Th e i n evi ta b l e c o n sequ en ce of lov e i s t he building o f temples .

En th eon

Entheon means a place to discover the God within. At CoSM, Entheon will be a sanctuary of visionary art scheduled to open late 2015. The ornamental architecture of Entheon points to the transcendent unity of all sacred paths. A continuous band of identical Godheads ring the building, with symbols of different world wisdom traditions above each Cosmic Eye. Wielding a snake entwined paintbrush as hermetic healing staff, the Angels of Creative Imagination on the cheeks represent tears of mercy cried from the many faced Godhead. The angels of creativity bridge the Cosmic Eye of God and the human eye. The many eyes on the roof represent consciousness. DNA dragons, symbolizing consciousness evolution, emerge from the Angels of the Four Directions and ascend to the One.

gratitude
Our deepest appreciation to everyone who supported the Entheon Kickstarter Campaign! It takes a miracle of creative imagination on the part of a community to envision sacred space into existence and that is precisely what is happening. Thank you to the 1,510 backers who responded, taking the Entheon project to the next level toward realization. Your pledges will support the elaborate architectural planning and engineering phase, lasting throughout 2013. We anticipate groundbreaking for the new steel foundations in Spring 2014. Due to the masterful direction of Nick Kraz, premier lmmaker/videographer and Kickstarter Campaign Manager, the Entheon fundraiser met its goal of $125K on day 29 of the 39 day campaign and went on to raise $210K, 160% of its goal, becoming the second most funded art project to date (June 2013). So many friends helped and we especially thank Joe Rogan, Alan Steinfeld, Reality Sandwich, Tool, and of course, Kickstarter!

Allyson Grey and Alex Grey, in front of their collaborative painting Mayan Being 2012

gratitude
As an extraordinary gift to CoSM, Ryan Tottle has digitally modeled the entire exterior of Entheon, bringing Alexs drawings into a new dimension. Ryans exceptional skill and generosity of spirt make him a true angel of Entheon. After careful architectural engineering, the ornamentally sculpted building will be 3D printed in order to make molds for casting the GFRC, [glass ber reinforced concrete] skin of the building.

Allyson Grey with Ryan Tottle and Alex Grey, 2013

gratitude
Thanks overflows for CoSM Staff. A staff picture is rare indeed in our busy hive where we all wear many hats. May we introduce to you the mid-2013 stars in the CoSMosis.

Floor: Matt Dudin [beekeeper, alpaca keeper, entrepreneur] CFO Nick Kraz (lmmaker) CoSM: The Movie, Entheon Kickstarter Campaign Manager Jess Shada [artist/designer] CoSM Shop Manager Brian James [artist, re spinner extraordinaire] Site & Building Manager Middle: Allyson Grey [artist] Co-founder, Co-Director Alex Grey [artist] Co-founder, Co-Director Joness Jones [painter/muralist] Media Lab Artist/Designer; Sharon Stelluto [artist] Hospitality Coordinator (left staff 8/13) Michael Smith [musician] Cafe Coordinator; (left staff 10/13) Eli Morgan [artist/designer] Creative Director, Travel Manager;

Back: Sharon Fulcher [artist] Staff Artist/Personal Assistant; Gordon McPherson [DJ Psylander] Unstoppable Force of Shipping; Jeffrey Wilson [sculptor] Master Carpenter; Tim Mundy [artist, re spinner] Master Mason (left staff 8/13) Jon Ohia Wilson [social sculptor] Program Coordinator, Production & Social Media Manager; Rey Soto [super-star] Volunteer Coordinator, Cafe/Shipping Supervisor Missing: Ian Arremony [artist/painter] Chef Oscar Cardenas [earthworks artist] Grounds Caretaker, Chef Laura Bellizzi [bass player, future mortician] Assistant Hospitality Coordinator Maggie Kelley [social sculptor] Hospitality Coordinator

CoS M NYC 2 0 0 4-2009

For decades, the visionary art of Alex Grey has touched hearts and minds around the globe with glowing x-ray depictions of body and soul in the context of consciousness expansion and evolution. From 2004 to 2009, the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in New York City offered an installation of fty works by Alex Grey. Tens of thousands of visitors to CoSM came to experience the transformational power of art. Since CoSM NYC closed its doors, the paintings have been in storage and unavailable to the public. Its time to bring the paintings back! Entheon will be an exhibition space for these extraordinary iconic works. MicroCoSM Gallery in Entheon will show art by accomplished and emerging visionary artists from all over the world. A destination open year round, Entheon will be a sanctuary for contemplating visionary art, bringing soul renewal now and for generations to come.
The Greys in CoSM NYC 2005. Photograph by Dean Chamberlain

The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors will bring you face to face with your soul and move you to a new level of enlightenment.

