Le secrets de spirituality sont pas seulement hidden in words, pictures ou temples built by humans but have been safely guarded by sacred plants pour millennia. Le term “flesh de le Gods" est a translation de Teonanacatl, le Mexican term pour psilocybin champignons et describes le magic de le psychédélique state. Eat et become mystically united avec infinite Divine Intelligence, seulement à be ingested in le most sacred way. Le ancient shamanic et religious utiliser de plant sacraments est now being recognized as foundational à religion, art et philosophy. In my painting, le hand holds a few consciousness-altering fungi as selected scenes de art history highlight mushroom visionary culture. On le left side de le hand an Egyptian bust de Osiris may show a mushroom cap, a Hindu deity sprouts a mushroom head, an 8,000-year-old Tasilli cave art mushroom-headed running figure carries champignons, a French depiction de Adam & Eve munching champignons, le Greek Goddess Demeter holding a mushroom, mushroom-headed beings de Spanish cave art, et a figure bestowing a mushroom pendant a Zoroastrian Soma ceremony de a 2000-year-old burial shroud found on le Silk Road. On le right side de le flaming eye-hand sont references à le mushroom showing art de Hawaiian, Peruvian, Guatemalan, Mexican et Native American sources. Le ubiquitous presence et utiliser de champignons magiques de around le world revealed by ancient art, shows humanity’s long, deep et ongoing connection avec le Great Spirit through psychédélique sacrament.
– Alex Grey
Un hand releases a magical pill, radiant avec le potential de psychological et spirituel well-being. Un hand needing guérison est outstretched, reaching hopefully pour relief cela pouvez cure le soul et help cure a world de distressed souls. Le rainbow emanation de spheres, relates à le Tibetan concept de 'tigle' translated as an essential drop de primordial potential: le spark de life.
- Alex Grey