Ep 919 - Dear Chip... Happy Birthday, Aquarian Soul

Infants on Thrones

Glenn Ostlund

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

A man writes a letter to his younger self at the moment of birth. Dear Chip – Chapter Two is a fiction-as-self-therapy meditation: piercing cries, blossoming lungs, controlled hallucinations, attachment theory, and the first grooves of trust and independence. Blending neuroscience, modern folklore, and lived experience, this lyrical and provocative reflection explores how realities diverge, how belief seeps in unnoticed, and how early wounds echo as lifelong patterns. It invites listeners to reconsider their own first breath — not as a single cry, but as the opening chord of a lifelong symphony.

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0:00.0	Baby steps.
0:01.0	After your faith hasn't let you down.
0:07.0	This is Infants on Thrones.
0:10.0	I'm looking for the further line of knowledge Father promised to sing.
0:13.0	Baby step.
0:14.0	Baby step.
0:15.0	Look for the good in everyone.
0:18.0	Dear Chip, yes, we are here at the moment of your birth.
0:26.6	There is a loud, shrieking, piercing scream ripping scream, ripping through the air right now, and it's coming from you.
0:33.6	Tiny vocal cords stretched tight across your larynx, vibrate like taut strings as columns of air rush past them
0:42.1	muscles in your chest and diaphragm contract with surprising force for someone who has been
0:49.2	breathing for less than ten seconds the sound reverberates up through your throat, shaping itself in your brand new mouth,
0:57.0	bouncing off walls, startling everyone in the room.
1:03.0	That's quite a cry.
1:06.0	And it isn't just noise.
1:08.0	It's your way of announcing the chaos you are experiencing.
1:12.6	The warmth and buoyancy of the womb have vanished.
1:16.6	Replaced by burning lungs, glaring light, icy air, strange hands tugging at you.
1:23.6	Your nervous system is flooded.
1:28.3	Overwhelmed, bewildered.
1:32.3	You do not yet have words, only vibration, so you let loose with all you have.
1:38.3	This cry is your protest, your plea, and your declaration, something has changed and I don't understand it.
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