From an abhavatic perspective, we are always experiencing pure consciousness. However, the experience in the world, sights, smell, taste, touch, people, objects, sense objects, activities, desires, passions, memories, all of these veil the reality. It doesn't allow us to see that we are pure consciousness, and this universe is just the radiance of that pure consciousness. These mystical visions of God, Shri Ramakrishna sees Kali, whichever mystical vision one has, those visions, though they seem objective in nature, they don't veil thereality. They are different ways of manifesting that same reality.
Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches the Katha Upanishad, one of India's most revered texts which is also a part of the Vedas. It is a collection of philosophical poems representing a conversation between the sage Naciketas and Yama (god of death). They discuss the nature of Atman, Brahman and Moksha(liberation).