the case of Khenpo A-chos, a Gelugpa monk from Kham, Tibet, who died in 1998. Tiso located the village where he died, and recorded multiple interviews with eyewitnesses to Khenpo A-chos’s death. The witnesses said Khenpo A-chos had a warm, spiritual nature that touched everyone he met.
This was a very interesting man, aside from the way he died. . . . Everyone mentioned his faithfulness to his vows, his purity of life, and how 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. To be in the man’s presence changed people. 27
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.” 28
Divine Synthesis
Given all that we have learned, how can we analyze and hope to understand such an incredible series of prophecies scientifically? Clearly there is a wealth of evidence suggesting that the ancients were absolutely convinced that major events would be heading our way as we go through the shift into the Age of Aquarius. We’ve seen proof that the Maya calendar corresponds to real cycles in the solar system that may well be driven by the galaxy—cycles that are now causing us to experience interplanetary climate change as we head into the Age of Aquarius. We’ve seen many ancient prophecies describing the coming of a Golden Age, where humans would again be as gods. This obviously shows us much more is at work than just a major catastrophe, as so many 2012 scholars have concluded. In fact, I firmly believe these disaster prophecies are a misunderstanding, and we’re already seeing the worst of the Earth Changes right now. We appear to be in safe hands—guided through an evolutionary process by forces much greater than most of us could ever comprehend.
All these ancient traditions suggest that humanity is undergoing some type of evolutionary event. The Tibetan Rainbow Body observations give strong support to Biblical prophecies suggesting that we may transform into some sort of energetic body—the Perfected Body. Hence the American founding fathers and others often called themselves the “Perfectibilists.”
Obviously there is no way to know if we will transform into a light body of some sort—but we do now know we are going through a rapid phase of evolution, on a direct, biological level. Our civilization has grown by leaps and
Gardner Dozois, Jack Dann