The Bone Collectors

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Welcome to The Bone Collectors, a podcast that dives deeply into the transformative power of death in all its forms—literal, spiritual, psychological, and beyond. Join us as we engage in profound conversations with authors, experts, and thought leaders about their most meaningful experiences with death, loss, and major life transitions. Together, we explore the insights and lessons gained from these powerful moments and how we can apply them to live fuller, more intentional lives. Tune in to discover how endings can become the beginnings of healing, growth, and solutions for a better world for us all. Hosted by Jonathan Ellerby, Ph.D

  1. 06/09/2025

    Science, Spirituality, & the Mystic Physician

    Have you ever felt cynical about the medical community and its attitudes about death? Or felt that modern psychiatry is a deadend? The amazing Dr. Anna Yusim will change your mind and give you hope! Anna is always a bright spirit and a delight as she shares her own embrace of Spirituality in a rigorous medical community. She is wise, insightful and a woman who has broken stereotypes and limits in so many areas of her life and work. Unlike her community of peers, Anna sees all manners of death, from the physical to the psychological as powerful invitations to experience the world and soul more fully! Fascinating and inspiring. Dr. Anna Yusim is an internationally-recognized, award-winning, Board-Certified, Stanford- and Yale-educated Psychiatrist & Executive Coach with a Private Practice in New York City, Connecticut, California and Florida. With clients including Forbes 500 CEOs, Olympic athletes, A-list actors and actresses, and the Chairs of academic departments at top universities, Dr. Anna Yusim helps influential people achieve greater impact, purpose, and joy in their life and work. Dr. Yusim is the best-selling author of Fulfilled: How the Science of Spirituality Can Help You Live a Happier, More Meaningful Life. As a Clinical Assistant Professor at Yale Medical School, Dr. Yusim is presently working to create a Mental Health & Spirituality Program / Center at Yale with Dr. Christopher Pittenger, which will be a bridge between the Yale Medical School and Yale Divinity School. Dr. Yusim is the Chief Medical Officer of Conscious Health, a holistic mental health treatment center based in California that bridges ancient psychospiritual wisdom with state-of-the-art, evidence-based mental health interventions like ketamine, transcranial magnetic stimulation and other treatment modalities. She is the Medical Lead for SuperMind, a mental health start-up based in Miami that utilizes personal coaching, binaural beat meditation technology and an EEG-based biofeedback systems to create targeted, precision mental health therapy for depression, anxiety and PTSD. She is also on the Board of numerous other enterprises in the mental health space, including Being Health, Plaey and Pause + Purpose. Dr. Yusim has published over 320 academic articles, book chapters, scientific abstracts, book reviews, and articles for the lay public on various topics in psychiatry. A frequent contributor to CNN, Fox News, ABC, and NBC, she has been a guest on hundreds of national and international TV shows, radio programs, and podcasts. Learn more at https://annayusim.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 16m

  2. 05/26/2025

    How To Talk About Death & Dying: End of Life Conversations

    In a podcast all about the many faces and forms of death, it was time to talk to someone who helps people face the end of life - theirs and their loved ones. It was truly a fascinating and enlightening conversation - to explore the end of life and how we think about it, how we treat it in society, and how we can do better to support people who are dying, and those people who support the dying or those who are wanting to face their own mortality with more wisdom, grace, and connection. So many great perspectives drawing on research, academic views, and a progressive social commentary on how to live best with death. Kathy is an unconventional death educator with a passion for palliative care and improving the end of life care for all. Kathy has been teaching and researching at Lakehead University for over a decade. In her work, Kathy inspires and challenges future healthcare providers to be prepared to care for individuals who are dying, and their families, in healthcare settings. Kathy leverages her experiences as a cancer survivor and as a palliative care provider to challenge us to have the important conversations about dying, death and life. Kathy strives to make an impact with her teaching, research and speaking to discover, share and communicate the information that we are all "dying to know." Dr. Katherine Kortes-Miller is the Director, Centre for Education and Research on Aging and Health (CERAH) https://cerah.lakeheadu.ca; Associate Professor, Research Chair on Aging and End of Life (2023-25). She is a gifted author, speaker, researcher and advocate. With a Masters of Social Work and PhD her research experience is interdisciplinary and collaborative contributing to a broad range of fields of study including: social work, palliative care education, gerontology, and medical assistance in dying (MAiD). She is committed to improving the care provided at the bedside for our most vulnerable and frail. She is developing a research portfolio that will influence healthcare education and care at the bedside alongside improving organizational and healthcare policy. Learn more at https://www.lakeheadu.ca/users/K/kkortesm/node/40174 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 11m

