[creative] Happy Birthday Alex Grey (info and videos) -

Dear Alex, Happy Birthday dear friend,

we wish you inspiration, health and many more magic moments with people around you. We thank you so much for bring to the world your incredible works and projects. Your art is inspiring for so many musicians and artist. The COSM project is a pure bliss.

We invite you to discover some interesting information and two videos related to Alex.

Alex’s bio on wikipedia:

Alex Grey (born November 29, 1953) is an American artist specializing in spiritual and visionary art that is sometimes associated with the New Age movement. Grey is a 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. He is also 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 Wappinger, New York.

What is CoSM  , Chapel of Sacred Mirrors?

The mission of   CoSM, Chapel of Sacred Mirrors is to build an enduring sanctuary of visionary art  to inspire and evolve the creative spirit.      

CoSM is a church, a context for a community that honors and practices art as a spiritual path. CoSM offers a visionary cultural nexus to empower a global community.   To further the spiritual practice of art, CoSM offers workshops and cultural programs.

You can see some of his best works at youtube:

We would also recommend to listen to the great speech ALex made at World Psychedelic Forum in Basel, 21. March 2008. In this video Alex Grey offers an illustrated view of current and future trends in contemporary entheo art and gatherings born of the alchemical crucible.