I didn’t grow up lacking the words to describe emotions—I had the vocabulary.
What I lacked was understanding. I didn’t know how you could be stuck in a nervous system state, or how emotions could be suppressed and live in the body long after the moment had passed. I didn’t know emotions could live in the nervous system, hiding, repeating, distorting how I experienced life. Western psychology could name it. But it couldn’t fully move it. Like most western philosophies, I was taught to name emotions—but never how to release them, heal them, or even ask why they were there to begin with.

So I turned to other traditions. I studied ancient energy systems, to name a few: the Hindu chakras, Tibetan Bon’s six-loka system, the Cherokee’s energy system, the Incan ojos de luc, the Islamic Sufi lataifs, pagan 5 elements, the Chinese 5 elements, the Celtic triple cauldrons, the TCM 3 Dantian, and even the Jewish Tree of Life. All of them, in different ways, were describing a map of energy, archetype, and emotional flow — what science now calls the nervous system. I saw clearly: the vagus nerve wasn’t just a biological feature. It was the interface between the spirit and the body. I realized they were all, in some way, describing the vagus nerve, just in their own language. Whether it was through breath, stillness, prayer, movement, sound, or posture—they were regulating the nervous system. That’s when I understood: the nervous system is the interface between spirit and body.

But I also realized something else:
You can’t just tell people this. You can’t preach it. People either come to it on their own or they don’t. You can only create tools that help them discover it on their own.
That’s the Veil of Isis—the inspiration behind the game’s name. You can’t rip it off for someone else.

And that’s where art comes in.

Art allows us to express what words often cannot. I wanted to make something that felt fun, beautiful, and real.
But there was a problem: most religions had no place for someone like me—a gay man. Many called it sin. Others simply ignored it.
So I researched everything I could. Not just psychology or religion, but the body:
The adrenals, the testes, the pancreas, the spleen, the kidneys, the liver, the thymus, the thyroid, the pituitary, the pineal.
And I asked myself: What else?

That’s when I found what I had been missing:

• The chakra systems (Hindu, Tibetan, Cherokee, Incan, Sufi, Kabbalah)

• The Tree of Life (Celtic, Bible, Kabbalah)

• The Greek archetypes- Whether Athena with her Owl or Lakshmi and her Owl

• The meridians, acupressure, mudras, yoga, and somatics

• All of it tracing back to Egyptian Kemetic Tree of Life and the principle of Ma’at

I began to realize that whether it was pranayama—the breath of life in Hinduism—or Ruh—the breath of God in Sufi Islam—everyone was pointing to the same truth. Whether through the cycles described by the Tsalagi Cherokee, the Tibetan Bön, or the way each tradition speaks of sound creating resonance, the thread was clear: the breath is sacred, and sound carries power. Today we know that humming stimulates the vagus nerve, but if you want to reach the full length of that nerve, all the way down to the coccyx, it takes the full-bodied vibration of an Om. That’s when it clicked—what spirit really is. Every tradition, in its own language, was gently offering truth in a way the nervous system could safely receive. That’s how I came to understand ontological truth—not as something I simply believed into existence, but as something I uncovered by listening to many realities at once, like petals of a lotus unfolding into one blooming whole.

This is how I learned to heal—not through dogma, but through energy, symbols, and embodiment.
So I thought: Why not put this into a game?
Not to preach. Not to “fix” anyone.
Just because I wanted to.

But if I’m being honest—I also always want to give back.
Not in a way that drains me. Not on someone else's terms. But through what I create.
So this is me giving back.

I took the things I struggled with the most—

• Regulating my energy

• Naming and understanding emotions

• Making sense of this reality beyond religion or science

And I turned them into a playable, fun, emotional piece of art.

A game that can be a guide.
A gentle introduction to healing vocabulary.

I was inspired by Steven Universe (Rebecca Sugar),
King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering Masculinity Through the Lens of Archetypal Psychology - A Journey into the Male Psyche and Its Four Essential Aspects by Robert Moore (Author), Douglas Gillette (Author),
The Emotion Code by Dr. Bradley Nelson,
and especially The Kemetic Tree of Life by Muata Ashby. And tons of other books, life experiences, and stories.

But more than anything, I was inspired by the power of the unseen.

And if all you do is play it and have fun, that’s enough.
But if it opens something in you—or helps you name something inside you—
then that’s the kind of magic I made it for.