This film looks at the subject of retreat in the world’s religion. The Great Prophets withdrew and appeared with a Sacred Word or Revelation in which a beautiful civilization came to be based. Prayer is a form of retreat and here we listen to the central prayer of the great faiths and hear the meaning of each in English. Other forms of withdrawal and return are fasting, pilgrimage and times of renewing illness. The film concludes with examples from the different traditions of making an “inner retreat” in today’s world.

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