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by Ken Wilbur (Foreword), Alexander Grey (Author)
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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc; New edition edition (1 May 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 157062545X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1570625459
  • Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 13.7 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 274,928 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Discusses the power art has to bring about catharsis and spiritual awakening. The author traces the evolution of human consciousness while reflecting on his own experiences, offering techniques and exercises to assist the reader to explore the spiritual dimension of art.

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The Mission of Art is an inspirational text about art.
The Mission of Art is an inspirational text for artists and anyone who has glimpsed the spiritual power of art. I trace the evolution of human consciousness through art history and seek the threads of art's abiding mission. I reflect on the development of my own work including some strange performances and psychedelic journeys that have profoundly affected my art and life. My book explores the role of an artist's intention and conscience, and how we in the postmodern age can draw on the creative process as a spiritual path. The text is accompanied by over 50 b/w reproductions of my drawings and paintings. I put alot of love and care into The Mission of Art and hope you'll enjoy it! --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The most uplifting book on art and life ever., 27 Feb 1999
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This review is from: Mission of Art (Hardcover)
My whole being shouts "yes!" as I join the brilliant philosopher Ken Wilber, (who wrote the Foreword) in proclaiming that visionary artist Alex Grey is perhaps the most soul-filled, divinely inspired artist alive today.

I urge anyone who loves and appreciates art, especially art students, to make this book both a part of your "way of seeing," and "being in," the world.

In The Mission of Art, Grey gives us a glimpse of his expanded transcendent view of reality, which includes dimensions seen and unseen. His sublime vision embraces the polarities of good and evil, beauty and horror, but ultimately transcends the limitations of both. His words and art bring us to a hauntingly familiar archetypal place within which is ultimately beyond these dualities. The ability to do this, as he with eloquent, gentle wisdom puts forth, is itself the "highest" of the many functions of art. Grey's dozens of illustrations, reminiscent of Blake but for me more transformative, fill the book with a noumenal force which several times brought me to poignant tears of divine remembrance. What makes Grey's work so powerfully authentic is that it is a product of his own direct experience of transpersonal states of consciousness. The highest function of the artist, he submits, is to capture the essence of this universal transcendent experience, and through art, share it as gifts to humanity. Grey not only shares these archetypal, imaginal realms with us but goes further. Bespeaking his spiritual maturity, Grey points to the necessity of going BEYOND all form in our inward journey that we will all one day take back our common Formless Source.

Grey's art, and this book, itself fulfills the highest function of art by showing us what is on the other side of the inner veil, and potentially ushering us to its threshold. -Eliot Jay Rosen, author of Experiencing the Soul

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Illuminating~Insightful~Inspiring, 21 Feb 1999
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As one who finds Alex Grey's works of art imbued with sacred truths I am delighted that he comes forward to share his insights in The Mission of Art. In this work Grey speaks from experience on mystical states and how they inform the creative process. He includes choice gleanings from various wisdom traditions and mystical literature that map, describe and otherwise illuminate the nature of the transcendental frontier. We can regard visionary artists as emissaries between the spirit and material worlds, who employ their craft to translate the ineffable truths encountered beyond the veil. And the art derived from such a vantage point speaks to the deepest and highest dimensions of our being. It nourishes the seeds of potential and advances the evolution of consciousness. As an artist, Grey believes it a moral imperative to remain true to the order of things, thus it is a moral offense to create art that would thwart the healthful harmonious unfolding of this order. In setting forth art's moral dimension Grey is sure to raise the ire of a vast contingent of the art world who contend that art is amoral. I eagerly await their rebuttals. Any discussion from this day forward must now reckon with The Mission of Art; as it shall be sited among the classics of the philosophy of art. ~Carol Price, author of Mystic Rhythms: The Philosophical Vision of Rush
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