The Veil in the Body

[anagogy]

This issue becomes a bit tangled, because some of these stories/studies on yogi's maybe them accessing chi and using that to prevent physical injury, rather than them sustaining injury and then not feeling the pain (thinking here of Shaolin Monks).

so I think a distinction may have to be made about using 'energy' to achieve certain bodily effects, and the actual penetrating of the Body Veil to directly access the functions that Ra is referencing.

Personally, I don't think any such distinction need be made.  In any function, whether it be the simple operation of your physical appendages such as your fingers on the keyboard, or the unconscious functions such as the beating of your heart, or even overlapping functions, such as your breathing, which may be consciously controlled or simply left to your unconscious patterns, it is the use of directed energy which is energizing the action.  You might think of that directed energy as the work of the life force or chi.  There are unconsciously directed currents of life force, and there are consciously directed currents of lifeforce.  

As surprising as it may be to hear, piercing the bodily veil may be as easy as simply declaring that the body is no longer complex at a very deep level of our being.  We simply believe deeply that those levels of information are cut off from our conscious access, and thus, that is how they behave.  We could adopt the opposite belief, and overtime as the belief took root, and grew the flowers of manifestation, we would achieve a growing awareness and sensitivity to the information we had heretofore divorced from our conscious awareness.  

In consciousness, all barriers are illusory.