Deepak Chopra

En theo n V I L L A G E A T B UR NING M A N, 2 0 0 6
Entheon, meaning a place to discover the God within, is the name Alex offered to the renowned Burning Man Camp birthed in partnership with MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies) and Matt Atwood (algaesystems.com) in 2006. Many of the best and brightest Visionary painters exhibited banners and live-painted (with music before an audience) in Entheon Villages various domes and sculptural tents.

CoSM Dome, Entheon Village, Burning Man 2006

Inside CoSM Dome, Entheon Village, Burning Man 2006

Inside CoSM Dome, Entheon Village, Burning Man 2006

Alhambra, Spain

Saqqara, Egypt

Teotihuacan, near Mexico City

Duomo de Milano, Milan, Italy

Temple of Horus, Egypt

St. Basils Cathedral, Moscow

Cathedral of the Holy Mother, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Chartres, France

David Best Temple, Burning Man 2006

CoSM site is chosen. Wappinger, New York, 2008

The Sphinx, Egypt

Bahai Temple, Chicago, Illinois

Damanhur, Turin, Italy

Ernst Fuchs Nympheanum, Vienna

Thorncrown Chapel, Ozarks

We have traveled the world studying sacred sites with the intention of building contemporary temple grounds. After many years of searching, in 2007 a 40 acre interfaith retreat center was discovered in the Town of Wappinger, New York at ndthedivine.com. The extraordinary site with six buildings and a barn, walking distance from a Manhattan train stop, seemed the perfect site for CoSM. Finally, a place on which a temple could be built and community could gather to ceremonially celebrate, create, and contemplate visionary art and culture.

Borobudur, Java, Indonesia

Rothko Chapel, Houston, Texas

Cathedral Rock, Sedona, Arizona

Pantheon, Rome, Italy

Co S M Pr op er t y

The property is a wooded hill inclining 1,500 feet from the Hudson River, the same exact distance from the Hudson River as CoSMs former home on W. 27th St. in NYC (2004-9).

Since 2003, an unbroken chain of Full Moon celebrations have been held at CoSM, now in the library of Grey House, the visionary Victorian where community gathers, celebrates, educates and worships. Here, creative people are building an oasis for spiritual and cultural renewal.

Altered States sculpture by Kate Raudenbush in CoSM meadow since 2009.

CoSM Full Moon Ceremony, Wappinger, NY, 2010

CoSM Goddess

The proportions of CoSMs forty-acre site relate to the vesica piscis, sacred geometry that perfectly hosts an imaginal Goddess form. Atemple is a womb for the soul and intuitively a place of pilgrimage related to the Divine Feminine. A subtle channel runs down the center of the Goddess gure. Chakras positioned on this gure coordinate with amazing accuracy to existing power-points on the landscape.

The crown chakra, in perfect south-east alignment with the entire central channel, is the rst point to receive sunrise on the Winter Solstice and the location of CoSMs Sun Altar.

The heart center of the Goddess is where the previous spiritual center of the United Church ofChrist chose to place a pulpit in the early 60s for black and white ministers to preach together for peace and Civil Rights.

Positioned on the second chakra,the emotional center associated with water, is an ancient well.

The yoni of the Goddess is the entryway to the future Chapel meadow, now featuring artist Kate Raudenbushs sculpture.

S ite Pl an

In August 2013, the Town of Wappinger approved CoSMs site plan for building Entheon, The site plan includes the expansion and repaving of existing roadways, a new parking area, new well and water system, a septic eld, new lighting, landscaping and walkways, in addition to the building itself.

