Dr. Lotte: Science with Soul

What happens when your spiritual awakening begins not with certainty—but with losing nearly everything?
In this powerful episode of Dr. Lotte: Science with Soul, I sit down with Melissa Minnich, transformational leader, energy healer, bestselling author of High on Life: A Prescription for Bliss, and founder of the Sacred Soul Alchemy Mystery School.
Melissa shares the extraordinary experiences that shaped her spiritual journey—from two near-death experiences as a child and a profound UFO encounter to homelessness, suicidal despair, consciousness studies, nervous system regulation, energy healing, and transformational experiences in Egypt.
Together, Melissa and I explore why personal development and spiritual practices can sometimes create incredible breakthroughs that don't seem to last—and why somatic healing and nervous system regulation may be an essential missing piece in creating lasting transformation.
Melissa also reveals some of the biggest insights she's discovered after interviewing more than 100 experts for the Quantum Miracles Docuseries, including what she's learned about consciousness, our relationship with God and Spirit, energetic transformation, and what can happen when life appears to be completely falling apart.
✨ In this episode, you'll discover:
✦ Why spiritual breakthroughs don't always create lasting change
✦ The connection between somatic healing and nervous system regulation
✦ What she learned from interviewing 100+ consciousness experts
✦ What to do when you ask God or Spirit for guidance and hear nothing
✦ How our most difficult chapters can become catalysts for transformation
✦ Melissa's extraordinary experiences at sacred sites in Egypt
✦ Her evolving exploration of DNA, energy, consciousness, and healing
✦ The message she feels called to share with the world right now
This is a conversation about consciousness, healing, nervous system regulation, near-death experiences, spirituality, energy, and discovering possibility when life takes you somewhere you never expected to go.
🎧 Stay through the end to hear Melissa's message for anyone who feels as though nothing is working—and why that moment may not mean what you think it does.
 
📍A gentle note before we begin: This episode includes a brief discussion of suicide and substance use as part of Melissa's personal journey. Please honor yourself and your well-being as you listen.
 
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📚 About Melissa Minnich:
Melissa Minnich is a scientist, healer, channel, and author of High on Life: A Prescription for Bliss (Hay House, 2025). With a Master's degree in the Science of Consciousness and Human Potential, her work bridges modern neuroscience with ancient wisdom and the deeper mysteries of consciousness.
 
As founder of the Alchemy Mystery School and creator of the Bliss Rx Method, Melissa guides high-performers and leaders in accessing higher states of consciousness.
 
She has spoken at the City Summit & Gala (#1 business conference by Inc. Magazine), the Women's Economic Forum, and dozens of international stages.
 
 
🌐 Connect with Melissa Minnich:
✦ Melissa's Website: MelissaMinnich.com
✦ Book: High on Life: A Prescription for Bliss
✦ Sacred Soul Alchemy Mystery School
✦ Podcast – High on Life
✦ YouTube: @MelissaSMinnich
✦ Facebook: @MelissaSMinnich
✦ Instagram: @MelissaSMinnich
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What if your greatest challenges became the beginning of your greatest healing journey?
In this profoundly moving episode of Dr. Lotte: Science with Soul, I sit down with physician, author, and healer Dr. Peter Powers, whose extraordinary life story is a testament to the incredible resilience of the human spirit.
Diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes as a child, Dr. Powers faced unimaginable adversity throughout his life. The heartbreaking loss of his sister as a teenager, nearly denied entry into medical school because of his diabetes, experienced devastating vision loss that ultimately left him blind for a period in his life, and was later told he had just 18 months to live after developing severe kidney disease.
But Dr. Powers refused to surrender.
Instead, he embarked on a remarkable journey that combined conventional medicine with visualization, meditation, spiritual insight, and deep inner healing. His story is one of unwavering hope, perseverance, and the powerful reminder that our greatest challenges can become our greatest teachers.
Whether you're navigating illness, grief, uncertainty, or simply searching for renewed hope, this conversation will leave you inspired by what is possible when we refuse to give up.
In this episode you'll discover:
✦ Dr. Peter Powers' incredible journey through blindness, kidney failure, and healing
✦ How visualization, meditation, and mindset transformed his path
✦ The lessons he learned from profound loss and life's greatest challenges
✦ Why hope can become one of our most powerful healing tools
✦ His heartfelt advice for anyone facing illness, hardship, or uncertainty
 
If you've ever wondered whether healing, resilience, and transformation are truly possible - even in life's darkest moments - this is an episode you won't want to miss.
Press play, open your heart, and prepare to be deeply inspired by one of the most remarkable healing journeys we've ever shared on Science with Soul.
 
