Infants on Thrones
Welcome to Infants on Thrones, a podcast dedicated to exploring self-awareness, discovery, and the complexities of human existence. Our name, Infants on Thrones, reflects our belief that we are all in a continuous state of growth and learning, much like infants. As we navigate through life's challenges and questions, we aim to approach each topic with curiosity, humility, and a touch of humor. Join us as we delve into a wide range of subjects, from personal development and mental health to philosophical and spiritual inquiries. Whether we're discussing the evolution of human consciousness, sharing insights from various fields of study...
Ep 948 - The Return of Quad (aka The Birth of Solivia)
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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 pre...
Ep 947 - Rub-a-dub-dub, What's That Voice in my Tub?
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...
Ep 946 -Bathing With God Revisited: An Introduction (A Binaural Meditation)
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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 li...
Ep 945 - Hello Again Tom Come and Play and Why you Hate Fate
Ep 944 - An Intelligent Critique and Analysis of Anxiety in Action
Ep 943 - Exploring and Exfoliating My Own Deep-rooted Anxiety
Ep 942 - Dear Aubrie, When Your Body Remembers: Religious Trauma, Samskaras, and the Nervous System
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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?
Ep 941 - Welcome to the Dojo of Sound: Demons, Witches, and the Friend I Used to Know
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A message from an old friend became an unexpected mirror. After a New Moon ritual, Glenn received a warning that he had opened demonic portals through witchcraft and that only repentance could save him. Rather than debating theology, this episode explores certainty, folklore, nervous systems, cult dynamics, spiritual identity, and the stories we use to make sense of reality. What happens when two people who once admired each other find themselves living inside entirely different worlds?
Ep 940 - Awakening the Divine Masculine Within
Ep 939 - Dear Exmormon Reddit: Help! My Dad Debunked the CES Letter!! (A Binaural Meditation Smackdown of sorts)
Ep 938 - All Aboard the Ventral Revolution (A Binaural Meditation)
Ep 937 - Tell Me More about That Matrix Story
Ep 936 - A Meditation on Anger
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A binaural meditation examining anger through the lens of neuroscience and polyvagal theory.
Ep 935 - Pluribus Reflections: What Does it Mean to be Safe?
Ep 934 - Pluribus Reflections: Do You Want to Be Happy (No Matter What?)
Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile
After watching Episode 8 first thing when I woke up this morning, I had to sit down and record my reflections -- set against a backdrop of a binaural audio soundscape intentionally designed to calm and soothe the nervous system (if you will allow that, Carol).
Ep 933 - Pluribus Reflections: In Defense of Carol, Part 1
Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile
In this binaural audio meditation, I offer reflections on Pluribus—not as claims about authorial intent, but as a personal response to what the story evokes in me. I don’t presume to know the intentions of Vince Gilligan, the creative team, or what Rhea Seehorn is aiming to convey. Listening to the show’s official podcast, you can hear the care, curiosity, and shared joy behind their process—a kind of pluribus, a many-as-one collaboration that I deeply respect. My reflections exist alongside that work, not over it.
Ep 932 - Pluribus Reflections: The Signal from Without and Within
Ep 931 - In The Stranger's Guise (Essay Resurrection File, Morning of 12:12am)
Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile
Glenn became a mental health therapist largely as a result of his interactions with listeners and interviewees on Infants on Thrones. This is a previously published listener essays from 2014-2018, playfully resurrected to shine further light and knowledge on mental health and wellbeing.
Glenn's Psychology Today Profile
Ep 930 - The Perfect Thanksgiving Lament of Ex Ex-Mormon Reed (Essay Resurrection File, Morning of 12:11am)
Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile
Glenn became a mental health therapist largely as a result of his interactions with listeners and interviewees in Infants on Thrones. This is a newly written and submitted listener essay, summarily executed and resurrected to shine further light and knowledge on the inevitable perfection of mental health and wellbeing.
