David Godot
@davidgodot.bsky.social
Consciousness artist. Psychodynamic psychologist, poet, buddhist philosophy, esotericism, hypnosis.
Speaking directly to you alone, with no agenda.
Speaking directly to you alone, with no agenda.
When we listen for transference, we listen for the poetry in the patient’s words.
- Jon Frederickson, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Learning to listen from multiple perspectives
- Jon Frederickson, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Learning to listen from multiple perspectives
August 14, 2025 at 1:26 AM
When we listen for transference, we listen for the poetry in the patient’s words.
- Jon Frederickson, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Learning to listen from multiple perspectives
- Jon Frederickson, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Learning to listen from multiple perspectives
The new neurotransmitter is called “ambient delight.”
August 9, 2025 at 12:09 AM
The new neurotransmitter is called “ambient delight.”
I figured out my metric for “stupid.” It’s synonymous with belief. Belief is simply a way of saying there’s a topic I’ve decided to stop thinking about. Therefore, no matter how cognitively capable I may be, I am definitively stupid in relation to any topic I have a belief about.
August 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I figured out my metric for “stupid.” It’s synonymous with belief. Belief is simply a way of saying there’s a topic I’ve decided to stop thinking about. Therefore, no matter how cognitively capable I may be, I am definitively stupid in relation to any topic I have a belief about.
Letting go of thoughts,
Letting go of self,
Letting go of place and time —
Ooo... open awareness
Letting go of self,
Letting go of place and time —
Ooo... open awareness
June 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Letting go of thoughts,
Letting go of self,
Letting go of place and time —
Ooo... open awareness
Letting go of self,
Letting go of place and time —
Ooo... open awareness
Before any technique, there is a choice: to understand or to act. The most common failures in therapy happen when we choose to act without first understanding.
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#psychology #psychotherapy #psychodynamic #attachment #mentalizing
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#psychology #psychotherapy #psychodynamic #attachment #mentalizing
How to Succeed or Fail as a Psychotherapist
A clear, practical guide to mentalizing and its failure modes in psychotherapy.
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June 22, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Before any technique, there is a choice: to understand or to act. The most common failures in therapy happen when we choose to act without first understanding.
open.substack.com/pub/thedepth...
#psychology #psychotherapy #psychodynamic #attachment #mentalizing
open.substack.com/pub/thedepth...
#psychology #psychotherapy #psychodynamic #attachment #mentalizing
"We avoid recording our sessions because the recordings contain truths about us that we are afraid to face. The more we face the truth of our own experience, the more we gain the ability to help our patients do the same."
thedepthpsychologist.substack.com/p/why-record...
#psychotherapy #psychology
thedepthpsychologist.substack.com/p/why-record...
#psychotherapy #psychology
June 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
"We avoid recording our sessions because the recordings contain truths about us that we are afraid to face. The more we face the truth of our own experience, the more we gain the ability to help our patients do the same."
thedepthpsychologist.substack.com/p/why-record...
#psychotherapy #psychology
thedepthpsychologist.substack.com/p/why-record...
#psychotherapy #psychology
I’ve been working on a daily contemplation series integrating Kabbalistic structure with a Mahayana Buddhist methodology. Intros & first days are up. I’ll be practicing every day, feel free to join me
open.substack.com/pub/thesacre...
open.substack.com/pub/thesacre...
The Sacred Descent | David Godot | Substack
Yerida K'dosha: An advanced daily Kabbalah meditation practice for sacred embodiment. Click to read The Sacred Descent, by David Godot, a Substack publication. Launched 3 hours ago.
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June 8, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I’ve been working on a daily contemplation series integrating Kabbalistic structure with a Mahayana Buddhist methodology. Intros & first days are up. I’ll be practicing every day, feel free to join me
open.substack.com/pub/thesacre...
open.substack.com/pub/thesacre...
"Creative drive is move toward integration — unification of opposing currents into a coherent pattern." open.substack.com/pub/thedepth...
#creativity #philosophy #psychology #productivity #motivation
#creativity #philosophy #psychology #productivity #motivation
Holding the Pen Lightly: On Getting Things Done When You Don’t Really Exist
A personal inquiry into creativity, motivation, and the nature of self.
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May 19, 2025 at 2:51 AM
"Creative drive is move toward integration — unification of opposing currents into a coherent pattern." open.substack.com/pub/thedepth...
#creativity #philosophy #psychology #productivity #motivation
#creativity #philosophy #psychology #productivity #motivation
I started a substack where I'll be sharing essays connecting depth psychology, mysticism, and philosophy.
Please subscribe and share!
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Please subscribe and share!
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The Depth Psychologist | David Godot | Substack
Finding meaning and connection through applied psychology, psychoanalysis, hypnosis, meditation, spirituality, Buddhism, the occult, and esoteric philosophy. Click to read The Depth Psychologist, by D...
