists say that this is hyperspace. What is a true indication of the presence of Elohim (one of God's Names) is the vastness of order on such a grand scale in the universe that only a universal intelligence could have created this order. The sacred geometry and the holy gematria run deep throughout every part of the universe including the Holy Bible - especially including people.

If spiritual reality is the true reality, then why did God create physical reality? Allow me to borrow a concept from Judaic studies to find if this makes sense: God created the universe to bestow good to His creation (I say His. She says Her. Noone is wrong), but this good is purely spiritual. This being true, what need is there for a physical world? Before we can answer this question, we must first ask another, "What is the difference between the material and the spiritual?"

We speak of the material and the spiritual as two different concepts. We know that the spiritual is not material, but what exactly is the difference?

The main difference between the physical and the spiritual involves space. Physical space only exists in the physical world. In the spiritual, there is no space as we know it (just as there is neither linear causality nor passage of time as we know it).

Although concepts of distance and closeness exist in the spiritual realm, they do not have the same meaning in the physical world. In a spiritual sense, closeness involves resemblence. Two things (or people) that resemble each other are said to be spiritually close. Two things that differ are far apart in a spiritual sense.

This has very important implications. In the spiritual world, it is utterly impossible to bring to opposites together. Because they are opposite, they are by definition, poles apart.

(Please see the rest of the answer at my World Spirit Blog.)