While Abraham Hicks referred to the non-physcal aspect of our being as our “inner self”, they also admitted that others call it the ‘higher self” and that they are one and the same thing. I prefer “higher self” myself because I imagine the non physical part of us is much more powerful and complete than our physical self. In fact, Abraham also says the very same thing.
“…few people actually understand that the Non-Physical part of them remains currently, powerfully, and predominantly focused in the Non-Physical realm while a part of that perspective flows into this physical perspective and their now physical body.” – Abraham
I believe many of us who have learned to communicate with something of a non-physcal nature are really most likely simply awakening to our own “higher self”, the larger part of ourselves that is not rooted in the physical realm. In a lot of ways, therefore, we are our own spiritual guides. Or, to borrow a Christian term, we are our own guardian angels.
It would be silly, therefore to “worship” the non-physcal being for the non-physcal being is merely ourselves. They are not greater than us for they ARE us It also seems less and less important for me to ask “them” for answers since, in reality, they are me. I would do better to ask myself to help myself remember what my lower self has forgotten.
This is indeed a complicated issue however, because the lower self has forgotten that it eminates from the higher self. We view ourselves as separate from our higher self and thus we do not recognize ourselves for what we truly are. So long as we believe that “WE” are physical and “THEY” are non physical, we will be stuck. True “enlightenment” is coming to the realization that “we” and “them” are the same.