The Brain as a Filter

Control ALT Create

Welcome to the origin story of Control-ALT-Create. In this foundational episode, Glenn Ostlund introduces the philosophy behind the podcast’s name—and its deeper purpose. Drawing from personal reflection, neuroscience, and metaphor, Why We Don’t Delete Anything reframes the familiar keyboard shortcut as a model for conscious transformation. Here, Control means self-awareness, not self-suppression. ALT becomes a daily practice of cultivating Automatic Loving Thoughts. And Create honors your brain’s power to reshape itself—thought by thought, breath by breath. Glenn shares the backstory of a reunion with Dr Skyler, a long-lost friend and new collaborator—one of the world’s leading voices in mind-body healing—and sets the stage for a series that combines binaural audio, guided language, and emotional resonance to support nervous system repair and rewiring. This isn’t a podcast about escape. It’s about immersion. Not about fixing what’s broken— but creating space for what wants to emerge. 🎧 Listen with headphones for full effect. ✨ You are not the problem. You are the shortcut.

The Brain as a Filter

What if your brain isn’t a factory churning out consciousness, but a filter shaping what you can see, feel, and be? In this episode, Glenn Ostlund, therapist, folklorist, and podcaster, explores one of the oldest questions in both science and myth: Is reality something we build from scratch, or something our minds selectively reveal? Drawing from neuroscience, cognitive science, and cross-cultural wisdom, Glenn invites you to rethink the “assembly line” model of the mind. Instead, discover the filter model—where perception is less about producing reality and more about narrowing down infinite possibilities into a lived, meaningful world. Learn how ancient proverbs, predictive coding theory, and new research on neuroplasticity all point to a flexible, ever-changing lens of consciousness. You’ll hear how therapy, mindfulness, and even psychedelics can help us recalibrate our inner filters, update old patterns, and see with new eyes. This episode is both a scientific exploration and an invitation to become the sculptor of your own experience. Tune in and ask yourself: If you could change the way you see the world, what would become possible? 🎧 Headphones recommended for binaural immersion. 🎙️ Part science, part story, part soul repair.

What If Waste Isn’t Waste?

What if nothing you’ve been through was actually wasted? In this episode of Control-ALT-Create, Glenn Ostlund dismantles the cultural myth of “wasted time” and invites you to reframe regret through the lens of biology, neuroscience, and emotional growth. Drawing on research in neuroplasticity, trauma recovery, gut microbiome science, and the chemistry of memory, this meditative essay reveals how even your messiest moments are metabolized by the body—transformed, composted, and encoded as growth. You’ll learn why your nervous system never discards experience, how rumination disrupts healing, and why your emotions are less like errors to fix and more like soil to tend. This isn’t about toxic positivity. It’s about truth: There is no waste—only signal, rewiring, and becoming. 🎧 Headphones recommended for binaural immersion. 🎙️ Part science, part story, part soul repair.

The Quantum Body and the Seven-Layer Burrito of Existence

What do quantum fields, trauma recovery, and burritos have in common? Everything. In this second episode of Control-ALT-Create, Glenn Ostlund guides you through a rich, multi-layered meditation on embodiment, consciousness, and the unseen threads that bind reality together. Using the playful metaphor of a “Seven-Layer Burrito of Existence,” Glenn explores how ancient ideas of magic—once dismissed as superstition—are now being reframed by systems biology, neuroplasticity, and quantum physics. Each layer—human, cellular, molecular, atomic, subatomic, quantum, planetary—reveals how your body is not a singular thing, but a living field of fields. You’ll learn how beliefs shape biochemistry, how emotional states ripple through social ecosystems, and how science is catching up to what shamans, mystics, and your own nervous system already knew. This isn’t just a metaphor. It’s a felt experience. So whether you’re a seeker, a skeptic, or somewhere in between—this is your invitation to zoom in, zoom out, and remember: You are still becoming. 🎧 Headphones recommended. 🎙️ Part meditation, part mind-expansion, part systems reset.

The Bacta Tank of Sound

In this premiere episode of Control-ALT-Create, Glenn Ostlund invites you into the shimmering depths of auditory healing. Inspired by the Star Wars image of a bacta tank—a glowing chamber where wounded bodies float and mend—this immersive sound meditation explores how binaural beats, narrative rhythm, and neural entrainment can become a therapeutic refuge for the nervous system. Blending science, folklore, and Ericksonian language, Glenn shares his own discovery of how sound can soften the edges of thought, calm the body, and rewire emotional patterns. You’ll learn about the frequency-following response, the role of theta waves, and how trauma often speaks in rhythm, not words. This episode is more than an essay—it’s a guided experience. Let it hold you. Let it repattern you. Let it become your bacta tank of sound.