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Indigo children is a term used within the New Age movement to refer to children who are alleged to possess paranormal attributes such as the ability to read minds.
The Indigo child concept was first publicized in 1999 by the book The Indigo Children: The New Kids Have Arrived, written by the husband-and-wife team of Lee Carroll and Jan Tober.[1] Carroll insists that the concept was obtained via conversations with a spiritual entity known as Kryon.
The reason for the use of the adjective "indigo" is not universally agreed upon: some sources link it with an early researcher into the phenomenon, who was synesthetic. It has also been claimed that these children appear with an indigo-hued aura.
Contents
•      1 Environment and evolution
•      2 Characteristics
•      3 Reasoning
•      4 Claimed Indigo abilities
•      5 Critical interpretations
•      6 Scientific investigation
•      7 Education
•      8 Commercialization
•      9 In fiction
•      10 References
•      11 External links
o      11.1 Proponents
o      11.2 Skeptic resources
o      11.3 Media coverage

[edit] Environment and evolution
The Indigo Child movement believes that the children in question are born with an empathic connection to Earth and others' thoughts. However, due to natural limits in infant communication, Indigo children's supposed abilities (empathy, telepathy, extra-sensory perception and extra-normal perception) are often suppressed by negative parental or societal influence. The Indigo Child movement therefore encourages parents to support those children in whom can be seen traits which are often labeled as negative by mainstream authorities but as positive by Indigo Child theorists.
[edit] Characteristics
Carroll and Tober identify ten attributes that they assert describe Indigo children[1]:
•      They come into the world with a feeling of royalty (and often act like it).
•      They have a feeling of "deserving to be here," and are surprised when others do not share that.
•      Self-worth is not a big issue; they often tell the parents "who they are."
•      They have difficulty with absolute authority (authority without explanation or choice).
•      They simply will not do certain things; for example, waiting in line is difficult for them.
•      They get frustrated with systems that are ritually oriented and do not require creative thought.
•      They often see better ways of doing things, both at home and in school, which makes them seem like "system busters" (non-conforming to any system).
•      They seem antisocial unless they are with their own kind. If there are no others of like consciousness around them, they often turn inward, feeling like no other human understands them. School is often extremely difficult for them socially.
•      They will not respond to "guilt" discipline ("Wait till your father gets home and finds out what you did").
•      They are not shy in letting it be known what they need.
In her article[2] Wendy H. Chapman (enlightenment teacher at and Director of Metagifted Education Resource Organization [2]) says that Indigo children will also display many of the following:
•      Have strong self esteem, connection to source
•      Have an obvious sense of self
•      Refuse to follow orders or directions
•      Get bored rather easily with assigned tasks
•      Are rather creative
•      Display strong intuition
•      Have either strong or no empathy for others
•      Develop abstract thinking very young
•      Are gifted and/or talented, highly intelligent
•      Are often identified or suspected of having ADHD
•      Are frequent daydreamers
•      Have very old, deep, wise looking eyes
Critics point out that these traits are not unique, and are observable in most children (see Critical interpretations below).
[edit] Reasoning
Adherents believe that this new type of child has come forward for a reason; most often suggested is that they will improve the world in some way. The changes generally discussed involve bringing peace, toppling corrupt institutions, and a shift from allopathic medicine to a greater understanding of more natural alternatives. Indigo children are said by proponents to be more in touch with something called the "Universal Truth", and do not tolerate or understand behaviors or systems that are not in harmony with it.
Indigo children are sometimes said to possess an extreme longevity, but given the birth dates above, experimental verifiability of this belief is impossible.
[edit] Claimed Indigo abilities
Many discussions of Indigo children in New Age literature (including Kryon literature) claim that Indigo children are born with part of their DNA activated that most people do not have activated. Some claim that it is junk DNA that they utilize to "swap out" higher-dimensional information, giving them special abilities.
These abilities are said to include purging HIV, advanced genius and psychic/telekinetic powers[3][4] speaking to the dead.[5] Further claimed abilities include:
•      Highly intelligent.
•      Often very creative.
•      Developmentally advanced in reading walking, talking, etc.
•      Psychic/intuitive abilities.
•      Multi-dimensionally awareness; they perceive a broader range of reality.
•      Telepathic abilities.
•      They sense and feel energies from people or other living things (aura reading).
•      Telekinesis, etc. Moving objects with their mind energy and thought.
•      Awareness of scientific, historical, anthropological and spiritual knowledge not consciously learnt. Sometimes called 'knowledge bombs'.
•      Awareness of past lives.
•      Extremely empathic to all creatures, not just humans but animals and plants.
•      They can communicate with the unseen world, spirits and angels.
•      Multi-dimensional healing abilities.
•      Manifest unusual artwork, languages and scripts.
•      Dual consciousness; feeling part human and part extraterrestrial.
•      Have a sense of mission or higher purpose.

