Pure Happiness: Through Death to Life

"I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive." - Henry Miller

As a certain history of man comes to a close we must see how life is regenerated out of death: how the organic arises out of dead matter - how emotion and consciousness arise out of biology - and how play arises out of self consciousness. This is the Act of Being: the full cycle of existence that unfolds dialectically. Pure happiness is good fortune - neither by chance nor fate - where the mundane and the miraculous merge. Man has no task left but the conquest of the death drive and this is not by turning away but by going though death to life. 

PRODUCER: Scott Von

Dr Scott Von practices poetry, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and medicine in an integral fashion. He is the founding director of the New Clinic for Integral Medicine & Psychiatry (newclinic.org) in New York and a professor in the Integrative Doctor of Medicine program at the American College of TCM in California.