KABBALAH and TANTRA - A Comparison

This episode is a follow-up to our recent episode entitled EVIL which was an exploration of that subject. We recommend that you view that episode before viewing this one.Randolph Pitts is best known for having turned a new production company, Lumière Films, Inc., into the most successful independent producer/financier in Hollywood, best known for the multi-award winning film "Leaving Las Vegas", for which Nicolas Cage won the Oscar as Best Actor, “Fresh” starring Samuel L. Jackson (winner of the top prize at the Sundance Film Festival) and “Touch” featuring Christopher Walken and Gina Gershon and directed by Paul Schrader. In addition to the hit self-help, love and relationship psychology book THE UGLY PERSON’S GUIDE TO HOW TO GET LAID, Randolph Pitts Pitts is the author of four novels and a book of poetry and other writings entitled EYES OF A DREAMER. BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE is the first volume of Randolph Pitts’ tetralogy of novels. 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. Along the way we travel to India and discover the Siddhis (Sanskrit: सिद्धि siddhi; fulfillment, accomplishment), which are material, paranormal, supernatural, or otherwise magical powers, abilities, and attainments that are the products of yogic advancement through the practices of Tantra. Also into this world enters the contemporary practice of Voudou in Brooklyn, New York.TRUST is the second of Randolph Pitts tetralogy of novels. It introduces a character, a national television personality whose tag line is “You’ve gota’ trust me on this one,” who is revealed to have psychic powers. We discover that others are similarly “time-free”, a phenomenon which comes in useful in foiling a diabolical plot by the ultimate villain, deranged but brilliant scientist Dr. Werner Ganzfeld, “The Brain In The Plastic Bubble”, whom we first encountered at a “Swinger’s Resort” in BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPE.STARVE A FEVER (in two volumes) is third of Randolph Pitts’ tetralogy of novels. A Brooklyn, NY Police Detective finds himself on the trail of Nazi terrorists while a group of dedicated women in powerful (and not so powerful( places endeavor to save the planet from disaster. Meanwhile mysterious images from a lost culture wash ashore in many places. They may convey the secret…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. I am going to nominate it for the Pulitzer Prize." “Never before have I read a book with so many love stories with men and women of so many different backgrounds and personalities, each of which is totally original and unexpected, and each of which will lift your heart.”Randolph Pitts is also the author of the upcoming novel SMOKE: In Ancient Egypt every year the priests of the Serpent God Apep (whom the Greeks later called Apophis) gathered all the “evil” in the land – charms, idols, ornaments, parchments, fetishes, even garments – and placed them inside a gigantic effigy of Apep at the Great Temple at Karnak while reciting a spell whose intent was to banish evil from all of Egypt. Except one year the smoke from the burning of the effigy escaped into the underground caverns of the temple. Until one day by accident it was set free by a young Egyptology student visiting the temple on a field trip, thus reactivating the cult of the Serpent God, a group of teenagers intent on conjuring evil everywhere. But was it evil, or the inspiration for civilization" The Mummy meets The Twilight Saga.#Evil #Plato #Hegel #Wittgenstein #meaning #AI #evolution #obedience #employment #philosophy #religion #toads #protozoa #Schopenhauer

