It all comes down to not putting the cart before the horse. What is prior, the world of things or your consciousness? It is the latter, but to realise that in any more than a purely discursive way you have to go against the most intense tide of conditioning that pushes towards things and even then to realise further that every way you have to 'be' consciousness is tainted by the conceptual apparatus you use to orient your self in this. There is no such thing as consciousness! The name refers to a thing and it is not a thing, it isn't even an 'it'. Perhaps it is some help to twist language as far as possible, but that still won't be enough, you have to go further than language - and who are you anyway, but another sort of thing, another mental object! So to realise that simple change in priorities to stand firm in it n the howling storm of mind that insists on the object, is to do away with everything while actually doing absolutely nothing at all. That all sentient beings have this nature and can achieve the same realisation is not a conclusion, it is axiomatic. That some are released at the point of death also follows - when else could you be in the best position to see objective reality restored to its true status? That is why it is both utterly obvious and completely ineffable, why all paradoxes turn into jokes.