For those of you who have difficulty identifying when you have made contact with your higher self, beyond intuition and telepathy.
Astral travel is essential if we hope to disconnect our consciousness from our mental and emotional bodies.
If we do not know whether or not we have made a higher self connection, most likely we have not. We may still be stuck in our mental beliefs or imagination concerning it.
To reap the benefits of our higher self connection we must experience it in reality. Our spiritual integrity will not permit us to fool ourselves for very long.
Astral travel is the borderline in consciousness between our lower nature and our higher one. It is a gateway to universal conscious reality.