Visionary Artist, The

Visualizations for Creative Exploration

Anyone who attempts self-expression through art has touched the "secret power of vision" from which all great art flowers. The artist Alex Grey, who has evoked awe, rapture, and controversy over the past 20 years, is our preeminent explorer of this deep realm where creativity and divinity merge. On The Visionary Artist, Grey's first work on audio, he personally guides us to these mystical places through a full curriculum of intensive, mind-expanding visualizations.

A longtime student of meditation, shamanism, and transpersonal psychology, Grey leads listeners up and down the ladder of consciousness to retrieve the transcendental visions our souls are constantly painting. From exercises on form, color, and imagery—to the energetic structures of reality—to the universal source of all creation, Grey's system for artistic exploration guides us along the sacred path of art, while dissolving the boundaries of reality along the way.

Artists in virtually any discipline will appreciate Grey's view of art as a revelatory and healing force. The Visionary Artist plunges us into a mystery that is at least 40,000 years old: the true mission of art in human experience.

Incredible tools for artists and creatives

This audiobook contains absolutely incredible guided meditations from Alex Grey in addition to a great discussion with the artist. The meditations are powerful creation engines. Tools that can be used to generate ideas over and over. No more excuses for creative block. Listen to a meditation or visionary practice and then hit pause and start drawing your ideas. And repeat.

Incredible

In The Visionary Artist, Alex Grey reflects on his own life and experiences as an artist in various interview sessions, but spends much of the audiobook guiding listeners through visualization exercises and meditations. In the interviews, Grey consistently gives thoughtful and articulate answers to both deep spiritual questions and practical questions such as “what advice do you have for people who want to be an artist but struggle to support themselves financially?” Perhaps the most fascinating moments of these interviews are those in which Grey reflects on particular spiritual experiences and visions. He notes that his most formative experience occurred on a day in which he met his wife and ingested LSD. The audiobook is also filled with long stretches of music and sounds that create an engaging and emotional atmosphere. The Visionary Artist not only rich with practical advice and direction from a commercially successful artist, but also an experiential and beautiful artwork.