It is the same with Charleen, with Professor Dobson (John Aylward), with Father José (Castulo Guerra), with Julia (Annabeth Gish), with Marjorie (Sarah Wayne Callies), with Father Sanchez (Joaquim de Almeida), with Miguel (Obba Babatundé), or with any of the other Celestine converts that John encounters on his journey – they all display the kind of blank, wide-eyed fervour that is the mark of true hierophants – or else of madmen, drug users and credulous fools. Wil has a glazed look in his eye and a beatific smile on his lips that tells us he is someone who can see things just beyond our grasp. The Prophecy has to happen to you.' So says the guide Wil (Thomas Kretschmann) to his new disciple John.

'Look, I could describe these Insights to you right now and you would hear my words, but you have to do more than that, you have to experience it for yourself. A series of coincidences leads John to Viciente, where he finds himself caught in the middle of a struggle between the devoted team racing to locate, translate and publish all nine scrolls (each containing a transformative 'Insight' into the physical and spiritual evolution of humankind), and the local General (Petrus Antonius) and Cardinal Sebastian (Hector Elizondo) who are working with a mysterious foreign agent (Jürgen Prochnow) to suppress the Prophecy at any cost. Shortly after he is downsized from his job as a history teacher, John Woodson (Matthew Settle) meets up with an old flame Charleen (Robyn Cohen) who tells him about some ancient prophetic scrolls unearthed in Viciente, Peru.

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