If the physical body is the veil between you and the spirit world, what of the other energetic bodies?  The physical body is an energetic body.  It just happens to be the most dense.  Your other bodies have shape and form in the form of patterns of energy.  You speak of dressing in layers.  Shedding the physical body at death is akin to taking off an outer coat.  You still have layers of “clothing” beneath it.  How else do you retain the individuality of the soul and continue learning the lessons of loving to the fullest capacity?  To communicate at successively more refined levels of the Light, you must continue shedding layers.  Each layer of “clothing” is successively less dense.  You can shed them now in your awareness by becoming less dense in your awareness.  “He or she is dense!” You say when one does not understand something.  Do you understand that you are the Light and Love you seek?  Shed the layers of beliefs that keep you from knowing this and what is left?  Pure Light.  Pure Love.  Pure This.