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About Dr. Peter Powers:
Dr. Peter Powers, author of Open My Eyes and a physician with 44 years of experience across practices in Kentucky, Alaska, and Arizona. His approach to medicine weaves together traditional Western practice, Eastern healing arts, and ancient wisdom traditions.
 
At just 34 years old, Dr. Powers, once a competitive marathon runner, suddenly lost his sight and faced kidney failure as a result of type 1 diabetes complications. Given little hope of survival, he refused to give up, and through extraordinary resilience, he not only survived but healed.
 
That journey became his life's deeper calling. Dr. Powers has shared his story of self-healing and renewal with audiences in personal development seminars, hospitals, and community centers, inspiring countless others to reclaim their own health and hope.
 
🌐 Connect with Dr. Peter Powers:
✦ Book – Open My Eyes: A Doctor's Powerful Story of Courage & Healing
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Have you ever wondered if life's greatest challenges are actually invitations to awaken to something far greater?
In this heartfelt and deeply inspiring conversation, I sit down with spiritual guide, energy healer, bestselling author, and host of the acclaimed Soul Elevation Podcast, Kara Goodwin. Together, we explore how life's darkest moments can become the catalyst for profound spiritual transformation, deeper trust, and a more authentic connection with your soul.
After years of success in the corporate world, Kara's life was shaken by an extraordinary series of personal tragedies that ultimately led her to meditation, spiritual awakening, and remarkable mystical experiences. In this beautiful conversation, she openly shares her journey, the wisdom she's gained, and practical guidance for anyone seeking hope, purpose, and a deeper relationship with the Divine.
Whether you're walking through a difficult season, searching for your purpose, or simply curious about spirituality, this episode is filled with wisdom, encouragement, and gentle reminders that you are never alone.
In this episode, you'll discover: 
✦ How life's greatest hardships can become powerful spiritual awakenings.
✦ Practical ways to connect with your intuition, guides, and the Universe.
✦ Kara's extraordinary mystical experiences and what they taught her.
✦ How to find purpose and meaning during uncertain and chaotic times.
✦ The powerful message behind her book Your Authentic Awakening and her journey through healing.
 
If you've been looking for hope, inspiration, and practical spiritual guidance, this is an episode you won't want to miss.
✨ Tune in, open your heart, and Kara and I for a beautiful conversation that may change the way you see your own journey.
 
📍Please note: This episode contains a brief discussion of suicide as it relates to Kara's family story. Listener discretion is advised.
 
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About Kara Goodwin:
 
Kara Goodwin is a spiritual guide, energy healer, podcast host, and author devoted to helping you awaken to your divine nature and live in alignment with your soul's purpose.
Her journey began in the corporate world, where she spent over 15 years in IT and consulting. Despite professional success, she felt unfulfilled and dejected by how she spent her time and energy. It wasn't until a series of personal challenges and tragedies led her to meditation that she began to reconnect with her true essence. This practice opened the door to profound spiritual experiences, including encounters with higher realms, sacred geometries, and expansive states of consciousness, transforming her understanding of reality and igniting a passion to guide others on their own spiritual journeys.
Her podcast, Soul Elevation, has been guiding listeners to explore the vast realms of consciousness and spiritual transformation since 2018 and is in the top 2% of all podcasts across all genres worldwide. Each episode features inspiring conversations with thought leaders, healers, and visionaries on topics like mysticism, energy healing, miracles, angels, psychic abilities, multidimensionality, and quantum physics. Together, Kara and her guests explore the mysteries of the universe, empowering listeners to expand their awareness and embrace their highest potential.
In her book, Your Authentic Awakening: A Guide to Every Day Spiritual Living, Kara shares personal stories of mystical experiences that illuminate the possibilities for multidimensional awareness and expanded consciousness. This guide also offers practical tools and insights to help you integrate spiritual practices into your daily life, fostering a deeper connection to your true self and the universe.
Kara's passionate about making spiritual practices accessible and integrating them into modern lifestyles. Whether through one-on-one sessions, group workshops, online summits, her Healing Hearth community, or her podcast, Kara's goal is to support you in uncovering the tools and techniques that resonate with your unique path. By doing so, you can experience greater joy, peace, and fulfillment as you align with your soul's true purpose. If you're ready to embark on a journey of self-discovery and spiritual awakening, Kara invites you to explore the many resources and offerings available on her site, KaraGoodwin.com.
 
