The Spiritual Artist Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

As the year draws to a close, CJ reflects on the journey of The Spiritual Artist Podcast throughout Season 4. His goal has always been to share spiritual concepts with creative individuals—whether they are artists or thought leaders—helping them connect with their unique Creative DNA.

In this special end-of-year review, CJ revisits the top 5 most impactful episodes of all time and reveals his personal top 3 favorites. He highlights episodes featuring artists who have transcended their challenges to embody the essence of a true Spiritual Artist—shining as points of light for others.

CJ also encourages listeners to explore his YouTube channel for visual demonstrations of his creative process, where he shares spiritual lessons through art-making. Or, stay tuned to the podcast for engaging, in-depth interviews with inspiring artists and thought leaders.

His book, "The Spiritual Artist" is available on Amazon and retreat information can be found at spiritualartistoday.com

CJ recommends his all-time favorite episodes:

Season 2, E 28
Outsider Artist Charles McDowell Navigates Bipolar Disorder with Creativity

Season 4, E88
Turning Disabilities into Art Ability with Photo Realism Artist Leonard Buscemi

Season 4, E94
Are we at choice when emotions are triggered? With Rev. Lora Brandis

Want to learn more about CJ Miller? Check out his Spiritual Artist Retreats, 1:1 Personal Coaching, and Speaking Engagements at www.spiritualartisttoday.com. His retreats are designed to help you reconnect with your Creative Intelligence and express your true artistic voice. You can also find his upcoming schedule there, and his book, The Spiritual Artist, is available on Amazon.

In this inspiring and thought-provoking episode, International Coach and Senior Trainer for the More to Life Foundation, Ann McMaster, joins CJ Miller to explore how personal sovereignty and intuitive wisdom guide us toward our Real Reality. Ann, a psychotherapist and author of Lifeshocks, shares how the interplay of mind, heart, and gut intelligence allows us to move beyond social conditioning and cultural scripts to live authentically. Together, they discuss the concept of boundaries and how these not only protect our essence but also create the freedom to navigate relationships, social media, and life’s challenges with personal empowerment and clarity. 

Ann introduces practical tools like the Say-Do-Feel alignment to assess trust and authenticity in ourselves and others. By tuning into gut intuition and adopting "soft eyes," Ann explains how we can take in a broader perspective, discerning reality while filtering out fear-based narratives. Drawing from neuroscience, she highlights the Reticular Activating System, a mechanism in the brain that aligns perception with our emotional focus. Whether navigating social media or personal relationships, Ann encourages listeners to direct their attention toward what they do want to manifest, using intentional focus and mindful attention to shape their lives. 

The conversation touches on the profound connection between mind, heart, and gut, offering practical exercises to ground and reconnect with one's essence. Ann guides listeners through a powerful heart-centered grounding technique that aligns the body, calms panic, and restores clarity. CJ shares his own practice of presence and the importance of filtering out fear-based content to avoid disconnection from self, including his use of affirmative prayer as a tool to focus on desired outcomes and align with Creative Intelligence. 

This episode is a beautiful invitation to embrace your personal sovereignty: follow your heart, trust your gut, and honor your unique journey by establishing boundaries that maintain personal alignment and sovereignty. Through tools like mindful attention, discernment, and love-based action, listeners are empowered to remain connected to their essence while supporting others in their authenticity. Form truly follows energy—and when you align with your truth, life unfolds with greater ease and flow. 

For more information on Ann McMaster visit, https://annmcmaster.com/. Her book, "Lifeshocks: Out of the Blue" is available on Amazon. 

For more information about CJ Miller and his retreats visit www.spiritualartisttoday.com . His book, "The Spiritual Artist" is available on Amazon. 

Want to learn more about CJ Miller? Check out his Spiritual Artist Retreats, 1:1 Personal Coaching, and Speaking Engagements at www.spiritualartisttoday.com. His retreats are designed to help you reconnect with your Creative Intelligence and express your true artistic voice. You can also find his upcoming schedule there, and his book, The Spiritual Artist, is available on Amazon.

