Desperately Seeking Something

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Desperately Seeking Something
Pete explaining that the following commercial break can be a learning experience, in his usual comical sarcasm
Format	Spirituality/Religion
Directed by	Steve Connelly
Starring	Pete McCarthy
Language(s)	English
No. of series	3
Production
Running time	25 min. per episode
Broadcast
Original channel	Channel 4
Original run	1995 – 1998

Desperately Seeking Something was a British television series first broadcast on 6th November 1995, presented by travel writer and presenter Pete McCarthy. In it, McCarthy looked at various spiritual practices from across the globe, and meeting their practicioners. It ran for three series. The first series involved him looking at world traditional beliefs like Australian Aboriginal beliefs and Hawaiian religion. The second season looked more at Christian and Pagan sects, including the Fellowship of Isis and the Golden Dawn.

Before going on what would be refferred to as a "spiritual journey", McCarthy said "I've taken on the role of everyman, I'm like lots of people who have given up religion and never replaced it with anything else."^[1]

1 Episodes
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Episodes

An incomplete list of episodes

[edit] Series One

McCarthy went to Australia and stayed in the Outback with some Aborigines where they discussed their traditional religion.
McCarthy meets with Odinists.
McCarthy meets with people who believe that Jesus came from the planet Venus.
In the final episode of the first series, McCarthy went to Hawaii, USA, where he explored both Hawaiian religion (which he commented on as being the religion he'd most like to join), along with modern New Age practises on the island.

[edit] Series Two

The Wicca Man : In the first episode, McCarthy met with a Wiccan coven.
Pete met Ivan McBeth who believes that stones are alive and who builds stone circles a a form of healing acupuncture for the planet; joined the Golden Dawn Occult Society in a trance at an ancient burial chamber in Wiltshire; and then visited the Island of Arran which Tibetan mystic Lama Yeshe hoped will become the planet's spiritual interface.
Pete met a suburban shaman who tried "soul repair" on him; he visited some Neo-Druids; he then visited a spiritual healer who made oil appear in Pete's hands.