Demystify – Remystify
The last weeks have been a bit of a whirl wind. My friend stosh likes to say that “No plan survices initial encounter. But it’s good to have a plan”. Think he is right. I had a plan for 2005, and it already crumbled in the face of events. All good, though, and I am excited to watch the year unfold further.
Last Sunday I saw a most excellent lecture at the Philosophical Research Society, which featured an author my partner in the Center for Conscious Creativity had discovered. Quite phenomenal. Finally helped me to understand the symetry of triangles and squares, and how the universe appears to be folding nicely into a sevenfold structure. But that’s a long story and will be the topic of future exploitations 
I also met a most beautiful artist on Sunday. I had heard about his work several years ago from a friend, but never explored him further until recently. Alex Grey paints a new picture of humanity. He demystifies and remystifies with his art, showing the human body’s anatomy, and at the same time pointing at the numinous energies that surround it. 
It was such a harsh contrast to see the BodyWorld Exhibit at the California Scenter of Science. In itself, it was a brilliant display of anatomy, of real human bodies cut in slices and displayed. They among others showed the difference between a healthy lung and a smokers lung – the latter being black due to the equivalent of 5dl of liquid tar inhaled every year when smoking 20 cigarettes a day, which, of course, added yet another good reason for me to quite that habit. Nice to see was that nearly all the lungs in the exhibit were black, which shows that smokers are nice enough people to donate their bodies for science
The exhibit was none the less disappointing. Interesting as it was, it seemed to miss a large part of human existence. That mysterious part, the conscious part that makes those bodies be truly alive, and will not be found in a configuration or pattern of brain cells. That, you can see in Alex Grey’s art. He shows both particle and wave, body and soul, and in that shows us a more complete picture of a human being than any plasticised corpse could ever do.
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