Off to Bali?

About the Alex Grey Bali Spiritual Retreat 2010

So excited that I will be one of the 25 creative types that will make up the traveling "Cosm Grey Tribe." 

So myself and other Cosm Grey Tribe group members (including the Grey's and a variety of mystics, artists, and fire dancers etc) will be traveling to New York and Tokyo on the first leg of the experience, but at the heart of the journey and destination will be the island of Bali. 

Bali is a mystical and magical island 6 degrees off the equator. It is rooted in Buddhism and Hinduism energetically.  Bali holds Venus-Neptune energy. The scenery is beautiful and inspirational. People come to live their life in a creative way, especially in Ubud. Everything done is a devotion to the divine. Each village is devoted to a different artistic expression: painting, weaving, stone carving etc.

New modalities will be learned as well as painting and other aspects of creativity, at the retreat as well as regular meetings with shamans and other various experiences and temple gatherings/parties. The whole island is buzzing with excitement for the Grey's arrival!  

A Little Bit about the Grey's:

These artists specialize in spiritual and psychedelic art (or visionary art) and are the co-founders of the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, a non-profit institution supporting Visionary Culture in New York City. 

Alex has spent time teaching and working at the  Harvard Medical School in the department of Mind/Body Medicine with Dr.Herbert Benson and Dr. Joan Borysenko, conducting scientific experiments to investigate subtle healing energies. The Grey's have created a series of 50 art actions and performances over the last thirty years depicting the universal human experience and connection to divinity through sacred art. Grey's paintings have been featured in venues as diverse as the album art of Tool,String Cheese Incident, the Beastie Boys and Nirvana, Newsweek magazine, the Discovery Channel, Rave flyers and sheets of blotter acid etc etc.

Their work has been exhibited worldwide, including Feature Inc., Tibet House, Stux Gallery, P.S. 1, The Outsider Art Fair and the New Museum in NYC, the Grand Palais in Paris, the Sao Paulo Biennial in Brazil. Alex has been a keynote speaker at conferences all over the world after having been embraced by the art and scientific field as one of the most unparalleled and important mapmakers and spokesman for the visionary realm of our time. So it is no wonder why these two have an overwhelming international following. 

Alex Grey is also a noted author with his book the Mission of Art being translated into five different languages and having sold over one hundred thousand copies. The Grey's have produced multiple video's/DVD's and focus on rediscovering an enchanted cosmos in the modern world.