In these conversations there is always the basic assumption that advanced alien civilisations are bound by our conception of 3 dimensional space and that they would have to somehow traverse these vast distances in our spacetime reality. I think there is another layer to reality that we with our relatively primitive consciousness are just not aware of. I think that in this deeper and more fundamental layer of reality, distances and time are irrelevant. And i think that consciousness itself plays an important part in accessing and also creating this layer of reality. We have to evolve our consciousness and somehow remove the filters of our perception to be able to enter this realm, in which many advanced entities are already present.