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Interpreting Buddhist 'Cosmology' as a representation of mental states is fine as far as I'm concerned - and has been affirmed as such by a couple of teachers I've spoken to about it offline.

In general thinking about different 'realms' as real places somewhere I might go to in the future or have been in the past, is speculative - and irrelevant to my life in the here and now.

Yes. To imagine those literal places as real is about the deep need -human nature- to endure. Not to lose the bonds to what could be a better future instead of a peaceful mind abiding in the here and now.

It is all about this sort of existential angst against the finite nature of mankind.

When mind is serene, quiet, still, such ideas fade away as the mist after the dawn.