Alex Grey
@alexgreycosm
I am a psychedelic visionary artist, co-founder with my wife Allyson, of the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, CoSM.
Happy Full Moon! We are celebrating tonight at CoSM @chapelofsacredmirrors ! Come enjoy amazing Art and Music! After Party Music with Joey Mercedes @joey_mercedes_ Visionary Art - Live Painting @Burgandyviscosi @veronikarose.art @samanthajuanart @mollychopinart…

The Leaf and Vine forms a Holy Grail of oneness with divine light. Emerald Grail, 2014

There are two polarities of selfhood, the limited ego anxiously identified with the perishing body and the timeless self, identified with the immortal Spirit. The purpose of life is to find one's spiritual self and unite with the divine infinite source of existence. The…

The arts are therapeutic and emotionally cathartic for most of us. Art has a healing function, and if we didn't have our uncensored and free creative outlet or enjoy other people's music, dance, theater, sculpture, painting, and cinema, there would be a lot more sick and hateful…

Even a tiny drop of a powerful tincture can change the color of an entire container of water.⠀ Baptism in the Ocean of Awareness

Happy Father’s Day to all the Dads. So grateful to have experienced being a Dad with our exceptional daughter Zena. Thank you to my father Walt, he taught me how to draw and set a loving example of how to support the family. Magnify the love. #FathersDay

The Tibetan Buddhists use the word bodhichitta to describe the awakening mind of enlightenment. They say that without the correct intention there is no advancement toward enlightenment, the spiritual practices just don't function. The proper motivation is to seek your own…

“The eternal flame that burneth not” is in identity with the ever-arising and ever-perishing structures of manifest reality and so suffers, not knowing spiritual presence, the nectar of being, the eternal flame each carries in the vessel of our body, until we die and our soul…

Most of us have experienced a sense of boundlessness in Nature, while walking through the woods, taking in the Spring flowers, watching green return to the trees after enduring the winter. We recapture these moments of rapture when staring at the sky on a Full Moon, or even when…

Art can transform the way we see ourselves and the world. Sacred art has always depended on this possibility. Theosis means coming closer to God by contemplation of icons. New ways of seeing lead to new ways of being. When your being is transformed, The world occurring to you…

On June 3rd, 1976, Allyson and I had a simultaneous vision, a mystical experience that changed our lives and our art. We sacramentally ingested LSD and lay in bed. Entering an altered state of consciousness, released from the dream of physical reality, I awakened as a glowing…
50 years ago today I was a 21 year-old deeply depressed atheist artist. Waking up on the last day of art school (May 30) I asked a God that I did not believe existed to show me a sign not to kill myself. Later that afternoon, after school was out, I was on a street corner for two…

God consciousness during a psychedelic journey is like a big homecoming. The Ultimate Source of Being and reality makes love to you through the spectacle of the Visionary imagination. Your mind and the Universal mind become congruent and you might witness beautiful angelic or…

Art can be a tool for personal and collective liberation. Angelic forces can be unleashed through your paintbrush. Making art is a way of praying. CoSM is an Art Church. We encourage everyone to recognize themselves as reflections of the divine and to cultivate their unique…

An angel asked me these questions… How many times a day are you praying? You can say that your life or your art is a prayer, but is it? Are you haphazard about your connection with God? Does your prayer or your practice leave you ecstatically melted into Godhood? Or are your…

The cosmos is evolving toward greater self-reflection, allowing us to open the eye of Spirit and see our source. Clear Light, 1986 Ink on paper, 11 x 8.5 in.

The soul’s eye view is what all of sacred art and literature share, a portal into Divinity. Featured art: 'Voice at Dawn' (2009) graphite & charcoal on bark paper.
