Trouble In Amish Paradise.

  Indigos in the Amish.

If you are looking to step outside of your world for a short while, then this is worth viewing. It is strangely very watchable, disconcerting and at times uncomfortable. It is a culture which straddles two dimensions, however I am not exactly sure where these dimensions are.

In my travels some time back in the early 1990's around the states, I was able to visit an Amish community.  Then it was a life,  alien to most of us in the western world, that had much less connection to the outside world and it's technology than it appears to have in this film. 

Two Amish men and their families are considering leaving the church that they were brought up in. The questions that fly out from this are not easily answered.  Strangely compelling, pleasing to watch visually, but uncomfortable viewing in the main. 

Somehow it reassures, that All aspects of mankind are evolving, bit by bit, slowly, slowly, and we are doing it, "come hell or high water", (as my mother used to say) whether  those that are not ready to, like it or not.

There is "No judgement" here, but you may feel you want to put your hand out to the man to support him in his questioning of following a culture of rules that make little sense to the outside world.

There is a part at the end, regarding the little girl, that I struggled with.  Because, as a sensitive, or intuitive, I read that she had absorbed the trauma for the family and was taking the "energy load" off the family to heal and transmute.  There were very real levels of pain and conflict that the family were enduring, contrary to the genuinely loving appearance. The underlying angst and emotions were closer to the surface, for healing, whether those involved were aware of it or not.

It is common for a family member to take on this role, to heal and transmute energy such as this. Of course, the individual themselves and the other persons involved, are usually totally unaware that they are doing it.


This film offers no judgement, it is simply a story of  change and the challenges it brings.