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May 11, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I started a substack where I'll be sharing essays connecting depth psychology, mysticism, and philosophy.
Please subscribe and share!
thedepthpsychologist.substack.com
Please subscribe and share!
thedepthpsychologist.substack.com
March 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I’ve been playing with this idea for a couple of days and it’s lovely
I sometimes do a little technique where I imagine that I've died and that before I go on to whatever comes next, I get to go back and re-live a random moment of my life. Not to change anything, but just to see what it was like.
And it's this moment.
🙏 🙂
And it's this moment.
🙏 🙂
Good Morning my friends, and never forget the beauty of this truth:
Every moment can be practice.
And if you see your entire life as practice, you will always be okay.
Every moment can be practice.
And if you see your entire life as practice, you will always be okay.
February 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I’ve been playing with this idea for a couple of days and it’s lovely
Put your desk in the corner and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn’t in the middle of the room. Life isn’t a support system for art; it’s the other way around. -Stephen King, On Writing.
January 29, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Put your desk in the corner and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn’t in the middle of the room. Life isn’t a support system for art; it’s the other way around. -Stephen King, On Writing.
Today, I'll simply shovel the snow, not in hopes of walking the path tomorrow, but just to get outside and breathe the cold air today.
January 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Today, I'll simply shovel the snow, not in hopes of walking the path tomorrow, but just to get outside and breathe the cold air today.
Reposted by David Godot
Even harder to accept is that it's often our demons that drive the creative impulse. Artistic beauty is a transcendence of self.
January 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Even harder to accept is that it's often our demons that drive the creative impulse. Artistic beauty is a transcendence of self.
I spent my whole life studying witch-doctoring and then my whole career setting broken bones by hand.
January 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I spent my whole life studying witch-doctoring and then my whole career setting broken bones by hand.
Dr. Ran Anbar and I discussed parallels between large language models and the human unconscious, societal trends causing increasing loneliness and polarization, and the intersections between childhood creativity, spirituality, and life after death. spoti.fi/4jlj7Bp
Dr. David Godot - Working with People in Transition
Center Point Radio · Episode
spoti.fi
January 15, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Dr. Ran Anbar and I discussed parallels between large language models and the human unconscious, societal trends causing increasing loneliness and polarization, and the intersections between childhood creativity, spirituality, and life after death. spoti.fi/4jlj7Bp
Some Easter thoughts on 13th century cosmic necromancy... 🧵
March 31, 2024 at 8:12 PM
Some Easter thoughts on 13th century cosmic necromancy... 🧵
“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.” -Max Planck
January 21, 2024 at 12:56 AM
“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.” -Max Planck
When it gets dark at 4pm, I:
1) Collapse into a viscous blob by 4:30
2) Utter the chant & quaff the dark elixir
3) Emerge as a creature of the night, remaining in a depraved and manic state until the sun rises at 4am
1) Collapse into a viscous blob by 4:30
2) Utter the chant & quaff the dark elixir
3) Emerge as a creature of the night, remaining in a depraved and manic state until the sun rises at 4am
November 22, 2023 at 9:16 AM
When it gets dark at 4pm, I:
1) Collapse into a viscous blob by 4:30
2) Utter the chant & quaff the dark elixir
3) Emerge as a creature of the night, remaining in a depraved and manic state until the sun rises at 4am
1) Collapse into a viscous blob by 4:30
2) Utter the chant & quaff the dark elixir
3) Emerge as a creature of the night, remaining in a depraved and manic state until the sun rises at 4am
Distraction is the death of art
October 7, 2023 at 9:10 PM
Distraction is the death of art
I'm at a point in my life where I'm just not willing to grant an audience to anyone who's not interested in hearing what I have to say.
This here is a two-way conversation or none at all.
This here is a two-way conversation or none at all.
September 24, 2023 at 1:08 AM
I'm at a point in my life where I'm just not willing to grant an audience to anyone who's not interested in hearing what I have to say.
This here is a two-way conversation or none at all.
This here is a two-way conversation or none at all.
A thought about mid-life, artistry, and the evolution of self... 🧵
September 23, 2023 at 9:30 PM
A thought about mid-life, artistry, and the evolution of self... 🧵
The Diderot Effect: obtaining a new possession often creates a spiral of consumption which leads you to acquire more new things. As a result, we end up buying things that our previous selves never needed to feel happy or fulfilled.
jamesclear.com/diderot-effect
jamesclear.com/diderot-effect
September 15, 2023 at 12:03 AM
The Diderot Effect: obtaining a new possession often creates a spiral of consumption which leads you to acquire more new things. As a result, we end up buying things that our previous selves never needed to feel happy or fulfilled.
jamesclear.com/diderot-effect
jamesclear.com/diderot-effect