Meditations allows one to access higher states consciousness.

Certain meditative states contain intuitive understandings that, in the raw states, are not in the form of language. It’s kind of difficult to describe them in words; nevertheless these ‘inner-knowing’ can be expressed approximately in human language format. However, the worded/ translated versions invariably cannot replicate the original nuance. Somehow, the original ‘taste’ or ‘feel’ of the experiences can never be captured in words.

In my experience, there is a common obstacle to higher experiences. That is, one may not move beyond the mental thoughts, if one is thinking too much. If you are the persistently reasoning type, you will not get very far, when you try to analyze things in the meditation. Mental activities and expectation put a limit on how far one’s consciousness can go. For me, it was better to keep an open mind before sitting down to meditate.