In this documentary, Morgan Freeman dives deep into this question that has puzzled humans since the beginning of time: Is there life after death?
Modern physics & neuroscience are venturing into the area once sacred, and radically changing our notions about life after death.
Morgan Freeman hosts this polarized debate, where scientists and spiritualists attempt to define what is consciousness, while new quantum mechanics may be the answer to what happens when we die.
Necromancy, the practice of communicating with the dead souls, the word comes from ancient Greek nekromanteia, but the practice goes back much further than the Greeks. Ancient Egyptian and Chaldean Magi tried to conjure the dead and talk to them, and God specifically forbade the ancient Hebrews from engaging in the practice in Deuteronomy 18:10-11.
In the timeless epic The Odyssey, Homer describes his hero Ulysses cast spells according to the instructions of the sorceress Circe, in an effort to speak with the dead prophet Tiresias and assistance to return home win.