The Hero's Journey, part 2 : The Quest, page 2, The Rainbow Body
I just received copies of the third edition of Sacred Anatomy from the publisher and it looks and feels great in soft cover. This also allows me to reduce the price from $35 to $25. I did add a description of the "Rainbow Body" to the last chapter of the book "Patterns of Ascension Established" as a way of updating with more current research on the topic of transformation and transmutation of the physical body. I will use this post to share that additional piece with my readers, especially those of you who have earlier editions of my book.
This excerpt fits perfectly with the current series theme of "The Hero's Journey" and the Quest for the Elixir of Immortality. After all, what we all long for is a life without the pains and sufferings of the present human state — joy and life eternal. It appears that the design for such a life is gradually coming back into place as cosmic factors line up around the dawning design of the "New Heaven and New Earth." We are moving through a fourth dimensional shift with our planet. More on this in my next post. For now, consider this excerpt as providing a clue for what we're all in for over the next relatively brief period of time as we know it. Even time and our experience of time will change drastically as we return to a "time when time was not"– a topic recently aired in an LPB television program "How We Got to Now."
Here's the excerpt from Sacred Anatomy.
The "Rainbow Body"
"Tibetan Buddhists practice the "Rainbow Body," the apparent dematerialization and transmutation of the physical body. The practice may be spread out over many years of meditation until the actual transfiguration is achieved — although more as a gift of spirit than an achievement of mental effort. A Biblical passage tells of a "tranfiguration" of Jesus wherein he appeared in a glorious form with Moses and Elijah in the presence of three of his disciples, and another of his glorified body being resurrected from the grave. What follows here may give up some inkling of the potential inherent in our own sacred anatomy.
The Sufi call it "the most sacred body" and the "supracelestial body." Taoists call it "the diamond body," and those who have attained it are called "the immortals" and "the cloud walkers." In various other traditions it is called by such descriptive names as "the divine body" (Trantric yoga), "the body of bliss" (Kriya yoga), "the superconductive body" (Zoroastrian Vendanta), "the luminous body or being" (ancient Egypt), "the radiant body" (Gnosticism), "the perfect body" (Mithraic liturgy), "the immortal body" (Hermetic Corpus), and "the Golden Body" (Emerald Tablets of the alchemical tradition).
Here is a description of the process taken from Dream Yoga and the Practice of Natural Light by Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche and reprinted in David Wilcock's book, The Source Field Investigations.
This is one of many depictions of the Rainbow Body from Tibet:
Body of Light: Tibetan, ja-lus. Also known as the "rainbow body." Certain realized beings . . . achieve the transformation of their ordinary bodies into a Body of Light. . . . In this process the physical body dissolves into its natural state, which is that of Clear Light. As the elements of the body are purified, they transform from their gross manifestation (body, flesh, bones, etc.) into their pure essence as the five colors: blue, green, white, red and golden yellow. As the body dissolves into these five colors a rainbow is formed, and all that remains of the physical body are fingernails and hair. . . .
Over 160,000 documented cases of the Rainbow Body have occurred in Tibet and China alone. David Wilcock cites a most extraordinary event that took place in Kham, a small village in Tibet, in 1998, when a Gelugpa monk, Khenpo A-chos, died leaving nothing of his earthly form behind. He was described as having . . .
. . . a warm, spiritual nature that touched everyone he met. . . . he often spoke of the importance of cultivating compassion. He had the ability to teach even the roughest and toughest of types how to be a little gentler, a little more mindful. . . . The witnesses reported a rainbow appearing over Khenpo A-chos's hut a few days before he died, and that "dozens of rainbows appeared in the sky afterward. He was not sick and nothing appeared to be wrong with him — he simply chanted a mantra.
According to the eyewitnesses, after his breath stopped his flesh became kind of pinkish. One person said it turned brilliant white. All said it started to shine. Lama A-chos suggested wrapping his friend's body in a yellow robe, the type all Gelug monks wear. As the days passed, they maintained they could see, through the robe, that his bones and his body were shrinking. They also heard beautiful, mysterious music coming from the sky, and they smelled perfume. After seven days, they removed the yellow cloth, and no body remained. Lama Norta and a few other individuals claimed that after his death Khenpo A-chos appeared to them in visions and dreams … Lama A-chos told Tiso that it takes sixty years of intensive practice to achieve the rainbow body. "Whether it always takes that long, I don't know," acknowledges Tiso, "but we would like to be able to incorporate, in a respectful way, some of these practices into our own Western philosophical and religious traditions." … To our knowledge, says Tiso, the bodies of most Christian saints did not disappear or shrink after their deaths …. However, he adds, bodily ascensions are mentioned in the Bible and other traditional texts for Enoch, Mary, Elijah, and possibly Moses. And there are numerous stories of saints materializing after their death, similar to the widespread phenomenon known as the "light- body.
As I say, time was when we could "fly beyond the rainbow." There was a design in place for such spirit and soul travel. That design was lost, along with the Garden State, and had not been present on earth for many thousands of years when the Lord of Love incarnated on Earth. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that it was human consciousness that got lost. The design did not go anywhere but was taken away for a season until such time that the Sons and Daughters of God would again emerge on Earth through the sons and daughters of Man. That time came with the incarnation of the Lord of Love." (Sacred Anatomy)
The Quest for the Elixir of Immortality has not been without hurdles and challenges to overcome. Immortality itself has been withheld from human experience as some kind of "reward" in the "hereafter" for being "good" and compliant with religious dogma and moral behavior. Religion itself has been the nemesis hiding the Elixir of Immortality from naive and slumbering mortals. The promise of eternal life has been used to establish and maintain the biggest and most profitable business of modern times — second only perhaps to the medical and insurance industries. Notice how all three are founded on the concept that we are merely human — mortals that need costly crutches to help us through this "vale of tears" to the other side of the "valley of the shadow of death." The letter of the law has killed believers' hopes for and dreams of a return of Paradise here and now. You have to die to get there, according to the beliefs and doctrines of all the major religions. Tibetan Buddhism may be the only exception.
In spite of those beliefs and doctrines, a "Golden Age" is scheduled to return on time in accordance with the "cosmic clock" that ticks away the ever recurring cycles of evolution and natural ascension. All things created rise to return to their Creator and origins. Even sound returns to the Silence that gave it utterance. We will continue along this line in my next post. Until then,
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