Unearthly Powers
A growing number of people in Britain are coming to believe in the power of the supernatural, their convictions strengthened by the extraordinary experience of being taken over, as they claim, by the Holy Spirit. They speak in unknown tongues, they experience ecstatic states, they enter trance, and they fall unconscious.
Unlike most claims of supernatural activity, these phenomena have a long, respectable Christian history, and can be witnessed - and filmed - by non-believers.
This film reports on the return of the supernatural to British religion, and on the latest scientific experiments designed to reproduce states of religious trance.
Assistant producer minette MARRIN Producer WILLIAM NICUOLSON