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.