Life, Death & The Space Between with Dr. Amy Robbins

Own Your Life with Rajan Shankara   “Ego is a fabric of reality blocking us from true consciousness.”   Episode Summary:   Do you believe a leopard can change its spots? Can a person truly change their nature in an instant?   Rajan Shankara was pulled over by a police officer with a trunk full of marijuana, cocaine and other drugs -- and inexplicably walked away free.  He asserts he changed his li...

Tools for Your Life with Bridget Finklaire   “Consciousness is the key to human evolution.”         -- Bridget Finklaire     Episode Summary:   What is consciousness? What is awareness? What are sacred geometries in nature?   Weaving together the threads of her spiritual and professional journeys, Bridget Finklaire designed "The Bone Circle" - a unique, transformative and life-changing programme t...

Daddy’s Tune – A Ghost Story   “Nothing survives but the way we live our lives.”             – Jackson Browne, Daddy’s Tune       Episode Summary:   What do our loved ones experience when they die? How do we interpret the feelings and synchronicities we experience after losing someone so dear?   Today’s story from a Life, Death and the Space Between listener shares what she feels certain were comm...

Transforming Grief to Growth with Susan Angel Miller  “Through struggle with adversity, we all have the ability to gain wisdom and growth.”     Episode Summary:   As a parent, can you imagine losing your child? How would you navigate this unthinkable trauma?   In this episode, we talk with Susan Angel Miller, mother, wife and author of a powerful, touching memoir of grief and recovery -- after her...

A Powerful Replay: Soul Meditation – a Tribute to Dr. Amy Robbins’ mentor and “Soul Mama”, Ariana Garrett       Dr. Amy Robbins says of Ariana Garrett, “I believe there is no one who could explain the Soul better than she could. There is no one who understood the soul better than she did. And there is no one who could help manifest sh*t faster than she could help manifest sh*t. She was magical whe...

Finding Light in the Darkness – Surviving Devastating Grief -- with Maryanne O’Hara    “The miracle of human beings is that we are all able to go on living despite the certainty that we will die.” --  Caitlin O’Hara (1983-2016)   “You think it is all important, but all that matters is loving people and being kind.” --  Caitlin O’Hara (1983-2016)   Episode Summary:   How do you make sense of life a...

A Powerful Replay: Transitions of the Soul – a Tribute to Dr. Amy Robbins’ mentor and "Soul Mama" Ariana Garrett     “There is definitely a connection between what is happening on the other side, and what is happening here in this physical reality. The more we are attuned to our own soul, the more our soul can bridge those worlds, and it becomes natural to know life on a deeper level, and to know...

A Powerful Replay: Soul Searching – a Tribute to Dr. Amy Robbins’ mentor Ariana Garrett     Dr. Amy Robbins says of Ariana Garrett, “I believe there is no one who could explain the soul better than she could. There is no one who understood the soul better than she did. And there is no one who could help manifest sh*t faster than she could help manifest sh*t. She was magical where that is concerned...

Tapping into Flower Power for Healing and Clarity with Katie Hess   “There are over 40,000 species of flowering plants on the planet, and every single flower is in service to us as humans in a unique, specific way emotionally and mentally.” – Katie Hess, founder of Lotus Wei     Episode Summary:   Do you remember the magic you felt in the forest as a child? Ever wonder why children are drawn to th...

Using Tarot and Oracles to Uncover Life’s Mysteries with Amy Zerner & Monte Farber    “The most spiritual thig you can do is know yourself.” – Dr. Amy Robbins     Episode Summary:   What are Tarot cards all about?  What IS an Oracle?  Are they different spiritual tools or the same thing? How can you use them to find your unique spiritual path?   The inscription at Oracle at Delphi from ancient Gre...

Overcoming Diversity with Burn Survivor Samuel Moore-Sobel    “This isn’t the face I wanted. This isn’t the story I wanted. But it’s what happened...  It took a good eight years not to see my scars as objects of shame or ugliness, but to see them as triumph, to see them as survival.” - Samuel Moore-Sobel, Burn Survivor   Episode Summary:   How would it feel to look at yourself in a mirror and lite...

Support Life, Death and the Space Between: Reimagine Death and Celebrate Life with Brad Wolfe and Dara Kosberg   “Grief is like a Jackson Pollock painting.” – Brad Wolfe   “There is room for art, music and even comedy in that sacred transition we call death.”     Episode Summary:   Have you ever thought about YOUR death? Really thought about it?   In this episode, we literally talk about life, dea...

