Bathing With God

Six years after writing Bathing with God, Glenn Ostlund returns to the bathtub conversations that helped reshape his relationship with belief, imagination, and judgment. This opening episode places his 2020 narration beside his present-day perspective as a folklorist, therapist, and creator of the Polyvagal Roadmap of Emotions. Along the way, he revisits Mormonism, atheism, Buddhism, Alan Watts, Conversations with God, and the question of whether a constructed story can still be meaningful and real. The episode unfolds inside a 6 Hz theta binaural soundscape designed for stereo listening. Headphones are required to experience the full intended left-right frequency difference precisely.

In this eighth episode of Bathing with God Revisited, Glenn turns to Chapter 7, “All About God,” contrasting his transition from fundamentalist religion to a unified "Source Energy" with the high-level metaphysics of The Law of One and the radical philosophy of Baruch Spinoza, whose identification of God with Nature offers a strikingly different way of reimagining the divine. Now a licensed therapist in Arizona, Glenn revisits the book as a way of tracing the intellectual, spiritual, and psychological path that eventually led him into the therapy profession.

The episode explores how human beings navigate the existential void, the deconstruction of judgmental religious authorities, and the idea that individual beings may be expressions of a larger unified whole, while also asking what these ideas might offer therapeutically. The conversation places Quad’s concept of Source Energy alongside Ra’s Intelligent Infinity and Spinoza’s God-or-Nature, exploring both their similarities and their important differences. For listeners, the episode invites reflection on our inherent worth separate from conditioned success, and how we can tolerate existential uncertainty while rebuilding a personal connection to the larger whole.

This episode is presented as a theta binaural meditation. Headphones are required to experience the full binaural effect.

The Reality of Fiction

In this seventh episode of Bathing with God Revisited, Glenn turns to Chapter 6, “The Reality of Fictions,”tracing how subjective and collective stories wield physical power in the material world alongside Yuval Noah Harari’s historical examination of shared myths and imagined orders in Sapiens. Now a licensed therapist in Arizona, Glenn revisits the book as a way of tracing the intellectual, spiritual, and psychological path that eventually led him into the therapy profession.

The episode explores the concept of "Quad" as a Quantum God or omnipresent field of energy, and how human-made intersubjective realities—like laws, nations, and money—function as vital cognitive interfaces that shape behavior and society, while also asking what these ideas might offer therapeutically. For listeners, the conversation invites reflection on the stories we have inherited and collectively agreed to live by, empowering us to become conscious architects of our personal and social software.

This episode is presented as a theta binaural meditation. Headphones are required to experience the full binaural effect.

You can purchase a paperback copy of Bathing With God through Amazon.

In this sixth episode of Bathing with God Revisited, Glenn turns to Chapter 5, “The Fiction of Fictions,” diving into how our brains actively construct our conscious environment alongside neuroscientist Anil Seth’s work on perception as a "controlled hallucination" and predictive processing. Now a licensed therapist in Arizona, Glenn revisits the book as a way of tracing the intellectual, spiritual, and psychological path that eventually led him into the therapy profession.

The episode explores how the brain, locked inside the dark vault of the skull, uses limited sensory data to draft a practical but fundamentally incomplete model of the world, while also asking what these ideas might offer therapeutically. For listeners, the conversation invites reflection on cognitive defusion—learning to see our thoughts and beliefs as constructed models rather than absolute truths—and how this understanding provides a pathway of psychological liberation from rigid dogmas.

This episode is presented as a theta binaural meditation. Headphones are required to experience the full binaural effect.

You can purchase a paperback copy of Bathing With God through Amazon.

In this fifth episode of Bathing with God Revisited, Glenn turns to Chapter 4, “Curiosity, Arrogance, and the Value of Suffering,” juxtaposing his views on adversity with Richard Rudd’s The Gene Keys and its map of moving from "Shadow" states of victimization to "Gift" states of creative empowerment. Now a licensed therapist in Arizona, Glenn revisits the book as a way of tracing the intellectual, spiritual, and psychological path that eventually led him into the therapy profession.

The episode explores the utility of friction, the tension between curiosity and dogmatic certainty, and how facing opposition can serve as a catalyst for biological and psychological growth, while also asking what these ideas might offer therapeutically. For listeners, the conversation invites reflection on how we relate to our own pain, exploring how non-judgmental curiosity can transform suffering into a fertilizer for empathy and resilience without romanticizing hardship or excusing genuine cruelty.

