Infants on Thrones

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What happens when a data scientist, a trauma-informed mental health counselor, and a dude who really REALLY likes Batman and the '80s BMX movie Rad start questioning the nature of reality?

In this episode of Infants on Thrones, Jake, Glenn, and Tom explore life, death, identity, and the strange ways our experiences shape who we become. Jake opens up about his extraordinary experience surviving a 2018 cardiac arrest, spending 75 minutes without oxygen to his brain, losing an entire month of memories, and having to relearn how to do things...

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Tom, Jake, and Glenn dive into the world of superheroes, debating the best Superman, Batman, and the brilliance of HBO’s Lanterns. Then Tom confesses his guilty pleasure: AI-generated music. Is artificial intelligence expanding human creativity or slowly replacing it? The conversation explores the future of art, education, and human connection before landing on the fascinating topic of learned helplessness—and what happens when we stop exercising the abilities we once relied on.

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Tom Perry and Brother Jake return to Infants on Thrones to join Glenn in an old-school conversation about Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos, and Nathan Fielder’s documentary You Can See Everything.

Drawing parallels between Mormon missionary zeal and Holmes’ convictions, Glenn, Tom, and Jake explore belief, self-deception, cognitive dissonance, and the stories we tell ourselves about other people.

Through the lenses of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), cognitive defusion, and Anil Seth’s concept of controlled hallucination, they consider a deceptively simple question: How much can we really know a...

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The Purple Lantern: Is Courage the Absence of Fear?  (A Binaural Meditation)

What happens when the stories we've inherited no longer illuminate the world around us? And what if the first step toward freedom isn't finding a better answer, but learning to ask a different question?

In this special bonus episode of Infants on Thrones, Glenn introduces The Purple Lantern, a new immersive meditation podcast exploring the intersection of mythology, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and consciousness.

Inspired by the emotional spectrum of DC's Lanterns m...

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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 cont...

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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 organism...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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?

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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?

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A binaural meditation examining anger through the lens of neuroscience and polyvagal theory.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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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...

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Glenn sits down with Mike Steed from Mormons on Mushrooms to discuss The Gene Keys and his experiences with agitation.