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

My guest today is a serious scientist. Dr. Neil Theise is a pathologist and stem cell researcher whose work has been featured in Nature, Science, and Cell. He's also a Zen practitioner. For decades, he kept those worlds separate—until his own body forced them together. But what really got me? His 82-year-old mother. She had dementia, talked to dead people, traveled out of body, and described space and time as "chopped into pieces." Her Parkinson's disappeared. Her blood pressure normalized. She called it the happiest time of her life. Neil wrote Notes on Complexity to lay the groundwork. His next book, Sarah in the In-Between, is the one he really wanted to write. This conversation will change how you see dementia, death, and what it means to be present.
00:00 A Scientist Who Talks to Dead People
03:10 Introducing Dr. Neil Theise
04:30 Two Paths: Science and Mysticism
13:12 The Stem Cell Work That Shaped History
16:02 Complexity Theory: How Life Self-Organizes
22:06 The Moment His Leg Became Cells
28:04 The Zendo: Stick or Smoke, Body or Cells
31:30 Big C Consciousness and the Mind of God
34:48 His Mother Sarah: Dementia, Dead People, and Bliss
43:20 Her Parkinson's Disappeared
46:36 End-of-Life Visions Are Real
52:53 Maybe They're Not Gone. Maybe They're Elsewhere.
58:21 Why You Need a Spiritual Practice
1:00:55 Mark's After-Death Communication with Sarah
1:06:28 The Woman Who Still Hears Sarah's Voice
1:12:40 Where to Find Neil


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https://www.neiltheiseofficial.com/about



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In 1985, my guest's husband left for work and never came home. Ten days later, she identified his body parts in a Detroit morgue. She also discovered he'd been living a secret double life. Dr. Jan Canty is a psychologist who spent 30 years in silence—until a podcast for homicide survivors brought her back. The night he went missing, Jan looked in a mirror and heard herself say, "He's dead. He's not coming home." She buried that moment for decades. Today, she helps others heal through after-death communication and community. This episode aired on July 20th—the exact day Jan learned her husband had been murdered. That synchronicity is not lost on me.

00:00 The Night He Never Came Home
03:05 Introducing Dr. Jan Canty
04:05 The Phone Call from Homicide
05:06 The Double Life She Never Knew
07:38 Identifying Him in the Morgue
10:40 Survival Mode and 30 Years of Silence
14:47 What Makes Homicide Grief Unique
17:25 The Detective Who Saved Her
22:26 How She Clawed Her Way Out
26:51 The Spiritual Pivot: After-Death Communication
29:18 Her Own Experience: "He's Dead. He's Not Coming Home."
32:53 Spontaneous vs. Induced After-Death Communications
37:43 The Basketball Game: An ADC That Saved a Life
43:37 The First-Ever National Homicide Survivor Conference
46:27 Where to Find Jan
48:47 Closing


LEARN MORE ABOUT GUEST:
· Website: jancantyphd.com
· Books: What Now | Rekindled
· Podcast: Domino Effect of Murder (6 seasons)
· Conference: National Homicide Survivor Conference – Gig Harbor, WA (Sept 11–13)
· Email: aftermathofhomicide@gmail.com


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What if the voice on the mountain is real? My guest today, Suzanne Ross, was living the so-called American dream when her hair started falling out and her body began shutting down. On a vacation in the California desert, she ran to a mountaintop, threw her arms up, and said, "I am miserable in the extreme and I see no way out." In that instant, she was surrounded by divine love and heard: Stay here, heal yourself, and then heal others. She ran down a different woman. Thirty years later, she's been teaching what she calls quantum love—a love so vast it holds the roses and the weeds, the joy and the suffering equally. Suzanne has walked through dark nights, cancer, broken bones, and loss. And she says every fall is a gift. You don't need a mountaintop to start. Just stillness. Just listening. This conversation is about surrender, ascension, and the love that holds it all.


