First let me say that I loved your introspective evaluation of this experience. It is in itself a priceless example of reflective thinking. My experience with the doorway and my understanding about it may be of interest to you. I have always been telepathically connected to my higher-self with many conversations over the years. They feel very much like what you described with your other self. With me I would play games with various insights I received from Me. Kind of like trial and error evaluations with various choices I could make. They involved comparing logical choices with intuitive ones. I never really thought about who this Me was however my experience with Me was a natural everyday realitry that I used in various ways. Once I started to channel, I encounter this doorway kind of thing. It appeared I needed to be more receptive to the being I was speaking with. These are imagined conversations with another being. I have always been able to feel various levels of comfort from these experiences. Yet my understanding about what was happening was very limited. So I always went through the door to that higher vibrational awareness. That was my initial understanding and feeling. Once I passed through the door, my clarity of understanding increased substantially. Even today I joke about that clarity and how I would like to take it back with me into my 3D reality. Fragments of understanding do return with me but not the evolved perspective I have when I am on the other side of that door. My conclusion and my understanding is that this door is consent to connect with your higher-self. Once you accept the responsability of expanding your reality perceptions to include aspects of your higher-self, you can never go back to thinking or feeling you are seperate from your higher-self. The experience itself is locked into your daily reality and your physical energy systems. The other Me is always a part of everything I think or do. At this point I have integrated that Me and the other Me's you have mentioned in your experience. I have found them to be other aspects of my grander self. As I see it, they reflect the wide and diverse aspects of my subconscious self. I see them as my divine feminine principals and my higher-self as the divine masculine. Some aspect in your subconscious was pushing you and another aspect was holding you back. These conflicts of interest are energetic points of awareness that focus on very specific concerns or perspectives. Great success can be achieved by accepting and loving all that you are. Eventually I found it necessary for me to love my higher-self and my various subconscious awarenesses with all my heart and soul. Those who can read my energy can see how strong it is. The reason my energy is powerful is self love. I hope my views on your experience are helpful. John