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Link in Bio. 🖼 The psychedelic art of allysongreycosm explores timeless themes. Visionary art aims to transcend the boundaries of the physical realm to portray a wider view of awareness through mystical and spiritual themes. Artist Allyson Grey is a conceptual abstract painter whose work is inspired by these themes, and believes parallels between contemporary visionary art and ancient art can be found everywhere.

Allyson has spent decades exploring her work as a visionary artist, which stems from a life changing LSD trip where she first experienced “secret writing.” Along with her husband and fellow visionary artist alexgreycosm, she co-founded the 
chapelofsacredmirrors (#CoSM), a transdenominational church and nonprofit org in upstate New York. 

Ancient art infuses psychedelic, primordial elements that trickle into the framework of contemporary art, including Allyson Grey’s work, which incorporates elements of sacred geometry, symbols, illuminated manuscripts, and what she calls “secret writing.”

“Secret writing has been reported by many psychonauts,” Allyson Grey says. “Of the infinite variety of symbols I witnessed, I made art and eventually selected an alphabet of 20 letters and arranged them in a chosen mantric order. Secret writing in my art is meant to be untranslatable and unpronounceable. Their meaning is ineffable. Symbols are how we perceive and interpret all things. Our minds translate meaning through our unique life experience.”

Allyson Grey’s recurring motifs include images of the realms of heaven and hell, abstract visions and portrayals of inner realms, cosmograms and mandalas, and sacred geometry, which she describes as “visions of worlds inside of worlds and charts of the cosmos.”

From her first LSD trip and 'spiritual awakening,' to the various historical, artistic, and spiritual influences in her life & art, themes common throughout her work, how CoSM was founded, and her thoughts on the power of psychedelics, it's time you got to know 
#AllysonGrey.
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Read it on HighTimes.com/culture | bybenjaminadams

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