Reality unveils itself in the order that it sees fit, so guide it the best you can. Our thoughts and imaginations siphon from the collective consciousness and reality appears. Is there really free choice or is our path already known? The feeling of déjà vu challenges the notion of a singular reality. What if that feeling, is really a wink from the universe that here you are again, repeating the life lessons you haven’t learned in order to escape saṃsāra. 

When we escape the reincarnation cycle, we have achieved enlightenment; the divine state of connecting to the universal consciousness. I believe that enlightenment reveals itself in layers, similar to the peeling of an onion. Whether it is through suffering or perseverance, many a mystic have claimed to achieve the rainbow body. 

Several monks in Tibet, arguably, have proved it. The Tibetan rainbow body is the ultimate achievement of enlightenment, in which the corpse shrivels up to about a foot in length and looks surreal. The bodies consumption of matter, is no longer. We become a part of the air, the cosmos. All of the elements of the universe; are connected by matter. God, is perceived to be the intelligence behind its creation. 

Realizing that we are all microscopic fragments of this universal mind, is the beginning up the stairway to enlightenment. To be a man of enlightenment, is how the free masons spoke of themselves during its earlier years. They referred to themselves as such for they possessed hidden mystical knowledge that had been lost through the ages. 

To be on the path to enlightenment, is to understand you have not achieved it. You have experienced glimpses into the collective consciousness, and immediately your vibration changes and your life quest begins.