 
🌐 Connect with Kara Goodwin:

✦ Kara Goodwin's Website: KaraGoodwin.com
✦ Book: Your Authentic Awakening: A Guide to Every Day Spiritual Living
✦ Podcast: Soul Elevation Podcast
✦ YouTube: @SoulElevationPodcast
✦ Facebook: @KaraGoodwinMeditation
✦ Instagram: @Kara_Goodwin_Meditation
 
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The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the guests and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of Dr. Lotte, the podcast Dr. Lotte: Science with Soul, or any affiliates, subsidiaries, or entities represented by them.

What happens when a three-year-old child dies, crosses into a realm of infinite love, encounters angels, and returns with memories that never fade?
In this deeply moving conversation, I sit down with psychotherapist, regression therapist, and bestselling author Jacob L. Cooper to explore his extraordinary Near-Death Experience, the reality of consciousness beyond the physical body, and what these experiences can teach us about living a more meaningful life.
Jacob L. Cooper was just three years old when he stopped breathing from pertussis and crossed beyond the veil. What he experienced changed the course of his life forever.
In this fascinating episode of Dr. Lotte: Science with Soul, Jacob shares his vivid memories of his NDE, entering a realm of divine light, unconditional love, angelic presence, and what felt like a true home for his soul.
Drawing from his extraordinary Near-Death Experience, Jacob offers profound insights into life after death, soul purpose, healing, past lives, and the deeper meaning behind our earthly journeys.
As a licensed psychotherapist, regression therapist, and bestselling author, he also brings a grounded clinical perspective to some of life's biggest spiritual questions.
Jacob and I also discover remarkable parallels in our own Near-Death Experience journeys, creating a heartfelt and inspiring conversation that explores the mysteries of consciousness, destiny, and the soul's path with warmth, wisdom, and authenticity.
If you've ever wondered what happens after death, why we're here, or how to connect more deeply with your soul's purpose, this episode is for you.
What You'll Hear & Learn
✦ What Jacob experienced during his Near-Death Experience at age three
✦ His encounter with angels, divine light, and a realm beyond the physical world
✦ Why Near-Death Experiences often feel more real than ordinary reality
✦ The emotional and spiritual aftereffects of returning from an NDE
✦ How the fear of death can transform after a glimpse beyond the veil
✦ What life contracts and soul purpose may reveal about our journey here
✦ How to experience greater connection, love, and "heaven on earth"
✦ The difference between past-life regression and between-life soul regression
✦ Why certain soul memories emerge for healing and growth
✦ Insights into consciousness, reincarnation, and the meaning of life
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About Jacob Cooper, LCSW.
Jacob L. Cooper, LCSW, life was forever changed during a profound
Near- Death Experience when he was just three years old. Jacob as a
result of contracting pertussis, completely suffocated and lost all
ability to breath. Despite this, Jacob was able to experience without a
shadow of doubt the eternal breath that goes well beyond the physical
body when he crossed over. Jacob, through his profound recollection of his mystical experience to heaven, has been invigorated to share insight about the
mystery of life on the other side of the veil and the transformations
gained from his profound NDE to live one's best life here on earth.
Jacob's experience provides guidance for others to experience an
expanded soul awareness by assisting in the development of
self-awareness and finding meaning in their experiences.
 
Jacob holds a Master of Social Work (MSW) degree and is a Licensed
Clinical Social Worker, Certified Reiki Master, Certified
Hypnotherapist, and specializes in Regression Therapy. As a
psychotherapist, Jacob works with individuals, groups, and families to
uncover emotional barriers, promote improved wellness, and achieve
resiliency. Jacob synthesizes his grounded mental health background
and his spiritual experiences to assist others in their own
transformations.
 
