INDIGO CHILDREN
Most of the young people in the story have been labeled Indigo Children in their time.
The spiritual community in the story, Mabon, founded a school in the early nineties
especially to cater for children seen to be a part of the phenomena.
ORIGINS
The term Indigo children originates from the 1982 book "Understanding Your Life
Through Color," by Nancy Ann Tappe, a self-styled synesthete and psychic, who
claimed to possess the ability to perceive people's auras. She wrote that during the
late 1970s she began noticing that many children were being born with "indigo" auras;
a colour previously associated with people of highly developed spirituality and/or
psychic abilities.
Today, she estimates that 60 percent of people age 14 to 25 and 97 percent of children
under ten are "Indigo."
The idea of Indigo children was later popularized by the 1998 book "The Indigo
Children: The New Kids Have Arrived", written by the husband-and-wife team of Lee
Carroll and Jan Tober. According to Carroll, he learned about the concept of indigo
children while channeling a being known as Kryon, Master angelic energy. Tober has
said that she and Carroll do not talk much about Kryon in interviews because they see
this as being a potential barrier to them reaching out to mainstream audiences that
exist outside of the New Age movement.
CHARACTERISTICS
According to New Age belief, Indigo children are highly sensitive with a clear sense of
self-definition and a strong feeling that they need to make a significant difference in
the world.
They are strong-willed, independent thinkers who prefer to do their own thing rather
than comply with authority figures. They are empathic and can easily detect or are in
tune with the thoughts of others, and are naturally drawn to matters concerning
mysteries, spirituality, the paranormal and the occult, while opposing unquestioned
authority and contradictory to convention. They allegedly possess wisdom and a level
of awareness "beyond their years."
They are also said to feel a strong sense of entitlement.
It has been noted that they can become unsociable when not around other Indigo
Children.
PROBLEMS
Some beliefs hold that these children are often mistakenly labeled with the psychiatric
diagnoses of Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD), Attention Deficit Disorder
(ADD), Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and also Autism.
By the same token, some experts are concerned that this confusion can lead
to disruptive children, or children suffering from genuine psychiatric problems,
missing out on conventional treatment ...
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