[edit] Critical interpretations
Some critics feel that it is possible to use the traits assigned to Indigo children as an observation of social trends, rather than as a signifier of a new race or form of consciousness. One such trend is more and more children are viewing magical/mystical TV shows and media that use new-age interpretable language. Coupled with how children feed off the media in their own natural fantasy play, such mystical make-believe could be unintentionally falsely re-interpreted as signs of preternatural knowledge, maturity or "higher consciousness".
An example of this emerged in a 2006 article in the Dallas Observer which covered the Indigo Child phenomenon.[6] The reporter observed an eight year old boy named Dusk quizzed by a man on his "Indigo" status:
"Are you an indigo?" he asked Dusk. The boy looked at him shyly and nodded. "I'm an avatar," Dusk said. "I can recognize the four elements of earth, wind, water and fire. The next avatar won't come for 100 years." The man seemed impressed.
However, readers of the Dallas Observer wrote to inform the editor that Dusk may have been drawing on the Nickelodeon children's show Avatar: The Last Airbender. This highly rated television show features a twelve-year-old boy who is the reincarnation of the Avatar Spirit, has the power to manipulate (or "bend") earth, wind, water and fire, and was once frozen in suspended animation for 100 years. These similarities were not noted within the article, and the editor of the Dallas Observer later admitted they were not aware of the possible connection until several readers brought it to their attention.[7]
Some skeptics are concerned that Indigo children might really be children who have special learning needs. They may have autism, Asperger's syndrome, non-verbal or even behavioural learning issues; by labeling children as "Indigo" such children do not get the services they need to succeed.
[edit] Scientific investigation
Skeptics point out that the Indigo movement seems to lack verifiable evidence to support its claims. Because of this, it is considered pseudoscience. Although some of the authors of Indigo literature have degrees in psychology, Indigo Child is not a recognized term in the field of psychology.
Indigo literature frequently talks about "university studies" and "interested scientists," but give no actual citations. However, according to scientists such as Russell Barkley, Indigo children are often the offspring of New Age parents. Exposed to New Age thinking, it would be unsurprising if the children possess a greater tendency to use New Age language than earlier generations. Having been told that the vast majority of children are now Indigos, New Age parents in fear of suppressing this special generation may be encouraging antisocial behaviors. It has been observed that many of the traits of Indigo children could be more prosaically interpreted as simple arrogance and selfish individualism.
Critics have also voiced concern that teaching children that they are Indigo will encourage children to adopt sociopathic behaviors, such as a sense of human superiority, alienation, and a "bizarre" paranormal identity. (See Indigo:The color of Money)
[edit] Education
Educators, generally, have not embraced the Indigo Child supposition. Some alternative educators have accepted the Indigo concept, and have related their mission to the needs of Indigo children.[1][8] Philosophies that resonate with Indigos' style of learning may include experiential education, multiple intelligence strategies, project-based learning, unschooling, and student-centered learning [citation needed].
[edit] Commercialization
There has been significant commercial value in book and video sales, donations, speaking engagements, and one-on-one counseling session fees to parents of "Indigo" children. In "Indigo: the color of money", an article on Skepticreport.com, Lorie Anderson has pointed out the potential commercial value of the "Indigo" concept for James Twyman, author of the video documentary, The Indigo Evolution. Numerous other commercial websites offer indigo-child-themed goods for sale such as books and new-age healing devices as well as videos and other media.
[edit] In fiction
Thirty years before the Indigo movement, the science fiction novel Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke featured the children of Earth beginning to display high intelligence and telekinetic abilities for the purpose of transitioning mankind to a higher plane of existence.
In 2003, a movie Indigo was released. The movie has grossed $1,190,000.[9]
In the arcade-adventure computer game Fahrenheit (also known as Indigo Prophecy), an Indigo Child, Jade, is thought to be a prophet destined to bring some powerful truths into the world.
In the episode "The Unusual Suspect" of the television series CSI, a 12 year old girl named Hannah is said to be an Indigo Child. She claims responsibility a murder of which her brother has been accused.

