Astral travel is being conscious outside the physical body. Meditation is awakening consciousness here and now, learning to comprehend the mind in the deepest profundities of being.
When we meditate effectively, we awaken within the internal planes. An experience in meditation usually signifies that we have abandoned the physical body through drowsiness, self-reflection, and alert cognizance.
Astral travel is perfected when we comprehend and apply the science of meditation. Meditation is deepened when we learn to abandon the physical body and investigate the mysteries of life and death within the internal planes.
Samael Aun Weor taught meditation as the foundation for all genuine realization and as the essential practice of the Gnostic doctrine. We cannot achieve anything without meditation, including astral travel, occult powers, purity of mind, or creative comprehension.
Those who attempt to learn astral travel without meditation end up fascinated with novelties. They are not serious about working on themselves.
Those who meditate without learning astral travel eventually become stagnant, since to comprehend the deeper levels of the mind, we need to awaken within the internal dimensions.
Both practices are essential, but in order to get there, we must meditate.
Joyful in hope, suffering in tribulation, be thou constant in thy prayer.
Benedictis, qui venit in nomine Domini. Osanna in excelsis.
"Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest!"