Talks · David Godot

LLM and the Subconscious

David Godot — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700

With host Ran Anbar and AI podcaster Ayush Parkash, I discuss artificial intelligence and how it might mimic the processes of the subconscious mind.

Buddhist Psychology

David Godot — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0800

With host Ran Anbar, I discuss the mysteries of consciousness and self, meditative practices, hypnosis, and language.

Working with People in Transition

David Godot — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0800

With host Dr. Ran Anbar, I discussed the parallels between AI large language models and the human unconscious, meditative states, social fragmentation, the collective unconscious, and life after death. I also discuss my morning routine and the healthy practices that have transformed my own daily life.

Hypnosis and Alfred Adler

David Godot — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0800

I talked with hosts RJ Thomas and John Webber about hypnosis as a tool for understanding and interacting with the unconscious mind, Adlerian techniques for understanding personality development, false memories and personal myths, and trance states in everyday life.

The Future of Clinical Training and Evidence-Based Practice in Clinical Hypnosis

David Godot — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0700

In this invited plenary address, I cast new light on the history of clinical training, drawing together early mystical healing traditions, the Hippocratic tradition, early Christian hospitals, magnetism, mesmerism, exorcism, hypnotism, and modern evidence-based clinical practice in medicine and clinical psychology.

Evidence of practitioner effects across clinical disciplines is introduced—including psychology, psychiatry, primary care medicine, and surgery—and the causes and implications of those practitioner effects are explored in light of evidence for relationship effects, at-a-distance healing effects, and quantum nonlocality between human neural tissue samples.