In this episode, we sit down with Kevin Carton, an inspirational speaker, teacher, and transformational life coach certified by the Brave Thinking Institute. With over a decade of experience, Kevin has empowered hundreds to break through limitations, rewire their subconscious minds, and trust themselves on a deeper level. Kevin also discusses co-hosting the popular Science & Spirituality podcast with his brother Chris, which has reached listeners in over 113 countries and garnered more than 1.3 million downloads. 

In this engaging episode, Kevin Carton delves into the fascinating intersection of science and spirituality. He discusses how modern quantum physics aligns with ancient spiritual teachings, shedding light on concepts like the origins of the universe, quantum entanglement, and the interconnected nature of all things. Kevin emphasizes the role of energy in life and creation, encouraging listeners to embrace both scientific and spiritual perspectives. He highlights the importance of the mind-body connection in healing and creative practices and touches on the wisdom of the heart and its vital role in aligning thoughts with emotions for holistic well-being. 

Key Concepts: 

• Intersection of Science and Spirituality: Kevin explains how quantum physics supports spiritual teachings, particularly regarding the interconnectedness of all things, tying it to the concept of the Big Bang. 
• Quantum Entanglement and Connection: The idea that everything is energetically connected, even across vast distances, mirrors spiritual beliefs about unity. 
• Energy and Transformation: Kevin emphasizes that energy cannot be destroyed, only transformed, resonating with both physics and spiritual teachings about life and death. 
• Mind-Body Connection: Kevin discusses how the body influences the mind and how physical movement can shift energy, affecting emotions and thoughts, leading to mental clarity and creativity. 
• Wisdom of the Heart: Kevin highlights the heart's energetic role, influencing clarity of thought and emotional states through heart rate variability. 
• Subconscious Power: The subconscious mind, more powerful than the conscious mind, resides within every cell. This deep-seated intelligence governs our physical and mental patterns, contributing to the intricate design of human life. 
• Brainwaves and Early Programming: From birth to age seven, children’s brains are primarily in the alpha state, which is akin to a state of hypnosis. During this time, they absorb and internalize information from their environment, forming the foundational programming for their future behavior and thought patterns. 
• Western vs. Eastern Cultural Differences: In Western societies, there's a strong focus on the mind and external world, often pulling people away from their bodies and inner selves. Eastern cultures, in contrast, emphasize internal reflection, though both face challenges in embracing body awareness for healing. 
• Universal Intelligence: The deep intelligence within all life, from cellular replication to plant growth, shows that intelligence permeates everything. This universal intelligence, whether called God, spirit, or source, reminds us that our creative aspirations are possible. 

Want to learn more about CJ Miller? Check out his Spiritual Artist Retreats, 1:1 Personal Coaching, and Speaking Engagements at www.spiritualartisttoday.com. His retreats are designed to help you reconnect with your Creative Intelligence and express your true artistic voice. You can also find his upcoming schedule there, and his book, The Spiritual Artist, is available on Amazon.

Podcast host Chris Miller reviews the best gift ever given to him; when his sister affirmed that he "bounces" back from bad experiences. He accepted this belief at a very young age and has declared it his own throughout his life. He encourages the listener to pay attention to their thoughts, affirm the good ones and pivot the negative ones into positive ones. The episode concludes with a positive spiritual declaration. 

#beliefssystem #belief #spiritualdeclaration

Want to learn more about CJ Miller? Check out his Spiritual Artist Retreats, 1:1 Personal Coaching, and Speaking Engagements at www.spiritualartisttoday.com. His retreats are designed to help you reconnect with your Creative Intelligence and express your true artistic voice. You can also find his upcoming schedule there, and his book, The Spiritual Artist, is available on Amazon.

Podcast host, Christopher J. Miller shares his insecurities when viewing the work of a talented artist. When he feels jealousy or envy, he uses the emotional experience to remind him of his own unique value. We succeed when we fully embrace our individual creative DNA with 100% authenticity. If you're feeling jealous, consider that you're not fully expressing yourself.
Chris announces an upcoming podcast interview with Cynthia James to discuss her new book, “Does My Voice Matter?”
For more information, visit https//spiritualartisttoday.com.

