Glenn Ostlund has an MA in Folklore and Mythology from Indiana University. He is a prolific podcaster, hosting and producing the MytholoGuy podcast, Infants on Thrones, Bathing with God, and The Spriritual Dimension of the Beatles. Glenn recently published his first book, Bathing with God, which is a memoir or sorts – detailing how a former Mormon missioinary – turned accidental defacto atheist – found a way to explore the possible existence of God through a deep dive into science, reason, imagination and fiction.

Show notes: Unpacking family and extended family values and programming – 1.60 Mormonism as a religion – 3.00 Polygamy – 6.83 Mormons belief around the levels of heaven – 8.03 The three books that led Glenn to studying folklore – 12.55 Rigidity around beliefs – 16.91 Belief around the idea of God – 19.70 Obstruction to reality – 25.08 What is soul – 27.04 Getting fired from a podcast – 31.90 Where ‘Bathing with God’ came from – 35.90 Infants on Thrones – 37.50 Plant medicine experience – 39 Purpose – 46.70 References Richard Dawkins – the God Delusion From Scythia to Camelot – C. Scott Littleton & Linda A. Malcor Legends of Scythia – Yulla Handy Unpublished Revelations of the Church of the Latter Day Saints Ben Stein – Intelligent Design Brian Green – theoretical physicist http://www.briangreene.org