Carri age House: Future Entheon

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On our rst visit to the site, April 22, 2007, the second oor of the 1882 carriage house appeared to have the size [25 x 65] and ceiling height needed to install the twenty-one Sacred Mirrors. The smaller building, structurally compromised, was demolished, saving the old bricks for repurposing.

T ransforming Ca r r i a ge H ou se i n t o E n t h e o n

View from future parking lot, barn side of the carriage house, 2010.

Barn side interior of carriage house.

Barn side of carriage house before renovation.

Dirt oor of basement before new cement pour.

The carriage house facade needed a face lift. CoSM builders Jeff Wilson, Jason Peaches Holmes, and Joey Styles are pictured here engaged in a variety of restoration, including steel reinforcement, leveling the oor and pointing the masonry on all four sides of the carriage house to upgrade the natural wear and tear of an 1882 brick structure.

Chapel o f S acred Mirrors

Brian James, CoSMs head of buildings and grounds, and architect Al Cappelli, have shepherded the total renovation of three CoSM buildings, the ofce, the art studio and the visionary Victorian guest house, before taking on the most comprehensive transformation, an 1882 carriage house into a sculpted building, Entheon, a sanctuary of visionary art.

Brian James, CoSM chief builder and Al Cappelli, architect discuss model.

CoSM NYC 2004 - 2009

Chapel of Sacred Mirrors

For a time before CoSM, the second oor of the carriage house, [25ft. X 65 ft.] was used as an assembly hall for church groups. In this vast open room of Entheon, all twenty-one Sacred Mirrors will be on view. The roof must be replaced and the giant timbers in the ceiling will be saved and repurposed in a future structure at CoSM. The new ceiling will be higher to accommodate criss-crossed softs interweaving the arch-angels, visually connecting the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors.

Early Concepts 2010

The earliest visualizations of converting the 1882 carriage house into Entheon: Visionary Art Sanctuary began in 2009. The rst designs of Entheon featured an atrium lobby addition in front of the brick facade. Design elements such as Allysons letters, DNA dragons, arching angel gures and sacred geometry all appear in these seminal concept sketches.

Several complete designs were proposed by our architect and by Alex, separately and in collaboration, before the nal drawing of the sculpted heads was imagined. Al designed an affordable and elegant design, practical for providing an acclimatized, secure building to exhibit the artwork. Alex took Als framework and built his sculpted vision over that comprehensive and worthy solution created by our architect, Al Capelli.

Vision in Egypt
On Valentines Day, 2012, while on pilgrimage to the sacred sites of Egypt, we witnessed the sun rising between the paws of the Sphinx. Gazing out on the giant pyramids and enjoying Egyptian hash, Alex visioned this conceptual study including winged sphinx guardians, angels, serpents and a Steeplehead.

Entheon Study, February 14, 2012, by Alex Grey, ink on paper, 11 x 14 in.

Entheon Insight
On June 3rd, 3rd,while whilesketching sketching a CoSM event, Alex was On June at at a CoSM event, Alex was envisioning angel pillars for the facade of Entheon. Suddenly, he saw the temple as a multi-faced Godenvisioning angel pillarsfaces for connected the facade Entheon. head, one head with many by of angels wrapping around the entire building . Suddenly, he saw the temple as a multi-faced Godhead, one head with many faces connected by angels wrapping around the entire building . In the new design, several elements from the previous visions were maintained, such as Allysons secret writing, the angels of the four directions, roof dragons, and Steeplehead.

Study for Entheon, Alex Grey, June 2012

For the rst approximation of Entheon, Fall, 2012, Alex photoshop/collaged his concept drawings with digital sculptor, Ryan Tottles individually modeled elements.

Cosmogenesis
Circumambulating Entheon in a clockwise direction, we pass a number of interconnecting sculpted heads, each with a different symbol of a world wisdom tradition in their third eye. Turning the corner, we descend toward the back of Entheon, and pass a sculptural mural of cosmogenisis, the birth of the universe. From clusters of galaxies, the Milky Way is distinguished within which our Sun and planets revolve. The Earth with its orbiting moon is spotlighted. Atoms cascade into molecules that become self-replicating DNA and form the rst signs of life on earth.

