PRINCESS ZISKA CHAPTER 2 & 3 

Kristena West: One of my favorite books when  was a teenager! 

Chapter One

Ziska (1897)
Marie Corelli Read by Kristena West

Armand Gervase has it all. He is a famous artist, his paintings are hung in national galleries, and he is celebrated worldwide. His best-known painting, depicting an alluring Egyptian woman about to murder her lover, is known for its minute, historic detail, yet Armand has no experience with Egypt's ancient past . . . or does he?

Rejecting the idea of heaven and hell, soul and spirit, Armand embraces a life of decadence which allows him the freedom to act as he pleases -- until he meets the seductive and hypnotic Princess Ziska. Haunted by strange and distant memories of her, Armand attempts to unravel her mystery, only to discover his memories of her are centuries old -- and she looks terrifyingly similar to the female in his celebrated painting. How can this be? Has he fallen in love with a ghost, or is there something more sinister lurking behind Ziska's hypnotic eyes?

A supernatural tale of reincarnation, seduction, and revenge, Ziska was a bestseller upon its publication in 1897. 

A Prophet is Not recognized in their own hometown- or welcome to a Saint's Life. Podcast discusses the nature of a "realized" being. What is the biographical sketch that links these extraordinary beings? www.KristenaWestArt.com

Kristena begins the story of her Covid Christmas in Cottage Hospial Oakland - a story of humor, good will, rehab skills, being alone close to death, and the stories of others in the same situation. Short Holiday episodes every night - stay tuned.  #KWest4aHome

Happy Winter Solstice the darkest land ongest night of the year....time for change & renewal. Kristena tells the story of her relationship with a horse she shared with her sister, and what revelation happened years later in a clacking train in Egypt one night. Revelations and Reveals - the love of our animals and poetry too!

Why is Art Making Important, Loss of Women's Rights, War in Europe,  Can We Heal Ourselves & Others? Learn To Make Art With A Healing Potential for the Viewer? Free eBook Start a Sacred Art Practice  www.KristenaWestArt.com 

We have four earth art festivals that lay over equinox and solstices; Many modern artists work along these Festival themes in their contemporary art practice. St. John tide as an archeypal pattern outlines how artists can work; Letting Go in order to birth our Beloved. What can we do to to create from Mindfullness point of view as our spiritual practice? Kristena gives techniques to support working along spiritual lines of inquiry. 

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Saving Santa & the Creative Imagination.
Podcast discusses the benefits of cultivating creativity, awe and wonder for health and strength. Children's Hospital, Oakland the Dolls For Peace Community Arts Project.

This podcast introduces how to listen to a poem or story and make art and start a dream practice contemplative arts. The Dream Song of Olaf Åsteson
a Nordic Initiation story: 12 day Painting & Dream workshop through the 12 Holy Nights

What is the nature of pure creativity? How do we cultivate this mindfulness practice? How does our emotions shift our creative practice? How can we welcome our true inner artist? 

Nothing worse than a painting going wrong, as my Mom used to say. This podcast discusses various reactions to this scenario. Kristena pulls from 40+ years of painting disasters and shamanic techniques to resolve our creative journey. 

Today's vlog is on the Virtue of Balance becomes Progress. Anytime we take hold of ourselves and identify one habit we would like to transform or dissolve, we change our soul vibration, and this promotes health and over time can heal our chakras...that may be a leap but mindfulness meditations have proven to be health giving for thousands of years. This leads to clarification of our soul forces and can heal our body-mind-spirit. Today we start with a Balance meditation to try in some situations to remain nuetral and not be swayed by sympathy or antipathy. Equilibrium between opposites = freedom.

A friend and I were discussing the good luck and bad luck some people have. She said that if people had "bad karma" she felt it was somehow "their fault" and they had to deal with it. Using new age ideas, this somehow let her off the hook entirely from the situation. Frankly, it sounded heartless.

Art and Healing how do we re-create our art practice after a year of Covid? What mindfullness practices can support our creative life? How to start a nurturing contemplative arts practice for somatic and spiritual health.  

I have been teaching Alchemy groups since 1990. I wrote the Alchemy book twenty years ago. The work is as relevant today, and will take you into the future. You are being called to a greater life, if you read and do the exercises given in this book, and are open to adventure; you will become the Heroine or Hero of your journey. 

An introduction into working with archetypal pictures Michael and the Dragon artistically in contemplations and meditative way. Aspects of Michael and Dragon nature.

