I read on a site once that if you build up enough energy in your body (physical, etheric) through meditation, then eventually you will Astral Travel. Is this true, and has this happened with anyone here?
I think confusion of terms is happening here.
Meditation is an awareness building exercise, and can be used to do energy work. Energy work is the mobilization of energy that is done with the combination of will, concentration (as in meditation) and breathing (as in some types of meditation).
So you can consider meditation and energy work as the same thing but I wouldn't- I think they go hand in hand but the intention of energy work and meditation are not necessarily the same.
Also, I do not believe that you build up more energy through energy work, but what you do is optimize your capacity to use the energy that is there. This can be viewed as 'being able to store more energy', but I think the ability is not so much as to store, but as to use the most possible energy. I suppose storage is a valid term but only in the sense of a temporary cache', as opposed to 'making a bigger bucket'. But maybe I'm overanalyzing it.
Alright, but is it true that through enough meditation it makes astral travel possible?
Of course, because it opens up awareness and teaches you to stay awake while your body goes into trance, to perceive things that you usually miss, such as your natural projections. The more you meditate to trance, and the more you can keep your awareness the better chances any projection practice will have. This will also stimulate any natural clair-senses you may have (like clairvoyance, clairaudience & clairsentience).
Thanks CFTraveler, this is exactly what I needed to know!
Do you know of any types of meditation specifically for this? Info would be greatly appreciated!
Any kind of meditation that keeps awareness focus to the point of trance will do. If you look at the phasing articles they give you good advice as to what to do when you get to trance.