ALAN

I found this link: http://www.starchild.co.za/what.html

Does this help anyone?

Imagine, for a minute, that you are a parent with a "different"
kid.
Would you want to accept that he/she was "disabled"? "Impaired"?
That when the bully at school called your kid a "tard" at recess, said bully
was not being "ignorant" or "stupid", but merely observant, honest (albeit brutally so) and perceptive?
If you said "yes", then you're not a typical parent.
Most people would like to think, REALLY think, that their "different"
child was GIFTED in some way.
Hence, people fleeing from diagnoses like autism, Asperger's, ect.
and converging like a hungry mob on the teachings of the prophets (or is it "profiteers"?) of the dawning age of the "Indigo Children."
These things are so simple, a schmuck like me can figure 'em them out. (Why is it that so many otherwise intelligent people CANT figure them
out then? Go figure...)

B-guru

Old Dood wrote on Jan 21^st, 2008 at 8:27pm:



  Hi Old Dood, thanks for sharing.  While i didn't completely resonate with and totally agree with that article, i found some parts pretty interesting, and especially this part: "The first thing most people notice about Crystal Children is their eyes, large, penetrating, and wise beyond their years. Their eyes lock on and hypnotize you, while you realize your soul is being laid bare for the child to see."


  I can highly relate to that, as i've been getting comments on my eyes since i was a babe.   Some people seem to really like my eyes (a higher percentage being and having been women), or many seem to shy away or even avoid same sometimes.   Why the latter, i can only guess because they are large, very penetrating, and intense in nature.  Kind of laser eyes.  People have commented that it feels like i can look through and deeply into them.  When i was a baby, people made those kinds of comments to my Mom as well, so she later mentioned once or twice.

  I remember being highschool sitting with my best friend during lunch and talking, and him (he is not gay btw) all of a sudden saying something like, "It's very easy to get lost in your eyes, they're very deep, kind of strange and unusual..."

This was quite uncharacteristic statement on his part (and i was very surprised at the time), as he was especially then and still is to some extent, highly guarded, self protective, and oft gives off a rather aloof vibe.   Yet, he is innately sensitive with his Aquarius 12th house Sun and South Node, Pisces Merc., Pisces Venus square Neptune and CON ASC, Scorpio Moon in 8th, etc. 

  Occasionally, i will meet someone, and oft times their eyes just seem different, and sometimes i get a feeling that they are first or near first timers in this system and came from some very fast vibrating systems to help out.   

Their eyes are similar to other folks, with an Earth background, who i would call "old souls" but at the same time, somewhat different and its hard to put an exact description of why they are somewhat different even though similar. 

  In any case, truly eyes are the windows to the Soul.

recoverer wrote on Jan 24^th, 2008 at 4:31pm:



  I get the sense that this is a more complicated issue than what some have portrayed it as.  I read those articles you shared.   