Described by The New York Courier as “the most comprehensive love, sex and relationship book ever published, with over 800 pages of information and advice by prominent psychologists and other authorities,” Randolph’ Pitts new book THE UGLY PERSON’S GUIDE TO HOW TO GET LAID hits the shelves on December 6! Randolph Pitts graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of California Berkeley with degrees in Social Psychology and Near Eastern Studies (Ancient) with a minor in Greek (ancient). He was a Regents Graduate Fellow in Near Eastern Studies and concurrently organized seminars on ancient Coptic literature at the Graduate Theological union in Berkeley. He did advanced research for the Department of Psychology at UCLA, concentrating on couples and relationship\s dynamics. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the American Philosophical Association, the organization of university professors of philosophy. He was also an associate member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and of the American Composers Forum. He served as Distinguished Visiting Professor at Chapman University.Randolph Pitts Is best known for having turned a new production company, Lumière Films, Inc., into the most successful independent producer/financier in Hollywood, best known for the multi-award winning film "Leaving Las Vegas", for which Nicolas Cage won the Oscar as Best Actor, “Fresh” starring Samuel L. Jackson (winner of the top prize at the Sundance Film Festival) and “Touch” featuring Christopher Walken and Gina Gershon and directed by Paul Schrader. In addition to the hit self-help, love and relationship psychology book THE UGLY PERSON’S GUIDE TO HOW TO GET LAID, Randolph Pitts Pitts is the author of four novels. 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. I am going to nominate it for the Pulitzer Prize." “Never before have I read a book with so many love stories with men and women of so many different backgrounds and personalities, each of which is totally original and unexpected, and each of which will lift your heart.”BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE is the first volume of Randolph Pitts’ tetralogy of novels. 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. Along the way we travel to India and discover the Siddhis (Sanskrit: सिद्धि siddhi; fulfillment, accomplishment), which are material, paranormal, supernatural, or otherwise magical powers, abilities, and attainments that are the products of yogic advancement through the practices of Tantra. Also into this world enters the contemporary practice of Voudou in Brooklyn, New York.STARVE A FEVER (in two volumes) is third of Randolph Pitts’ tetralogy of novels. A Brooklyn, NY Police Detective finds himself on the trail of Nazi terrorists while a group of dedicated women in powerful (and not so powerful( places endeavor to save the planet from disaster. Meanwhile mysterious images from a lost culture wash ashore in many places. They may convey the secret…#anxiety #performance anxiety #intimacy #relationships #body image #perfectionism #amygdala

Randolph Pitts Is best known for having turned a new production company, Lumière Films, Inc., into the most successful independent producer/financier in Hollywood, best known for the multi-award winning film "Leaving Las Vegas", for which Nicolas Cage won the Oscar as Best Actor, “Fresh” starring Samuel L. Jackson (winner of the top prize at the Sundance Film Festival) and “Touch” featuring Christopher Walken and Gina Gershon and directed by Paul Schrader. Was a widely respected international motion picture producer and production company executive. He was the founder, writer and host of the Explore Ecstatic Sensuality podcast, the number one sex and sensuality podcast in the world. BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE is the first volume of Randolph Pitts’ tetralogy of novels. 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. Along the way we travel to India and discover the Siddhis (Sanskrit: सिद्धि siddhi; fulfillment, accomplishment), which are material, paranormal, supernatural, or otherwise magical powers, abilities, and attainments that are the products of yogic advancement through the practices of Tantra. Also into this world enters the contemporary practice of Voudou in Brooklyn, New York.TRUST is the second of Randolph Pitts tetralogy of novels. It introduces a character, a national television personality whose tag line is “You’ve gota’ trust me on this one,” who is revealed to have psychic powers. We discover that others are similarly “time-free”, a phenomenon which comes in useful in foiling a diabolical plot by the ultimate villain, deranged but brilliant scientist Dr. Werner Ganzfeld, “The Brain In The Plastic Bubble”, whom we first encountered at a “Swinger’s Resort” in BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPE.STARVE A FEVER (in two volumes) is third of Randolph Pitts’ tetralogy of novels. A Brooklyn, NY Police Detective finds himself on the trail of Nazi terrorists while a group of dedicated women in powerful (and not so powerful( places endeavor to save the planet from disaster. Meanwhile mysterious images from a lost culture wash ashore in many places. They may convey the secret…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. I am going to nominate it for the Pulitzer Prize." “Never before have I read a book with so many love stories with men and women of so many different backgrounds and personalities, each of which is totally original and unexpected, and each of which will lift your heart.”Randolph Pitts is also the author of the upcoming novel SMOKE: In Ancient Egypt every year the priests of the Serpent God Apep (whom the Greeks later called Apophis) gathered all the “evil” in the land – charms, idols, ornaments, garments, parchments, fetishes, even garments – and placed them inside a gigantic effigy of Apep at the Great Temple at Karnak while reciting a spell whose intent was to banish evil from all of Egypt. Except one year the smoke from the burning of the effigy escaped into the underground caverns of the temple. Until one day by accident it was set free by a young Egyptology student visiting the temple on a field trip, thus reactivating the cult of the Serpent God, a group of teenagers intent on conjuring evil everywhere. “The Mummy meets The Twilight Saga.”Randolph Pitts’ music compositions include a concerto for string orchestra, a string sextet, a piano sonata; a piano concerto; “Der Schatten Eines Traumes” for vocal soloists and large orchestra#Evil #Kant #Hegel #Schopenhauer #a priori #blame #philosophy #psychology #hell