Study for left elevation of Entheon: Cosmogenesis to Biogenesis, Alex Grey, 2013

Back Elevation of Entheon

The longest expanse of interconnected Godheads is on the back of Entheon. Under the corner Godheads on the back of Entheon are standing angels with wings outstretched. Angels wings shelter the chain of evolving beings. Centrally positioned under the Godheads, the Vision Crystal doorway alludes to opening the heart region of the building. The door is modeled after Alexs painting, Vision Crystal, a fractal eyed snowake that suggests mind expanding Visions are within.

Back Elevation Study of Entheon, Alex Grey, 2012

Evolution

The sculptural mural on the back of Entheon continues the theme of evolution portraying the rise of species from blue-green algae to Homo Sapiens. At the rear entryway, the skeletons face the mature human man and woman. An angelic ying paintbrush drips a vision of the planet down onto a reaching child. With Divine Creativity, we leave our vision of the world to the coming generation.

Secret Writing

Secret Writing, which will band the knee wall between the roof and facade, has appeared in Allyson Greys artwork for forty years. The alphabet is comprised of twenty unpronounceable letters, corresponding to the nameless presence existent in all sacred writing, the spirit imbedded in communication that cannot be reduced to concepts. Secret writing in every culture is like a window revealing thoughts that become symbols manifest in the material world. Secret writing represents the language of creative manifestation.

Order Chaos and Secret Writing, Allyson Grey, 2008 oil on board, gold leaf, ink, 24 x 14 in.

I n te rfaith
Shinto Native American Pax Cultura

Above each eye of the many-faced Cosmic Creator and throughout the interior of Entheon, dozens of symbols representing the worlds wisdom traditions will welcome all faiths, and afrm the mystic core of compassion at the heart of every sacred path.

Sikhism

Susm

Taoism

Bahai

Hinduism

Wiccan

Judaism

Zoroastrianism

Christianity

Pagan

Islam

Tibetan Buddhism

Jainism

Buddhism

Hunab Ku

God h eads

Working drawing between Alex Grey and Ryan Tottle, 2012

Angel of Creative Imagination

As if cried from the Cosmic Eyes of the Creator, the tear-drop headed Angel of the Creative Imagination forms the cheek of shared Godheads. The angel wields a spearlike paint brush entwined with a caduceus of hermetic serpents, transforming the instrument into a healing tool. The heart is a vision crystal with innite eyes. An Angel of Creative Imagination lines up with a symbol of each wisdom tradition connecting the Cosmic Eye of the Creator with the eye of humanity.

Godheads

Working drawings between Alex and Ryan, 2012

Godheads

Dragons
These drawings of dragons were created by Alex in preparation for sculpture that will enhance the rooftop of Entheon.

Dragons
Artist, Mark Lee was invited to adapt and rene Alexs drawings of the DNA Dragons. Mark is a visionary painter, game designer and extraordinary draftsman who lives in Bali.

Study for Entheon Dragons, Mark Lee, 2012

DNA Dragons
Digital Models of DNA Dragons Concept & Design by Alex Grey. Digital sculpture by Ryan Tottle. With Mark Lees renements, 3D wizard, Ryan Tottle digitally sculpted the DNA dragons designed for the roof of Entheon.

DNA Dragons
Combining the archetype of the Asian dragon, Entheons DNA dragons represent the earths vitality and life principle, the roar of the mythic wonder of life itself unfolding. All of life shares the self-replicating DNA molecule and hence the evolutionary thrust is expressed through the waves of increasing complexity in the bio-realms. On the roof of Entheon, the tails of the four DNA Dragons point in the four directions, North, South, East and West.

Top and Side Elevations of DNA Dragons on Entheon Roof Concept & Design by Alex Grey Digital sculpture by Ryan Tottle

Colle ctive Vision Roof

Collective Vision portrays a glimpse of Alexs rst experience after smoking DMT. This image has been seen by millions in the stage set and graphics of Americas #1 cult band, Tool. Allyson envisioned the Collective Vision as a roof pattern. Master digital sculptor, Ryan Tottle 3D modeled a version that could be adapted to the symmetrical roof of Entheon.

Collective Vision 1995, oil on linen, 38 x 38 in.