Jacob is a sought-after speaker on grief, wisdom, and consciousness,
and offers life-changing seminars. Jacob has presented at the Omega Institute, Edgar
Cayce Association for Research and Enlightenment (ARE), the
International Association of Near-Death Studies (IANDS), Lily Dale
Assembly, The Forever Family Foundation, Helping Parents Heal,
spiritual centers, international universities, and public libraries. He is sought after with major
media outlets and has been a featured guest on CBS Television, Coast
To Coast Am with George Noory, IANDS Radio, The Dead Life with Allison
Dubois, Next Level Soul and Tri State Radio Stations. He has published
articles with Huffington Post's Thrive Global.
 
Jacob's seminars promote healing for those dealing with loss, people
who seek to understand continuity of consciousness beyond the physical
body, and for those with anxiety associated with the fear of life
after death. He is the best- selling author of Life After Breath, a
memoir on his near-death experience (NDE) published by Waterside
Productions. Jacob resides and practices in Long Island, New York. His
latest book The Wisdom of Jacob's Ladder, has become a best-seller and
well received.
 
Jacob is the host of "The Wisdom of Jacob's Ladder" available on
YouTube and across several additional platform streams. He provides
his own insights from personal and professional backgrounds. He also
hosts experts and renowned luminaries on his channel to help elevate viewers
to higher rungs on their personal soul evolutionary ladder.
 
🌐 Connect with Jacob Cooper, LCSW:
✦ Jacob Cooper's Website: JacobLCooper.com
✦ Book: Life After Breath
✦ Book: The Wisdom of Jacob's Ladder
✦ Podcast: The Wisdom of Jacob's Ladder
✦ YouTube: @TheWisdomofJacobLadder
✦ Instagram: @JacobCooperLCSW
✦ Facebook: @JacobCooperLCSW
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What if the fears, anxieties, and self-sabotaging patterns holding you back aren't who you truly are - but simply old programming waiting to be rewritten?
 
In this fascinating conversation, I sit down with founder and director of The Institute for Transpersonal Studies in Santa Cruz, California and renowned Clinical Hypnosis and NLP Trainer Rainya M. Dann, to explore how the conscious, subconscious, and superconscious mind shape our lives, relationships, healing, and personal transformation.
 
Drawing from more than four decades of experience helping thousands of people create meaningful change, Rainya shares practical wisdom on overcoming anxiety, healing childhood wounds, transforming limiting beliefs, understanding desire and fear, accessing your true essence, and discovering the deeper intelligence that guides your life.
 
Together, Rainya and I explore:
 
◆ Hypnosis, NLP, and Brainspotting as powerful tools for transformation
◆ Past lives, womb memories, and inner child healing
◆ Why we often fear success, love, joy, and personal power
◆ How fear can reveal our deepest desires and soul longings
◆ Practical ways to cultivate self-love, self-trust, and lasting change
 
Whether you're navigating anxiety, seeking emotional healing, exploring consciousness, or longing to step into a more joyful and fulfilling life, this conversation offers profound insights and practical tools for transformation.
 
✨ Watch, listen, and explore with an open heart.
 
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About Rainya M. Dann:
Rainya Dann is the founder and director of The Institute for Transpersonal Studies in Santa Cruz, California. For over forty years, she has dedicated her life to awakening human potential through the art and science of hypnosis, NLP, and spiritual counseling.
A Clinical Hypnosis and NLP Trainer, Rainya has guided thousands to harness the power of the conscious, subconscious, and superconscious mind for healing and transformation.
Author of Finding Inner Harmony with Hypnosis, her work blends NLP, Voice Dialogue, meditation, and breathwork to help people release fear and awaken joy, peace, and self-trust.
Rainya teaches in Santa Cruz and Hawaii, supporting others to discover their true calling and create joyful, soul-fulfilling lives.
 
🌐 Connect with Rainya M. Dann:
✦ Rainya M. Dann's Website: www.TranspersonalHypnoTherapySchoo.com
✦ Book: Finding Inner Harmony with Hypnosis
✦ YouTube: @HypnoTherapySchool
✦ Instagram: @RainyaDann
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The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the guests and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of Dr. Lotte, the podcast Dr. Lotte: Science with Soul, or any affiliates, subsidiaries, or entities represented by them.