  3. 05/12/2025

    The Power of Spirit: Suffering, Loss, & True Transformation

    Tina D’Amore is the founder and owner of 3 Crows Healing: Shamanic Medicine & Animal Whispering. A former educator, she works closely with her helping spirits to shift the spiritual causes of dis-ease. After overcoming a severe illness that caused multiple Near-Death Experiences, Tina is attuned to the magnificence of the worlds available to us, including the world we share together. Tina facilitates sessions with clients who reside in the US and in Europe, Canada, Asia, Africa and Australia with the sole intention of empowering her clients’ Inner Fire, intuitively creating sacred space to peel away layers of old programming. Tina empowers those who suffer from chronic illness to make lasting changes in the relationship between themselves and their dis-ease to reclaim their lives. I loved my conversation with Tina! We had met before and so had the chance to go deep into themes of near-death; facing death; and the ravages of illness and life setback as a part of the journey of healing and awakening to personal gifts and power. For me this was such an honest, provocative and exciting exploration of topics in healing, shamanic work, and the process of becoming authentic that most of us never really get to have or hear.  This is a great conversation for healers and students of spirit to check out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 20m

  4. 04/21/2025

    Courage To Thrive

    Kamin Samuel started her professional career as the U.S. Navy’s first female African-American helicopter pilot. She transitioned to having several small businesses and then to corporate as a web developer at a computer electronics company. Kamin moved up quickly working for several organizations, even serving as Vice President of Online Merchandising and Vice President of Global Website Operations at a billion-dollar company. This important conversation dives into her work on the film Courage to Thrive. In this uplifting and insightful interview Kamin discusses the life-giving lessons we can embrace - lessons she learned and refined through her film’s exploration of the incredible brokenness, breakdown, and impasse that three woman faced and grew threw to become powerful and successful women - shaping their communities and our world. The film explores the lives of women who have been underserved, underestimated and underinvested in. These women share how they faced adversity, and rewrote their narratives, to step into new levels of leadership in their careers and in the lives in new ways that they never imagined. Learn more about Kamin and her work - https://www.kaminsamuel.com/ https://couragetothrivedoc.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 37m

  5. 04/07/2025

    A Gate Between the Worlds: What is Modern Shamanism?

    Garrett Jackson is one of those rare people who hears the call at a young age and immediately takes action to learn, grow, and serve. Having committed deeply to contemporary training and studies in modern shamanic practice, Garrett is a signifier of a new era of healing, in which we can find our way beyond appropriating the traditions of others, and instead cultivate our innate gifts through responsible pathways of new ancient wisdom and practice.  Garrett Jackson is a gifted healer and a wonderful guest offering some simple overviews and explanations of his work, especially for those new to the power of shamanic work. I found this interview refreshing in his clarity and directness. It is so helpful for people looking to understand the ways that we heal beyond predication and can communicate beyond this world. A skilled and experienced practitioner of shamanic healing, Garrett Jackson brings us back to basics and helps shed a light on what Shamanic Practices offer us in the so-called Modern World. Learn more about Garett and his upcoming events at https://www.garrettpjackson.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 9m

  6. 03/24/2025

    From Struggle to Delight: NDE, Healing, and Higher Wisdom

    This is a conversation that takes you from the ordinary to the mind-blowing extraordinary. Stay to the end as you listen to Alysa Rushton share her difficult story of struggle and despair, and onto a near death experience and transformation unlike most. Alysa looks and sounds like a cheery, and encouraging best friend who is ready to take you to the beach. But you will meet few people with a more  roughed wisdom and agile mind. I am always so grateful for time with Alysa - her depth of insight and power is rare. Her clarity is incredible. And when you reach the end of this discussion, you will be ready for more as I was. About Alysa - Following years of health issues Alysa Rushton found herself overweight and overmedicated - being prescribed over 28 medications - by the age of 27. A Near Death experience took her beyond this world, and gave her insights that stayed with her well beyond her experience. Building on her decades of experience training as an organizational development consultant and coach, today Alysa shares profound practices developed from her Near Death Experience.  She has a strong focus on energy, frequency and aligning our lives to tune into the best frequency of us.  She’s on a personal and planetary mission to help us tap deeper into love and oneness, and help us awaken to our full true potential as an expression of the Divine in physical form.  Links and resources for Alysa - Website: https://alysarushton.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alysarushton/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/alysarushton Facebook: www.facebook.com/alysarushton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 35m

