Primordial Regression and Fulfilling Sex: an Autobiographical Account 1st edition

The book is essentially an autobiographical account of a happy monogamous relationship. It also portrays the sexual woundedness and emotional suffering of the author caused by his overzealous adherence to the beliefs of orthodox Christianity and its intermingling with a puritan style of family upbringing. It is also a portrayal of how one middle-aged couple found in passional sex an authentic royal road to emotional fulfillment and religious spiritual enlightenment. The book is addressed to anyone who remains lost, skeptical, or cynical about what constitutes the finding of feeling fulfillment and religious enlightenment through sex. It is not a manual of how to perform sex correctly, nor does it even suggest any precise set of formulas that will cure sexual failure and dissatisfaction. At most it proposes a broad outline of preconditions for finding sexual fulfillment. Sex is too private, exclusive, and multi-dimensional a phenomenon to be dissectable into rules and techniques. What is suggested is that the Reichian concept of character-muscular armoring provides our best approach for understanding the failure to find feeling fulfillment through sex. Fulfilling sex has little to do with how the genitals interact and behave during orgasm. It has everything to do with the letting go of one's familiar boundaries of egoic self-identity. It is an adventure in total feeling/sensation boundarylessness. The primary prerequisite is the capacity to regress creatively backwards in time into both the personal and the transpersonal primitive past. This requires a psyche and an embodied soul that are fluidly self-regulated by the vegetative blood flow that runs spontaneously throughout the organismic totality during lovemaking. Chronic armoring is the enemy of such blood flow. Armoring must be slowly exorcized from the body and psyche before lovers can discover the primordial self-and-other healing waters of the Fountain of Youth. The basic message of the book is to risk letting