Infants on Thrones

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile I talked with my TBM Uncle (a former Bishop/Stake President/Mission President) a few days ago about Infants on Thrones.  Wow, what an experience!  I share it with you in today’s sharing time, and re-published a long lost IOT episode between myself (Glenn), Randy, Rock Waterman, and Andrea Staats (aka “Eliza R Snitch”).  Enjoy!

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Carole explains the habits of mind in the development of personality and how to avoid type-casting and pigeonholing when studying the Enneagram personality types.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Today Glenn sits down with Carole Whittaker, a teacher on the Enneagram (which is a fascinating tool for personality typing).  Carole experienced a crisis of faith from her Catholic upbringing while she earned a PhD in Chemistry and began seeing that life outside her cultural faith bubble was different that what she had previously believed.  After some grea...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile What if you dedicated your life to a certain direction.  You put all your eggs in one basket,  and then came to the stark realization that not only is the basket not really a basket, but maybe your eggs aren’t even really eggs? Sound familiar at all? Luke Norsworthy is a Christian Pastor who experienced a faith crisis when he saw that the Bible and his expe...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Glenn continues his informal probings into the informal questions raised in this informal series on the meaning of life.  This time with Micah Nickolaisen.  Enjoy.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile What is “well being?” What (if anything) does that have to do with a belief in God? Why is Jordan Peterson so dang slippery for Tom? Glenn and Tom sit down with Bill Reel and a few other guests to discuss the main issues raised by Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson in their Aug 2018 Vancouver discussion on Dogma: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jey_CzIOfYE&...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile What do you do when you discover the man behind the curtain? Do you walk away and trash it all because of the deception? Or do you keep pulling those levers and put on a really great show in the name of something better? Today’s guest is Anthony D Miller, who talks about his faith crisis, his inner voice, the trouble with differentiation, his commitment to...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile This is part 2 of my conversation with Tami. Here is a link to Tami’s book: https://www.amazon.com/Making-Space-Me-Mormon-adoption/dp/1718065027/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1548634445&sr=8-2-fkmr0&keywords=making+room+for+me+tami+whiting

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile How can you hold on to those things that are most important while discarding the things that harm you? Today Glenn sits down with long time friend Tami Whiting to discuss her INCREDIBLE book “Making Space for Me.” Tami lived a very rough life, found community in unexpected places, and then eventually had to walk away. That description does not do her story...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Today Glenn is joined by Brady, Tom, and a small gaggle of live virtual audience members to discuss the intersection between Plato’s idea of “The Lie of the Soul,” Anil Seth’s TED Talk on the way our brains hallucinate reality, and video blogger Matt Christiansen’s response to the recent outrage in Washington DC over a confrontation between native American...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile What is the difference between justice and injustice? What is the difference between actively disrupting the status quo and passively maintaining peace and order? In commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr Day, Glenn shares with you his thoughts on the powerful and impactful messages in the Letter from Birmingham Jail; how it has influenced key times in his...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile In part two, Brady explains how he rediscovered and redefined “God.” Is suffering really the best teacher? What is the difference between Lying and Lies? This 2-part interview with Brady is the 2nd installment of IOT’s ongoing “Meaning of Life” series. Enjoy!

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile He was the voice of Christopher Robin from the Winnie the Pooh movies, the blind kid from Dumb and Dumber, and a devoted believing Mormon. Now that is all in the past. What is in the “NOW” is a very interesting and profound view on The Meaning of Life. This 2-part interview with Brady is the 2nd installment of IOT’s ongoing “Meaning of Life” series. Enjoy!

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Glenn sits down with Eric (aka “Weird Alma”) to discuss his new parody song “Temple Changes” in response to (duh) the recent LDS temple changes by the recent ex-Mormon church. Check out more Weird Alma parodies at his Website: https://weirdalma.bandcamp.com/track/temple-changes

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Glenn and Matt are joined by Colton and Brad to talk about the meaning of life.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile A few weeks ago, Christa posted on Facebook about a very unfortunate experience she had with a Judge while being selected to Jury Duty. The post went viral, and she is back on IOT to tell the story, and to talk about the implications of that experience as viewed through the lens of American history, and popular culture, and sociateal values, and science, an...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Anthony Magnabosco joins us once again to review a conversation he once had with a Mormon couple about their beliefs. Anthony’s Conversation with the Mormon Couple: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh9IYjRYBx4&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2qSnBJWSSDNBHyCjhLq8cLY-mHS9HQCPjSSga3KU1CWYier6rXBVgUv9U Jake’s Go Fund Me: https://www.gofundme.com/gojakego Jon...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Our beloved “Brother Jake” suffered a sudden, serious cardiac event on November 28 and remains in intensive care. This episode contains a few of Jake’s many wonderful contributions to this project. His family also created a Go Fund Me page to raising money for his recovery so he can get back to being the devoted husband, father, brother, son, and friend we...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Dr. Colton Miller returns to Infants on Thrones to walk Tom and Matt through his professional reactions to last week’s episode on shame. Most important takeaway: shame is what happens when a person confuses doing a bad thing with BEING a bad person. Listen to hear more.

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Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Bill Reel talks to Glenn and Tom about what it was like to be excommunicated last night in St. George, Utah. He also teases some things that might be coming next. Will we get another Excommunication sing-a-long from this? Stay tuned…

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Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Have you ever wanted to be a fly on the wall for a 2-hour discussion between a non-believer and his TBM Elder’s Quorum leader? If so, congratulations, because Jim gives you just that in today’s episode (beware the fly paper and don’t complain about the sound quality — this is how flies actually hear things). Vote for Jim’s essay here: https://www.proprofs.c...