In this episode we discuss Love at first sight; Attraction and Attractiveness; French Psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan's ideas about Desire and Love; how we make Mental Representations (with reference to the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer); and Marriage vows and Death. Randolph Pitts holds Summa Cum Laude degrees in Social Psychology and Egyptology from the University of California Berkeley, and a Masters Degree in Motion Picture Production and Entertainment Law from UCLA. He has also done advanced research for the Department of Psychology at UCLA, concentrating on couples and relationships dynamics. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the American Philosophical Association, the organization of university professors of Philosophy. He is also an associate member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. Randolph has been a top executive at several entertainment companies, including a ten year stint as Chief Executive Officer of the company that produced Leaving Las Vegas for which Nicolas Cage won the Academy Award as best actor. He has a lifelong interest in the relationship between philosophy, psychology and history. Randolph Pitts is a classical composer and a novelist. The first volume of his eagerly anticipated tetralogy of novels will be published during 2022. Pitts' spellbinding novels deal at an unrelenting fever pitch with eroticism, mysticism, terrorism and crime on a global scale. He is the founder and host of the Explore Ecstatic Sensuality podcast. These presentations are also available as podcasts on Apple, Spotify and Google Podcasts. Musical excerpts: Sonate pour Anita (dedicated to Anita DeFrancesco), 2020 Concerto per Pianoforte e Orchestre (dedicated to Anita DeFrancesco), 2021 Our first experience is a sensual experience, but as we live we become closed off to sensuality, to our bodies and to the joys of being embodied. Instead, guided by philosophy, psychology and embodied spirituality, we can open ourselves to transcendent sensuality which will elevate our relationships, sexual and otherwise, to entirely new and ever-expanding levels. There is no finitude. There are no limits. The underlying energy of all universes can and should fuel our creativity so that each of us may be a beacon of love, sensuality, caring, compassion, and truth.

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