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Story about Indigo Children on ABC News

After reading this and tolerating as much of the vedio as I could stand, 3 minutes of a 6 minute video, this is what I think.

If a person who was autistic as a child becomes milder as a teen/adult, and develops empathy (the ability to sense others emotions mostly via unconscious instinct)…they may misinterpret there newly developed "normal" empathic skill as a psychic phenomenon.

For example, if a person is cured of blindness would they recognise colours, shapes, people and plants? No they would not. Oliver Sacks wrote a interesting book called "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat". It was about a blind middle aged man who was operated on to "cure" his blindness.

After his operation he thanked his doctor, who kindly pointed out he was talking to an office plant. The formally blind man could see but could not understand what he was seeing. He was shown a picture of his wife, he thought she was a Hat. He was not really blind but he could not see either.

In other words, how do we recognise a new experience for the very first time. My answer is that we don't, we learn to understand. This usually happened very early in childhood when the brain is developing, we have no memories of getting things totally wrong. So developing empathy late in life could lead to a person believing, wrongly, that they are psychic. Especially, if their parents are hippies and they are into that sort of thing.

Cool.

There is no proof for the indigo-child theory.

It is something left over from the movement to create a 'super race' started by Hitler. Just prejuidice showing up in a disguise.

"My child is an indigo child and your's isn't!" type of thing.

It's stupid.

F*** them and the stupid idea. No more to say on this matter.

wow, i wrote this in a recent post entitled
psychic aspies...check it out, i am aspie and have what you have just described a sudden mid life awareness of empathy.

If the "indigo children" phenomenon is an actuality, it will become apparent within about twenty years. Before then, all they can really do is theorize; the definition of "indigo child" they seem to offer is so subjective that it's untestable. Once they quantify it, we can test it; until then, it's speculation.

I've yet to be offered any real proof of psychic ability. It's an idea that would still be thrown out of court as something unproven and unprovable... That doesn't mean that there might not be evidence coming to light in our future; but as it's still hypothetical, I'll leave psychic ability to the science-fiction writers (and likely devour their books with great interest, keeping in mind the difference between speculation and proven fact).

((Incidentally: I'm not as absolutely devoted to logic as some. For one, I believe in God, as I think it's more likely that He exists than that he doesn't. I'm highly interested in dreams--not in their interpretation, but in the window they might offer to the way our minds work--and am a natural lucid dreamer. Despite my scientific pursuits--I'm a physics student--I'm always open to new ideas. And I love both fantasy and sci-fi. So... if there were to exist real, scientific proof of psychic ability--I would be one of the first to be fascinated and interested in exploring further.))

Sounds like bovine excrement.


Though I have had an empathic experience recently... it drove me to tears for the better part of an hour.

From what I understand about this "Indigo Childern" phonomea it is nothing more that a rehashing of the shamanistic archetype. In this age where the "facts" change with every study published (Eggs are bad no eggs are good, red wine is good for you no now it is bad for you..ect. )
People want to belive in something that is unlikly to be prove or disprove anytime soon so that their own personal opinions and beliefs are as valid as anything anyone else can say.
Like UFOs and Bigfoot .

Empathetic experiences are nice, and they are moving. But they have nothing to do with psychic abilities or Hocus Pocus. They are the workings of our brain, finally getting in touch with the empathetic portion of our thought: how does that person feel? Can I temporarily emulate it so that I can tell what they feel?