In a discovery meditation, you open your mind to see if you can discover or recognize a truth or a feeling or a profound thought.  Some may call these insights, but true insight or true knowledge or to know something comes from the soul’s travels and experiences.  But meditation can, through discovery, provide profound thoughts and ideas.  Generally discovery meditations are not very productive and require much time of repeated efforts to produce results.  These can be of benefit, for this is how some say Buddha discovered his thoughts. 

Is it necessary to meditate to seek answers?  No.  It is just one tool that you can use should you be so inclined. 

George Washington, for example, may not have meditated, but he did seek his answers on the astral plane?  How did he do this?  He thought long and hard and pondered what to do.  Is that part of the astral travel experience?  Yes, but he was not aware of the travel experience.

Overview of the Discovery Process

Begin your meditation as you usually do, such as the basic meditation.

Relax and allow your mind to be open to thoughts and information.

As a thought enters you mind, follow that thought and allow it to take you further and further down a path untiil you feel you have exhausted that thought or recognize the thought is not taking you to a place you desire. If you are at that point of needing to change directions in your thought, be still, and allow a new thought to come forward and then follow that thought to it s end point.

Repeat this process of trial and error discovery until you conclude your meditation.