Sure, there are many meditation traditions, and many reasons to do it. The Buddhist approach aims to shut down the majority of the left hemisphere and just surf the right brain: be in the now without the you. Sat-chit-ananda is its own drug. It is one of stasis, which has done nothing to destroy my sense of attachment. I consider the variegated astral plane far more fascinating, as I see it full of information. In my impression, it is more potentially rewarding for my own understanding of what, if anything, survives death. Because of my life experiences, I "believe" it is external to me, because I have experienced first- and second-hand its independence from my willingness to "believe" in it, as certainly (if not as clearly) as any physical phenomenon.
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