  Here are some thoughts off the top of my head.   While i rarely see the colors of the aura in a more physical sense, i do sense and get info in terms of color, and i would say that various blue frequency radiations are becoming more common in people's auras lately.    But more so the regular blues, the pale and medium shades more so.  A very dark, muddy, navyish type blue has always been somewhat common in amounts, and is oft indicative of depression, apathy, and not following one's path in life. 

   2nd, i'm not sure being a "synesthete" is the same thing as being clearly psychic, and seeing/sensing the less physical, and nonphysical field radiations around people.    The former, seems to be more related to physical issues, oft damage to the brain is involved.   Hence, while she may perceive a lot in color, it's not necessarily what an aura perceiver with a wide open 6th center is perceiving.   

  Also, one doesn't need to see auras, to discriminate some basic, but important stuff here.   It seems like she and others, have used the term indigo to describe and represent a more actualized and spiritually attuned Soul, much more than the average has been for a long time.   

  Look around you, would you say that almost half of people age 35 to 25 fit that description (in my largely materialistic and very self focussed peers)?  Would 70 percent of people from ages 15 to 25 fit that?    Or look around at at the average, younger kid, come on, they're mostly all very spiritually developed?   She must be hanging around with different children and peers than i have.   Go  to the average college, and one will see how many spiritually advanced indigo types there are.   Sure, they want to change the world one beer and E pill at a time.

   Maybe a percentage of these have more blue in their aura than what the average has been for a long time, but all these spiritually highly developed and actualized Souls?    If its anything, its more of a potential waiting to be awakened.   

  Cause, if this was the case, growing up i just would not have been so picked on, shunned, etc. if so many others were vibing so much more closer with me--i just turned 28 and fall into the 40 percent category, and come near to the latter part of the 70 percent.   I would have been considered more "normal", wheras it was quite the opposite.  I felt and was made to feel quite a bit like "Powder", though the differences weren't so dramatic and obvious.

  It just seems rather plain and obvious to me, that the percentages aren't nearly as high as she has said.   Or perhaps, "indigo" is not as advanced as some have characterized it to be?  I find it interesting that so many are saying indigo this, indigo that, what about a faster vibrating color frequency like violet?   True violet is definitely a faster vibrating frequency rate than indigo, and even many shades of purple are (depending on the ratio and balance of blue to red).    

  Much of this is and will occur according to "like attracts and begets like" law of energy resonation.   Has humanity, as a whole and collectively, grown so much spiritually so quickly?   Sure, technology wise things have fairly exploded in the last 60 years, but technology is not directly related to spiritual growth at all.
  Sure, there are more people awakening (spiritually) everyday, but its still yet largely a gradual process, which is probably why when Monroe looked at our probable future, it wasn't until well after the year 3000 that humanity has finally gotten to the point of mass ascension.   

  Thats over 1000 years from now, and there are many generations to be born from now to then.       

  And about auras and indigo more specifically.   Now, there is a big difference between someone having a little patch of indigo in the mental layer of their aura, as opposed to someone with it rather predominant--especially as the first or second strongest color in the mental layer of the aura.   

  It's the sheer predominance of one color over others, which can indicate a condition wherein one can say she or he is an "indigo" or "violet" type.     I don't get that a lot of people have indigo as a predominant color radiation, rarely even the 2nd or 3 strongest radiation in the mental layer of the aura in my sensing so far.  Then there is the question of how clear, how bright and radiant, how much harmony is there in the overall aura?

  If i had to take a guess, and to say what percentage applies to true "indigo" types, as related more specifically to their auras, i would have to say that from about age 30 to 10, it's probably closer to 7 to 10 percent who have such predominant frequency radiations in their aura.  So, indigo as a predominant frequency radiation is still somewhat rare, though growing more and more common.   

  I would say that by and around 2100 or so, such collectively awakened, active, and balanced 6th centers will be closer to those percentages that that lady is proclaiming about our present. 

