Ep. 587 – Art as a Tool for Transformation with Amanda Sage
Mindrolling with Raghu Markus
Be Here Now Network
4.7 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Visionary Artist, Amanda Sage, joins Raghu to talk about using art as a tool for transformation and awakening.
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This time on Mindrolling, Raghu and Amanda discuss:
- How Amanda ended up in the midst of the psychedelic art world
- Visionary experiences from meditation and community
- Combining visionary art with techniques from the old masters
- Art as a tool for transformation rather than just a commodity
- The technology of sacred art and artists as small blooms of awakening
- How LSD helps Amanda see the finer layers of reality
- The flow state of creation and being guided through the artistic medium
- The Telepathy Tapes, a documentary podcast about telepathic communication
- Meditation as an active meditation and opportunity for transmission
- The value of togetherness and tuning into the same creative channel
- Large-scale longing for a connection to spirit
- Amanda’s work, The Great Wave of Trainsformation
Check out Vision Train, Amanda’s co-creative space.
About Amanda Sage:
Amanda Sage is an artist driven to contribute to the development of regenerative culture by using painting as a tool for transformation within the individual and collective. Her paintings represent multidimensional aspects of humanness in harmonious balance, inspiring a re-membering of an energetic inter-connectedness that is present and shared with all things. Learn more about Amanda on her website.
“Painting, you transmit a story. There’s a transmission that happens beyond words. It’s an interesting technology and tool that has been used by humans through the ages. What is the broader opportunity, especially now in this world that we live in, for art to be a tool for transformation.” – Amanda Sage
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone. It's Ragu, and I'm back with mind rolling, another edition of mind rolling. |
| 0:22.6 | And I'm so happy to have Amanda Sage with us today. |
| 0:28.0 | Amanda, welcome to the show. |
| 0:31.6 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 0:34.1 | This is an honor. |
| 0:36.1 | So Amanda is an extraordinary artist, visionary artist, and I met her when we did a program in Denver. |
| 0:48.3 | You live, you're not that far from Denver, right? You're in that color. |
| 0:51.3 | A few hours. |
| 0:52.3 | Yeah. And she came. We had an incredible, |
| 0:57.4 | I met her through a wonderful gentleman named Nico, who is related to so many of the visionary |
| 1:06.3 | artists that many of you, I'm sure that are listening or watching, have experienced. |
| 1:13.3 | And we had an incredible art show. |
| 1:15.7 | And of course, if you are on YouTube, you can see behind Amanda one of her paintings, which is so absolutely extraordinary. |
| 1:31.8 | So, yeah, I think we need to start. |
| 1:35.5 | How did you end up in the midst of the psychedelic art world? |
| 1:42.1 | And never mind that, it had to have been before any of that uh your |
| 1:46.8 | introduction into anthonyogens and the idea that once that happened okay so i can move on from |
| 1:57.4 | the thinking mind so so to speak. |
| 2:04.2 | That's a big story. |
| 2:06.4 | We got plenty of time. |
| 2:14.7 | Well, it's an honor to be here and an honor to be connecting in with this community as I was thinking about our conversation today and the influence that Ram Dass |
| 2:21.7 | has had on my life even before I incarnated is what I was thinking about because my mother |
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