00:00 The Mountaintop That Changed Everything
02:41 Welcome Suzanne Ross to Life, Death, and the Space Between
03:50 From Corporate Misery to Desert Healing
05:39 The Mountain Run: Surrender and Divine Intervention
10:17 Why She Listened (And Most People Don't)
14:19 What Is a Quantum Leap?
15:52 Quantum Consciousness: Where Physics Meets Spirit
20:21 Small Practices That Awaken Something Bigger
24:23 How to Carry Transcendence Into Daily Life
28:26 Podcast Promo & Resources (Mid-Roll)
31:21 What Is Quantum Love?
34:29 Why the Shadow Is Love Too
36:32 Dark Nights of the Soul (And Why They're Gifts)
38:29 The Rise Up Trilogy: Wake Up, Rise Up, Lighten Up
44:22 Suzanne's Retreats in Sedona and San Diego
46:59 Where to Find Suzanne
48:30 Closing


LEARN MORE ABOUT

· Website: SuzanneRossTranscendence.com
· Retreat: SanDiegoTranscendenceRetreat.com (use coupon code: QUANTUM LOVE)
· Books: Wake Up, Rise Up, Lighten Up (The Rise Up Series)
· Social Media: @SuzanneRossTranscendence


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Grief broke her open in a way 24 years of working with the dying never did. I sat with Cheryl Page—a clinical researcher turned mystic—and she told me something that stopped me cold: the last day you made a memory with someone you love isn't the day they died. She calls it a vibrationship—a relationship that doesn't end, it just changes frequency. Cheryl lost her beloved Scott in 2017, and instead of collapsing, she started asking questions that didn't fit the scientific box she'd lived in her whole career. She learned to ask out loud, every single day, and the signs didn't stop—they multiplied. If you've ever wondered if your loved ones are still with you, or why the signs seem to fade, Cheryl's answer will shift everything. This conversation moved me, challenged me, and gave me a whole new language for what comes after.

00:00 A Researcher's World Falls Apart
03:37 Introducing Cheryl Page & Her Journey Into the Mystic
04:29 From Clinical Researcher to Seeker After Loss
07:30 The Questions Science Couldn't Answer
09:03 The Secret Sauce: Why You Have to Ask
11:53 How to Train Yourself to Recognize Signs
17:28 The "Acorn" Exercise & Building Trust
19:45 The Science Behind Signs: Radio Antenna Theory
25:23 Magical Thinking vs. Higher Perspective
28:16 The Book Experiment: Spirit Answers Directly
32:05 Defining the Vibrationship
37:50 Developing Conversational Fluency With Spirit
39:43 Can You Change Your Signs? Playing the Game
44:31 Vibrationship vs. Stuck Grief: Moving Forward Together
49:07 Mystic Richness: Conversations With Visionaries
51:09 Reincarnation, Past Lives & The Fourth Thing
57:27 Staying in the Unnameable Place of Wonder
1:01:51 Where to Find Cheryl's Work & Scotland Retreat


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https://mysticrichness.com/
https://a.co/d/00hoq1gU


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Caregiving is quietly breaking millions of people, and no one warns you it will break you too. I brought Roy Remer on to talk about the one thing every caregiver needs to hear—empathy without action doesn't heal anyone, it burns you alive. Roy is a meditation teacher, hospice volunteer, and author of Zen Caregiving. He's sat at the bedside of people in their final hours, and he's distilled everything he learned into a path that doesn't ask you to do more—it asks you to show up differently. This conversation will change how you see yourself, your loved ones, and what it really means to serve. If you're caring for someone—or know someone who is—this is for you.
00:00 The Hidden Burden of Caregiving
03:07 Introducing Roy Remer & Defining the Caregiver
05:48 The State of Caregivers in an Aging World
09:15 Mindfulness as an Insurance Policy for Caregivers
13:29 Presence: The Core of Zen Caregiving
17:18 The Five Stages of Compassion & Empathy vs. Compassion
24:44 Empathic Distress vs. Compassion Fatigue
29:11 Helping vs. Serving: A Covenant of the Soul
33:51 Accepting Resistance & The Gift of Witnessing
36:25 Nature Loss, Grief & The Cycles of Life
41:44 What the Dying Teach Us About Living Now
47:31 Where to Find Roy's Work & Final Blessing


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