Infants on Thrones

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile

What happens when a spiritual teaching moves through personality, money, sexuality, celebrity, institutional power, and the human desire to become somebody?

In this episode of Infants on Thrones, we view Eckhart Tolle, Deepak Chopra, Joseph Smith, and the religious movements surrounding them through the metaphysical vocabulary of The Ra Contact. Using the Law of One’s distinction between service to others and service to self, we explore how teachings of unity can encourage compassion, freedom, and direct spiritual experience—while also becoming entangled with wealth, hierarchy, prestige, authority, and control.

Why does Tolle’s teaching tend to dismantle the seeker’s need to become extraordinary? How can spirituality turn ambition into spiritualized ambition? What happens when Joseph Smith’s radically expansive vision of human divinity becomes an institution organized around priesthood keys and exclusive authority? And how might a scale created to judge spiritual teachers quietly become another source of ego and superiority?

The percentages offered in this episode are a playful interpretive device, not measurements found in The Ra Contact. The deeper question is personal:

Does a teaching increase compassion without weakening discernment? Does it strengthen boundaries without creating contempt? Does it make authority more necessary—or leave us increasingly free to be present as nobody in particular?

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile

In A Tale of Two Dows, Glenn responds to a message from his father through a story about family, Taoism, a childhood cactus patch, and what he has learned about the nervous system since launching the 28-Day Nervous System Reset Podcast. It’s an invitation to notice thoughts, feelings, and inherited patterns with a little more curiosity—and perhaps discover a little more choice in what happens next.

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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.

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Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile

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

In this episode of Infants on Thrones, 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.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile

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.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile

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 hard coy of Bathing With God through Amazon.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile

A listener reaches out after an unexpected conversation with a former bishop leaves her shaken, tearful, and wondering why old wounds still hurt. In this episode, we explore religious trauma through the lenses of Samskara, Polyvagal Theory, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Why does the body react long after the mind has moved on? What happens when old emotional grooves are triggered? And how can we cultivate peace, boundaries, and self-trust without needing to prove our experience to anyone?