Bathing With God

A man who does not believe in God begins hearing a mysterious voice in the bathtub. It asks, "Who are you? Why are you here? Could you pass me the soap? And do you really understand the intelligence that resides within every atom of your body?" What followed was a series of conversations that changed this man forever.

Bathing With God is a religion podcast hosted by Glenn Ostlund, with 17 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Glenn Ostlund hosts Bathing With God, a religion show with 17 episodes published.

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  Episode #19

  Returning to the Water

  Sep 14, 20261 hour

  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.

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  Episode #24

  Bathing With God Revisited: All About God (A Binaural Meditation)

  Sep 6, 20261 hour

  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.

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  Episode #23

  Bathing With God Revisited: The Reality of Fictions (A Binaural Meditation)

  Sep 3, 20261 hour

  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 .

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  Episode #21

  Bathing With God Revisited: Curiosity, Arrogance, and the Value of Suffering (A Binaural Meditation)

  Aug 30, 20261 hour

  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.

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  Episode #20

  Bathing With God Revisited: Dumbo's Black Feather (A Binaural Meditation)

  Aug 28, 20261 hour

  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’s research 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 .

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