Glenn's Psychology Today Profile
Ep 929 - The Lazy Valedictorian (Essay Resurrection File, Morning of 12:10am)
Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile
Glenn became a mental health therapist largely as a result of his interactions with listeners and interviewees in Infants on Thrones. These are previously published listener essays from 2014-2018, newly resurrected to shine further light and knowledge on mental health and wellbeing.
Glenn's Psychology Today Profile
Ep 928 - Russia Made Me Do It (Essay Resurrection File, Morning of 12:09am)
Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile
Glenn became a mental health therapist largely as a result of his interactions with listeners and interviewees in Infants on Thrones. These are previously published listener essays from 2014-2018, newly resurrected to shine further light and knowledge on mental health and wellbeing.
Glenn's Psychology Today Profile
Ep 927 - Remarkably Unremarkable (Essay Resurrection File, Morning of 12:08am)
Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile
Glenn became a mental health therapist largely as a result of his interactions with listeners and interviewees in Infants on Thrones. These are previously published listener essays from 2014-2018, newly resurrected to shine further light and knowledge on mental health and wellbeing.
Glenn's Psychology Today Profile
Ep 926 - My Lucky Day (Essay Resurrection File, Morning of 12:07am)
Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile
Glenn became a mental health therapist largely as a result of his interactions with listeners and interviewees in Infants on Thrones. These are previously published listener essays from 2014-2018, newly resurrected to shine further light and knowledge on mental health and wellbeing.
Glenn's Psychology Today Profile
Ep 925 - Dear Grandmother, Who Is Dead (Essay Resurrection File, Morning of 12:06am)
Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile
Glenn became a mental health therapist largely as a result of his interactions with listeners and interviewees in Infants on Thrones. These are previously published listener essays from 2014-2018, newly resurrected to shine further light and knowledge on mental health and wellbeing.
Glenn's Psychology Today Profile
Ep 924 - The Old Ship Zion (Essay Resurrection File, Morning of 12:05am)
Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile
Glenn became a mental health therapist largely as a result of his interactions with listeners and interviewees in Infants on Thrones. These are previously published listener essays from 2014-2018, newly resurrected to shine further light and knowledge on mental health and wellbeing.
Glenn's Psychology Today Profile
Ep 923 - The Atheist and the Humanist (Essay Resurrection File, Morning of 12:04am)
Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile
Glenn became a mental health therapist largely as a result of his interactions with listeners and interviewees in Infants on Thrones. These are previously published listener essays from 2014-2018, newly resurrected to shine further light and knowledge on mental health and wellbeing.
Glenn's Psychology Today Profile
Ep 922 - The Problem of Good (Essay Resurrection File, Morning of 12:03am)
Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile
Glenn became a mental health therapist largely as a result of his interactions with listeners and interviewees in Infants on Thrones. These are previously published listener essays from 2014-2018, newly resurrected to shine further light and knowledge on mental health and wellbeing.
Glenn's Psychology Today Profile
Ep 921 - The Log on the Fire (Essay Resurrection File, Morning of 12:02am)
Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile
Glenn became a mental health therapist largely as a result of his interactions with listeners and interviewees in Infants on Thrones. These are previously published listener essays from 2014-2018, newly resurrected to shine further light and knowledge on mental health and wellbeing.
Glenn's Psychology Today Profile
Ep 920 - Faith Crisis: A Nervous System Story (Essay Resurrection File, Morning of 12:01am)
Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile
Glenn became a mental health therapist largely as a result of his interactions with listeners and interviewees in Infants on Thrones. These are previously published listener essays from 2014-2018, newly resurrected to shine further light and knowledge on mental health and wellbeing.
