Infants on Thrones

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile How many throughts do you typically think on any given day?  600-700 maybe?  6000-7000 maybe? Nope.  It’s 60,000 to 70,000 thoughts per day.  And 90% of those are thoughts that you are repeating from the previous day.  And 50% percent of your memories are false. What does that mean for the way you live your life? Today Glenn addresses these questions as he...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Glenn and Tom discuss the movie Joker (spoiler alert — we talk about spoilers) and make the ever-so-obvious connections to Joseph Smith and the Mormon church.  Enjoy!

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Matt gives us minisode by sharing a parable loaded with metaphors.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Matt and Kristin talk with Tom about methods they’ve learned about how to best communicate and connect with others.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile What if Joseph Smith were teaching his teachings today?  Maybe they’d sound a little bit like Abraham Hicks. The eternal nature of intelligences.  The eternal progression of man.  The idea that as man is god once was and as god is man may become.   Spiritual gifts, the power of faith, that as a man thinketh so is he, the worth of a soul is great, man is tha...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Glenn and Tom sit down with Kristy Johnson to discuss her documentary “No Crime in Sin,” which tells the story of Kristy’s sexual abuse at the hands of her CES Leader and BYU Teacher father; how the Mormon church swept it all under the rug; how Kristy and two of her siblings confronted their father 30 years after the fact, and what this has all meant for Kr...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Glenn, Tom, and Matt are joined by 7 or 8 listeners to discuss guilt and empathy.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile What is Guilt?  What is Shame?  What is Empathy?  How do all of these things affect us?  It’s time to evaluate where we stand. This episode includes 30 min of new material and a throwback to IOT’s 2nd episode: Guilt, a panel discussion between Tom, Randy, Bob, Matt, and Glenn that was originally published on Aug 30, 2012. Join us for a live “what do we all...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Another Jeremy Goff smackdown, and another exemplary satirically celestial appearance of the one and only (if only that were accchttually true…) Stephen Erastus Knudsen III — the mold from which Jeremy Goff has been cut.  Enjoy!

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile What do Brigham Young and Charles Manson have in common? All you need is love — AKA shedding a wicked person’s blood so that they can pay for their sins and be exalted in the highest degree of the Celestial Kingdom. Cuz that is what Jesus REALLY meant when he said “love your neighbor as yourself.” It’s right there in the Journal of Discourses. Straight from...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile What if the emotions from Pixar’s “Inside Out” got together in a Mormon-formed brain that experienced a faith crisis? Which emotion dominates in a pre, mid, or post-faith crisis mind? Those were the questions we playfully explored in our Sunstone panel on Aug 1, 2015 at the University of Utah. Listen in as Glenn narrates and the audience chooses exactly wha...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Glenn reads (and responds to) a Jeremy Goff blog post about why people leave THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS, and then revisits a classic Infants’ panel discussion “50 Ways To Leave the Church” with Tom, Randy, Jake, and John.  Enjoy.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile When is murder not actually murder?  Jeremy Goff sets the record straight once again.  You just gotta hear it to believe it.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Can sarcasm and humor help heal the wounds of a faith crisis?  Those are the questions considered in today’s episode as Glenn is interviewed by author and life coach Wendi Jensen for her group Thriving After Mormonism. wendi@wendijensen.com www.thrivingaftermormonism.com

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Three episodes in one.  First, Glenn and Tom reflect on their missions and share how their patriarchal blessings impacted the course of their lives.  Then you get to hear a previously unpublished episode from 9 years ago that goes into more detail about their mormon missions.  And finally, the story of a one time streaking missionary who is now a religion t...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile What would Joseph Smith say if he were to offer some kind of apology today?  Glenn takes a stab at imagining such an apology.  Tom and Brady take a stab at stabbing that stab.  Sorry if that sounds like way too much stabbing.  Blame it on the angel with the flaming sword.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Glenn and Tom are joined by Brady Bluhm to have another condescending conversation with Quad (the almighty).

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Glenn and Tom sit down with  Street Epistemologist extraordinaire Anthony Magnabosco to talk with Renee Cordeschi about her exit from the Jehovah’s Witness cult.  Keep track of any the Mormon parallels.  There will be a quiz (only 144,000 people will pass).

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Glenn recently discovered that he can actually talk to Quad, and that Quad will talk back. Forefront on his mind was whether or not there is some kind of eternal justice in this world or beyond. Tom Perry joins in for the smackdown. It’s a good one. Enjoy.   P.S. What questions would you like to ask Quad?

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Glenn shares his thoughts on the Ronald E. Poelman talk/talks from 1984 and drops some Infant gen conf goodies from the past

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.