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On a separate note, when you mention higher lexicon, were you referring to new words coined by Witness Lee such as
“tea-ification” the process where water becomes tea
"Christified"- the outcome when we are saturated by Christ
"sonize"-the process of becoming a son
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Partly. It is also wrapped in saying things like "He's the sevenfold intensified Spirit in our spirit" or using one of those strings of adjectives you find on the training banners in regular talking. And others. Always thinking that your way of saying it is better, and that for that reason you are better along with your experience.
The real problem is that for the LCM, the Christian life it about meetings and quiet times. It is not about going to work, shopping in the grocery store, or driving down the road. It is the reason that so much belittling of human recreation went on. Those activities were only seen when compared to their version of spiritual activities which involved being in meetings or having quiet times.
It is based on a false sense of what is spiritual and what is secular. But the truth is that for the Christian, there should be no secular world. Everything should be spiritual. Not because you call on the Lord in the LCM way constantly, but because it is the Christian that is involved and it should therefore be undertaken in the way of someone who is a peacemaker, who is hungering and thirsting for righteousness, etc.
And one flaw in understanding of spiritual activity is also seen among many non-LCM Christians. And that is in the fact that too many think that spiritual activities are only in meetings, or with respect to the assembled church, or with respect to the overt preaching of the gospel. They do not understand the living of ordinary lives doing ordinary things in the manner of God's image bearers being righteous in everything they do as spiritual. (More of that false spiritual-secular dichotomy.)
While it is true that none of us succeed in being perfect in the image bearing activities, the giving of grace by Christ for our failures is not an excuse to not try until we think we can succeed in all things. It is so that we do not lose heart as we work to fulfill the righteousness of the law.