Glenn's Psychology Today Profile
Ep 919 - Dear Chip... Happy Birthday, Aquarian Soul
Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile
A man writes a letter to his younger self at the moment of birth. Dear Chip – Chapter Two is a fiction-as-self-therapy meditation: piercing cries, blossoming lungs, controlled hallucinations, attachment theory, and the first grooves of trust and independence. Blending neuroscience, modern folklore, and lived experience, this lyrical and provocative reflection explores how realities diverge, how belief seeps in unnoticed, and how early wounds echo as lifelong patterns. It invites listeners to reconsider their own first breath — not as a single cry, but as the opening chord of a lifelong symphony.
Ep 918 - Dear Chip 01: The Point of Conception
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Before the Infant. Before the Throne. There was a sperm, an egg, a single cell then two. This is a letter written to this two.
A man writes a letter to his younger self at the point of conception. Dear Chip – Chapter One is a fiction-as-self-therapy origin story: zinc sparks, cosmic eggs, parts-work, and the simple compass to live and to love. Blending science, myth, and psychology, this intelligent and provocative meditation challenges how we think about beginnings and what it means to be alive. It invites listeners to reima...
Ep 917 - Agitation (aka Infants on Mike on Gene Keys on Agitation on Mormons on Mushrooms on Thrones)
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Glenn sits down with Mike Steed from Mormons on Mushrooms to discuss The Gene Keys and his experiences with agitation.
Ep 916 - Heal Your Mind, Heal Your Body: An Interview with Dr. Skyler Hamilton
Ep 915 - 19 Epilogue: The Avocado of Existence
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In this episode of Infants on Thrones, Glenn shares the Epilogue from his new book:
You're Not Broken... You’re Just Rewiring:
The Science and Mythology of Listening with New Ears
You can contact Glenn at infantsonthrones@gmail.com
Check out Glenn's Psychology Today profile here.
Ep 914 - 18 The Glitch Is the Gift: Returning to the Beginning as Something New
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Part III
In this episode of Infants on Thrones, Glenn shares Chapter 18 from his new book:
You're Not Broken... You’re Just Rewiring:
The Science and Mythology of Listening with New Ears
You can contact Glenn at infantsonthrones@gmail.com
Check out Glenn's Psychology Today profile here.
Ep 913 - 17 The Tip of Whimsy and the Planetary Mind
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Part III
In this episode of Infants on Thrones, Glenn shares Chapter 17 from his new book:
You're Not Broken... You’re Just Rewiring:
The Science and Mythology of Listening with New Ears
You can contact Glenn at infantsonthrones@gmail.com
Check out Glenn's Psychology Today profile here.
Ep 912 - 16 The Ego, The Gods, and the Story that Shaped the Sky
Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile
Part III
In this episode of Infants on Thrones, Glenn shares Chapter 16 from his new book:
You're Not Broken... You’re Just Rewiring:
The Science and Mythology of Listening with New Ears
You can contact Glenn at infantsonthrones@gmail.com
Check out Glenn's Psychology Today profile here.
Ep 911 - 15 Atlantis and the Neuron that Dreamed Itself Awake
Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile
Part III
In this episode of Infants on Thrones, Glenn shares Chapter 15 from his new book:
You're Not Broken... You’re Just Rewiring:
The Science and Mythology of Listening with New Ears
You can contact Glenn at infantsonthrones@gmail.com
Check out Glenn's Psychology Today profile here.
Ep 910 - 14 Lemuria and the Cell that Stayed
Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile
Part III
In this episode of Infants on Thrones, Glenn shares Chapter 14 from his new book:
You're Not Broken... You’re Just Rewiring:
The Science and Mythology of Listening with New Ears
You can contact Glenn at infantsonthrones@gmail.com
Check out Glenn's Psychology Today profile here.
Ep 909 - 13 The Nymph, the Void, and the Pattern That Paints Itself
Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile
Part III
In this episode of Infants on Thrones, Glenn shares Chapter 13 from his new book:
You're Not Broken... You’re Just Rewiring:
The Science and Mythology of Listening with New Ears
You can contact Glenn at infantsonthrones@gmail.com
Check out Glenn's Psychology Today profile here.