  7. 03/10/2025

    Near Death, New Life with Kellan Fluckiger

    I first met Kellan at a Near Death Experience conference, where he spoke passionately about his incredible experience of professional, death and loss, personal transformation and his extraordinary experience of being physically dead. His honesty and energy were compelling, and I'm so honored that I have had the chance to get to know him since. This conversation is energizing, challenging, and I encourage you to be sure that you listen to his experience on the other side. Grounded in decades of extraordinary business, success, and now fueled by spiritual insight, he offers such an important perspective on life and death. Kellan has lived multiple lives and careers. He had a 30-year career in energy, including C-suite positions in the US and Canada. He has a 16-year career as a Life and Business coach and is known as the “Alchemist of the Soul.” He is the author of 18 books and counting with numerous #1 bestsellers, Kellan coaches an international clientele in business, mindset work and high-performance. He performed in a music group that had three albums chart #1 on the Billboard charts. He still writes, records and performs. Kellan also had a 40-year battle with undiagnosed and untreated Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), which led through a roller coaster of high-flying success and secret stints in rehab for addictions. In 2018, Kellan had a near-death experience as he lay in a coma for three weeks while doctors scrambled to both save his life and diagnose the lethal strain of MRSA, which had severely infected both lungs. From that experience came several books, most notably Meeting God at the Door - Conversations, Choices, and Commitments of a Near-Death Experience, and Down From The Gallows. Kellan's website - https://www.kellanfluckiger.com Listen to Your Ultimate Life with Kellan Fluckiger - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-ultimate-life-with-kellan-fluckiger/id1505919748 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 4m

  8. 02/24/2025

    The Wisdom of Life in Death, from an African Traditional Healer

    It is always a gift to spend time with John Lockley. I look up to him as one of my own teachers and a model of how to live culturally, rooted wisdom and lifeways with integrity and balance. This magnificent conversation unfolds almost like a ceremony as we explore the deeper lessons of healing, ceremony, and the power of the Spirit World as we discuss death, tradition, and traditional medicine. According to John's Xhosa elders, he is one of the first white men after Apartheid to become a fully initiated Xhosa sangoma (African Shaman). In the sangoma medicine path in South Africa, there are many different tribes/lineages that make up a rich and diverse tapestry of healing. South Africa has one of the oldest living shamanic cultures left in the world. John Lockley was born, in 1971, into a divided Apartheid South Africa, with the mark of the sangoma on his face – a band of white birth skin around the eyes. At 18, John was serving in the South African army as a medic (during the war with Angola in the 1980s) when he had a strong, prophetic dream calling him to train as a Xhosa sangoma. He immediately began to suffer from the thwasa, a severe period of ill-health that is inherent in all ancient shamanic cultures which can only be cured through apprenticeship to a shamanic teacher. Because of the restrictions of Apartheid (which ended in 1994) it would take John seven years to find a Xhosa teacher. Learn more at https://www.johnlockley.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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About

Welcome to The Bone Collectors, a podcast that dives deeply into the transformative power of death in all its forms—literal, spiritual, psychological, and beyond. Join us as we engage in profound conversations with authors, experts, and thought leaders about their most meaningful experiences with death, loss, and major life transitions. Together, we explore the insights and lessons gained from these powerful moments and how we can apply them to live fuller, more intentional lives. Tune in to discover how endings can become the beginnings of healing, growth, and solutions for a better world for us all. Hosted by Jonathan Ellerby, Ph.D

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  • Creator
    Mind Body Spirit.fm
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2025
  • Episodes
    50
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Jonathan Ellerby
  • Show Website
    The Bone Collectors