I do not know anything about your 'higher walk' Epi. After all these years it's still a mystery to me. I have tried fitting this concept into every shape I know in scripture and of my own thoughts. Nothing will compliment it, or nothing is congruence with it, or fits for understanding it.This is speaking of the higher walk...the miraculous walk in the faith OF Christ...in resurrection life and power. It's funny that people will claim these kind of verses while denying the power that gives us victory over all things....sin included. That's the issue then...to name and claim while denying the power that raised Jesus from the dead...within the actual believer who has been translated into the kingdom walk.
Is Christianity a philosophical belief system whereby unreality embraces truth and makes claims based on that? Or is it the power to walk as Jesus walked?
I do know though, that to do justice to your post, as I really want to, as my response, it requires more that a simple 'I agree' or a nonagreement with a sentence or two for support.
To answer what is this 'higher walk,' 'the 'miraculous' walk in the faith of Christ,' the 'resurrection life and power,' 'the power to walk (exactly?) as Jesus walked,' I first need to reveal my view of the nature of the Father and his Son. And for me, one is the true source of divinity, the one person divine God, and the other is the human created Son, with divine qualities in immortality today.
So, my response is based on my Christology and Theology and it will dictate Jesus' type' of walk, quantity and in what, and its perfectness (degree) of faith in 'all' things, 'his power' walk, and then how it measures up to his Father, and how we measure to it, or can measure up to it and attain it for our human life today.
Of course, the answer to your 1st question is a resounding No! And the second question requires a more detailed explanation and build-up. And I just began in doing this....I think you might understand...