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American painter and performance artist (born 1953)

Alex Grey (born 29 November 1953, as Alex Kenton Velzy), is an American visionary artist, author, teacher, and Vajrayana practitioner. His body of work spans a variety of forms including performance art, process art, installation art, sculpture, visionary art, and painting. Grey is a member of the Integral Institute, is on the board of advisors for the Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics, and is the Chair of Wisdom University's Sacred Art Department. He and his wife Allyson Grey are the co-founders of The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors (CoSM), a non-profit church supporting Visionary Culture in Wappingers Falls, New York.

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7. CREATING SACRED SPACE MIRRORS GOD’S CREATION. 8. OUR CHALLENGE AS CO-CREATORS IS TO MIRROR GOD’S LOVE AND BEAUTY IN ALL OUR CREATIONS.

It is the prayer of my innermost being To realize my supreme identity In the liberated play of consciousness, The Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation.

Creators aligned with Divine Will Make the soul perceptible. Artist priests with minimal dogma Transfix, transform, and evolve The chaotic melding of cultures, Through the dross of ego To superconsciousness fusion With the Nature-field.

I worked as a medical illustrator for about ten years. It was not my career ambition; it was a way to finance my addiction to art and support my family. Medical illustration gave me the opportunity to investigate and portray the bodily systems in dramatic ways. Prior to my work as a medical illustrator, I prepared bodies at a medical-school morgue, which provided important training for understanding the fleeting nature of life. It also provided unforgettable studies into the iridescent, fibrous architecture that forms our physical body.

Between our fear of failure And our ultimate potential We are called to action, A line must be drawn. Commit to Realization And experimentation, Stay centered in the Uncreated Source of Creation, Leave the critics behind. Let Love draw the line.

Drawing the line, The Boundary line Between this form and that Is what the mind does.

Like an eruption of consciousness, We discover the source of love. Experience yourself as the Source And appreciate every moment as perfection. Sunrise–Sunset. Thank you, Thank you, Creator; Profound unstoppable connectedness of all beings, Pattern to everything, most radical no-thing, The Vast Expanse.

I acknowledge the privilege of being alive In a human body at this moment, Endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, And the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.

The twentieth-century Surrealists operated in a territory without clear moral order: a dreamship adrift in the ocean of the unconscious. … The visions of the Surrealists help to define a dream realm where any bizarre juxtaposition is possible. A profound truth resides in such strangeness, for these visions can shock us into deepening our acknowledgement and appreciation of the Great Mystery.

People generally begin to understand my work after they’ve had some experience with the subtle visionary inner-worlds. These altered states can occur in many ways, from meditation to psychedelics to near-death experiences. A fellow in Japan came to my exhibit and showed me a five-inch elliptical scar over his heart where he had been struck nearly dead by lightning. He claimed that he had entered the "universal mind lattice," one of the "sacred mirrors" I’ve painted, during his near-death experience. What these various experiences or altered states have in common is the person who experiences them is profoundly transformed. They now know there are dimensions beyond the physical that are deeply mysterious and equally infinite to the outer worlds.

All Beings and Things are radiances interweaving, Seamlessly welded to the boundless ground.

Behold, Just Behold. To speechlessly and artlessly Behold the Infinite One, The inseparable ground from whence all forms are drawn, Dissolves the tyranny of separation, The war of opposites, Caused by drawing lines.

42. PRESERVATION AND RENEWAL OF WHAT REMAINS OF THE LIFEWEB IS STILL A POSSIBILITY. 43. SCIENCE AND SPIRIT MUST COMBINE FORCES THROUGHOUT ART, BRIDGING KNOWLEDGE WITH WISDOM, ENTERING HISTORY THROUGH CREATIVE ACTION. 44. FORGIVENESS OF HUMANITY BY THE WEB OF LIFE WILL BEGIN WHEN RITUALS OF CONFESSION OF WRONGDOING ARE ENACTED WORLDWIDE AND PRAYERS FOR HEALING THE LIFEWEB ARE COLLECTIVELY ENGAGED. 45. WHETHER OR NOT THE NEW ALLIANCE OF COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCES CAN SAVE THE UNFINISHED MASTERPIECE OF LIFE ON EARTH IS UNKNOWN; HOWEVER, THE PLAN IS UNDER WAY.

I subject my awareness to the perfection of being, The perfection of wisdom and perfection of love, All of these being co-present in the Vast Expanse. I share this panorama of Being And appreciate all I can share it with… The seamless interweaving of consciousness With each moment Create perfection wherever you go With your awareness.