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Indigo Children See The Future
Status: New Age Mumbo Jumbo
Indigo Children is a new-age term for children whose aura is indigo colored. These are the kids whom medical science would diagnose as being hyperactive or having ADD (and many lay people might diagnose as spoiled brats). But according to the indigo-child theory, these are actually children with very special powers. Nancy Ann Tappe, the psychic who first described the concept, says that Indigo Children are "souls with an evolved consciousness who have come here to help change the vibrations of our lives and create one land, one globe and one species. They are our bridge to the future." The Skeptic's Dictionary has some good info on the subject.According to an article from the Orange-County Register, one of the powers being attributed to Indigo Children is the ability to see the future. Take this example:
When Carolyn Kaufman was getting her daughter, Ariel Carreno, ready to go, Ariel had an unusual request.
"Mom, we need to take an orange," Ariel said.
"Why?" Carolyn asked. Carolyn explained that this was a pizza party, and that an orange would probably be out of place.But when Ariel insisted, Carolyn grabbed an orange and took it to the party... So Ariel carried her orange into Chuck E. Cheese. The party went just as planned. The kids ate pizza. The kids played games. The parents endured the noise. Then, the birthday girl asked for the strangest thing. An orange.
Wow! The kid brought an orange to a party. Try to explain that, skeptics! Carolyn Kaufman also offers an example about her sony Tomy:
After fights with his sister over what to watch on TV, Tomy has broken five VCRs in the family home using only his energy force, Kaufman said. In some families, kids might get grounded for breaking expensive electronics. Not in Kaufman's house.
I'm sensing it would be great to be a kid in the Kaufman house. You could get away with anything. "It wasn't my fault, Mom. It was my energy force."
Posted By: Alex | Date: Tue Dec 13, 2005 | Permalink |
Total Comments: 128
Category: Future/Time, Psychology
Category: Future/Time, Psychology
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An inversion of the typical sequence of events, whereby the parents break the video recorder and the child has to fix it, or at the very least show them how it works.
If this child has special powers, and he was fighting with his sister, why didn't he just wish her into the cornfield? Perhaps these Indigo Children are actually a menace to humanity, and should be blown up as in "Village of the Damned".
What would have to be wrong with you, to call your son Tomy? To name your son after a Japanese toy company? Doing a bit of Googling, it appears that Tomy actually is a real-life first name, but I bet Ms Kaufman was unaware of this.
Posted by Ashley Pomeroy on Tue Dec 13, 2005 at 11:44 AM
If this child has special powers, and he was fighting with his sister, why didn't he just wish her into the cornfield? Perhaps these Indigo Children are actually a menace to humanity, and should be blown up as in "Village of the Damned".
What would have to be wrong with you, to call your son Tomy? To name your son after a Japanese toy company? Doing a bit of Googling, it appears that Tomy actually is a real-life first name, but I bet Ms Kaufman was unaware of this.
My son must be an "Indigo Child" - except he can't see far enough into the future to realize when he is getting in trouble until he's in trouble (even then he doesn't always learn the first time).
This sounds like an excuse not to be responsible for the descipline of the next generations.
MHO
Posted by Kosmo in trouble most of the time on Tue Dec 13, 2005 at 11:49 AM
This sounds like an excuse not to be responsible for the descipline of the next generations.
MHO
Strikes me as being similar to the plot of a book I once read, I'll try and remember the title
Posted by Owen on Tue Dec 13, 2005 at 02:01 PM
I was thinking of "Darwin's Children" by Greg Bear, they don't actually seem that similar so you can probably ignore me fairly safely...
Posted by Owen again on Tue Dec 13, 2005 at 02:06 PM
This is rubbish, its almost laughable. The "traits" of an "Indigo Child" arn't traits at all, they are symptoms of our society, developed by a generation that was used to seeing its parent generations, the baby boomers and Generation X, get whatever they want because of the strength of our economy. This is silly.
Posted by Draconegia on Tue Dec 13, 2005 at 02:08 PM
If they really believe this kid is breaking VCRs with his "energy force", why in heck aren't they punishing him for it? Do yet get a free pass for misbehavior based on how you do it? "Hey, it wasn't me that stole that million dollars - it was my robot!"
