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A few thoughts from a layman’s point of view: Lightspeed may be the limit in the physical world, but in the spiritual world, travel is apparently instantaneous, i.e., at the speed of THOUGHT.

According to The Gospel of John, Chapter 20, verse 13 and following, on Easter morning Mary Magdalene encounters the Risen Christ.

When Mary falls at his feet in worship, Christ tells her not to hang onto him as he had not yet ascended to Heaven (to present His shed blood before the Mercy Seat). Keep in mind that now Christ is in His glorified spiritual body.

Several hours later Christ appears in a room in Jerusalem where His disciples are huddled in fear of the Jewish authorities. So He has obviously made the round trip in several hours or less. We do not know how long He spent when He got to Heaven, but both legs of the trip were probably instantaneous.

Besides appearing to those disciples that evening, he also (Gospel of Luke) appeared to Mr. & Mrs. Cleopas as they trudged home from Jerusalem to their home town of Emmaus, and He explained the Scriptures and God’s Plan of Salvation to them.

Now I haven’t heared a figure lately, but back in the 80s I heard an astronomer state that with the equipment they at that time they were able to see 12 Billion light years out into space. Assuming that Heaven, if it is not merely in another dimension or in a parallel universe, is 12 billion light years or more away, even at the speed of light and after all these years, Christ would not yet to this day have completed His initial trip TO Heaven, let alone returning to Earth.

Therefore, I surmise that there must be a much greater speed of travel in the spirit world in a spiritual body.