Indigo children

Here's some information that I found on the internet about the Indigo Children. A friend of mine was mentioning them to me today and I looked it up because I never knew a whole lot about them before, just a few references here and there. So after looking it up it dawned on me how much I relate to the descriptions and from reading them feel that I am one. Any of you feel the same, or know someone who is??

Here's the description, from http://www.greatdreams.com/indigo.htm:

The ten most common traits of Indigo Children:
1. They come into the world with a feeling of royalty (and often act like it).
2. They have a feeling of "deserving to be here," and are surprised when others don't share that.
3. Self-worth is not a big issue. They often tell the parents "who they are."
4. They have difficulty with absolute authority (authority without explanation or choice).
5. They simply will not do certain things; for example - waiting in line is difficult for them.
6. They get frustrated with systems that are ritual-oriented and don't require creative thought.
7. They often see better ways of doing things, both at home and at school, which makes them seem like "system busters" - (nonconforming to any system).
8. They seem antisocial unless they are with their own kind. If there are no others of like consciousness around them, they often let no other human understand them. School is extremely difficult for them socially.
9. They will not respond to "guilt" discipline - (Wait till you father gets home and finds out what you did").
10. They are not shy in letting you know what they need.

And also from http://www.innerself.com/Parenting/indigo_children.htm

("The Indigo Child is a boy or girl who displays a new and unusual set of psychological attributes, revealing a pattern of behavior generally undocumented before. This pattern has singularly unique factors that call for parents and teachers to change their treatment and upbringing of these kids to assist them in achieving balance and harmony in their lives, and to help them avoid frustration."
-- Lee Carroll & Jan Tober)​

I have a seven-year-old Indigo son. I've been working as a teacher's aide in his classrooms through preschool, kindergarten, and now first grade, and I've observed his interactions with Indigos and non-Indigos of all ages. It's been interesting! In fact, trying to put it all down in writing has been a challenge because the children do so many subtle things.
Indigos process their emotions differently than non Indigos because they have high self-esteem and strong integrity. They can read you like an open book and quickly notice and neutralize any hidden agendas or attempts to manipulate them, however subtly. In fact, they can see your hidden agendas even if you can't! They have inherently strong determination to work things through for themselves and only want outside guidance if it's presented to them with respect and within a format of true choice. They prefer to work situations out for themselves.​

They come in with their intentions and gifts easily identifiable from birth. They can suck up knowledge like a sponge, especially if they like or are drawn to a subject, which makes them very advanced in their areas of interest. Experiencing life helps them learn best, so they create the experiences they need to help them with their current problem or area where they need to grow. They respond best when treated like a respected adult.​

Not only are they masters at intuitively picking up on hidden agendas or motives, but they are equally masterful at turning those agendas back onto the people using them, especially their parents. Psychological "button pushing" often causes them to be labeled as nonconformists. If they notice that there is a hidden motive behind your attempt to get them to do something, they will resist strongly and feel perfectly justified in doing so. From their point of view, if you're not doing your work in the relationship, they can challenge you on it.
When I called them good "button pushers" what I really meant is that they're working with us adults to help us recognize where we are holding and using old, subtle patterns to manipulate them, which used to work but will no longer. So if you are constantly getting resistance from an Indigo, check yourself first. They may be holding up a mirror for you, or be asking you, in a nonconformist way, for help in finding new boundaries, fine-tuning their own skills or talents, or going to the next level of growth.​

Indigos have innate healing abilities that are usually already active; however, they may not know that they are using them! The most spectacular thing I observed was how they formed groups, adjusting and spacing themselves, especially around another child who might have been sick or upset — sitting and blending their energy field with that child's. Most often, they paired up one on one, but sometimes they formed groups and sat in either a triangular or diamond-shaped pattern. It wasn't done in an obvious way, but very subtly. When finished, they were off to something else.​