Posted by Ledasmom on Tue Dec 13, 2005 at 02:47 PM
Hmmm. I like oranges, too, and I break stuff (except now I know it's my aura that breaks things), so I guess I've been an Indigo Child all along and never knew it.
Posted by Big Gary in the stratosphere in Dallas, Texas on Tue Dec 13, 2005 at 03:13 PM
look at this from the parent's perspective, for years, their children were considered spoiled brats created by their bad parenting. then, medical science discovered a disorder these children were suffering from, thereby mitigating the parent's responsibility... until it became fairly well accepted that parenting styles in formative years is at least a part of why these children have a 'disorder.'
imagine it! if this catches on, parents all over the world can sleep easy, knowing that their bad parenting has given their children special powers!
Posted by mormagli on Tue Dec 13, 2005 at 03:19 PM
imagine it! if this catches on, parents all over the world can sleep easy, knowing that their bad parenting has given their children special powers!
The little girl with the orange probably planned that stunt out with her friend.
"Hey..my mom thinks I'm psychic! Wanna freak her out?"
"Okay! But how?"
"I'll bring something really random to your party, and then in the middle of the party, you ask for it out of nowhere!! How about..an orange?"
"Okay, sounds like a plan."
Posted by Sakano in Ohio on Tue Dec 13, 2005 at 03:36 PM
"Hey..my mom thinks I'm psychic! Wanna freak her out?"
"Okay! But how?"
"I'll bring something really random to your party, and then in the middle of the party, you ask for it out of nowhere!! How about..an orange?"
"Okay, sounds like a plan."
I would use my energy force to beat his little ass if my kid broke 5 VCRs.
Posted by Craig on Tue Dec 13, 2005 at 04:46 PM
This is the nightmare tech support has to deal with on a daily basis:
"my VCR is broken, I need a replacement"
"how did your VCR get damaged?"
"my son's energy feild disrupted the electronics"
"have you tried removing the magnets from the device?"
"there are no magnets on the VCR, it's broken"
"have you tried a different tape? magnetic fields can whipe the information on a VHS tape"
"no, not magnetic field, energy field, you see, my son is an indigo child..."
you can't fail to notice, of course, that all of this wmans children have ADD..
Posted by mormagli on Wed Dec 14, 2005 at 12:35 AM
"my VCR is broken, I need a replacement"
"how did your VCR get damaged?"
"my son's energy feild disrupted the electronics"
"have you tried removing the magnets from the device?"
"there are no magnets on the VCR, it's broken"
"have you tried a different tape? magnetic fields can whipe the information on a VHS tape"
"no, not magnetic field, energy field, you see, my son is an indigo child..."
you can't fail to notice, of course, that all of this wmans children have ADD..
OK, this one time when I was about to leave the house, I thought to myself, "I should take my keys with me." So I go out and come home later and gues what? My door was locked and if I hadn't taken my keys, I would have been locked out. Good thing my aura is indigo, huh?
Oh, my energy field needs twenty bucks. Please mail it to me.
Posted by Cranky Media Guy on Wed Dec 14, 2005 at 01:30 AM
Oh, my energy field needs twenty bucks. Please mail it to me.
Sod $20!
James Randi will give you $1 million - or to the child with an indigo aura.
Posted by Peter on Wed Dec 14, 2005 at 04:20 PM
James Randi will give you $1 million - or to the child with an indigo aura.
My sister broke our VCR when I was a kid with her "energy force" as well, only we called it "static electricity." Honestly, one good zap and that thing was out of commission.
Posted by Matt on Thu Dec 15, 2005 at 10:02 AM
Matt raises an interesting point. There are a lot of people with extreme static electric charges - They seem to generate them like a rogue Van der Graff machine, and they certainly used to be regarded as plague carriers when the first computers came out. Perhaps the "Indigo aura" is simply a manifestation of static charge, and some people can see it as a colour? After all, we don't dismiss cats seeing in the dark as psychic hogwash because they can see Far Red light.
