Alex Grey

Art Church: with Burgandy Viscosi and Adam Scott Miller

By admin on June 18, 2013

Alex and Allyson and guests enjoying an art meditation in the library.

For April’s Art Church, CoSM welcomed visionary artists Adam Scott Miller and Burgandy Viscosi. After a peaceful drawing meditation, guests gathered for slide show presentations by the artists, who shared their stories and insights with the group. April Art Church also featured the unveiling of the visionary masterpiece, Cosmic Christ, the most recent addition to the CoSM Grey House Gallery. A big thank you to all the participants at Art Church, and to Burgandy and Adam for sharing their time and talents with us.

burgandy_sketching_art_church Burgandy Viscosi sketching with friends during Art Church.

Adam Scott Miller sharing his art and philosophy.

burgandy_speaking Burgandy presenting a slideshow of her paintings.

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Adam Scott Miller speaking with guests about his art work.

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An art church guest with a large back tatoo of Alex’s piece Eye Heart.

Adam Scott Miller contemplating the Cosmic Christ.

Art work by Burgandy Viscosi, http://burgandy-viscosi.tumblr.com/

Thermodynamic Horizon by Adam Scott Miller, www.corpuscallosum.cc

Alex Grey, Burgandy Viscosi, Adam Scott Miller, and Allyson Grey pose together in the Grey’s studio.

Categories: Art Church, CoSM, CoSM Events

Why Visionary Art Matters

By Jon Ohia on June 17, 2013

Why Visionary Art Matters

1. Visionary mystical experiences are humanity’s most direct contact with God and are the creative source of all sacred art and wisdom traditions. The best currently existing technology for sharing the mystic imaginal realms is a well-crafted artistic rendering by an eye witness.

2. Mystic visionary artists distill the multi-dimensional, entheogenic journey into externally crystallized theophanies, icons embedded with evolutionary world views. Since mystic visionary artists paint the transcendental realms from observation, their work offers a growing body of evidence substantiating the divine imaginal realms and by extension, Spirit itself.

3. The mystic state described by visionary artists includes images of unity, cosmic oneness, transcendence of conventional space and time, a sense of the sacred in having encountered ultimate reality, positive affect, vivid color and luminosity, symbolic pattern language, imaginal beings and infinite geometric jewel-like vistas.

4. For pilgrims to the sacred inner dimensions, visionary art provides validation for their own glimpses, and proves the universal nature of the imaginal realms. Reflecting the luminous richness of higher spiritual worlds, visionary art activates our light body, empowers our creative soul, and stirs our deepest potential for positive, transformative action in the world.

5. Humanity’s materialistic worldview must transition to a sacred view of Oneness with the environment and cosmos or risk self-destruction due to continued abuse of the life-web. Artworks can call us to imagine our higher unity as humanity evolves toward a sustainable planetary civilization.

6. Mystic Visionary Art is a product of the Primary Religious Experience. The word religion comes from the Latin religio, “reverence for the Gods,” and the French, “re-ligare” meaning “to tie back.” The Primary Religious Experience is a personal connection with Source that “ties us back” to our own divinity.

7. Entheon means a place to discover the God within. Entheon, Sanctuary of Visionary Art at CoSM will honor and preserve visionary artworks that point to our common transcendental source.

Categories: Mystic Rants