Another benefit from learning to astrally travel is the ability to meet and converse with your Higher Self. Your Higher Self is the "being" who knows all about you from each and every lifetime you have had on earth. And because of this, knows why you came to the earth and for what purpose(s). Your Higher Self knows what experiences you need, your desires, and everything about what you seek in this lifetime. Your Higher Self also knows of any karmic ribbons or debts you may be trying to burn off and can help you understand why you may be repeating some behaviors over and over again that may not make sense to any of your friends or family.

The higher self is made up of many experiences of lifetimes.  As it gains experience, it gains knowledge, wisdom, and understanding.  As it desires to increase that understanding, it allows part of it to gain that experience in a life and then return to itself so that it’s self may experience that growth.  Therefore, one may say that an energy body is similar to a fragment, but an energy body in its first experience with life, is the original entity fragment, and has no higher self as of yet, but after the first life experience, part of the energy body remains as a higher self and part is sent to experience a life.  As more lives are experienced, more energy bodies are accumulated.  This accounts for the higher self’s increase of knowledge and wisdom.  Also, at the later stages of lives, smaller energy fragments are sent as an energy body and more energy is retained by the higher self, which can therefore influence your earthly life because it is a stronger energy force than ever before.  That is why in the older life stages, they seem to intuitively know about things.  This knowledge is transmitted by a strong higher self.