This month’s column is a bit of a departure from my other columns over the last three years. On January 29, 2005, people around the world will have the chance to see a movie very near and dear to my heart: Indigo, the feature film that I directed and produced and that so many people have been talking about since it won The Audience Choice Award at the Santa Fe Film Festival.

Indigo is about taking responsibility for the choices we make. It’s about the thin line that separates success from failure, and love from regret. It is a film about redemption, grace and the healing powers of a new generation of psychic and gifted “Indigo” children. It tells the story of one family’s three fateful choices that result in bankruptcy, jail, and their estrangement and total dissolution. Through the healing and psychic powers of the family’s youngest member—Grace, a ten-year-old “Indigo” child—the family finally finds a new chance for forgiveness. (For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term “Indigo child,” research has found that Indigos are not just an American phenomenon. Indigo Children seem to go far beyond cultural barriers, and can be found all around the world.)

For a preview of the film, please see www.indigothemovie.com.

After the amazing success of What the Bleep Do We Know?, enthusiasm for Spiritual Cinema is at an all time high. Indigo begins the next wave of these inspiring films, and I hope you will be able to join us for this unprecedented event on January 29, 2005.

This is the first time a film like this is being released nationally in a mainstream chain (AMC Theaters) as a test to see how many people are interested in movies that inspire our lives. As of now, Indigo is scheduled to play only once in each theater, and our intention is to fill each and every one of them. When that happens, even more theaters may open up for us on January 29. In addition, AMC will likely be much more open in the future to showing films from this new genre. This is our goal, not only for Indigo, but for every inspiring film that deserves a mainstream audience. This is also a way for us to make these spiritual messages available to millions of people who would usually not be exposed to them.

Not only will Indigo be shown in select cities around the U.S. on January 29, but, in cities where there are no AMC theaters, there will also be nearly 200 churches and other organizations showing the film the same day, all around the world. Many churches in Canada, around the U.S., Europe, Australia, Asia, and many other places, are excited to be part of this phenomenon. In most cases, these tickets will be sold by the churches themselves.

Much more than a movie screening, this is also truly a worldwide event. Tens of thousands of people will be watching Indigo at the same time, and will also have the chance to see a special filmed introduction from the creators of the film: Neale Donald Walsch, James Twyman, and myself. Also, everyone watching the screening in a church anywhere in the world will get the chance to see and hear James Twyman and Doreen Virtue (author of The Care and Feeding of Indigo Children) on film.

The film, whose budget was $500,000, is co-written by James Twyman, who also served as the film’s Executive Producer, and Neale Donald Walsch, who also stars in the film. Neale is the best selling author of the Conversations with God series (which have sold over nine million copies worldwide). James is the author of Emissary of Love: The Psychic Children Speak, Messages from Thomas: Raising Psychic Children, and The Proposing Tree. The sponsors of the January 29 event are Emissary Productions, The Spiritual Cinema Circle, and Monterey Media.

For more information, please visit www.Indigothemovie.com and either purchase your ticket, or pick the church you want to attend if there is no theater near you. More churches are added each day, so if you don’t see one in your area today, please check back, or talk to your church about being a sponsor. Also, as theaters sell out, we may be able to add more. More details about this are on the Indigo website, so please help us show that there are millions of people who are yearning for films that affirm life and spirituality.

Spiritual Cinema asks two eternal questions: “Who are we?” and “Why are here?”

I believe that films such as Indigo illuminate the landscape of our evolution as a humanity and stir us to remember who we can be when we reach beyond the seen, into a realm where we engage the magical aspects of our human potential.