PT406 – Alex & Allyson Grey – Bicycle Day, Unveiling Entheon, and The Mystical Experience Through Art
Psychedelics Today
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4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, on the eve of Bicycle Day, Victoria and Kyle interview two long-standing icons of visionary psychedelic art: Alex and Allyson Grey.
They talk about the LSD trip that saved Alex's life, connected him to Allyson, inspired his art, and even made him change his name; his decades-in-the-making "Sacred Mirrors" project of 21 7-foot tall pieces depicting the complex layers of human existence; the interconnectedness of life; the history of psychedelic art; how imagination and non-ordinary states help us connect with the divine; and the value of art in conveying the mystical experience.
Alex and Allyson are the Co-Founders of the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, an interspiritual church/retreat center in upstate New York that, after years of work, is debuting Entheon: an art sanctuary and psychedelic reliquary featuring much of their art and work from favorite artists, a shrine to Tool (who Alex has worked with for most of their career), and a collection of relics from psychedelic legends that includes Albert Hofmann's glasses, art signed by Stan Grof and the Shulgins, and even Timothy Leary's ashes. Entheon opens on June 3, on the anniversary of the first acid trip the Greys took together, which gave them a framework for understanding life and an inspiration for art they still follow to this day.
And in honor of Bicycle Day, Alex talks about two pieces dedicated to Albert Hofmann, and continues his Bicycle Day tradition of reading a statement Hofmann made a year before he passed about psychedelics being the "absolute highest importance to consciousness change." In celebration of Albert Hofmann and the gift he gave us, and with inspiration from the incredibly complex and beautiful art Alex and Allyson create, have a happy, safe, and creative Bicycle Day!
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| 0:00.0 | Have you wondered why psychedelics like psilocybin, ketamine, LSD, MDMA and others have such profound |
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| 1:38.6 | episode. And if you are listening on the day that we've released this recording, it is the eve of |
| 1:43.7 | Bicycle Day, 2023. So this is a day that we've released this recording, it is the eve of Bicycle Day, |
| 1:44.8 | 2020. So this is a day that's really special to our community around the globe, of course, |
| 1:51.5 | commemorating the fateful day in 1943 that Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman intentionally ingested LSD |
| 1:59.3 | for the very first time. |
| 2:01.9 | Where would we be, if not for him and his work? |
| 2:04.5 | I don't really know, but I'm pretty sure at the very least I would not be sitting here talking to you. |
| 2:10.2 | So thank you, Albert Hoffman. |
| 2:13.7 | So today on the show, we have a real treat for our listeners, a conversation with our friends, |
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