Thursday, May 26, 2005
ALEX GREY
Yesterday in a comments box on the Satanic Ritual Abuse post, pml made the following observation:
This article brought to mind another "pentagram" scene from this website:
http://www.alexgrey.com/
Go to the "archives" [see left panel on home pg], at "archives" click on TOOL [right of page], go to #20 and click. AHH, what do you see? Yes, the "tools" used in his trade!
A close artist friend of Episcopalian Priest Matt Fox. Go to Matt Fox's video of his Techno Cosmic Mass and what do you see crawling around? Yep, Snake.
And, Master Grey, has open his own CHAPEL of MIRRORS too.
I thought it would be easier to respond here than in the comments box. Blogmeister’s privilege. :)
The group meditating with the pentagram looks quite similar to the description of the “Emissaries of Light” meditating around their emissary wheel in a “monastery” in Bosnia, as described by James Twyman in his book Emissary of Light. In Twyman’s group there were 12 meditators plus the Teacher who made 13. (p. 79-80)
Like the James Twyman/Stephen Simon's Spiritual Cinema Circle, Grey has started his own visionary cinema, showing with "Jacob's Ladder." You can also see the cinema advertised on the CoSM events calendar. Stephen Simon's Spiritual Cinema also will screen "Jacob's Ladder" during their Festival-At-Sea.
Grey has a magazine, “CoSM”. Matthew Fox's article appeared in Volume 1. Fox is also on the Board of Advisors of CoSM, as is Ken Wilber, Depak Chopra, and Jean Houston. You will find Ken Wilber cited repeatedly in this National Catholic School of Social Services website of the Center for Spirituality & Integral Social Work.
Keith Critchlow's article appears in Volume 2. Critchlow is a member of Lindisfarne Associates. Lindisfarne is the work of William Irwin Thompson, and was started at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine, in New York. This is the Gaia worship group.
The second issue of CoSM also features an article on Damanhur. If you want to get the sense of something not of the heavenly world interacting with humanity, look into the history of Damanhur.
Alex Grey is working with the rock group Tool, doing the artwork for their CDs.
Paul Carlucci gives a hint of what Tool is about in this description of Black Metal Music from his article “Into the Black” at the Eye Weekly website:
There's always been a lot of extreme shit floating out there in the contemporary ether. Ozzy beheading doves with his yellowed teeth. Alice Cooper mutilating fake babies. GG Allin shoving various objects up his ass. Marilyn Manson immolating bibles on stage. Tool and their stop-motion child molestation videos. The horizons of shock are now so familiar that their crimson sunsets seldom raise an eyebrow. We think we've seen it all.
In his book Lucifer Rising: sin, devil worship & rock ‘n’ roll Gavin Baddeley writes:
In Russia, during early 1997, an anti-personnel mine was defused in beautiful Elokhovsk Cathedral just as Christmas service was about to be addressed on the iniquities of local youth. The following day, a tabloid newspaper identified those responsible as ‘the Black Metal Brotherhood…the most powerful grouping of Satanists in Russia today. At present the Russian branch of the Brotherhood contains nearly 200 members.’ A spate of arson attacks, vandalism and explosions was directed at Russian churches and synagogues…’(p. 198)
With that quote in mind, take a look at this piece of Alex Grey’s artwork.
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!