It was as if my head multiplied via the psychedelic kaleidoscope and became a domed sanctuary where I could see the source, a spiritual light synonymous with primordial awareness. The multiplication of faces or eyes seems to be a simple way to express the expansion of consciousness. Alex Grey

Eye pattern of the Collective Vision painting by Alex Grey, adapted to the roof of Entheon, digital sculpture by Ryan Tottle, 2012

Ang el o f t he F o ur D ir e ct ion s

3D model of Angel of the Four Directions Concept & Design by Alex Grey Digital sculpture by Ryan Tottle Emerging from the Third Eye of each corner Godhead, stationed on the North, South, East, and West corners of Entheon, are the Angels of the Four Directions

An g e l o f t he F o ur D ir e c t i on s

3D model of Angel of the Four Directions Concept & Design by Alex Grey Digital sculpture by Ryan Tottle

S teeplehead

Steeplehead Concept & Design by Alex Grey Digital sculpture by Ryan Tottle

The single Quad-God Steeplehead of Entheon suggests the pinnacle of Oneness, the unied faces of God, in relation to the multiple heads below.

Soulbird
The soul and the winged angel are historically and archetypically fused. In Egyptian mythology, the soul is associated with a human headed bird called the Ba that arises from the dying person as they release their nal breath. This sculptural symbol combines the quad-faced angel with the body of a bird. Seeing in every direction at once indicates universal vision. The wings bearing eyes, indicate the ight of higher consciousness.

Soulbird Concept Drawings by Alex Grey. Digital Modeling by Ryan Tottle.

Entheon Front Facade with Secret Writing and Soulbirds Ink drawing (detail) by Alex Grey, digital door and sign by Ryan Tottle

En th e o n Lo go

CoSM symbol
The Eye of Spirit or eye in the triangle, is an ancient symbol representing the singularity of God. In sacred geometry, the upward pointing triangle, like a ame, represents the mind. With the eye, the symbol can be interpreted as higher vision. To see God, one must look through Gods eye. Secret Language is an original intuited alphabet and essential element in Allysons art that represents the sacred language of creativity. Out of Gods eye comes the language of creative expression.

Fountainhead
Upon entering the narthex or entryhall of Entheon, the original brick wall of the carriage house (1882) will host an overowing three tiered CoSM Grail, a fountain to greet every pilgrim. The top head is pinecone shaped to recall the pineal gland associated with the Third Eye, Source of Visions.

World Prayer Wheel

The World Prayer Wheel will be near the entrance of Entheon for every pilgrim to turn as they enter. The World Prayer Wheel was created to honor all wisdom paths, to invoke the spirit of active compassion and reinforce communion with a conscious cosmos. The sculpture is a Guardian Angel with four faces staring in the four directions, a crown of eyes and visionary wings enfolding the Lotus Born Planet Earth. On the base are prayers for the purication of the Elements, Peace between All Beings, Abundant creative energy, and Liberation for All Beings. The prayer wheel is a Tibetan Buddhist ritual object, a wheel on a spindle, with a mantra on the outside of the wheel. The effect of spinning a prayer wheel is similarly meritorious to orally reciting prayers. A prayer wheel invokes the energy of active compassion for yourself and the world.

World Prayer Wheel, 2007-2012, bronze. 24 in.

Entheon Kickstarter Campaign

Entheon Kickstarter Campaign

Final Tally Update #25 June 5, 2013 Hello Entheon Backers! Our final numbers are: 1,510 Backers $210,127 pledged How Amazing! Its been a journey and we are processing all your transactions now, as well as hard at work on producing all the wonderful rewards you pledged for. Weve sent out surveys asking for specic choices and shipping info. As soon as we get these back well get busy on them. Stay tuned to these updates since we will be sending out the digital bundle and Mission of Art audio book links through here...

CoSMs rst Kickstarter Campaign dropped in San Francisco on Bicycle Day 4/19/13, the 70th Anniversary of the rst LSD trip taken by its inventor/discoverer, Dr. Albert Hoffman on 4/19/43. To celebrate the great occasion, Johnathan Singer with the help of Roy Edwards, produced a 5 x 7 ft. DJ booth, a computer print-out of Entheon in hard foam. It is with giant 3D computer print-outs that the sculptural facade of the actual building of Entheon will be created.

Entheon Kickstarter Event in Los Angeles

Alex & Allyson and the Entheon Altar DJ Booth, with Angels! May 16, 2013 -- In the city of Angels, we celebrated the launch of the Entheon Kickstarter campaign, a fundraiser to build the rst temple of visionary art at CoSM.

