Through visualization, we can interact with and obtain help from animal totems and spirit guides, angels, gods, or another person’s higher self and/or astral body. This art is truly limitless. To derive the maximum benefit from your adventures in meditation, it is often helpful to decide in advance what you wish to explore. Before setting off on our journey of new discovery, we should first construct an Astral Temple.
Creating a safe and secure “home base” on the astral is highly recommended before undertaking other explorations. Not only will this help you to ease any fears which may obstruct your progress, but it will help to gently orient you to the process of creating and exploring in the astral world.
This home base is usually known as your personal “astral temple” and can be any location you perceive to be most safe and inviting. This will be personal sacred space which you can return to at any time. Here, you are always safe and close to the divine presence which permeates the universe. The temple can be within an astral building or structure, or it can simply be a peaceful natural setting which you feel at home in.
Dedicate a special meditation to creating your astral temple and the features within and around it. Again, elaborate and discover as much detail with your psychic senses as you are able to. You may see paths or doorways leading away from your central location – these will take you to other sacred locations which you can explore later for personal growth or healing. Once you have created your Temple, you may wish to begin all astral activities there, and can revisit it whenever you feel the need or desire to.

Similar types of astral journeying can be undertaken, either individually or as a group, through the use of pre-prepared meditation scripts which guide the traveler into a specific experience. These scripts can be either textual or audio. The traveler may wish to listen to this script being read aloud during their visualization session, or they can simply read and memorize it before meditating.
Again, you can expect the experience to take on a life of its own, diverging or expanding from the intended script. Take special note of these occurrences. You can create your own scripts, or find many already online in various text and audio formats.