Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary Art of Alex Grey

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!

My husband is hard to shop for. He doesn't make lists and doesn't ask for anything. He loves the band "Tool" and had showed me the artwork they included in liner notes and for merch. I looked up the artist and purchased this book for him. He never reads unless its on his phone and in had a good time watching him sit on the porch with a book. He really enjoyed admiring the artwork in this book and we keep it out as a coffee table book now, too. Beautiful works of art that are great conversation starters. If you have kids around and they happen to take a peek, be prepared to hear giggles over the anatomy drawings. ;)

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful book! Not much more to say here... A gorgeous display of a genius artist. I ended up writing one of the quotes from this book on the chalk board wall in my house. My five year old son loves to look at the artwork in this book and I can explain things to him on a higher level while he can look at a gorgeous depiction of a very complex concept. This is not a book for children, however... Supervision is most definitely advised!

You know what I LOVE about Alex Grey? He visually represents states of awareness that I share, in ways I never imagined... as a friend of mine said, "Grey stole my best ideas before I ever had them."I remember walking through the woods one evening some 30 years ago and feeling that I expanded my awareness out into the starry infinity above me. This was a tangible feeling of expansion, not just an interesting idea. Sure enough one of Grey's paintings illustrates that very experience (the cover of his other book, Transfigurations).Grey's work is like a visual guide into expanded states of consciousness. Want to know what aura's look like? Want a visual map of the chakra's? That's all here.A friend of mine used to tease his wife. She would say "Honey, do you love me?" He would respond, "Only when I think about it." States of awareness (love, expansion, connection... even fear and pain) are like that, aren't they? Sometimes we forget about them. Then when we become present to them again, they are reawakened within us.Grey's work is like a beacon bell that reminds me of what I have never left but sometimes forgotten. There is a restimulation of a state of beingness that says "Remember me?... I am still here... Wake up... You can drop the illussion... You can drop your stories... Welcome home.

The works of Alex Grey are truly remarkable and this hard cover edition will be a treasure for those who look beyond surface meanings in art. Wonderful rich reproductions.

For many years as an artist I have studied Alex's art and although I do not agree with everything he puts forth along with his art - this book is a classic. Very few have the type of insights he has and fewer the ability to put meaning into their artwork showing a greater picture than the art alone. It is no wonder why many musicians and artists enjoy what he has produced and continues to create. There really is something for every artist or creative soul to enjoy in this book. It is a great value for what he gives.

I got this book along with “Net oF Beimg” for my boyfriend on our anniversary, I am so excited. As I stated in my review for that book, I just went through and placed sticky notes within the pages of art that means something to us personally. This book has information on Tool as well which is an added bonus!

Love Alex Grey's work.

for some reason I have encountered this book just recently in my friend's place and it impressed me so deeply that I wanted one close by to see these paintings as frequently as I want. Of course you can see these paintings online and on author's website as well but the effect that the book paintings had on me was much more powerful.

Es un gran libro que vale la pena tener de colección

Innerligt skicklig psykedelisk konst. Otroliga målningar. Ett tips är att gå efter "Transfigurations" och "Net of Being" också.

great book, great artist, but printing and paper quality is pathetic.

This stunning and psychedelically influenced artbook revolutionises a purely left brain, clinical view of anatomy.Whilst of course anyone working clinically with the human body absolutely needs the precision of left brain knowledge of structures, names, functions etc, one problem may be that the body gets reduced to machine, that a sense is lost of the unique individual inhabiting that body.Grey is a wonderful antidote to time spent looking purely at anatomical textbooks and encourages the holding of anatomical structures in the mind's eye in a more holistic and vibrant wayHe's almost like an anatomical version of William Blake's artwork in this book - or a visionary version of the other 'Grey' - 'Grey's Anatomy'Ken Wilber's historical overview of Grey's work is helpful as is Grey's own account of Sacred Mirrors itself, but it is the wonderful, teeming, dynamic pictures which thrill, starting with anatomical structure and then opening out into a interconnecting web of energy