Thank you Lal;
I asked Vilas the question because I was asking myself whether he, in that state, was in fact approaching a brahma realm, but had doubts about it because I do not know how a human gandhabba can fit in with the ‘instantaneous opapatika birth’method into such realms (from a human bhava).
The question itself arose from my having read of a ‘vision’ K.G.Jung had experienced after having suffered a heart attack in 1944. It is found in Chapter X titled .Visions’of his autobiography ‘Memories, Dreams and Reflections’. Other experiences of his mentioned in the same work are equally compelling.
I reproduce the relevant excerpt in a separate post immediately following so as not to scare readers away from passing over even this one in the process!
grateful as ever