your post=basically what im saying, sometimes its better to troll a post to get a more intriguing answer than spelling it out for everyone 
The majority of people I spend time with above and beyond 'acquaintance' level are atheists. Almost none affirm the existence of anything you might reasonably call a higher power, though some retain a core of mysticism and speak in vagaries of such things as 'spirits', a 'spiritual realm', and of their being 'something more than the physical' (and other similar statements).
Do we want to call such statements evidence of belief in a higher power? It depends on what you mean by the term. Anyway, there's definitely a contingent of atheists who believe in supernatural things, however vaguely defined. Whether we decide to call these things 'higher' or not is a relatively boring semantic issue we can solve by stipulation.
Now I'm going to generalize a bit. I think that, in general, those atheists who have dedicated the most thought to the matter tend to eschew any supernaturalism, whereas those who still affirm some sort of supernatural realm/entities are either recent converts and are loathe to abandon religiosity entirely, haven't thought about the issue all that much, or aren't particularly bright.
