This is bs.

There are hundreds of steps of higher spiritual existence; our so-called awake consciousness is only a semiconscious state, which we overestimate extremely! The saying that we are the crown of the creation is an irony and self-overestimation! The earth is one of the more out-of-date places of the creation. So far, we only reached the daybreak of the cosmic being.
That does not mean that we are worse beings. We are of the same substance; we are a part of the creation, just an incarnation of the everlasting. One life is as valuable as the other is, because all descends from the same spring. However, many of our brothers in the universe are far more developed than us.