Many friends contributed, including musicians Ott, Michal Menert, Thriftworks, Desert Dwellers, Lynx, Treavor Moontribe, Ribotto, and artists Chet Zar, Amanda Sage, Randall Roberts, Chris Dyer, Guy Aitchison, Vibrata Chromadoris, Zachariah Gregory, Michael Divine and more. Thanks to all our friends in Los Angeles for their love and support. The Entheon Kickstarter raised 160% of our goal in 39 days.

Psy-dub master, Ott, in the DJ booth. Jonathan Singers visual kaleidoscope of the work of beloved visionary artists.

The magnicent electronic musician Ott.

Creator of the extraordinary L.A. gallery, La Luz de Jesus, Billy Shire is a long-time supporter of contemporary visionary art.

Here, A & A join their beloved friends, Janine Jordan and Ken Jordan. Ken Jordan, one of the creators of international music sensation, The Crystal Method, played a mind-blowing surprise set.

Chet Zars demon seems to have affected Allysons eyes.

Our daughter, Zena dropped by.

Thank you to Roy Edwards, Rachel Audette, Johnathan Singer, the team that manifested the Entheon Altar DJ Booth!

Doors of Future Chapel of Sacred Mirrors at Entheon On the front doors of CoSM are painted Adam and Eve, primal man and woman, woven within a sacred geometric template of proportions. The layout of the human gure portrayed here was inspired by the work of Father Desiderious, a nineteenth century priest, who measured ancient Egyptian and Greek statuary to arrive at these ideal proportions. The Chakras, a Hindu yogic map of the subtle body system, are represented by spectral colored circles ascending the spinal column. From the groin to the top of the head, the chakras model a material world to spiritual world hierarchy and appear in numerous paintings in the CoSM collection. The Kabalistic Tree Of Life from the mystical Hebrew tradition, is represented by white circles that border the doorway gures in a double-pointed crystalline form. Traditionally shown as ten stations, or Sephirot, the Tree grows downward from Heaven, from Kether, the highest spiritual center, to Malkuth, the manifest material world located at the feet. Adam and Eve have returned to the Garden to harvest the Tree of Wisdom. The fruits of the Tree are all the worlds religions. A tapestry of living creatures fill the landscape. Together archetypal Man and Woman are creating a better more beautiful world with their divine artistry. The central channel of the tree depicts the evolutionary ascent of consciousness symbolized by a winged DNA serpent with a cosmic Horus above. The Chapel shape itself is the pinnacle. The door handle is the CoSM symbol. A visionary temple of art can be of service to humanity pointing to the sacredness of all creation and to a possible future of unity and diversity in a planetary civilization.

Creating a Better World Alex Grey 2011 pencil on paper,12.5 x 12.5 in.

gr a t i t u de
Our deepest gratitude to everyone who backed CoSMs Entheon Kickstarter Campaign which started on April 19, 2013, Bicycle Day, the 70th anniversary of the rst LSD trip and ended at midnight Friday, May 31st, the anniversary of Alexs rst LSD trip and of true loves rst kiss, Alex and Allysons rst date. Due to the masterful direction of Nick Kraz, premier lmmaker/ videographer and Kickstarter campaign manager, the Entheon fundraiser met its goal on day twenty-nine. The entire 39 day journey was one exhilarating push and learning experience. How do we transmit our inspired fervor to create a temple of visionary art that would be a legacy for our community? How do we ask for help in making this vision a reality? It takes a a community with a miracle of creative imagination to envision sacred space into existence and that is precisely what is happening. Thank you to 1,510 backers who responded and are taking the Entheon project to the next level toward its realization. Thank you for helping CoSM raise 160% of our goal -- $210,127. Thank you to Eli Morgan -- eli@cosm.org Thank you to Joe Rogan -- joerogan.net Thank you to Alan Steinfeld -- newrealities.com Thank you to Reality Sandwich -- realitysandwich.com Thank you to Tool -- toolband.com Thank you to Kickstarter -- kickstarter.com Most of all, thank you to the CoSM Staff.

design and layout: Alex Grey and Eli Morgan.