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. In today’s Episode #4 we discuss Subtlety and nuance; the importance of avoiding clichés, an introduction to the psychology of Object Relations; narcissism; and Jacques Lacan’s concept of Jouissance – enjoyment beyond the Pleasure Principle. This excerpt includes the reading of a passage by the Italian author Cesare Pavese, and a musical excerpt from “Der Schatten Eines Traumes” (The Shadow of a Dream) composed by your host in 2019 and dedicated to the excellent psychotherapist and relationship counselor Anita DeFrancesco. www.AnitaDeFrancesco.com www.TantraWisdom.com Randolph Pitts is a well-known international motion picture producer. He 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 relationship dynamics. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and of 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 Pitts has been a top executive at several entertainment companies, including a ten year sting as Chief Executive Officer of the company that produced Leaving Las Vegas, the film for which Nicolas Cage won the Academy Award as Best Actor. The first volume of his eagerly anticipated tetralogy of novels will be published during the fourth quarter of 2023. Pitts’ spellbinding novels deal at an unrelenting fever pitch with eroticism, mysticism, terrorism and crime on a global scale. And Also… with women and men falling in love. He has a lifelong interest in the relationship between philosophy, psychology and history. He is the founder, writer and host of the Explore Ecstatic Sensuality podcast, the number one sex and sensuality podcast in the world. Advance praise for one of Randolph Pitts’ novels: “A sexy thriller that shows New York City in the grip of terrorists, natural disasters and voodoo magic, while at the same time being a moving meditation on love, sensuality, and twenty-first century man’s fate in the universe. Possibly the greatest novel of our time.”

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