Episode 3 - Dreams and What They Mean, The Fundamental Energy of the Universe, The Roles We Play, Love [Jacques Lacan, Michael Balint]

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. Adoring and honoring someone you truly admire is an exponential pleasure because in the process you are also adoring and honoring yourself. "I am sensitive and perceptive enough to understand and appreciate and love and adore my beloved's special gifts, the things that are most marvelous and unique about her." True love of another is also the highest, best and most exalted form of self-love. Love In the Now, In The Moment. The thought of the one you love should fill you with transcendent joy. You should tingle from head to toe and immediately want to give them the universe. With that feeling all of the neurotic lack of trust and self doubt vanish like toxic dust blowing away in the wind and you are left not only truly whole, not only truly yourself, but ready to become new selves, and to share those selves with your beloved. When two people are ready to take this journey together it is magic. It is the greatest magic there is. This episode includes discussions of the psychoanalysts Jacques Lacan, Jacques Alain Miller and Michael Balint with regard to their views on love. The music in this episode consists of an excerpt from "Der Schatten eines Traumes" ("The Shadow of a Dream") by Randolph Pitts. 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.”