A question for the advanced

[zedro]

However, neglecting the lower when striving towards upper balance would be folly, and should be considered to be spiritual bypassing; a potentially dangerous state of lower-upper imbalance...

Just to tack on a thought here, a wanderer from an higher density would already be advanced in the higher energy centers and would not be coming here for that kind of work.  If the lower area seeks and the higher area is that which is sought, then the opportunity here is to further tune the seeking in the lower energy centers.
From this perspective, one might do well to seek diligently to find in these lower centers the vibrations which most closely correspond to what one most deeply is.  I.e., in 3D one has greater opportunity to purify the desire to seek and to serve.  The experience in the higher centers, in some sense, is all built upon the intensity of the lower yearning, as the higher answers the call of the lower.  In the same sense--speaking in symbolic terms--the feminine responds to the seeking of the masculine.
  

In the case of the higher density wanderer who is living a 3D life behind the veil, lower balancing is simply a necessity thru normal living, especially if you have garnered interest from the negative polarity entities who would love nothing more than to compromise and block one from service. The consequence is being "f***** with" for being here in service seems to be common, so many wanderers have to deal with very difficult circumstances (internal/external) which lead to these distortions. I understand most consider this to be a chosen incarnational challenge to improve oneself (this is a side effect no matter what), but for some it is simply the price of admission of parachuting into the 'spiritual war', a gamble fraught with pitfalls to make it to the time of service, but in the meantime getting beat up in the waiting room. So while the wanderer has experience to be extremely resiliant, they would not be exempt from battle damage, that coming in the form of lower energy center issues. And without that lower balancing, accessing the higher centers would be too risky/dangerous because they are naturally developed, so they get limited/closed down by the higher self or SMC.