Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary Art of Alex Grey
by Alex Grey
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Author: Alex GreyContributor: Ken Wilber
Contributor: Carlo McCormick
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1990-09-01
ISBN: 0892812575
Number of pages: 96
Publisher: Inner Traditions
Book Reviews of Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary Art of Alex Grey
Book Review: A Glimpse Into the Real You
Summary: 5 Stars
"Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it."
Ernest Holmes
There seems to be a couple schools of thought; one is that this body is simply a mound of flesh. It may or may not have a soul or a spirit. It is mechanical, it is predictable, it is prone to all kinds of disease and suffering and its eventual downfall is always death and the other is that this body is an extension of the Spirit. That we are not a body with a spirit as much as we are Spirit with a body; that every cell, every atom, every strand of our being is being made and remade in the Image and Likeness of Light; that the whole universe is pouring into us and through us in each and every moment, that life is eternal. After we lay down one body, we quickly receive another and another and another....
I tend to believe the latter.
I got into metaphysics/philosophy/spirituality whatever you want to call it quite young...my early 20s. I had what many called a "mental breakdown" it was, in fact, a Spiritual breakthrough. It was like all of the sudden I realized that my identity...the identity that I knew as "John" was completely made up and I was the one that made it up consequently I had made everything up!
How completely liberating!
How completely terrifying!
But after I was released from the hospital, I knew in the depths of my soul that I could not return to the world as the same person, because I wasn't the same person. I was resurrected, I was re-born and not in a Benny Hinn/Jimmy Swaggart kind of way. I had truly been baptized with the Holy Spirit...the Whole of Spirit...the Celestial Fire that is within every thing and every one just as every thing and every one is within it. It's just that most of us, if not all of us, fall prey to appearances. In other words, we get used to things. We start seeing the world as flat even though intellectually we may know it's round, emotionally we feel as though there is a hole in our soul and we are suffocating from the world....
Before we go any further with this review...STOP...and simply breathe slowly in.....and breathe slowly out....just breathe in White Light let it cleanse your mind, your spirit, your body...and breathe it all out...breathe in...and out...just try to regain ground, try to get centered, try to open yourself to Life...to Light...to Love...
This is what Alex Grey did in his paintings. He did something with his art that I had only read about in metaphysical books. It's easy to write about metaphysical experiences; it is easy to say that the body is an extension of the Great Creative Power that permeates the universe; it is easy to write that we are not the body but the soul...but how do you envision this...how do you picture this in your mind? How do you allow this information to gain entrace to your heart, your emotional nature? Well, Alex Gray has done this in this incredible book, The Sacred Mirrors.
These "Glimpses Into Higher Thought" are breathtaking...if you merely see them as paintings, they will be just that...I prefer to refer to them as oil based glimpses of a Higher Realm. They are still in the world of form so we cannot consider them Absolute Truth because Absolute Truth cannot be dipicted or written about or talked about, but they can and they often do, point to a Higher, a Deeper Level of Awareness.
If I'm teaching a class based on Spirituality or Metaphysics, or if I have a client that is kind of resistant to the idea that we are primarily the spirit, that this corruptible body is simply a vehicle that our soul uses during our visit to a time/space bound world, I casually yet very enthusiatically show them this book and sometimes they even gasp.
This book is raw. It doesn't hold anything back. It is truly a metaphysical classic. It is the Sutras, the Holy Scripture, The Divine Word all in one. I wish that Alex Gray would come out with a line of prints that one could matte and frame because I would surely love a few of them hanging up in the room where I meditate and hold client sessions.
I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Let of of your small "s" identity and merge with your True Self Reality...your Godself, your Light, your Holy Spirit and breathe it all in...and breathe it all out...
Peace and Blessings, everyone.
Summary of Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary Art of Alex Grey
This unique series of paintings takes the viewer on a graphic, visionary journey through the physical, metaphysical, and spiritual anatomy of the self. From anatomically correct rendering of the body systems, Grey moves to the spiritual/energetic systems with such images as "Universal Mind Lattice," envisioning the sacred and esoteric symbolism of the body and the forces that define its living field of energy.Includes essays on the significance of Grey's work by Ken Wilber, the eminent transpersonal psychologist, and by the noted New York art critic, Carlo McCormick.
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