Did you know that in Tibet and India alone, there are more than 160,000 documented cases of people, who after many years of spiritual preparation, manage to transform their physical body into a body of pure light/Energy?

In order to attain a “Rainbow Body”, a person has to be able to liberate their body into light by having only loving thoughts, among other things of course. It is believed that every five years on average, an advanced Buddhist monk enters into this enlightened state. This process is extremely powerful and it is said that weeks before being able to achieve this transformation, some Buddhist monks can engrave their hand or foot onto a wall. According to reports, it takes around 7 days for a body to eventually shrink, dissolve into light and transcend.

In Sufism— or Taṣawwuf which is often defined as “Islamic mysticism”, “the inward dimension of Islam”, or “the phenomenon of mysticism within Islam”—it is called “the most sacred body” and the “supra celestial body.”

Taoists refer to it as “the diamond body,” and those who have attained it are named “the immortals” and “the cloud walkers.”

Yogic schools and Tantric teachings call it “the divine body,” while in Kriya yoga it is referred to as “the body of bliss.”

In Vedanta, “the superconductive body,” while the ancient Egyptians called it “the luminous body or being” (akh) or the karast.

In the Mithraic liturgy, it was dubbed as “the perfect body.” In the Hermetic Corpus, it is referred to as “the immortal body,” while in the alchemical tradition, the Emerald Tablet calls it “the golden body.”

However, this amazing phenomenon is not exclusive to ancient times.

There are even recent testimonies about Tibetan monks who reached this state after a deep process of purification.

For example, ordained Catholic priest Francis Tiso documented the case of Khenpo Achö, a Gelugpa Monk of Kham, Tibet, who died in 1998 and how he managed to transform his body into a body of light.

David Steindl-Rast, a Benedictine monk proposed in 2002 a scientific investigation with the Institute of Noetic Sciences to study the so-called Body of Light, or Rainbow Body, saying that; “If we can establish as an anthropological fact that what is described in the resurrection of Jesus has not only happened to others but is happening today, it would put our view of human potential in a completely different light”

Eventually, David Steindl-Rast contacted Father Francis Tiso who was known for frequently traveling to Tibet, and asked him to look into this incredible phenomenon.

Father Tiso said to have witnessed a rainbow appearing over Khenpo Achö’s house a few days before his death in September 1998, and that dozens of rainbows appeared afterward.

Khenpo Achö’s body started changing soon after his last breath. His skin turned shiny white, and his appearance began to change. Khenpo Achö’s was eventually wrapped in a yellow robe which all Gelug Monks wear. As days passed the body of Khenpo Achö started shirking. After seven days had passed, no body remained.

The event was well-recorded by local press who gave specific accounts of what had occurred and “The Rainbow Body,” appeared in an Institute of Noetic Sciences Review 59 (March–May 2002).

Curiously, the rainbow body of Khenpo Achö was also mentioned by Matthew T. Kapstein in The Presence of Light: Divine Radiance and Religious Experience(University of Chicago Press, 2004).

Tulku Pema Rigtsal, a Nepalese Monk recounts Achö’s transfiguration:

“Recently, on August 29, 1998, at Dome Khamngak in Azi Rong in Tibet, Khenpo Achö, eighty years of age, attained physical dissolution. One day at noon, lying in bed, without having suffered any recent illness, while in the posture of a sleeping lion and reciting the six-syllable mantra, he attained Buddha in the primordial basic matrix of alpha-purity, his heart of clear light reality perfected beyond the intellect. As his body dissolved into light, his wrinkles vanishing, he seemed like an eight-year-old child with a beautiful complexion. After a week had passed, when people came to know of his death, they performed his death puja secretly in order to deceive the authorities, and at that time, rainbows appeared inside and outside, and a pleasant aroma pervaded the place. His body gradually diminished in size, and at the end, he attained Buddha; not even his nails and hair were left behind. It was just like a bird flying from a rock— people nearby have no idea where it might have gone’.

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Buddhist master H.E. Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche writes of his teacher’s passing into a body of light:

“. . . my precious teacher Dzogchen Lama Karma Rinpoche passed away on the 11th of November, 2013. Yesterday I received extraordinary news from my Dharma friends in the holy Dzogchen area of Tibet that the sacred body of my kind teacher Lama Karma has obviously and dramatically shrunk in size. Lama Karma’s body was about 175cm (approx. 5’9”) tall, but two weeks after he passed away, his seated body has now shrunk to about 20cm (approx. 8”), which means his body, including his skeleton, shrank nearly 80%. According to Dzogchen tantra, this kind of miraculous display shows he has attained the Small Rainbow Body, which is a sign that he has attained the supreme accomplishment of Buddha in this very life. Please deeply rejoice in his devoted practice and realization of Dzogchen. In doing so, you accumulate immeasurable merit. If his body continues to shrink and totally disappears, then this miracle will be categorized as Light Body or Atomless Body. I will describe these various miraculous results of Dzogchen practice later in this message.”

The surprising discovery was made thanks to the DNA analysis of the 10,000-year-old skeleton of the so-called Cheddar man, whose DNA was unusually well preserved possibly due to the cold and stable conditions of the limestone cave in which it was discovered.

The find suggests that the first inhabitants of the British Islands developed white skin much later than previously thought.

An analysis of the 10,000-year-old skeleton of ‘Cheddar Man’, considered the first Briton, has revealed that the pigmentation of his skin was ‘dark to black’, he had curly hair and blue eyes. The surprising discovery, made by scientists at University College London (UCL) and the Natural History Museum, suggests that the clearest pigmentation that is now considered a defining feature of northern Europe is a much more recent phenomenon.

The pioneering work was carried out by a team of experts in Human Evolution and DNA for a new Channel 4 documentary called, ‘First Brit: Secrets of the 10,000-Year-Old Man’.

“The genetic profile of Cheddar Man places him next to other Europeans of the Mesolithic Age of Spain, Hungary, and Luxembourg, whose DNA has already been analyzed. These hunter-gatherers migrated to Europe at the end of the last ice age and the group included Cheddar man’s ancestors, “explained Professor Mark Thomas of the UCL, who managed to plot out the look of Cheddar Man based on DNA analysis.

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Currently, around 10% of British Native descendants can be linked to that population. The Cheddar Man was unearthed in 1903 in Gough’s cave in Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, and has been a subject of constant mystery and intrigue.

Experts have tried to reveal what Cheddar Man looked like for more than 100 years, hoping that one day, this 10,000-year-old ancient Brit would reveal more about our earliest ancestors.

Only now, and thanks to state-of-the-art DNA and facial reconstruction have experts managed to see what Cheddar man looked like, and ponder about how 300 generations later he relates to us today.

The Dutch “paleoartists” Alfons and Adrie Kennis created a model of the Cheddar man based on the recent scientific findings: a masculine face with long curly hair, short beard, and remarkable blueish eyes.