   When deeper blues, indigos, certain shades of purple, golden yellows, and especially true violet, golden, golden white, and pure white light emanations become very common and predominant in the mental layers of people's auras, predominantly and collectively speaking, then will humanity will be seen to be much, much more spiritually in tune than we are now.  The colors are only reflectors of the inner state.   

  But this is more like hundreds of years off, as judging from a more linear time perspective.  I suppose it's only natural that some parents open to this stuff, want to believe that there child is an indigo, or otherwise highly advanced child, and not just lacking discipline and structure in their lives, balanced and healthy diets, harmonious and loving environments, etc.

  At the same time, it's probably the parents, and especially the moms, who are more open to this kind of stuff, who would be more likely to have or attract a more developed personality.   Or especially those who live very clean and service oriented lives, with a good balance between the physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of life.   

  Someone like Mozart (somewhat of an extreme example though), was more of a true indigo type, and when doing his astro chart and tuning into him, i picked up a lot of indigo, pastel blue, violet-purple, lavender, golden yellow type shades, and yet he certainly had his issues, his imbalances, and wasn't completely spiritual by any means. 

  His astro chart, not surprisingly then reflects this probability and innate potential.  Strong Uranus, especially Neptune (i believe it was Rising, and that he did not have Virgo rising) and Jupiter energies and strong emphasis on the latter 3 signs for example.

I've had a problem with the whole "Indigo Children" thing for years...in part because the first time I read anything about them, (maybe that first book that someone mentioned above), she's saying they're older, advanced souls, and at the same time going on about how they can't fit in, won't  co-operate, etc.

I'm thinking that an advanced soul would have the smarts to not be difficult for difficult's sake...the whole thing sounded way too much like apologetics for spoiled brats.  Feeling different, having limited patience with silly social mores is one thing, but not being able to just shrug it off and deal until they're older doesn't sound very advanced to me. 

I suspect that there are more advanced souls coming around more often these days - I just don't think that the kind of behavior often described has anything to do with them.

Cricket wrote on Jan 25^th, 2008 at 10:24am:


  I kind of agree, but at the same time i'm hestistant to put it into a very cut and dried categorizing.   There seems to be a lot of variables to take into account here. 

  Btw, it's kind of interesting for those with some kind of astrological background or interest, but a lot of the classic "indigo" traits, correspond pretty strongly with Uranus and with those with strong Uranian indications in particular. 

  Uranus is more than a bit of a rebel, and can seem even a bit bratty at times, because of its stubbornness and self will, but since its vibrationally coming after Saturn which is entranched in the mainstream and in materialism, Uranus is a very necessary stage, a stage of shaking things up, of breaking down old outdated forms in order for new growth to be properly kindled. 

When Uranus was discovered, it paralleled a lot of major changes and upheavals in the world...a little taste of the Aquarius Age later to come.   

  So, Uranians can sometimes seem destructive, but they really desire to change things for the better so that all will benefit--they tend to be born socialists yet with a strong belief in and advocation of individualism.  A higher or more positive Uranian, doesn't desire change and destructuring for the sake of change and destructing, but for a higher, more positive, and more collecitve goal.  It's just that they need to keep things in perspective, and keep a balance to them and their tendencies, because they can be fairly extreme at times. 

  Aquarius on the other hand, i would say is a more true Indigo type frequency range potential, because to me, while Uranus vibes somewhat with Aquarius (said to be one of the rulers of same), Aquarius to me is a slightly faster vibrating, more balanced, and more complex expression. 

  So, espeically folks with both strong Uranus and Aquarius energies at the same time, will seem to fit the classic "indigo" type descriptions.   And like i said, they can appear very self willed and stubborn at times, but they do listen to a higher reasoning and to love.   

Kathy:

I didn't know that you had NDEs. Care to share?


Lights of Love wrote on Jan 25^th, 2008 at 9:05am: