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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 fami… - Alex Grey
" "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.
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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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The Sacred Mirrors speak to our highest aspirations as a species: universal compassion, respect for all life, a deep appreciation of all cultures and wisdom traditions, awakened consciousness and a full flowering of our human potential. In a "chapel of beauty," they could contribute to the radical raising of awareness we so desperately need if we are to successfully navigate our way to a saner, more loving and life-affirming civilization.
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.
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.
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