And I am old enough to remember all those people who couldn't wear spring-powered wristwatchs because they seemed to stop them all the time by some personal "magnetism", and now we know that magnetic materials exist in human bodies, mostly in the nose. What we could have here is a real phenomenon being made into something more by the New Age nutters.
Posted by DFStuckey in Auckland New Zealand on Thu Dec 15, 2005 at 02:20 PM
And I am old enough to remember all those people who couldn't wear spring-powered wristwatchs because they seemed to stop them all the time by some personal "magnetism", and now we know that magnetic materials exist in human bodies, mostly in the nose. What we could have here is a real phenomenon being made into something more by the New Age nutters.
They made a movie about this a couple of years ago, called (cleverly) "Indigo."
IMDB link:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379322/
I haven't seen it, but we rent it at my store, mostly to the same people who rent "What the Bleep do We Know!?"
Posted by Karl on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:31 AM
IMDB link:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379322/
I haven't seen it, but we rent it at my store, mostly to the same people who rent "What the Bleep do We Know!?"
Hey, what is the problem with being an Indigo? Do you really believe that we're just bratty children attempting to take advantage of our parents and the "Indigo" theory? No, Indigo is more than a theory. Indigo is real and don't be so quick to think we're liars, those of us that our brave enough to admit we have psychic ability. I know my family is the old-fashioned kind of religious, not eclectic like me. If I even hinted that I was Indigo, that I could easily see auras and sometimes read minds...they would certainly punish me. It is adults like you that keep us unhappy because we can't be ourselves around you. We have nobody to trust. Everyone will give us strange looks or scold us if they find out about us. The kids that are able to freely admit that they have energy fields and are psychic are extremely fortunate. Because most parents are just like you all: NARROW MINDED. 
Posted by Almost Thirteen :) in Murrieta, California on Wed Mar 01, 2006 at 09:13 PM
Lots of words. Just prove it. Evidence is all that's expected (double-blind, peer reviewed and published)
Posted by Kosmo in trouble most of the time on Thu Mar 02, 2006 at 04:07 AM
Hey, i agree with almost thirteen. Well, not totally, because of the whole'i'm psychic' bit, but i am a "diagnosed' (as far as you want to debate that) indigo child also.Just last year two spiritual-type people told me that i was an indigo. until then i had never even heard of such things, and being an indigo isn't just a reason to get out of trouble, cause the fact is, it doesn't help one bit. its the parents desicion, in fact, heres a great way to stay out of trouble...DON'T GET IN TO IT! But seriously, i am a little 'new aged' or 'spiritual' whatever you want to call it, and i really think there is something different about indigos. Maybe its just that we're more creative or peculiar than most 'normal' (whatever that means these days) people, but whatever the case, indigo children DO EXIST!!!
Posted by George on Thu Apr 13, 2006 at 09:32 PM
Just a thought on this from my life experiences.
I was diagnosed at around 5 as a 'gifted' child. From that point on, I was shunned by my peers as weird, treated by teachers as a threat to their authority ( As in the case of being sworn at and called stupid when I asked if the brain and spine were also called the Central Nervous System), and assumed to be too academic to be involved in sports so was never allowed to play. Today, I have fought my way into social groups a little more successfully than some people like, am a reasonable human being but have no interest in sport although I am quite a physical guy. Didn't used to be, because I bought into what others forced upon me to a huge extent; Still do, I confess, on occasion.
Sometimes, expectations dictate results. That is something to bear in mind is all I would say.
Posted by DFStuckey in Auckland New Zealand on Fri Apr 14, 2006 at 05:57 PM
I was diagnosed at around 5 as a 'gifted' child. From that point on, I was shunned by my peers as weird, treated by teachers as a threat to their authority ( As in the case of being sworn at and called stupid when I asked if the brain and spine were also called the Central Nervous System), and assumed to be too academic to be involved in sports so was never allowed to play. Today, I have fought my way into social groups a little more successfully than some people like, am a reasonable human being but have no interest in sport although I am quite a physical guy. Didn't used to be, because I bought into what others forced upon me to a huge extent; Still do, I confess, on occasion.
Sometimes, expectations dictate results. That is something to bear in mind is all I would say.
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