Obscurantist and His Lineage or The Pyramids Tearful Valley

Karel Vacheks latest documentary essay deals with the fine line between an internal belief in God and institutionalized religion At the same time it brings up the need for a healthy sense of skepticism and the benefit of not believing in anything that advertises itself as certain The filmmaker sets out for the USA Japan Great Britain Poland and the Balkans in his sometimes amusing investigation of spiritual substitutes such as esoteric teachings or various fraudulent and magical practices to which we sometimes fall prey due to our natural religious cravings In addition to a Czech prefab family who describe the carryingson of their poltergeist wellknown mystery buffs appear in the film Erich von Däniken Raymond Moody Jr and Ivan Mackerl