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What do you think of the "Indigo Child" meme?
I am an Indigo Child. 13%  13%  [ 14 ]
I know an Indigo Child. 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
I believe that Indigo Children exist, but I've never met one. 1%  1%  [ 1 ]
I believe that Indigo Children may exist, but I won't bet on it. 4%  4%  [ 4 ]
It's not likely that Indigo Children exist, but I won't bet against it. 4%  4%  [ 4 ]
I do not believe that Indigo Children exist, but I won't rule it out entirely. 8%  8%  [ 8 ]
I do not believe that Indigo Children exist. 10%  10%  [ 10 ]
I believe that Indigo Children do not exist. 10%  10%  [ 10 ]
Indigo Children do not exist. 21%  21%  [ 22 ]
Indigo-flavored icecream costs 5 quatloos a pint on Planet X. 21%  21%  [ 22 ]
Other: ________________ (Please explain below). 9%  9%  [ 9 ]
Total votes : 104

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06 Jul 2013, 7:34 pm

I'm sorry, I made a significant sequencing error in my earlier elucidation of luminous children.

What I meant to say was that the photons are emitted when the electrons relax from a higher energy orbital to a lower energy orbital.

The luminous children are a subgroup of the crystal structure, the subgroup with the luminescence caused by the transition metal impurities in crystal structures.

Some of the parents of crystal, non-luminous children believe that the luminous children are inferior due to the impurities, but the parents of luminous children believe that the impurities confer additional quanta of superiority to their children relative to the superiority found in the crystal, non-luminous children.


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06 Jul 2013, 7:35 pm

When I was first involved in my cousin's coven, there were two main opinions of me. One, that I was awaiting the arrival of my ship from beyond Saturn's orbit, and the other that I was a "Child of the Seventh Chakra" ...

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06 Jul 2013, 8:08 pm

Take away the label "Indigo child"....the label alone comes with all sorts of new-age type connotations. Just like the word autism comes with all sorts of connotations. One of the reasons I very much so dislike labels.


I came up with ideas very much related to indigo children long before I ever heard the phrase or anything related to it. Like mentioned in the first post, no doubt there are a lot of parents that feed into this and treat their kids all high and mighty, when in reality we're all equal on this rock we live on. The part about parents labeling their children as indigo and considering/treating them extra special does bother me, I think it's pretty ridiculous. As well as people that are self-proclaimed indigo and flaunt that label. I consider myself to be what people would label "indigo", but I don't use the label to distinguish myself as different or better than others. I'm just me, the way I came into this world.

I do think there are a lot of highly sensitive, highly empathetic, very curious, intuitive, in touch, creative kids being born more so than ever these days and they just don't mesh with the framework of our current society. More "right" brain, creative, feminine minds than the hard headed, analytical, "left" brain masculine minds. This planet as a whole, humanity as a collective whole, I think we're slowly transitioning into a feminine mentality, compared to the masculine mentality that's been dominating through out history and running us into the mess that we face as a planet today (ego centric, all about the self, war, poisoning the planet, etc etc....) .



I do think certain aspects of the indigo child thing are exaggerated...making them come off as this oracle type person, like mentioned in the first post. I think what's going on is nature simply likes to mix things up a bit. If everyone was born with the same framework of mind and same ways of thinking and perceiving the world...where would we be today? As the earth, and us as a collective whole, goes through it's cycles, I think some different minds with different ways of thinking might start to pop up. Everything comes in cycles, like a sine-wave frequency....our breathing, ocean tides, the moon, the seasons, earths axial precession, the flow of activity in cities, our heart beat, and on and on and on....We're not separate from this, there actually is no separation outside of our individual egos when it comes down to it, so I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if some sort of cycle occurs in the minds of humans.


I've become far less rigid & stubborn in my thinking as I get older and as I experience more aspects of life, noticing patterns and the underlying flow of nature found in all sorts of systems. I'm becoming more open minded (and this is coming from someone that's always been a skeptic, I called BS on the church/religion/god before I was in school, and never believed in things like Santa Clause, etc..). And I still am skeptic, but I keep an open mind, and never let my beliefs fall 100% concrete, because then that leaves no room for new ideas or a new take on things. I like to take step back from things and look at the bigger picture (as much as I like the details as well :) ). There's a whole lot more going on in the grand scheme of things than we can begin to imagine, being stuck in this 3 dimensional material meat space we find ourselves in.


I have a lot I want to say in regards to this topic, though with leaving the words "indigo children" out of it, but my mind is a bit cluttered at the moment and can't get my thoughts out linearly....I'll end up rambling and go way way off topic.



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06 Jul 2013, 8:11 pm

Its just the concept of 'Changelings' updated for the Nude Age. I'm too old a soul to be suckered in by that superstitious nonsense. After I get my card punched for this lifetime, I get a free incarnation in the next Multiverse and an 'Earth: 23 Timer's' token, redeemable for spiritual novelty mementos in the Oversoul Gift Shop. :tongue:



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06 Jul 2013, 9:03 pm

Fnord wrote:
Someone is playing games ... 3 pollsters have so far claimed to be Indigo Children themselves.


