Beyond a Temple for All Spiritual Traditions: The Skywheel Project, an Interdenominational Prayer Wheel Satellite

In my last post, I briefly discussed the temples created by Mati Klarwein, Alex Grey and Oberto Airaudi, which were designed with the purpose to unite humanity through meditation and art, in order to promote world peace with respect to all spiritual traditions. Each living being on our fragile Earth has a place in the Universe. Through art, spirituality and self-expression, mankind realizes a sense of the Sacred. Self-realization and self-expression helps each one of us to connect ourselves to that which is greater than us. By acting compassionately and by caring for ourselves, others and the world, we humans can and must be stewards of the Earth and of the Universe.


In 2008, conceputal installation artists Kim Garrison-Means and Steve Radosevich, known collectively as the United Catalysts, embarked upon conceptualizing and building the world's first prayer wheel satellite, which will have an sun synchronous orbit with a lifespan of 1,000 years. Their creation is known as the Skywheel Project, and is described by their Mission Statement: "The Skywheel Satellite is inspired by the Tibetan Buddhist Prayer Wheel, a meditational tool used to focus intentions of compassion and healing for all sentient beings...filled with sacred text representing blessings from every spiritual tradition on the planet, it will serve as a beacon of light, a navigational aid for the heart of humanity. As the Skywheel satellite orbits our home for the next millennia, it will serve both as a symbol for, and a confirmation of that which is greater than us." The artists are currently accepting submissions for sacred text and symobls from all the world's spiritual traditions, in any form of verbal and visual communication. 


In Garrison-Means' and Radosevich's statement, the Skywheel Project satellite "will create a focus for our simplest, our most profound, and our most ancient dream: of creating a better world for ourselves, for those we hold in our hearts and in our prayers, and for our planet as a whole; a world that resides in peace, harmony, and mutual celebration of its beautiful, unparalleled diversity."


To view artwork by the United Catalysts, please visit their website: 
 (both artists are also UNLV MFA-graduates)
http://www.unitedcatalysts.net/artists.htm 
http://www.unitedcatalysts.net/projects.htm

To read more about the Skywheel Project, please go to: http://skywheel.org/index.html 
To follow their Blog: http://skywheelproject.blogspot.com/2012_01_01_archive.html