It was amazing. They just did it, but they didn't want to discuss it; in some cases, they weren't even consciously aware of what they were doing or why! It was so natural to them that if a child needed something from the Indigos, they just went and sat next to them for a while, not even necessarily talking, and then they separated.
Another interesting thing was that, off and on throughout the year, the Indigos went through periods of attracting and repelling each other, or periods of really needing each other's company and then of not needing it. I'm not totally clear on this, but it seems to coincide with individual personal development. The closeness and concern they had for each other was never lost during those periods of separation, but they wouldn't go back together, either, until all was right for them.​

 

Here's another website that offers a great explanation and insights into these energies. http://www.starchild.co.za/what.html

 

I know people much older than you who are light years beyond you spiritually. The truly advanced specimens don't need to post messages on forums about how gifted they are. In fact, you probably pass by them on the sidewalk without even realizing who they are - though they know you intimately.

 

So you think I posted this in order to boast and brag about being spiritually advanced and gifted?

 

Maybe "special" would be a better word. No, on second thought I think "spiritually advanced and gifted" sums up the Indigo Child image pretty well. So...I assume you're going to tell me that's not why you posted it. Why did you, then?

 

Well first I'd like to talk about my impression of the Indigo Child just to clarify where I'm coming from. Yes, to some extent there's a degree of spiritual advancement in an Indigo Child, and certain gifts that they offer. This is relative, of course, and is varied in comparison to the typical Third Dimensional Human, and also as in comparison to other Indigo Children. I also recognize that the gifts and awareness must be cultivated and challenged, and so being an Indigo Child doesn't mean that there's no ego or that there's no further awareness or spiritual progress to be realized. In other words, being an Indigo Child doesn't mean that one is an awakened or realized spiritual master from the get go.

Secondly, discussing such things as "spiritual advancement" is sooooo tricky and prone to ego reaction. It's a huge button that's easily triggered. What's the truth about it? Well, it is true that some people are more spiritually advanced than others... although I notice that it's often very misleading and difficult to detect, because sometimes what's evident on the surface doesn't portray a complete and accurate assessment of that person. And then there's always mastery in some areas compared to relative unconsciousness in others. Not to mention, why compare at all?? It seems to me that it's only the ego that seeks comparison and automatically places people on the ladder of lower or higher than oneself.

Perhaps discussing myself personally in a post like this was a doomed effort from the start, because it's easy to push these comparison buttons. It's like "spiritual advancement" has become something to be ashamed of. But that's only the case when there's an ego reacting because it thinks itself "less than" or "more than" another. Sometimes the ego is arrogant and boasts of being spiritually advanced. Other times it plays at false humility and speaks of oneself in "lowly" or unassuming terms.

But isn't it possible to discuss things matter-of-factly without ego involvement? For example, yes I recognize a certain spiritual awareness within myself. How aware am I? How is that awareness compared to others? Well I'd say that there's more awareness there than the typical Third Dimensional Human, yes. I sense this is an accurate observation. There's no need to cling to that observation, or to make some sort of identity for myself because of it. Nor is there a need to be "right" about it. Actually I really don't care... the whole exercise in comparison leaves a nasty taste in my mouth. But I also don't care to play down the awareness that's there, or to avoid speaking of it sometimes in order that other egos don't feel insecure around me.

I don't claim ownership or responsibility for the awareness that's within me. It's not MINE and I recognize that. So then I don't have to play it up or down, but instead can be honest about it as it is. The intention behind posting this was quite innocent and unpremeditated. I looked up some info on Indigo Children on the internet, saw a very strong similarity in these descriptions to how I've felt and behaved and to the life experiences that I've had and thought I would share this and see if anyone else felt the same way. It wasn't from the motivation, "oh looky how special I am". It was from "hey look, this is interesting, anyone want to share? Anyone out there who's similar??" I often feel like an oddball in life, almost like I'm some sort of alien. Many people with whom I've interacted personally have pointed out to me that I'm different.

Being different is largely unpleasant, actually. It takes a lot of personal resolve and inner strength to not succumb to despair and suffering because of constantly feeling on the outskirts of the typical human experience. But the awareness also has me access a deep humility and recognition of the Oneness with others. To be special when defined as "better than" and "separate" is intensely painful. Not only do I realize how untrue this is but also how much I absolutely don't want such a condition. However I do recognize that many of us have a special role to play or have special gifts to give. This is all in the short term, for a certain span of time. Equality doesn't mean equality now. Ultimately we're all equal, yet right now we don't all know this.

