

His most well-known paintings-intricate skeletal structures in moments of spiritual ecstasy-are meditations in and of themselves. No one alive today has played more of a role in facilitating this for psychedelic users than artist Alex Grey. But when words fail us, art can step in-allowing us to make sense of the emotional, amorphous moments that perhaps we need to contemplate more than the ones we can clearly articulate. This creates a fundamental barrier to understanding each other’s experiences, particularly those as multidimensional as trips.

For all of humanity’s accomplishments-landing on the moon, connecting people halfway across the globe with the push of a button, creating life in a laboratory-we still have yet to comprehend our own minds.
