In 1967, Bart Marshall, as a Green Beret in Vietnam, was confronted with a confusing barrage of intense experiences and emotions that eventually cracked his narrow view of reality and let him glimpse a part of himself he never imagined existed. When he returned to the US, his newfound awareness of the possibilities of the Self propelled him into a lifelong study of philosophy, psychology, religion, and the occult, searching for answers to the questions that now plagued him about existence, death, and life after death. In his lecture, Mr. Marshall talks about many of his experiences and findings along the way, and in the process offers us new ways of thinking about the decisions and problems we all face daily as we go about what he wryly refers to as "the painful business of being temporarily alive."

Running time: 92:15 minutes