I hope this helped to clarify my intention. I'm sure if there was an ego motivation hiding in there somewhere I trust that Life will shine its light on it in my personal experience and allow me to see it. But looking at it now, after your response, I honestly don't see that this was the case.

I truly would like to discuss the subject of Indigo Children, without this necessarily being a focus on "me".

 

Is it a coincidence that everyone who reads about "indigo children" thinks they are one?

 

Is this true, that everyone who reads about indigo children thinks they are one? How do you know what everyone thinks?

 

I've never met anyone who believes in the whole "indigo child" thing and doesn't also think that they are one themself.

 

It would make for an interesting poll. But, using myself as an example, if pressed to answer whether I do or don't believe in the "indigo child" thing, I'd have to say... on the one hand yes, on the other hand no. So there goes the poll! LOL!

 

I don't believe in Indigo Children. When I read the descriptions given for what Indigo Children are like, they sound like somebody decided first that there were children who were ummm "different in a special kind of way," and then they went looking for characteristics of those children.

Also I think your long explanation for why you posted this thread is much too complex to be strictly true.

But whatever. I'll bow out of this discussion for now, I guess, and let the Indigo people talk as much as they want.

 

:yawn:

 

Seems the specialness button is even more sensitive than I realized. Live & learn...

 

Here's some more information on Indigo Children.

Well I was born in 1975 and I do possess telepathic abilities

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigo_children


Hotwater

 

Whoa! Let's not start a pissing contest eh! ... this 'duality' we've all chosen to take part in, this birth into form IS temporary,.. a game, a drama for learning, and one of those lessons is equality in who and what we are, and to die to who you think you are is to know this. Everything is one. To raise or lower another in ones opinion is to take away and divide from what one is. Judge others for the role they play and one divides oneself and splits oneself from the source of life ... to remain one sided and stuck in that duality. Ego is a tricky thing, yes it is.
"Before you enter the temple, forgive." ... meaning, relinquish your judgement and pride. Judgement is separation and one cannot 'enter the temple' and remain a separate being.
Deep down there is just one being, one life which lives through us, and when we talk to and judge another, it is this one being that we are talking to and judging. Life is a mirror, and in this sense we are always talking to ourselves, ...so what do we want to say to ourselves today? Judgement or acceptance?

Um ... indigo children. My jurys out, but i do think that if ego and it's naming and 'owning' protocols were to stay clear then this is a topic which would then become a non-topic. Plus; i think the writer seems to be biased to the whole idea to begin with.

 

Does this mean that you think that by writing about it or mentioning it in the first place is something that could have only come from ego?

How so?

 

About 2 years ago I read hevily into the indigo children and felt I was one in every way shape and form. I actually was just thinking of this yesterday too when I spoke to someone on the forum about psychic senses...which would make sense why I'd come across it today You see?

Cheers

 

Yeah, cool!

 

A general statement really ... not about either yourself or the writer of the piece, but saying that this, as a topic, being a new idea with few facts is gonna be prone to the fantasising of ego.

... because the writer said that he/she had (no maybes here ... they're saying it as fact) )an indigo child, indicating that he/she could have some ego investment in the idea. I mean if that's not the case then why promote the whole idea in such a factual way. The writer does seem to be turning conjecture and theory into fact very quickly and i can't see the link.

 

Ok, glad I asked. Hahaha!! I thought you meant the writer to be "me", not the writer of that section I posted. I totally agree about this being prone to the fantasizing of ego... that is a very fine line to walk, even in posting something like this, because it's so easy so slip in there and identify with some image. Just the fact of this being so easy to do makes me want to abandon this subject altogether. And really, when it comes right down to it.... so what? who cares? what difference does this make in the every day moment to moment life? Does this change anything substantial about me or the way I operate? No.

Although, on the other hand, the one helpful aspect of speaking of this is perhaps in fostering more acceptance and tolerance of those who are different.

I can see that possibility.