Who is Alex Grey

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The Net of Being establishes a new order of infinite space composed of and continuous with infinite consciousness. A fiery web of eyes and galaxies form a realm of total interconnectedness. A grid of Godheads implies mirror-like inter-reflectivity throughout space. The shared heart of each four-faced Quad God sheds an eerie underlight, as a ball of white light inside each head sources luminosity for a level above and beyond sight, a mesh evocative of the mythic Jewel Net of Indra of Buddhafields from the Avatamsaka Sutra.

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"The many faces of Collective Vision united by the mandalic eye-field suggest both expansion of consciousness and sharing of consciousness with other beings. The painting was based on a profoundly ego dissolving entheogenic mystical trance where I heard the words, 'Infinite Oneness... the Oneness should never forget the Infinitude and the Infinitude should never forget the Oneness...' "

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At least in some circles Barack Obama is still appreciated.

The Visionary Art of Alex Grey

Grey's paintings can be described as a blend of sacred, visionary art and postmodern art. He is best known for his paintings of glowing anatomical human bodies, images that "x-ray" the multiple layers of reality. His art is a complex integration of body, mind, soul, and spirit.

'The Sacred Mirrors', a life-sized series of 21 paintings, took 10 years to complete, and examines in detail the physical and metaphysical anatomy of the individual.

Many of his paintings include detailed representations of the skeleton, nervous system, cardiovascular system, and lymphatic system. Grey applies this multidimensional perspective to paint the universal human experience. His figures are shown in positions such as praying, meditating, kissing, copulating, pregnancy, birth and death. His work incorporates many religious symbols, including auras, chakras, and icons with geometric shapes and tessellations in natural, industrial, and multicultural situations.

The paintings are permeated with an intense and subtle light that is rare in art history.

On wikipedia all it says about the spiritual background Of Alex Grey is that he is a Vajrayana practitioner and involved in integral spirituality. His website tells us a bit more. From the link list there we can tell that he's

• into theosophy: links to the Theosophical Society in America (TS Adyar)


• into Hermeticism: an ancient tradition associated with Egypt and the Middle East in which the Unity of all is stressed


• into Buddhism of course: specifically, his teacher was Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche a Dzog Chen meditation teacher.


• into Buddhism: Dzog Chen stresses the direct experience of Enlightenment. Another inspiration is Lama Surya Das, one of the first westerners to take advantage of the Tibetan Buddhist teachers coming out into the open. Lama Surya Das is so famous I'd personally assumed he was already dead, but he isn't. He's still out there teaching.


• into psychical research and paranormal phenomena (no surprise if he's into theosopy, or is it the other way around?)


• mentions UFO's, crop circles, chakras, acupuncture, sacred dance


• inspired by William James, Wilhelm Reich


• believes in healing and mentions 'Therapeutic Touch', the theosophical healing method


• into psychotropics like mushrooms and peyote

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