This episode is presented as a theta binaural meditation. Headphones are required to experience the full binaural effect.

In this fourth episode of Bathing with God Revisited, Glenn turns to Chapter 3, “Dumbo’s Black Feather,”analyzing the psychological triggers of failure and hope alongside the somatic insights of trauma pioneer Bessel van der Kolk and neurobiologist Andrew Huberman’sresearch on the placebo effect. Now a licensed therapist in Arizona, Glenn revisits the book as a way of tracing the intellectual, spiritual, and psychological path that eventually led him into the therapy profession.

The episode explores how entrenched emotional patterns and protective fictions are mapped onto the physical body, and how belief and expectancy function as biological keys to unlock latent human capacities, while also asking what these ideas might offer therapeutically. For listeners, the conversation invites reflection on our own "rusty chains" of self-doubt and "black feathers" of empowerment, exploring how we can consciously author more supportive personal stories to regulate our nervous system and foster active agency.

This episode is presented as a theta binaural meditation. Headphones are required to experience the full binaural effect.

You can purchase a paperback copy of Bathing With God through Amazon.

In this third episode of Bathing with God Revisited, Glenn turns to Chapter 2, “A World of Pure Imagination,” examining how our sensory systems shape a highly restricted view of the world alongside neuroscientist David Eagleman’s concept of the umwelt and cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman’s interface theory of perception. Now a licensed therapist in Arizona, Glenn revisits the book as a way of tracing the intellectual, spiritual, and psychological path that eventually led him into the therapy profession.

The episode explores the limits of biological perception, how different organisms inhabit entirely different sensory realities, and the provocative claim that our brains trade literal truth for evolutionary survival, while also asking what these ideas might offer therapeutically. For listeners, the conversation invites reflection on cognitive humility, the distinction between our subjective models and objective reality, and how we can use intentional imagination to expand our psychological horizons and loosen the grip of rigid, defensive narratives.

This episode is presented as a theta binaural meditation. Headphones are required to experience the full binaural effect.

You can purchase a paperback copy of Bathing With God through Amazon.

What happens when imagination becomes a doorway into a different way of seeing yourself?

In this episode of Bathing with God Revisited, Quad—Glenn’s imaginary companion from the original Bathing with God—reaches out to Solivia, a newly imagined expression of one person’s deeper values, self-trust, compassion, courage, boundaries, and presence.

What begins as a playful conversation between two “imaginary” beings becomes an exploration of something very human: the stories our minds create, the intelligence of the nervous system, the fear that pulls us away from the present, and the possibility that the person we are trying so hard to become may already be present underneath the noise.

This is an experiment in imagination, perspective, and listening inward—not to find a perfect or authoritative Higher Self, but to become curious about what new choices might become available when we give another part of ourselves a voice.

You can purchase a paperback copy of Bathing With God through Amazon.

In this second episode of Bathing with God Revisited, Glenn turns to Chapter 1, “Rub a Dub Dub, What’s That Voice in My Tub?”, examining its initial speculations on consciousness and subatomic energy alongside the work of journalist Steve Volk and physicist David Tong's insights on quantum field theory. Now a licensed therapist in Arizona, Glenn revisits the book as a way of tracing the intellectual, spiritual, and psychological path that eventually led him into the therapy profession.

The episode explores the limits of human perception, the nature of inner dialogue, and the speculative intersections of quantum physics and consciousness, while also asking what these ideas might offer therapeutically. For listeners, the conversation invites reflection on cognitive flexibility, how we relate to our own internal voices, and how we tolerate existential uncertainty in a world that extends far beyond our biological senses.

This episode is presented as a theta binaural meditation. Headphones are required to experience the full binaural effect.

You can purchase a paperback copy of Bathing With God through Amazon.

In this opening episode of Bathing with God Revisited, Glenn returns to the original introduction of Bathing with God, written in 2020, and compares its ideas with Neale Donald Walsch’s Conversations with God. Now a licensed therapist in Arizona, Glenn revisits the book in 2026 as a way of tracing the intellectual, spiritual, and psychological path that eventually led him into the therapy profession.

The episode explores evolving ideas about God, consciousness, atheism, belief, and intelligence beyond traditional religious frameworks, while also asking what these ideas might offer therapeutically. For listeners, the conversation invites reflection on inherited beliefs, personal meaning, uncertainty, and the stories we use to make sense of ourselves and the world.

This episode is presented as a theta binaural meditation. Headphones are required to experience the full binaural effect.

You can purchase a paperback copy of Bathing With God through Amazon.