"When your galaxy's linked by a network of unstable wormholes, it is," he offers with the semblance of a shrug. "Beings on higher planes, it was a thing. Now I guess I'm one of them. Er - again."

In the looser sense of the term, maybe. It's sort of hard to tell what he is, seeing as a fully Ascended being wouldn't be having issues with anything as trivial as opening an avenue of communication. Or just plain traveling anywhere on any plane without getting incredibly disoriented.