Experiment:Piercing the Veil

Piercing the Veil

Note: This experiment is written from a modern Druid point of view. Therefore it incorporates the Celtic Otherworld ideas.

The Veil is a supposed wall that separates worlds - this plane, the Astral, and potentially the Otherworld where people reincarnate after death. After death in this realm, the person reincarnates in this plane again and the cycle repeats itself.

In fact, it is better to call it a curtain, as there are certain times of the year when the Veil has historically been claimed to be at its thinnest: most well-known among these is Samhain. It's a liminal period, where from sundown on 31st October to sundown the next day, the Veil is thin.

Gaelic myths claim that fairies residing in the other side could more easily cross, and that humans here who knew what they were doing could converse with dead ancestors who still lived on the 'other side'.