The violet flame

Close to twenty-five years ago (back in the dark ages of actual network television) I happened to catch part of a movie that really intrigued me.

At the time I was part of a small women’s group dedicated to spiritual growth and one of us had shared with the group about St Germaine and the violet flame. I don’t remember much about it now, but at the time I was struck by the way the movie makers used imagery of violet light; it seemed to speak to my heart.

Afterwards, I wanted to see the whole movie but couldn’t find a copy anywhere. Come to find out it was a made-for-TV remake of an old Disney movie and it wasn’t available on video. Darn!

I gave up on finding it but it would nevertheless pop into my mind once every five years or so. Well, this happened again recently, except now I could get on the internet and Google and — amazingly enough, I found it!

It does, indeed, have an admittedly hokey spiritual component to it. In a nutshell the overall theme has to do with the fact that we all come from one source; we’ve (almost) all of us forgotten who we really are; the key is to overcome fear and move toward the light; and the goal is to return to our true home.

Yeah, it was hokey, but I was in tears at the end — not because the movie was well done; it isn’t, really — but because the essence of the message resonated deep in my soul.

So, what is the name of this movie? I’m a little embarrassed to tell you, but it’s the 1995 Disney remake of “Escape to Witch Mountain.” We enjoyed watching it AND I was able to satisfy my decades long desire to see the entire film.