In voodoo, drug-taking and mysticism, practitioners claim a form of liberation from the day-to-day experiences of mind and body. In the last of this series of four programmes on the development of the religious life in man, tonight's film looks at some of the ways in which men have tried to get to grips with a reality behind concrete things.
After the film the anthropologist Laurens van Der Post talks to Magnus Magnusson about some of the issues raised

(from BBC South and West: repeated tonight at 11.15)