What do ancient India, Tibetan monks, desert mystics, and modern psych wards all have in common?
A pattern. One that most people were never taught to see.
The Veil: A Cultural History of Awakening is not a spiritual guidebook.
It’s not a self-help manual.
It’s not even about you —
until halfway through, when you realize it is.
From Vedanta to Buddhism, Taoism to Gnosticism, shamanism to modern psychiatry, this book traces the global thread of a single idea:
That the self is an illusion —
and seeing through it is not madness…
it’s awakening.
No dogma. No doctrine. No pitch.
Just what every major tradition once knew — and why forgetting it came at such a cost.
What do ancient India, Tibetan monks, desert mystics, and modern psych wards all have in common?
A pattern. One that most people were never taught to see.
The Veil: A Cultural History of Awakening is not a spiritual guidebook.
It’s not a self-help manual.
It’s not even about you —
until halfway through, when you realize it is.
From Vedanta to Buddhism, Taoism to Gnosticism, shamanism to modern psychiatry, this book traces the global thread of a single idea:
That the self is an illusion —
and seeing through it is not madness…
it’s awakening.
No dogma. No doctrine. No pitch.
Just what every major tradition once knew — and why forgetting it came at such a cost.