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In our media saturated world it is easy to waffle between two poles of evaluative numbness: excessive and uncritical praise, like that heaped on a celebrity; and the ennui of deadened indifference or scorn, hiding a secreted sense of one's superiority.
It sometimes takes more than a moment of reflection to awaken from this collective slumber.
But it's time to wake up.
For Alex Grey and Ken Wilber warrant our wide-eyed praise and appreciation.
Alex: No contemporary visual artist has done more to explore and enact in his or her art the radiant and luminous trans-lineage worldspaces of what is actually coming to be.
Ken: No contemporary theoretic writer has done more to research and craft with such patience and care psychoactive maps of the trans-lineage worldspaces of what is actually coming to be.
Prior to Alex and Ken (and their generation) the collective sense of any sort of trans-lineage spirituality was murky. After them, and in no small way due to their efforts, this Way is now Cleared for those of us who come after.
Both are courageous pioneers of the visual and verbal disclosures of an emergent spirituality proper to our ever striving, evolving, and timelessly-at-peace Unique and True Selves.
The great postmodern American artist Jasper Johns concluded his obituary for Marcel Duchamp in saying:
"He has changed the condition of being here [as an artist]."
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We can say the same of Alex and Ken about what it can mean to be a spiritual realizer today.
A deep bow of gratitude to these two blessed souls – clear-sighted praise.
Which brings us to the crux—our inviting you to engage these artworks and the audio discussions about them with beginner's eye and mind.
Michael Schwartz
November 2011
1 Jasper John, "Marcel Duchamp [1887-1968]," in Art in Theory 1900-2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas, new edition, eds. Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, 2003, p. 761 (originally: Artforum, November 1968, p. 6).
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