Chapter Eight: Do Thoughts Create Reality?

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.

What happens when imagination becomes a doorway into a different way of seeing yourself?In this episode of Bathing with God Revisited, 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 present, and the possibility that the person we are trying so hard to become may already be present underneath the noise.This is an experiment in imagination, perspective, and listening inward—not to find a perfect or authoritative Higher Self, but to become curious about what new choices might become available when we give another part of ourselves a voice.You can purchase a paperback copy of Bathing With God through Amazon.

Wrapping up the audiobook portion with an Epilogue and Acknowledgements

What does a shift in consciousness mean to an imaginary voice of God?

Sir, why did you take such pains to hide yourself?

What is the relationship between God and Souls and the Self?

Soulmates, soul contracts, soul karma -- this episode is all about souls.

Do thoughts really create reality? Of course they do. Find out how and why.

Are we really made up of vibrating bits of energy? Is this a wiggly wiggly world?