Mental Illness or Spiritual Emergence? – A Ghost Story   “The dark presence that had been haunting me, I now understand to be my native ancestors, who have been calling my name since I was a child.”       –Listener       Episode Summary:   What is our perception of reality? How do we understand reality? How do we understand these perceptions in the realm of psychology and psychiatry, and when we a...

A Medium Walks into a Psychiatrist’s Office with Al Powers and Brittany Quagan   “The voices are real. Real experiences. They deserve to be taken seriously as real human experiences; as real as anybody else’s.” – Dr. Al Powers   Episode Summary:   Have you ever heard voices? Do you know anyone who hears things when others don’t? Are they delusions -- or are they spiritual experiences?  Does it mat...

Raising our Vibration into the 5th Dimension and Beyond with World-Class Medium Ginette Biro      Ginette says 2020 was all about, “Going inward to ourselves, discovering who we are, what we’re all about, what truths resonate with us. Being called to find what is right for us, to get rid of triggers and traumas, to come to a place of peace to navigate these next several years.”     Episode Summary...

“We should all have the goal of emotional wellness. Because if we manage ourselves emotionally, we forestall a lot of physical disease that could be coming.” – Lisa Samet “Life is full of challenges, we will never get rid of those challenges. But we can navigate them better.”  – Lisa Samet   Lisa Samet, ND, is a well-known health practitioner who has appeared on the Dr. Oz show to promote homeopat...

“We have the power to choose, moment by moment, who and how we want to be in the world.” – Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor “We are not thinking creatures who feel, we are feeling creatures who think.” – Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor JILL BOLTE TAYLOR is a Harvard trained and published neuroanatomist. In 1996 she experienced a severe hemorrhage in the left hemisphere of her brain causing her to lose the ability to w...

  This is really hard for me to do… I have been creating podcasts for 2 ½ years, I love interviewing all these amazing guests! So many people have reached out lately that I have a huge backlog of guests Our community has grown organically – all because of you. Thank you! I love your ghost stories, and hearing from all of you about how the podcasts impact your life Integrity is everything to me – f...

“Life only matters because we die.”         – Alua Arthur “There is something absolutely miraculous about standing at the doorway of existence.  I am absolutely humbled by it every time. Rather than it being heavy, there is a lightness of being that goes along with it because there is such a mystery to this human ride.”         – Alua Arthur       Alua Arthur is a death doula, attorney, adjunct pr...

"We don't see things are they are. We see things as we are." Life, Death and the Space Between podcast listener shares her story of a recurring dream that caused her to reexamine and reexperience her past through more mature lens, releasing decades old sadness and grief, finding a new peace. Ghost Stories is a way for listeners to tell their amazing stories of the metaphysical.  If you have a grea...

“The research has shown there are ways to improve dream recall. Some people say each dream is an unopened letter. But not all dreams are meaningful; we get a lot of junk mail.”              – Dr. Josh Black, Grief Dream Researcher   Dr. Joshua Black is a researcher in grief dreams, with a special focus on dreams of the deceased. Josh is one of the leading researchers in this field.  In his researc...

“Do epic shit every day.” – Chris Meyer   Chris Meyer is a lawyer, filmmaker, funeral home owner and author of a new book, "Life in 20 Lessons: What a Funeral Guy Discovered about Life, from Death" is like "This is my Life" meets "Tuesdays with Morrie." Meyer spent 14 years in the funeral business assisting grieving families and in one case, the soon to be departed, in planning funerals. It was a...

“Hopefully we don’t believe everything we think.” – Ji Hyang Padma   Ji Hyang Padma has combined an academic career with her vocation as a spiritual teacher. Ji Hyang served as Director of Spirituality & Education as well as a Buddhist chaplain at Wellesley College for fourteen years. Additionally, she has served as a meditation teacher at Harvard University, Boston University, Babson College, Esa...

“Bless those who curse you.” --- Pierre Pradervand   BIO A true world citizen, Pierre Pradervand has laboured a great deal of his life for social justice, living in or visiting 40 countries on every continent. From his Geneva home, Pierre is now active as a writer, speaker and workshop facilitator, helping people to live simpler, yet richer, more contented lives. His workshops provide personal dev...

“Individuality is a hallucination on consciousness.” -- Fred Matser   Fred Matser is the founder and chairman of the Fred Foundation and a leading Dutch humanitarian. He has been active in social and ecological transformation and is the founder or co-founder of a wide range of charitable foundations that span the fields of health, environment, nature conservation, peace and global transformation....