This expression is based on the concept that it is difficult to communicate with the spirits of those who have died. It is as if there is a veil between the living and the dead. Saying someone is “beyond the veil,” then, is a way to say that the person is dead. For some people it is a way to refer to death without using that term.
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Rick de Yampert, author of the new Crows and Ravens.
I was gobsmacked the time I looked out my living room window at the woods behind my Palm Coast, Florida, home and saw a crow hanging upside-down in...