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Summary: great purchase
Review: my favorite artist, look at this book while listening to Tool's Lateralus
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Summary: Intense visual perspective of human spirituality.
Review: My first reaction to seeing Alex Grey's work was one of "eeeew!" It was initially like looking into an ultra detailed CAT scan/MRI. But then the details hit me. The nervous system, vascular system, vicsera, bone structure, muscles, lymphatic system; all were amazingly clear and accurate, much like a medical text. But unlike a sterile text view, Grey incorporates chi meridians, chakras, and auras. Each work contains something intensely spiritual and has a wonderful way of incorprating all belief systems known today. And then you realize, my God, he's working in oils! Beautiful work. Highly inspiring. And the forward by Ken Wilber is the perfect entrance into Grey's visual interpretation of human spirituality.
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Summary: He's been there and back, definitely...
Review: Not only is his representation of all the "bodies" immanent in the human being superb , but his telling of the story, in a series of pictures, of the individual's vision quest and subsequent return to society to share betrays his own apparent intimate knowledge of the visionary experience. Of course I could also merely say that this is trippy stuff. Indeed.
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Summary: Great book!
Review: On of my favorite artists, look at this book with children - they so love it! It was my table book during the pregnancy!
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Summary: Expect a transcendent visionary experience
Review: This book is a masterpiece. The artist, Alex Grey, has created visions of mystical spiritual beauty-- visions captured and inscribed on the pages of this book. I don't know of any artist whose work is more frequently included in slides shows and books about mind body healing, consciousness and spirituality. Just this week, Newsweek did a cover story on neurotheology-- the study of the neurology of spiritual experiences, and two of Alex Grey's works of art were prominently featured in the magazine. Grey paints with the detail and precision of a medical illustrator-- but one on mescaline. The images are both beautiful and shimmering with energies-- the kind of energies which connect human souls and spirits together, which connect the whole universe together. I met Alex Grey while attending the Omega Arts week. He was teaching a course on visionary art-- expressing the sacred visually. It is to his credit that he is a popular teacher of this unique approach-- expressing the visionary and spiritual through art. It's amazing to see the great work he inspires in his students too. Once you see this book, you'll probably need to buy more copies-- as gifts. But first, start off by buying one for yourself as a real treat. There are several sequences of art in here. Plans are under way for the primary sequence's original works to be assembled into a kind of "temple" or special building which will house them. Grey has designed the whole building. You can learn more about it under the web site which is spelled out by his name then dot com.
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Summary: We Are the Dreams of God
Review: This book is an absolute blast to read as well as to look at. Everytime I look at it, I overflow with joy at being both a human being as well as a spiritual being. It uplifts me, it inspires me, it comforts me, it gives me so many reasons why this journey of life is the greatest journey we can ever take. I teach courses in Spirituality and I am a licensed Spiritual counselor, as well. And I use this book to show people that Life is simply awesome. That sure we have problems and difficulties. Yes, sometimes being human is painful, but it is also a delight to be alive. We were created to live and to live well and there is always at the center of our being the One Dancing God that connects each one of us to each other as well as to everything in this vast and incredible universe. Buy this beautiful book. It's a trip into life itself!
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Summary: Lysergic
Review: This book is hard to describe if you're not "experienced". Coming to think of it, even if you are, no one has the same "experience". What Alex Grey has done here, though, without using words, is illustrate what it can feel like to be at one with the universe. Sometimes, this can be best experienced with a partner. Those moments are fleeting, but once you've been "there", you'll understand this book. What did I just say? Oh, yeah, no words can express what he expresses here, but yet you "know" when you see it. On his website, he puts a lot of these images in liquid form, so check the book and/or the website out. Grey ably carries on the torch of Terrence McKenna and Timothy Leary.
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Summary: Lysergic
Review: This book is hard to describe if you're not "experienced". Coming to think of it, even if you are, no one has the same "experience". What Alex Grey has done here, though, without using words, is illustrate what it can feel like to be at one with the universe. Sometimes, this can be best experienced with a partner. Those moments are fleeting, but once you've been "there", you'll understand this book. What did I just say? Oh, yeah, no words can express what he expresses here, but yet you "know" when you see it. On his website, he puts a lot of these images in liquid form, so check the book and/or the website out. Grey ably carries on the torch of Terrence McKenna and Timothy Leary.
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Summary: great purchase
Review: This is the most amazing art book. In the central part of the book, Alex Grey presents the human being layer by layer. Starting with the skeleton, he adds the nervous & circulatory systems, the viscera, the musculature, and finally the skin. Materialist would stop there. But Alex Grey has the eyes of a mystic, and continues to depict the etheric & energetic components of humanity, right up to the Void of pure consciousness. He also includes deities from east & west, showing that they too "mirror" what we are in our depths. Many of the later frames are suitable as objects of meditation. The most talented energy-healer I know seems to know everything about people just by looking at them, and she says what she sees is what Alex Grey paints. This book contains art that can put a person in touch with her deepest and noblest possibilities. This book is nothing less than a gift to the human race!
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Summary: The Complete Human Form
Review: This is the most amazing art book. In the central part of the book, Alex Grey presents the human being layer by layer. Starting with the skeleton, he adds the nervous & circulatory systems, the viscera, the musculature, and finally the skin. Materialist would stop there. But Alex Grey has the eyes of a mystic, and continues to depict the etheric & energetic components of humanity, right up to the Void of pure consciousness. He also includes deities from east & west, showing that they too "mirror" what we are in our depths. Many of the later frames are suitable as objects of meditation. The most talented energy-healer I know seems to know everything about people just by looking at them, and she says what she sees is what Alex Grey paints. This book contains art that can put a person in touch with her deepest and noblest possibilities. This book is nothing less than a gift to the human race!
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