Anger is toxic, dealing with our own and dealing with angry people. Anger turns into rage, and ragers are scary; insights and remedies to handling and overcoming addictions. Vices and virtues.

Podcast discusses how can we bring personal healing into the betrayals we have experienced? Family of origin core wounds, groups, communities, lovers and friends, transformative arts, metanoia, developing personal rituals of healing. Women's Inner Work.

The Dream Song of Olaf Åsteson a Nordic Initiation: 12 day Painting & Dream workshop through the 12 Holy Nights

The Dream Song of Olaf Asteson is an ancient Norwegian Folk Song. Olaf falls asleep on Christmas eve and "sleeps" through the holy nights waking on January 6th epiphany. Olaf while "sleeping" experiences secrets of the human being and cosmos. The dream-song gives us the "spiritual" pictures in poetic form of his initiation journey. As Joseph Campbell reminds us, the Hero's Journey is found in myths, legends and poem-songs. 

One women's journey toward meeting the Divine Feminine through study and artistic practice. Podcast discuss the Divine Feminine through cross-cultural iconography and religious traditions.

This podcast is about Transformation Arts & Consciousness. What makes art sacred? How do we live a sacred life? What are artists bringing into the world with monster art? What brings healing into an art piece? Cross-cultural spiritual traditions. 

Podcast is about identifying the merit of spiritual teachers or leaders. Spirit Animals, Shamanism, Esoteric development, Illusion and the consequences of false teachers. Thought forms, Lord of the Rings, Portrait of Dorian Gray, Jekyll and Hyde Shadow.

With people all over the world "scrapping" copies of artists original work and selling it as the "artists own work" -what are the emotional, psychological, financial and ethical ramifications? Kristena discusses A from a various perspectives including shamanic, spiritual, religious and ethical viewpoints. What is the Karma being created by using ai fraudulently? Will ai be the death of the artist? Will artists begin to hide their work?

Listen as Kristena shares personal stories.

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Overcoming Jealousy Creatively how creatives block, avoid and allow jealousy to stop creative flow. Understanding that jealousy a destructive emotion that we project as shadow onto others. Inner work and the overcoming of behaviors that limit and bind 

Transformative Arts & Healing topic is on creative blocks, tips on overcoming them through use of active imagination, dreamwork and shamanic journeywork. There can be deeper reasons why creativity disappears tips for transformation.

Chapter 2 Transformative Arts & Healing. Author addresses JFK University Transformation Arts and Consciousness program. Introduces different artists that came as speakers to program and how they used art as methods of healing. Dolls for Peace Children's Hospital Oakland,

Chapter One Transformative Arts and Healing. experience of an art consultant in high-end galleries in New Orleans, Rodeo Drive and Northern California. What does the art market really do behind the scenes. Motif of selling art, product oriented sales, manipulating the client.

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Podcasts is about cross-cultural non-denominational Stories of Personal Encounters with Jesus Christ. Transformational Arts and Consciousness art critiques in Berkeley about my grail maiden dolls and the reaction to this and 20 years more study. Arts and Spirituality.

Kristena discusses how the ancient Earth Festival of Michaelmas is relevant for our contemporary time, and brings her urban shamanic-pyschological know-how to our limiting beliefs and behaviors. Kristena reveals some of the deeper esoteric secrets of what happens to humans who overcome their negative behaviors and thereby tame our Dragon natures.

We want to live creative, free and healthy lives, innerwork is the secret key to resilience and deep inner strength and courage to live to the fullest. www.KristenaWestArt.com 

Kristena discusses the Art of Seeing based on her favorite article by David Appelbaum for Parabola magazine: 4 Meditations on Seeing. Using the great Christian Mystic Meister Eckhart's writings reveal that he was "tubing the cosmic wave" his understanding of consciousness equals great Buddhist sages and the brainstorming sessions at MIT. What is it like to Create out of Nothing?  www.KristenaWestArt.com parabola.org/2017/01/22/four-meditations-on-seeing-by-david-appelbaum

Podcast is about using somatic (body) issues - pain, obstacles, blocks, as a creative transformative process, accessing deeper dreams and undiscovered Life Purpose. Kristena discusses her life long art practice and how a injury led to using art as a transformative process leading to her creating a new life path and www.SunHeartBohoClothing.com

HAPPY APRIL FOOLS! What is the gift of Sacred Clowns, Holy Fools, Jesters and comedians from a cross-cultural viewpoint? What is the Medicine Gift for these amazing Archetypes? How do they serve the world? Yes, Humor but there's more to it, enjoy! www.KristenaWestArt.com