UnconquerableSpirit

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Life is a study in paradox. We arrive as a spiritual being. Then, from the time of our birth, we are conditioned on how to be human and how to live in this human world. We are taught what we can and cannot do ... we are taught to limit our thinking. At some point, we realize that the greatest majority of our time is spent on chasing worldly endeavors and possesions. We realize that we have let our spiritual being wane and fade with time. We feel disconnected - empty inside. And so begins our quest. We begin an earnest journey to re-discover and reconnect with our spiritual souls. We spend our adult years searching for the very essence with which we arrived in this world. How wonderful would our journey be if, from infancy, the above truth was taught to us every day. And the years we spent in the losing and the finding were spent with living in the NOW, spiritually awake and vitalized. Every moment cherished as a gift, fueled with a passion to love all of humanity. What a wonderful world that would be!
Alex Grey is an spiritual artsist whose paintings speak to me. I own many of his paintings and each time I look at them, different meanings jump out at me. They definitely encourage conversation across many spiritual topics. In 1972 Grey began a series of art actions that bear resemblance to rites of passage, in that they present stages of a developing psyche. The approximately fifty performance rites, conducted over the last thirty years move through transformations from an egocentric to more sociocentric and increasingly worldcentric and theocentric identity. The most recent performance was WorldSpirit, a spoken word and musical collaboration with Kenji Williams which was released in 2004 as a DVD.
Grey's unique series of 21 life-sized paintings, the Sacred Mirrors, take the viewer on a journey toward their own divine nature by examining, in detail, the body, mind, and spirit. The Sacred Mirrors, present the physical and subtle anatomy of an individual in the context of cosmic, biological and technological evolution. Begun in 1979, the series took a period of ten years to complete. It was during this period that he developed his depictions of the human body that "x-ray" the multiple layers of reality, and reveal the interplay of anatomical and spiritual forces. After painting the Sacred Mirrors, he applied this multidimensional perspective to such archetypal human experiences as praying, meditation, kissing, copulating, pregnancy, birth, nursing and dying. Grey’s recent work has explored the subject of consciousness from the perspective of “universal beings” whose bodies are grids of fire, eyes and infinite galactic swirls.
His art depicts the mental,physical, spiritual and energetic realms in which we all live. He shows how all souls are part of the collective ... how, even as individuals, we impact the universe.