“If a woman agrees to meet you she’s already considered sleeping with you.”WOMEN: Is this true? Does it upset you to read this?MEN: What do you think? Is this what you experience? And if so… what do you do?In addition to the hit self-help, love and relationship psychology book THE UGLY PERSON’S GUIDE TO HOW TO GET LAID, Randolph Pitts Pitts is the author of three novels and a book of poetry and other writings entitled EYES OF A DREAMER. BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE is the first volume of Randolph Pitts’ tetralogy of novels. 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. Along the way we travel to India and discover the Siddhis (Sanskrit: सिद्धि siddhi; fulfillment, accomplishment), which are material, paranormal, supernatural, or otherwise magical powers, abilities, and attainments that are the products of yogic advancement through the practices of Tantra. Also into this world enters the contemporary practice of Voudou in Brooklyn, New York.TRUST is the second of Randolph Pitts tetralogy of novels. It introduces a character, a national television personality whose tag line is “You’ve gota’ trust me on this one,” who is revealed to have psychic powers. We discover that others are similarly “time-free”, a phenomenon which comes in useful in foiling a diabolical plot by the ultimate villain, deranged but brilliant scientist Dr. Werner Ganzfeld, “The Brain In The Plastic Bubble”, whom we first encountered at a “Swinger’s Resort” in BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPE.STARVE A FEVER (in two volumes) is third of Randolph Pitts’ tetralogy of novels. A Brooklyn, NY Police Detective finds himself on the trail of Nazi terrorists while a group of dedicated women in powerful (and not so powerful( places endeavor to save the planet from disaster. Meanwhile mysterious images from a lost culture wash ashore in many places. They may convey the secret…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. I am going to nominate it for the Pulitzer Prize." “Never before have I read a book with so many love stories with men and women of so many different backgrounds and personalities, each of which is totally original and unexpected, and each of which will lift your heart.”Randolph Pitts is also the author of the upcoming novel SMOKE: In Ancient Egypt every year the priests of the Serpent God Apep (whom the Greeks later called Apophis) gathered all the “evil” in the land – charms, idols, ornaments, garments, parchments, fetishes, even garments – and placed them inside a gigantic effigy of Apep at the Great Temple at Karnak while reciting a spell whose intent was to banish evil from all of Egypt. Except one year the smoke from the burning of the effigy escaped into the underground caverns of the temple. Until one day by accident it was set free by a young Egyptology student visiting the temple on a field trip, thus reactivating the cult of the Serpent God, a group of teenagers intent on conjuring evil everywhere. “The Mummy meets The Twilight Saga.”Randolph Pitts turned a small production company, Lumière Films, Inc., into the most successful independent producer/financier in Hollywood, best known for the multi-award winning film "Leaving Las Vegas", for which Nicolas Cage won the Oscar as Best Actor, “Fresh” starring Samuel L. Jackson (winner of the top prize at the Sundance Film Festival) and “Touch” featuring Christopher Walken and Gina Gershon and directed by Paul Schrader.

