There are many metaphors that try to explain the experience of conscious evolution into the oneness.
The reality is far from those explanations.
The successful meditator who has or is leaving the body is no longer drinking and breathing lower conscious energies.
The astral and beyond are pure oxygen for them.
They are basking in a bath of cosmic oneness.
They are tasting the divine in them.
To travel outside our body is a bath that cleanses us from the dirt and grime of lower consciousness.
The pollution of fear, doubt and suffering no longer can contaminate us.
With each conscious breath we feel the fullness of our eternal beingness.
The longing and yearning are gone and we desire no more.
We experience the completeness of our perfection.
Now we know a love that is beyond words.
We have come to know the divine.
Robert.