A Benedictine monk, David Steindl-Rast, once explored the Tibetan Buddhist claim that a person of high spiritual development could exit their physical body, vanish in mere days, leaving behind only ashes, to become a ‘rainbow body,’ of manifest light. This ‘metanormal’ activity is not relegated to the Tibetans, though. Attaining ‘rainbow body’ is discussed in Zen texts, as well as Zoroastrian, Christian, Manichean, Muslim, Bonpo, Nyigma, and of course, Vedic texts, among others. Attaining the ‘light body’ is for everyone, but the Tibetans have given us ample proof that it actually does, and can occur. This experience in Universal. There is, in fact, quit a bit of postmortem research on this paranormal phenomenon in Tibet. Rast endeavored to research the death of a Tibetan Monk, Khenpo Achö, who had reportedly obtained rainbow body because he thought it could help him more deeply understand the resurrection of Jesus Christ, but his search was followed by many more inquiries, each...
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