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It seems to me that the heavens are not to be reached by traveling upwards, but rather by traveling inwards. These devas may inhabit dimensions that spatially overlap with ours, but are only accessible through subtler dimensions of mind. Therefore, to access “higher” dimensions, one needs to let go of the five physical senses and seek a channel from within the mind to perceive what is beyond the range of the senses. This explains how devas are able to congregate in human space yet remain imperceptible to those without the proper faculties.
I have heard Ven. Brahmali draw comparisons between nimittas and saggas, and how in the suttas Maha Brahma enters tavatimsa by first manifesting light and form and then emerging from there. Perhaps this is how interdimensional teleportation occurs: first a nimitta is created either internally or externally depending on the direction of travel (higher or lower), and then somehow a body is created from it or the nominal body is transported through it.
This can also explain the phenomenon of shapeshifting, namely of Bigofoot seen shifting into different animal forms and traveling in the form of a ball of light. It seems that these beings have some capacity to travel between these dimensions through the creation of nimittas or something similar, or perhaps through the management of an array of nominal bodies distributed between multiple dimensions.
Also how devas are said to be able to leave messages to humans via dreams.
N,N DMT might actually take one outside into courser realms of existence, rather than inwards and subtle as might be typically inferred.
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