Want to learn more about CJ Miller? Check out his Spiritual Artist Retreats, 1:1 Personal Coaching, and Speaking Engagements at www.spiritualartisttoday.com. His retreats are designed to help you reconnect with your Creative Intelligence and express your true artistic voice. You can also find his upcoming schedule there, and his book, The Spiritual Artist, is available on Amazon.

Seeking clarity for life? In the episode, Chris continues his conversation about “being in the hallway” or being in that in-between place of indecision caused by a loss of job, change of relationship, health challenge, or other life experience.

Chris explores Ellen Debenport’s book, “Hell in the Hallway, Light at the Door,” and notes her definition that “prayer is focused thought that moves energy.” When we know that spirit is always speaking to us, we can set a clear intention and pray with the intent to “reveal what needs to be revealed and heal what needs to be healed.”

Chris reviews some of Ellen’s guidance tips on being in the hallway, including not skipping the grieving, expecting delays, accepting where you are, taking responsibility, being willing to forgive and seeing the situation or person differently, and asking others to hold the space for you.

Ask yourself, what is in this situation for me? Reveal what needs to be revealed. For more information, visit https//spiritualartistoday.com

Want to learn more about CJ Miller? Check out his Spiritual Artist Retreats, 1:1 Personal Coaching, and Speaking Engagements at www.spiritualartisttoday.com. His retreats are designed to help you reconnect with your Creative Intelligence and express your true artistic voice. You can also find his upcoming schedule there, and his book, The Spiritual Artist, is available on Amazon.

Business Coach and Author Susie deVille believes that the process of creating is fueled by five essential practices that assist entrepreneurs and leaders in reclaiming their power and inspiration. She shares how many business owners gravitate toward analytical "left-brain" actions and lose access to their most potent tools: intuition, imagination, and ideation.  

Susie shares her process known as the 5Ms™: meditation, morning pages, movement, moments of inspired learning, and making something. The 5Ms™ are powerful ways to interrupt your pattern of thoughts and behaviors. Susie encourages listeners to "get in the balcony of your perspective" and completely shift their lives and businesses.

Podcast host Christopher Miller shares his passion for Richard Nelson Bolles' book, What Color is Your Parachute? and one of its exercises that focus on writing down past achievements. Susie calls the process "Play Histories" and asks her clients to write stories and, upon completion, go back and circle the verbs. These verbs are powerful hints about your core essential self and help us remember what brings us alive.

Creativity is a state of connection and ground for an entrepreneur. In the moments of creating, we send down a taproot into our depths, allowing intuitive hits to rush to the surface. Once our intuition is ignited, we learn to trust ourselves, break through being stuck, and enjoy newfound clarity that powers our ability to reach our goals.

Susie cautions the listeners on the tendency to avoid their truth by engaging in habits that buffer us from experiencing our feelings, such as overworking, perfectionism, numbing food, and alcohol, and letting negative thoughts go unaddressed. Use her process to relax, recenter into your authentic vitality, and access your creativity back channels.

Susie deVille is a speaker, author, and Founder & CEO of the Innovation & Creativity Institute, a coaching firm connecting entrepreneurs and business leaders to their innate capabilities, guiding them to lead from a place of creative confidence. Susie is on a mission to show entrepreneurs and creators the power of trusting themselves and how to work lighter while making higher profits. Her book, BUOYANT: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Becoming Wildly Successful, Creative, and Free, is available wherever books are sold. For more information, visit InnovationandCreativityInstitute.com. 

Want to learn more about CJ Miller? Check out his Spiritual Artist Retreats, 1:1 Personal Coaching, and Speaking Engagements at www.spiritualartisttoday.com. His retreats are designed to help you reconnect with your Creative Intelligence and express your true artistic voice. You can also find his upcoming schedule there, and his book, The Spiritual Artist, is available on Amazon.

What is your Spiritual Practice? Podcast host, Christopher Miller shares the importance of spiritual practices and the many ways to incorporate them into your routine. Spiritual techniques include:

• Taking a morning walk.
• Meditating.
• Focusing on the good.
• Noticing moments of awe.
• Listening to inspirational podcasts.