Sorry.

Couldnt resist.

So subtract one from "am one" and move it to "nonbeliever" or whatever.



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06 Jul 2013, 9:12 pm

I took one of those star seed test,I'm suppose to be a ruler in the new dimension, or something to that effect.I wish they would hurry and crown me,I want my Indigo benefits.Dammit,someone get me some of that indigo ice cream, NOW!! :lol:


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06 Jul 2013, 10:25 pm

Heck, I want my starship NOW! Then I could use the food replicator to give us all the Indigo Ice Cream we want!



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06 Jul 2013, 10:33 pm

Fnord wrote:
Heck, I want my starship NOW! Then I could use the food replicator to give us all the Indigo Ice Cream we want!


No.....the replicator is 1 piece of gold pressed latium per use.


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06 Jul 2013, 10:37 pm

I was not an indigo child. Rather, I was a bit jaundiced.



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06 Jul 2013, 11:33 pm

I find the whole idea to be obvious new-age wishful thinking nonesene and frankly quite offensive. It seems to me that modern western education is slowly pandering to the type of scientific post-modernism that says people should basically believe whatever they wish to be true. Seems like the enlightenment never happened when I read stuff like this. ...right, off to look for faireys at the bottom of the garden.


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07 Jul 2013, 12:08 am

naturalplastic wrote:
I like Duke Ellington.

So I guess that makes me "a Mood Indigo child".

rim shot :lmao:



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07 Jul 2013, 2:24 am

Fnord wrote:
In my on-going search for useful Autism-related resources, I keep running into this sort of thing instead:

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Indigo Children are extant on the Earthly plane to demonstrate:
  • Their ability communicate in unspoken ways.
  • Their ability to access all facets of Divinity.
  • Their ability to heal the world.
  • Their ability to illuminate hidden realities.
  • Their all-encompassing perspective and awareness.
  • Their heightened communal consciousness.
  • Their intrinsic harmony with each other.
  • Their overall uniqueness.

There are many more such lofty and esoteric claims regarding Autistic people, virtually everywhere you can look.

[opinion=mine]

Now, while none of this is on par with "Vaccinations Cause Autism", believing in these things may inspire parents of "Indigo Children" to consider their children above the needs of "ordinary mortals" and treat them like prophets and oracles.

This is completely aside from the fact that none of these claims has any measurable basis in physical reality - it's wishful thinking, plain and simple.

[/opinion]

What do you think?


My mom is big into the whole Indigo Child crapola, she only recently decided psychics were all bogus, so she's gradually coming around. The main problem I see is if liberal parents decide their kid is an "old soul from the Pleiades" or something and thus doesn't need to be parented, so the kid turns feral. Other than that, it's America and if people want to believe pure BS they can, as long as the kid isn't harmed. (The whole vaccine thing causes parents to chelate kids and do stuff that really hurts them, so I would say that's not covered under the First Amendment.)



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07 Jul 2013, 4:51 am

Fnord wrote:
In my on-going search for useful Autism-related resources, I keep running into this sort of thing instead:

Quote:
Indigo Children are extant on the Earthly plane to demonstrate:
  • Their ability communicate in unspoken ways.
  • Their ability to access all facets of Divinity.
  • Their ability to heal the world.
  • Their ability to illuminate hidden realities.
  • Their all-encompassing perspective and awareness.
  • Their heightened communal consciousness.
  • Their intrinsic harmony with each other.
  • Their overall uniqueness.

There are many more such lofty and esoteric claims regarding Autistic people, virtually everywhere you can look.

[opinion=mine]

Now, while none of this is on par with "Vaccinations Cause Autism", believing in these things may inspire parents of "Indigo Children" to consider their children above the needs of "ordinary mortals" and treat them like prophets and oracles.

This is completely aside from the fact that none of these claims has any measurable basis in physical reality - it's wishful thinking, plain and simple.

[/opinion]

What do you think?


Tut, tut Fnord. You haven't mentioned crystal children. Very remiss of you. Indigo children are meant to be the ADHDers and crystal children are meant to be the Aspies/HFAers. You clearly haven't researched adequately. And before you say your phrasing "this sort of thing" was intended to cover it, that's way too unscientific. Science deals in concrete things only. No ambiguous, wishy-washy "maybe" "could be" statements allowed. Especially for you, I am going to vote, but as you don't have crystal children there, I will have to say that I am an indigo child. :wink: (If I could vote twice I'd vote that I know an indigo child to - by the name of Fnord. :lol:)


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07 Jul 2013, 8:43 am

If you look upon Indigo children with a jaundiced eye it makes them appear green!



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07 Jul 2013, 8:45 am

Fnord wrote:

Now, while none of this is on par with "Vaccinations Cause Autism", believing in these things may inspire parents of "Indigo Children" to consider their children above the needs of "ordinary mortals" and treat them like prophets and oracles.

This is completely aside from the fact that none of these claims has any measurable basis in physical reality - it's wishful thinking, plain and simple.

[/opinion]

What do you think?


"Indigo children" make me wanna puke.


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07 Jul 2013, 8:54 am

I want to eat ice cream and sit back for the show. :smurf: