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Morgan Freeman explores the mysteries of divine visions and the people who claim to have them. He travels to Lourdes, France, to meet a woman who believes she was cured of paralysis by miraculous waters; to London, to meet a man whose divine visions followed a life-saving surgery, and to Canada, to meet an Anishnaabe man who endured days alone in the wilderness for the sake of divine vision

Morgan Freeman travels around the globe to explore the divine mysteries of gods made human, and meets a 5-year-old living goddess in Nepal.

Some faiths have secret rituals only for special initiates, while others hide their entire religious communities. Morgan Freeman travels the world to uncover why secrecy and religion are often intertwined. He explores a villa in Pompeii that housed the secret cult of Dionysus and heads to the mountains of Nepal, where Buddhist monks have secret mantras just for select groups.

Morgan meets an executioner who had a change of heart, uncovers the origins of self-flagellation, and talks to John McCain's Vietnam jailer about sin.

Who is God? Morgan begins a quest to discover who God is - and how he, she or they have evolved over human history.

Host Morgan Freeman explores how different religions of past and present answer the question: What happens when we die?

Host Morgan Freeman examines both the past and the future to determine what various faith traditions predict about the End of Days.

Morgan Freeman travels the globe to ask: Where did we come from? What happened "in the beginning"?

Where does evil come from? Morgan sets out to understand the root of evil and how our ideas of it have evolved over the millennia.

Morgan sets out to discover why we believe in miracles and how they shape our understanding of God. Many believe God does intervene in our world.

What are heaven and hell? People of all faiths and backgrounds have contemplated these conundrums for thousands of years. Morgan Freeman sets out to learn how these unseen places have changed the way we live by descending into the ancient Native American underworld, investigating the phenomena of exorcisms and the gift of tongues, and meeting a woman who believes she has seen heaven.

Have we cut God out of our modern lives or are there still moments when the divine breaks through? Morgan Freeman meets a man who felt God's presence on Sept. 11, learns how Muslims hear God's voice in the Quran, comes across a tribe whose members believe they can channel the healing power of the divine and encounters a physicist who has faith that science will lead him to God.

Almost every faith has a figure its followers think was chosen by God. Muslims have Muhammad. Christians have Jesus. Jews have Abraham and Moses. Why do we rally around these chosen ones and how do they guide our faith? Morgan Freeman goes in search of the chosen people walking the earth today, including an American boy from the suburbs who is believed to be the reincarnation of a Buddhist Iama who has been returning in different bodies for almost five hundred years.

Morgan meets a Vatican exorcist, goes to the Judean desert where monks battle Satan, and visits a Buddhist temple in Nepal filled with evil spirits.

Morgan visits Pompeii to learn how Vesuvius was seen as divine retribution, and travels to Jerusalem to see the oldest copy of the Ten Commandments.