The concept of Indigo Children first emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s, primarily through the work of Nancy Ann Tappe, a parapsychologist and synesthete who claimed to be able to see auras.

The term “New Age-y” doesn’t have the best connotations, so director Eric Chaney was at a disadvantage with Indigo Children, a film about an adolescent romance based on the pseudoscientific concept ...