Kristena West Art: PodCast

Podcasts are about art and healing. Cross-cultural spiritual traditions and transformative arts & consciousness. And how we can use creative arts as a path of knowing. Lets look at how art, writing & films reflect what's cooking in the human psyche...Kristena has worked in high-end galleries from New Orleans to Rodeo Drive, she has studied with shamans, received degrees in psychology, communicatons, fashion design and fine arts. Stay tuned for Art & Healing from a cross-cultural perspectives. Feeling blocked or creatively at a stand-still? Book a 1:1 spiritual coaching session with me. Let’s reconnect you with your true voice, power, and creative spark. https://calendly.com/kristenawestart-info

HEART-SIGHT: A CONTEMPLATIVE JOURNEY WITH CHRIST AS OUR HEALING ICON: VISIONARY ART 03/29/2026

Discover & Paint Your Power Animal: A Creative Journey to Your Inner Ally 01/29/2026

HARVARD DIVINITY: 100 YEARS OF RUDOLF STEINER /A Century Later — Steiner Steps Into the Light 11/30/2025

How I Left Everything for the Transformative Arts M.A. — and Then 9/11 Changed My Path as an Artist 11/23/2025

MUST BE THE SEASON OF THE WITCH: CONNECTING WITH THE DEAD 10/31/2025

Did You Know There’s Another Way to Create Art? Step One in Creative and Spiritual Self-Empowerment 10/21/2025

Ten Tips to Save Human Creativity in a Chat Bot World: Human Hearts & Hands Making, Crafting, Creating Our Future Healthy 10/13/2025

Muzzling the King’s Fool? | Jesters, Power & Politics of Laughter 09/24/2025

Spiritual Qualities of Color Guide • 20+ Page PDF for Artists, Healers, Chakras • Color Meanings, Energy, and Emotional Insight 08/01/2025

The Color & Shape of Thought Forms: Anger, Lust, Jealousy & Alcohol 07/07/2025

Dark Winds — Nemesis Unleashed: Karma, Conscience & the Price of Violence: Thought Forms Part 5 07/06/2025

Dark Winds — Nemesis Unleashed: Karma, Conscience & the Price of Violence: Thought Forms Part 5 🌀 Book a Private Coaching Session with Kristena West, M.A. If you want to understand what a spiritual picture of karmic retribution looks like —This week I am discussing Dark Winds, Season 3, Episode 6, produced by Robert Redford. I STOOD (yes, stood!) RIVETED watching Joe Leaphorn struggling with his conscience over some grievous deeds and his question if he could come back into harmony… When fate strikes him a blow — and he crosses a threshold. Is he dead? Is he dreaming? Is he in purgatory? The atmosphere is chilling. In this 30-minute Vlog, I explore what this moment shows us about karma, conscience, and what some traditions call Kamaloca — the moral landscape we encounter after death, where we face our deeds through the eyes of those we've impacted. This is Part 5 of my Thought Forms series. We walk through: •The Hero Twins of Navajo cosmology — mythic protectors, justice-bringers, and initiators of souls •Kamaloca from the esoteric tradition — as taught by Rudolf Steiner and the mystery schools • Hungry Ghosts — the Tibetan vision of our unsatisfied desires And they’re showing us how karma moves, how conscience speaks, and how unhealed action becomes avenging beings. When Leaphorn crosses a threshold — framed by the Hero Twins. He’s in a surreal reckoning. And through that reckoning, the show delivers one of the most spiritually accurate depictions of karmic return I’ve ever seen on screen. So if you’ve ever wondered: Can stories carry spiritual power? What happens when we die with unfinished business? Is there a place where conscience takes on form? Then come with me. I’m Kristena West — artist, spiritual teacher, and lifelong student of the esoteric. We’re crossing a threshold. We’re meeting the forces that wait when the past is not laid to rest. And we’re asking: Is it death? Is it dream? Or is it truth waiting to be faced? This is Dark Winds — Nemesis Unleashed: Karma, Conscience & the Price of Violence. And it’s time to see what rises when justice has a face. /episode/index/show/anartistslife/id/37295980