Randolph Pitts graduated as a National Merit Scholar from Washington-Lee High School and after that graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of California Berkeley with degrees in Social Psychology and Near Eastern Studies (Ancient) with a minor in Greek (ancient). He was a Regents Graduate Fellow in Near Eastern Studies and concurrently organized seminars on ancient Coptic literature at the Graduate Theological union in Berkeley. Subsequently he studied Motion Picture Production and Entertainment Law at UCLA which declined to award him a degree. He also studied law at California State University Los Angeles. He did advanced research for the Department of Psychology at UCLA, concentrating on couples and relationship\s dynamics. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the American Philosophical Association, the organization of university professors of philosophy. He was also an associate member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and of the American Composers Forum. He served as Distinguished Visiting Professor at Chapman University. As its CEO Randolph Pitts turned a small, new film production company, Lumière Films, Inc., into the most successful independent producer/financier in Hollywood, best known for the multi-award winning film "Leaving Las Vegas", for which Nicolas Cage won the Oscar as Best Actor, “Fresh” starring Samuel L. Jackson (winner of the top prize at the Sundance Film Festival) and “Touch” featuring Christopher Walken and Gina Gershon and directed by Paul Schrader. Was a widely respected international motion picture producer and production company executive. He was the founder, writer and host of the Explore Ecstatic Sensuality podcast, the number one sex and sensuality podcast in the world. His music compositions include a concerto for string orchestra, a string sextet, a piano sonata; a piano concerto; “Der Schatten Eines Traumes” for vocal soloists and large orchestra based on the writings of Karoline von Günderrode, Gilles Deleuze, Walter Benjamin, Christoph Friedrich Heinle and Ingeborg Bachmann; and Das Buch der Blauen Rose for three sopranos, chorus, speaker, orchestra, organ, tape and electronicsIn addition to THE UGLY PERSON’S GUIDE TO HOW TO GET LAID Randolph Pitts is the author of three novels and a book of poetry and other writings entitled EYES OF A DREAMER. BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE is the first volume of Randolph Pitts’ tetralogy of novels. 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. Along the way we travel to India and discover the Siddhis (Sanskrit: सिद्धि siddhi; fulfillment, accomplishment), which are material, paranormal, supernatural, or otherwise magical powers, abilities, and attainments that are the products of yogic advancement through the practices of Tantra. Also into this world enters the contemporary practice of Voudou in Brooklyn, New York.TRUST is the second of Randolph Pitts tetralogy of novels. It introduces a character, a national television personality whose tag line is “You’ve gota’ trust me on this one,” who is revealed to have psychic powers. We discover that others are similarly “time-free”, a phenomenon which comes in useful in foiling a diabolical plot by the ultimate villain, deranged but brilliant scientist Dr. Werner Ganzfeld, “The Brain In The Plastic Bubblez”, whom we first encountered at a “Swinger’s Resort” in BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPE.STARVE A FEVER (in two volumes) is third of Randolph Pitts’ tetralogy of novels. A Brooklyn, NY Police Detective finds himself on the trail of Nazi terrorists while a group of dedicated women in powerful (and not so powerful( places endeavor to save the planet from disaster. Meanwhile mysterious images from a lost culture wash ashore in many places. They may convey the secret…

You may have heard whispers about "left hand" Tantra, as if it is a forbidden topic, not to be talked about in polite company. Well finally, here it is. Out in the open, premiering today, Tuesday, May 26, 2026. This thorough, comprehensive, no holds barred episode will send you down a path of heretofore undreamed of Pleasure, Spiritual Enlightenment and Personal Empowerment. You will not be the same person after you experience this episode. Unbounded Love, Passion and Wisdom will enter your life. You will learn about how in the Left Hand School of Tantra there is One Way to achieve Enlightenment. And it also happens to be something most adults really enjoy doing! Look forward to a Whole New You. Topics covered include: Tantra, Maithuna, Yoga, chakra puja, kundalini shakti, Kularnava Tantra, Ganesha, Goraksha Samhita, Birhat Tantrasara, mahā-mantra-sādhana, yogini, vashikarana, Vijnana Bhairava Tantra ,Cult of the Cemetery, Yeshe Tsogyel, Svadhishthana

This episode is a largely academic/scholarly comparison of these two mystical/spiritual traditions, Kabbalah and Tantra.

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It's true! The memory of Great Sex can help you live longer by twenty-six years! It's not marriage, it's not being in a relationship... It's sex! Find our more by watching this titillating promo for our upcoming episode: "Sex and Death/Near Death Experiences" here on your podcast, Explore Ecstatic Sensuality! With your host, "Mr. Sensuality", Randolph "Gabby Cadaver" Pitts.