FORM, IDENTIT and DEVELOPMENT. The Meaning of Design in Architecture Conference at Goetheanum October 10-12

 

 

 

THOUGHT FORMS 
WHAT ARE YOU THINKING? 

This week’s Vlog—Part #6 in the Thought Forms series—explores how emotions like anger, jealousy, and desire create moving mandalas around us.

Drawing from Thought Forms by Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater, and deepened through Steiner’s work on the moral and imaginal life of the soul, Kristena  explores the forms and colors of each thought form. 

Kristena has been exploring the spiritual, psychological and cross-cultural healing benefits of art making in her new YouTube channel Kristena West Art@Healing. 

How does the information in Thought Forms shift your approach to art?

✨ Watch the full series and sign up for upcoming offerings at KristenaWestArt.com

🎨 Subscribe on YouTube at @KristenaWestArt108 to follow the journey

 

THE CREATIVE POWER OF COLOR: Painting Exercises of hilda Boos-Hamburger with VAN JAMES May 25, June 1 and 15 SUNDAYS 9:30am-11 (IST) ASIA, AUSTRALIA & AMERICA: REVIEW TIMES BELOW

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🌀🎨 Before Kandinsky… 

There Was Hilma af Klint. 

🎥 Before Kandinsky: Hilma af Klint, Thought Forms, and the Spiritual Foundations of Modern Art

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In this episode, I explore the legacy of Hilma af Klint—visionary artist, spiritual seeker, and one of the earliest pioneers of abstract painting. Decades before Kandinsky published his theories, af Klint was creating complex symbolic works inspired by direct spiritual experience.

This vlog focuses on the concept of thought forms—images generated through inner vision and clairvoyance—as central to af Klint’s practice and to the larger movement toward abstraction in early 20th-century art. Drawing from Theosophy, Rudolf Steiner’s teachings, and esoteric traditions, these artists sought to make the invisible visible.

I also reflect on the groundbreaking 1986 exhibition The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890–1985 at LACMA, which helped surface the hidden spiritual roots of modern art. The show positioned af Klint alongside artists such as Joseph Beuys, Marc Chagall, and František Kupka—creators whose work emerged from inner worlds as much as external forms.

🎨 In this video, we cover:

• The role of thought forms and spiritual science in modern art

• Hilma af Klint’s connections to Theosophy and Steiner

• Why the 1986 LACMA show remains a turning point in art history

• A deeper look at women’s contributions to abstract and visionary art

This vlog is part of my ongoing series on esoteric influences in modern art. If you're interested in how consciousness, symbolism, and spirit shape artistic innovation—you’re in the right place.

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SOURCES OF CREATIVITY MAY 29-JUNE 1 2025 Ascension Conference in Vienna, Austria

 

LISTENING TO THE HEART: PERCEIVING ETHERIC HEART FORCES IN YOUR BIOGRAPHY MAY 25 WEBINAR DORNACH

 

 

Explore Christ as a Healing Icon

online Art Class 
with Kristena West M.A.
Registration is Open!

registration open at kristenawestart.com/christ-healing-icon-class

"Those who want to paint Christ have to live with Him." 

Fra Angelico (1387-1455)

Work from Home at you own pace. 

What will you learn in this class?

Two videos of portrait in pastel, charcoal, oil pastels, watercolor or acrylics - the art supplies you have around the house. 

Two downloadable images to work from; 1Pantocrator
 Christ and 2. Rudolf Steiner's Representative of Humanity face.

registration open at kristenawestart.com/christ-healing-icon-class

 

HUMOR & RUDOLF STEINER - THE CARTOONIST WITH VAN JAMES MAY 10 SATURDAY 8:30-10:30 PST AND MAY 11 SUNDAY 9AM-11AM IN ASIA

 

LIGHTFORMS ART CENTER GERARD WAGNER 1906-1999

 

Guardian Angels: Making Healing Art: includes Angel Meditation

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Guardian Angel Vlog: Kristena introduces some of her paintings of Guardian Angels. Whether you're painting, journaling, or meditating, angels can serve as creative guides, offering healing, protection, and deeper insight. Join Kristena as she discusses paintings of angels as they emerged in her intuitive process over 25 years. What is your "painters" spiritual signature? What symbol or sigel do you add to all your creative work? Can you guess Kristena's? Through color and form, we can engage with the presence of the unseen world, creatively by strengthening our Listening Will, to follow the Becoming of our image into form.

SUBSCRIBE to KristenaWestArt YouTube channel for weekly Art & Healing Vlogs.

