For several years, Alex Grey has been working on a major 7.5 foot by 15 foot painting called Net of Being.   Related to Grey's series of painted and sculpted "universal beings" created since 1999, the Net of Being establishes a new order of infinite space composed of and continuous with infinite consciousness.  A fiery web of eyes and galaxies form a realm of total interconnectedness in an x-y-z axis grid of Godheads, implying mirror-like inter-reflectivity throughout space.   The viewer peers up into the necks of the next higher level of Godheads.  The shared heart of each four-faced Quad God sheds an eerie underlight, as a  ball of white light inside each head sources luminosity for a level above and beyond sight.  Through light, the head and heart are merged in a mesh evocative of the mythic Jewel Net of Indra or Buddhafields from the Avatamsaka Sutra.

Adam Jones, the guitar and art wizard of TOOL saw Alex's early drawings for the Net of Being back in 2002, and he expressed a strong interest in the image at that time. Grey is extremely honored to have his painting grace the cover and interior of TOOL's historic package of their staggering new album, 10,000 Days.