Astral travel and meditation are not the same. 

You can use meditation to train for astral travel, but meditation does not produce travel.  One is a mind activity, the other a soul activity. 

Astral travel requires that the physical aspects of life should be in balance and content, allowing the soul to feel free and available.  To travel, therefore, one needs to obtain a state of contentment or rest or satisfaction.  Some people call this nirvana.  This state may be reached through deep meditation and physical training. A state of rest and peace and physical well being.

Astral travel after love and sex during sleep is the easiest way to travel, but there are other ways.  Here are some pointers:

1. As you find yourself drifting into sleep after making love, concentrate on these thoughts.  First, “I can fly”.  “I am weightless”.  “I can leave my body and fly or travel beyond”.
2. “I wish to meet my higher self”.
3. “I desire to remember this”.

The first point programs the mind into a travel mode.   

The second gives you a destination. 

The 3rd reinforces the memory meditation.  The 3rd is the hardest to acquire but you can practice this.  What you need is to remember these travel experiences and by meditating, this will help. 

The higher form of communication is astral travel.  This will become evident as you recall your travels.  You should trust your own feelings on all matters and proceed as you feel is right.

Question:          Does this mean that when a person travels out of the body they travel with their energy body and therefore causes death of the physical?

Answer:            Of course not.  In travel, the soul leaves the body.  You may think of the soul as the consciousness of the life force.  But the energy body, although diminished, is still part of the physical life force.  In other words, you may think of it as a splitting of the energy body.

The purpose in any life experience is to gain knowledge, experience, and insight.  Astral travel and or insight only helps to speed the process.   What type of insight?  To answer why am I alive?  What is my purpose?  How am I going to leave this life as an average person of no consequence or am I going to make an impact? 

Question:      What are the things to learn of value? 

Answer:        About astral travel, and regression, and knowing.

We each obtain our knowledge by the way that best allows us to learn; through each one’s personal experience.  For we each create our own reality.

The same situation can occur with travel that is you extend beyond the bounds that your soul feels comfortable with.  As you may recall, there are three aspects or steps of travel that we have discussed before. 

1. is the desire to have the soul leave the body,
2. is to recall the experience, and
3. is to have a destination.

By visiting the higher self, the soul feels comfortable.  It is in familiar surrounding, and therefore memory is maximized.  Limit the desires for travel, but emphasize meeting your higher self.  This will do two things; first, it gives clear destination, but secondly and perhaps more subtly, you can not meet your higher self without traveling, therefore, by concentrating on meeting your higher self, you are actually reinforcing the concept of travel.  If you also concentrate on travel, in addition to this, you may find yourself traveling beyond your higher self. 

Question:          What is beyond the higher self?

Answer:            The unknown.  Actually, it is known, but not by your soul.  And therefore it does not understand it.  Once the experience is recalled to memory and the mind and soul analyze the travel to the higher self, the unknown becomes less frightening or perhaps abrasive or perhaps unacceptable to the soul, and exploration is then possible. But as you travel, it is generally good practice to first seek the higher self and then allow your higher self to lead you to other points of the astral plane.  This gives you a guide.  Also, you may access your other guides and do the same later.  But first, the higher self is perhaps the best.

Question:          Can one become lost in the astral and not able to return?

Answer:             No, you may always return.  Through the exercise of your minds control, the mind is refreshed through sleep, it wakes and astral travel will cease.

Question:          But during this time of sleep, which may be as long as 8 hours, could not the soul be off in many terrifying experiences, or at least unknown experiences?

Answer:            Yes, this is why it is important to access the proper Spiritual Guides.

Question:          If one misses the connection with a guide, does that cause harm?

Answer:            No, what will happen will that the mind will not comprehend the experience that the soul has and will simply not be remembered.

You may have had a grand time and learned extensively and discovered much, but the effort would have been misused because of the lack of recall.  Later, as you gain experience, perhaps the recall could be improved, but at the beginning stages, it is best to seek the guides.

You do not need to fear traveling the astral plane.

The soul takes the mind or consciousness or personality with it as it travels to the astral plane..