Indigo Children: Your kid is special!

Everyone who has kids thinks they are one-in-a-million. Parenting circles overflow with proclamations that Mary or Jimmy is so incredibly intelligent and gifted. Everyone sees so much potential in their beautiful, perfect child.  Sometimes though, this perception of giftedness can move from typical parenthood to the unreasonable.

In new age circles, this giftedness has turned into what is known as “Indigo Children” or “Crystal Children”. Indigo children are children believed to represent a higher state of human evolution, or the next step in human evolution. It is said that they exhibit a pattern of behavior not seen before in children, including abilities other non-indigo children do not posses. Many people believe they have psychic abilities and can communicate with spirits An excerpt from a website on Indigos:

Indigo/Crystal phenomenon is the next step in our evolution as a human species. We are all, in some way, becoming more like the Indigo and Crystal people. They are here to show us the way, and so the information can be applied more generally to all of us as we make the transition to the next stage of our growth and evolution.

  The Indigo Children have been incarnating on the Earth for the last 100 years. The early Indigos were pioneers and wayshowers. After World War II, a significant number were born, and these are the Indigo adults of today. However, in the 1970s a major wave of Indigos was born, and so we have a whole generation of Indigos who are now in their late twenties and early thirties who are about to take their place as leaders in the world. Indigos continued to born up to about 2000, with increasing abilities and degrees of technological and creative sophistication.

  The Crystal Children began to appear on the planet from about 2000, although some date them slightly earlier. These are extremely powerful children, whose main purpose is to take us to the next level in our evolution, and reveal to us our inner power and divinity. They function as a group consciousness rather than as individuals, and they live by the” Law of One” or Unity Consciousness. They are a powerful force for love and peace on the planet.

The Indigo and Crystal Adults are composed of two groups. Firstly, there are those who were born as Indigos and are now making the transition to Crystal. This means they undergo a spiritual and physical transformation that awakens their “Christ” or “Crystal” consciousness and links them with the Crystal children as part of the evolutionary wave of change. The second group is those who were born without these qualities, but have aquired or are in the process of aquiring them through their own hard work and the diligent following of a spiritual path. Yes, this means that all of us have the potential to be part of the emerging group of “human angels”.

 There are, according to Indigo proponents, a list of traits Indigos have that we can recognize:

• 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 don’t 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 don’t require creative thought.
• They often see better ways of doing things, both at home and in school, which makes them seem like “system busters” (nonconforming 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 you know what they need.

Why are these traits seen as traits of Indigos? While these may not be traits of every child, these are typical, everyday traits in children and I fail to see how they serve as evidence of some kind of evolution. Let’s not forget that evolution is not a directed phenomena. We are not evolving “toward” anything. People survive, those survivors make more people. There are no “stages”, “next steps” or “higher states” that we are evolving toward. To thin that evolution has some ultimate purpose for mankind is to misunderstand evolution. I know they call it “natural selection” but really, no selection is occurring.

Here is a self-test to determine the probability of you being an indigo:

1. Are you always searching for your greater purpose in life but feel like the world isn’t set up for your kind?
2. Do you sometimes feel wise beyond your years?
3. Do you have trouble conforming to the ways of society?
   
4. Do you feel out of place in today’s world?
   
5. Do you perceive the world very differently than most people around you?
6. Do you have strong intuition about certain things that most others do not?
7. Do you often feel misunderstood when you try to talk to people about what’s real?
8. Are you a truth seeker?
9. Do you feel like you were born to accomplish a special mission in life?
10. Do you feel isolated and alone in your beliefs?
11. Misunderstood by family?
12. Do you feel anti-social unless you are with people of like mind?
13. Are you emotionally sensitive?
14. Did you have a difficult childhood?
15. Do you often feel disempowered by too much authority?

 Of these traits, I would say that I align with all of them except for 9, because I would not be so arrogant to think I was born with a special mission, and 13, because I am probably more emotionally insensitive. So maybe I am an indigo! An atheist skeptic indigo… ha.

The writings on Indigos repeat over and over that these children should not be treated as though they are “above” other children – the implied message being that they are, in fact, above other children, but should be treated as normal so that they do not develop with a sense of entitlement.Many parents believe that their child, diagnosed with ADD, Autism, or conduct disorders do not have these disorders, but instead is an indigo. I can totally understand why a parent might want to justify his or her child’s behavior on the basis that their child is a more evolved human being who simply doesn’t understand his lower-order classmates and teachers rather than label your child as having a neuro-biological condition. ADD implies imperfection. Indigo implies beyond gifted.

If you scour You Tube or Google, you’ll find accounts of teenagers or adults who believe and were taught by their parents that they are Indigo children. Parents are bound to foster narcissism and a sense of entitlement when they tell their children that they are more highly evolved than the children and adults around them. Children do not need a false sense of superiority foisted upon them and they do not need to have their tantrums and behaviors credited to that superiority instead of corrected like any other child. Further, imparting to your child a sense of being superior to other children may only serve to alienate them.

You know what? Some kids are going to grow up to be mediocre. Some kids are going to spend their lives on the cusp of getting fired from the local fast-food joint. Guess what? Your child is still one-in-a-million. So he’s not psychic or a higher evolution of humanity. That’s okay. He’s still got a story worth telling. People need to accept their children for who they are, flaws and all, without resorting to believing that your child has the gift of transcendent spirituality and telepathic powers.