The Veil

The mysterious curtain standing between you and more

We hear it often in spiritual circles: “the veil.” That unseen curtain between worlds — a separation between the physical and spiritual, the known and the unknown. It’s said to conceal the divine from our direct understanding, to obscure ultimate truth from mortal eyes.

Part of my experience in death was an understanding of, and a being behind, the veil. It felt like utter weightlessness — freedom from attachment, and a divine connection to all.

People often speak of “piercing” or “transcending” the veil — through meditation, ritual, or sometimes plant medicine — as if the veil were some invisible barrier out there, hiding the great secrets of existence from those who haven’t yet learned the secret recipe for enlightenment.

But, something I learned in death and having freedom from the veil is that the problem isn’t the veil. 

It’s the definition.

The Misunderstood Curtain

Most imagine the veil as a cosmic wall that keeps them from seeing more — an external boundary that must be overcome, an obstacle standing between human perception and divine reality. But the veil isn’t something you pass through or lift away from. It isn’t an external partition separating you from the divine.

The veil is you.

The Actual and Identifiable Veil

The veil is the fabricated self you’re continuously constructing — woven of beliefs, fears, memories, knowledge, desires, and attachments you hold as truth. It’s the scaffolding of individuality that sustains the illusion of separation long enough for you to evolve an identity within it.

It’s the thing we fortify through unconsciously seeking without knowing what is seeking or why — the thing that says I need to be entertained, that walks through existence in the name of comfort rather than truth.

This veil is not here to deceive you. It’s here to teach you — and in its way, to protect you.

Through suffering, insight, or grace, we learn that the veil was never blocking the light of the divine — it was shielding us from its full intensity until we were ready to see without losing compassion or balance. It’s the training ground of perception. It holds you in form until you can remember that you were never separate to begin with — but formless.

The Removal

At certain moments — near death, in deep meditation, during mystical experience, or sometimes for no reason at all — the boundary softens. The unseen becomes seen for those who are ready. The soul perceives truth directly.

People call this the thinning of the veil. But what’s really happening is a shift in awareness — a change in state, not in location. The external world doesn’t change; the lens through which you perceive it does.

When the veil is removed, you don’t escape reality — you reintegrate with the true version of it. The material and the spiritual become one, seamless, unity. The barrier was never real; it was perception itself. 

The Protector Becomes the Bridge

As awareness grows, the veil isn’t destroyed — it’s transformed. What once obscured divine truth now becomes the lens through which it’s expressed. You begin to see that individuality wasn’t the enemy of unity — it was the means by which unity could be known. Your veil isn’t something to judge but to embrace as a tool for awareness.

Surpassing the veil, then, is not a single event or a mystical achievement. It’s an intentional and reflexive process — a gradual remembering that you were always standing inside the light you were seeking. This can not be rushed, or forced, only recognized. You will only see and experience what you are ready to see and experience.

Becoming

The veil doesn’t separate you from truth. It reveals truth by degrees — protecting, guiding, and eventually dissolving into the very awareness that once sought to transcend it. 

The mysterious curtain was never standing between you and more. It was standing as you — until you remembered that you are, and always have been, the light behind it.