INDIGO

INDIGO is a New Age movie about an occult phenomenon called “indigo children,” a group of allegedly psychic children who, some New Agers believe, will lead the world into a new age of love and harmony. In the movie’s story, Cheryl, the estranged daughter of a failed development tycoon, asks her father, Ray, to protect her young daughter, Grace, from her drug-dealing husband. Cheryl is in prison after taking a drug rap for her escaped husband. The husband thinks that Cheryl has hidden the missing $50,000 from the drug bust, and that Grace may know something about it.

Ray is reluctant to get involved with his daughter’s problems, but, when he visits Grace at the children’s home where she now lives, he thinks his daughter’s husband is lurking in a car hanging around the home. Ray takes off with Grace out the back, and, on the road in his beat-up car, Ray discovers that Grace has special psychic powers that help her tell the future. A precocious child wise beyond her years, Grace is also able to communicate telepathically with other psychic children, and with the dead mother of a young woman they meet along the way. Grace is also working behind the scenes to manipulate her broken family into re-connecting. Under Grace’s guidance, Ray’s conflicts with his estranged daughter and son are resolved.

INDIGO expresses some positive moral values regarding love and family, but it has a very strong New Age pagan worldview with very strong occult content. At one point, Grace is even compared to Hermione, one of the heroic witches in the HARRY POTTER books. In another scene, the mother of another indigo child says that there are “a million paths to God,” and only some of those paths are religious. Of course, this syncretistic New Age worldview is false, deceptive and abhorrent.

Despite an attempt to provide family-friendly entertainment, INDIGO contains many obscenities and some strong profanities. There are also a few crude sexual innuendoes regarding Ray and his much-younger girlfriend.

Do not be fooled, therefore, by the innocuous aspects of New Age cultural artifacts like INDIGO. They may mimic family values, and sometimes even Christian values, but they have a demonic character. On that note, it is important to remember that New Age cults, like other cults, try to possess a veneer of plausibility and moral/spiritual truth in order to seduce people into joining. The best way to expose these cults is to examine and study the Holy Scriptures, like the Bereans in Acts. 17:11.