 

KristenaWestArt has online art classes, esoteric dreamwork, divine feminine, Michaelmas, and Christ as a Healing icon for Easter class. Subscribe to KristenaWestArt to reconnect to your creativity! see you there

SUN STUDIO Art Retreat August 8-12

 

3 YEAR INTERNATIONAL TRAINING IN ANTHROPOSOPHICAL ART THERAPY BANGALORE, INDIA

 

RUDOLF STEINER LEBEN & WERK MARCH 28-JANUARY 2026: 1861-1925

 

Feeling the Chaos? Heal & Thrive: Use that Energy to Create Your Healing Art for Personal Power Kristena West M.A.

www.KristenaWestArt.cm Sometimes, the world feels chaotic, and our homes need a little extra light and protection. That’s exactly why I painted Athena in 2019, holding a mudra of beneficence—a sacred gesture of blessing and strength. I wanted to bring powerful, protective energy into my space, something to anchor me in wisdom and grace. Art has a way of doing that—it’s not just about paint on a canvas, but about intention, presence, and transformation. I’d love for you to explore this idea in your own way! What kind of healing art could you create for yourself? Whether it’s a small sketch, a full painting, or even a sacred symbol on your journal cover, art can be a portal to personal power and renewal. If you’re curious about diving deeper into intuitive art and spiritual creativity, check out my online classes—where we blend inspiration, technique, and a touch of magic! ✨🎨 Check out my freebies & online classes at www.KristenaWestArt.com and women's fashions & art at www.SunHeartBohoClothing.com

OLAF ASTESON HOLY NIGHTS ART & DREAM JOURNAL RETREAT ONLINE KRISTENA WEST M.A.

 

The Dream Song is an ancient Norwegian Folk Song. It was lost in time, but a clergyman named Landstad rediscovered it one night when he heard it in a winter’s deep valley in Telmark Norway.

The song tells us 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. 

The 13 holy nights have been called, "time outside of time" or "sacred time." It's a wonderful way to end the year and begin the new.

Every Night a part of the dream-song is revealed along with dream techniques, virtues to ponder, and a journey through the zodiac. 

FIONA CAMPBELL ART AS A PATHWAY FOR THE SOUL 2025

 

VAN JAMES DEC 7 & 8: INVITES YOU TO AN ONLINE CONVERSATION ON THE NATURE OF ARTISTIC CREATIVITY IN SHAPING A HUMAN FUTURE DEC 7: 8PM --DEC 8: 9:30AM IST

 

CREATIVE ASPECT OF THE ARTISTIC PROCESS NOV 22-24 2024 CONFERENCE OF THE VISUAL ARTS SECTION

 

VAN JAMES the Metamorphosis of Color and its Formative Force in Painting November 15-17-22-24

 

Esoteric Dreamwork: Connecting with Loved Ones Across Time Kristena West M.A.

 

Module 1 Esoteric Dreamwork: Shamanic, Lucid & Precognitive

Ready to unlock the mysteries of your dreams and develop a powerful dream practice? In the first class, Esoteric Dreamwork, you’ll learn to work with your dreams as powerful tools for transformation. Learn tips for dream recall, and the importance of sleep for health, and how to set up your own Sacred Sleep practice.

 We'll explore the four subtle bodies—physical, etheric, astral, and ego—and how they are the foundation of all dream practices. You’ll discover the difference between shamanic, Jungian,  precognitive (etheric vision) and lucid dreams as options for working & dream interpretation. 

You will also learn my time-tested safe dream incubation techniques to get you started in your sacred sleep practice-hundreds of students have used these same techniques with truly amazing results. 

Module 2 

Connecting with Loved Ones Across Time:  

Dreamwork with Ancestors and the Departed

​​This second class, takes dreamwork exploration even further, offering you the tools to communicate with loved ones who have passed. 

 Throughout time, Dreams are considered Sacred and offer us the ability to build a bridge across Time and Space, creating a direct connection to those who have passed. This is  a profound technique for healing, allowing us to receive direct, transformative messages from loved ones and ancestors, offering deep personal insight, integrating healing and resolution.

Included in this esoteric dream practice course is our ebook on developing your Sacred Sleep practice. 

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Kristena West M.A.

I have been working and teaching dreamwork all my life. Big dreams called me to study many of the worlds sacred traditions and train with shamans since the early 90's.

As a community & social artist, my question has always been "What Makes Art Sacred?"  Answering this question, a Big Dream lead me to move to Berkeley in 2000 and I received my Masters in cross-cultural sacred iconography with a graduate exhibition, Deities Dialogues & Dreams: Extraordinary conversations with Ordinary People. The exhibition showcased artist's friends of mine who had a Spiritual Experience, I asked them to write about the Spiritual Meeting and create a piece of artwork in conjunction with the Deity. 

 

I was honored to  complete the Two year Dream Studies program with noted artist, scientist and dreamer, Fariba Bogzarin.  Fariba co-founded the Lucid Art Foundation and studied with Stephen Laberge (Lucid Dreaming author) in the sleep labs at Stanford University. We also worked with noted author and meditator Alan Wallace (Dalai Lama's interpreter  for many years) On moving back home to Santa Barbara- Alan used to do once a month workshops at the S.B. Consciousness institute. Alan's Shamantha Project spearheaded Meditation as a technique for resiliency, health and well-being...that inspired the Calm app! 

View more info and sign up at www.KristenaWestArt.com