Alex Grey (born November 29, 1953 in Columbus, Ohio) is an artist specializing in spiritual and psychedelic art (or visionary art) that is sometimes associated with the New Age movement. His oeuvre spans a variety of forms including performance art, installation art, sculpture, and most significantly, painting. Grey is a member of the Integral Institute. He is also on the board of advisors for the Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics.

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National Geographic magazine recently made the stunning announcement of the lost gospel of Judas discovered in Egypt in 1970 which has now been fully restored, translated and authenticated. The gospel was written around 180 AD and contains the very controversial view that Judas’ betrayal of Jesus was organized by Jesus himself. Judas is portrayed as the most trusted disciple who was given this very difficult task. What a strange thing that history’s most famous traitor is cast in a completely different light.

Codex written in Coptic from the lost Gospel of Judas.

I’ve pretty much felt for a long time, that today’s Christian religions have very little to do with what the teachings and life of Jesus exemplified. Of course the gospel of Judas press releases would focus on the provocative … Judas now portrayed as the most trusted disciple, which certainly flies in the face of mainstream Christian doctrine. But there was something in this gospel that was far more interesting to me.

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All of us have a sense of what eternity is. We came from eternity and when we die, we will return to eternity. Our lifetime on earth is a chosen separation from eternity. We come to experience and learn.

Eternity can only be ‘remembered’ from the deep recesses of our hearts. It’s a feeling or knowing, not a ‘mind’ thing. It’s a nostalgia for eternity that resides in our hearts as a long-forgotten dream. It’s a resonance, an ancient tone.

Religions capitalize on this nostalgia with various concepts of heaven or redemption. Sadly, the mere ‘concept of heaven’ is not even close to what a heaven would be like. Heaven can never be just an intellectual concept. It is a deep inner feeling. Remembering this ancient feeling is clouded by darkness that exists in the ego. Our hearts exist in eternity while we live out our lives in a realm of forgetfulness.

I have great respect for the ayahuasca medicine because I saw through the shaman’s journey a way to transcend our forgetfulness. We are offered a way to heal our nostalgia. We remember what the deep feeling was about. It is heaven.

There really is no methodical or logical way of remembering eternity. Your waking mind has only been with you for a few decades. It has no idea how vast or wide, you and eternity actually are. When we walk through the sacred inner doorway, we experience the true initiation of the heart and we remember within the immensity of time, our infinite and immortal selves.

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I was talking with Stuart Wilde a few months ago and he was telling me about the trans-dimensional beings that he says are pouring into this world by the millions. He told me that they were helpers, healers and protectors. He writes about them in his book God's Gladiators. Hearing about reinforcements made me feel hopeful.

Several months ago I started to see beings in the temple in Brazil during the Ayahuasca sessions. Sometimes we would see them as relatively short beings (say 4½ feet or 1.4 meters). They would be just standing around watching over us, or witnessing the journeys. I have also seen them bent over one of us who is journeying and they would be doing a strange dance of rhythmic undulations with their hands and upper bodies. They almost looked as they are doing some alchemic healing process. At times you could even make out different types of garments they were wearing. I once saw a being like this wearing a big puffy red hat. It was beautiful.

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Since I wrote the first article about the DaVinci Code, I have received emails from readers who have suggested that there is more information contained within Leonardo DaVinci's drawing "Proportions of the Human Figure". I have continued researching the subject myself as well. In order to give some more of the information, I decided to write this second installment. I would also like to thank those who have sent me these ideas.

There seems to be a connection between all things. In other words, the nature of reality itself, or at least what we would consider consensual reality or 3D, seems to be holographic in nature. Each part of nature contains clues that unlock the puzzle of all the rest of reality, or to the whole of creation. DaVinci's drawing contains incredible information that shows the connection between humans and all of reality. There is a geometry hidden within the human body that reflects the geometry in everything else.

During an Ayahuasca journey, many people experience a perception of everything as part of an extraordinary mathematical equation. They see themselves in mathematical form. From nature around them to even their thoughts and emotions, everything is somehow represented as part of a beautiful mathematical geometry. Ayahuasca unlocks or awakens the visionary brain. The visionary brain completes the human ability to perceive. It unlocks the capacity of a greater seat of understanding that is located in the heart.

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Many people have asked me the question, "What is an Ayahuasca journey like?"

For certain each journey is completely an individual experience, and while there are similarities between journeys, each one is completely unique. The only universal advice that I have been able to come up with about Ayahuasca is that the master lesson of this incredible feminine teacher is fundamentally about, 'letting go'.

You are shown the beauty of nature; you are shown the infinite nature of everything. You are brought healing and understanding in a way that will humble you, and make you cry. But in order to get there, you first have to let go.

It seems simple. But in fact it is one of the most difficult things for some. We all tend to hold on to so much. We hold on to our egoist ideas of self. We identify with our jobs or our families, and loose a sense of who we really are. We want to hide and we can't bear to be exposed.

Traduzido artigo: Ayahuasca: A Universidade Gaia por Ralph Miller (Português)

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For 20-years I raised a family and worked as a travel agent. In recent years I have conducted workshops in Brazil using an ancient plant 'medicine' or brew which has been used in Amazonia for thousands of years by indigenous tribes. The brew is called Ayahuasca and contains the very powerful psychoactive and visionary substance called Dimethyltryptamine (DMT). DMT is found in all living things including humans.

When I discovered Ayahuasca, I guess I remained being a travel agent; but am now showing people how to make inter-dimensional journeys instead.

DMT is likely produced in the pineal gland, and recent research indicates that the pineal will produce DMT in large amounts at least 2 times in the life of a human; at birth and at death. Perhaps it heralds the entry and departure of the soul. Persons having 'near death' experiences ... seeing bright lights ... seeing portals ... seeing religious icons ... are most definitely experiencing the effects of DMT.

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The Ayahuasca experience often begins with your entry into a dome of fractal geometries of indescribable beauty. The speed and complexity of these breathtaking designs often stuns you to silence. You come to realize that you are looking at a picture of the very essence of the universe - mother Aya's mandala; her introduction to another dimension.

These fractal images existed when the universe began 13.7 billion years ago, and through the Ayahuasca experience we come to see there is a hidden order in all things. That order humbles us in its extraordinary beauty.

After a short time of observing the dome, angelic beings come to show you aspects of who you really are, or they take you into various parts of nature and the mysteries of life.

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The totality of reality is vast, beyond any intellectual comprehension that we could have. There is a very small segment of this totality that we can see and touch, which is a three-dimensional spatial reality, composed of length, breadth and width. It is the world we see around us that is sometimes called consensual reality. I’ve always found the term interesting, because another way of looking at it would be that it is the reality that we all consent to. We agree to it and therefore it is.

According to quantum physics the totality of everything exists in as many as twenty-six dimensions. If you look in a mirror you see a two-dimensional reflection of a three-dimensional world. Perhaps our three dimensions are only a reflection that is woven into a vast multi-dimensional universe that exists all around us.

The ayahuasca medicine has many healing properties, but one of its greatest virtues is the ability to expand one’s perception. The pineal or third eye is opened. Sensory perceptions are amplified. It is common for people participating in an ayahuasca ceremony to see beyond consensual reality with their eyes wide-open. You can see people dematerialize – seeing straight through their physical bodies.

Where it gets interesting is when the multi-dimension begins to bleed into normal reality. You see someone dematerialize and a camera can see it as well! This photograph shows the face of the shaman dematerializing during an ayahuasca ceremony. If you look closely you can even see what looks like a shift around where the shaman’s face would be normally seen; almost like you are looking at the torn edge of reality.