Chris introduces Susie deVille’s book, “Bouyant,” and announces an upcoming interview with the author, who will present her 5M’s, another form of a spiritual practice. He emphasizes that we can’t control our environment or the people around us, but we can control our thoughts by focusing on a feeling.

Take the first 60-minutes of your day and reserve it for Spiritual Practice. Pivot and get back to Spirit.

For more information on Chris and his spiritual online coaching, visit https//spiritualartisttoday.com.

Want to learn more about CJ Miller? Check out his Spiritual Artist Retreats, 1:1 Personal Coaching, and Speaking Engagements at www.spiritualartisttoday.com. His retreats are designed to help you reconnect with your Creative Intelligence and express your true artistic voice. You can also find his upcoming schedule there, and his book, The Spiritual Artist, is available on Amazon.

Podcast Host Christopher J. Miller shares the metaphor of being in the hallway. Being in the hallway symbolizes the times in our life when we may be overwhelmed, exhausted, or simply not sure what we want to do next.

Chris reminds the listener to give themselves permission to stop and be in the hallway because sometimes inspired action takes time. Accept the hallway, ground yourself and let yourself be.

Chris shares an exercise from Lama Surya Das’s book, “Letting Go of the Person You Used to Be: Lessons on Change, Loss and Spiritual Transformation.” In this book, Das explains how to choose a personal mindfulness bell. Learn to practice being mindful by selecting a sound, thing, or word you often hear and using that experience to trigger a mindful moment.  For example: the siren from an ambulance or fire truck is the mindfulness bell that Chris has selected.

One form of mindfulness is getting quiet, going within, and stopping our thoughts. Sending out love is another form, according to Chris.

Exercises: This week, let yourself be in the hallway and pick a personal mindfulness bell.

For more information on Chris or to schedule a personal coaching session, visit https//spiritualartisttoday.com.

#practicepresenceofgod #lamasuradas #mindfulnesspracticeforbeginners

Want to learn more about CJ Miller? Check out his Spiritual Artist Retreats, 1:1 Personal Coaching, and Speaking Engagements at www.spiritualartisttoday.com. His retreats are designed to help you reconnect with your Creative Intelligence and express your true artistic voice. You can also find his upcoming schedule there, and his book, The Spiritual Artist, is available on Amazon.

United Kingdom mixed media abstract painter, coach, and mystic Irene Purcell shares the importance of vulnerability and connectivity in the creative process. After completing a deep dive into Nicholas Wilton of Art2Life's CVP course and Louise Fletcher's "Find Your Joy" course in 2019, Irene realized she was ready to take a deep dive into exploring her theme 'Everything is Connected.'  

The podcast begins with a quick mention of the passing of Queen Elizabeth. Irene shares her thoughts on England's national mourning.

She talks a little about the practice of sharing feelings and thoughts in journaling.  There are many therapeutic benefits of journaling, and aspects of the process are demonstrated in Julia Cameron's process of morning pages.  

Identifying as a mystic, Irene understands that mystics are those who experience a personal revelation from God that reveals the truth that the whole universe has a power behind it, and we are all loved and adored. At the age of 30, Irene underwent a life-changing experience, and one thing she subsequently realized was that our resistance to vulnerability causes separation from others. 

For 15 years, from age 31 onwards, Irene was part of an evangelical Christian church and eventually realized through a vision that doing the business of church was keeping her from her relationship with Jesus and from more fully walking in his way. She has expanded her spiritual landscape and explains that becoming more fully human is an ongoing process. 

"What do I have to offer? Who I am. That is it. That's all I have got," said Irene. "My vulnerability is my safest place. There is nothing to live up to and nothing to prove. I can just be." 

For more information about Irene, you can find her on Facebook under "Irene Purcell Art" and Instagram @irenepurcellart. Her website is https://www.irenepurcellart.com  Irene currently assists Louise Fletcher with her online art program, https://www.louisefletcherart.com

Want to learn more about CJ Miller? Check out his Spiritual Artist Retreats, 1:1 Personal Coaching, and Speaking Engagements at www.spiritualartisttoday.com. His retreats are designed to help you reconnect with your Creative Intelligence and express your true artistic voice. You can also find his upcoming schedule there, and his book, The Spiritual Artist, is available on Amazon.