Bikerchick, those are a lot of words for him to say...uhm, not so much. So, the passionate fantasies are a little bit distracting. They feed into other possible distractions, call them entities if you will. You'll relive them. Okay, got the message there. If you're healthy doing what you do I see no reason to start comparing yourselves to animals and classifying people as higher or lower than certain animals. Silly.

The use of spiritual jargon (higher self, astral realm, soul disk, Christ Consciousness, Akashic records, chakra) betrays beliefs, and beliefs can be fuzzy, inconsistent, and even unconscious.  Because beliefs can be unconscious, jargon can unwittingly prevent growth and and a healthy consideration of the possibility that one just might be mistaken in important ways.  So we should always strive to find new ways to label mysterious and poorly understood truths and experiences.  More importantly, we should employ a pragmatic concept of Truth.  For example, we should ask ourselves questions like these: if my beliefs in a higher self and a soul disk are fundamentally flawed, how could I ever discover this?
i might "pray" to my higher self instead of a personal God.  How am I to evaluate whether I am making a big mistake?  Perhaps I experience far more frequent and convincing answers to prayer if I pray to God.  Or perhaps I sense that when I pray to my higher self, I am unwittingly unleashing ego ratitifcation in a way that inhibits my experience of pure love.   Here I must be careful because "ego" is another elusive jargon word.  Or suppose I ask for a personal relationship with Jesus.  I might campare the emerging feelings and perceptions with what I experience when I ask for a closer relationship with impersonal guidance.  Then if the result is a confusing concoction of emotions that are hard to distinguish, I might try another question: e.g. Must I be willing to surrender to Jesus' will or my higher self before I can have self-authenticating experiences or insights that aid my journey and my belief choices?  In my view, this approach is more productive than looking for a never available objective proof for a particular New Age, philosophical, or Christian overview. 

Don