Indigo children

[sledheavy]

My family has been at work in and out of our local school district for sometime now. Mom is an intervention specialist, which is a new program started in our state, and my brother and I had interned for 6 months at some of the schools, just because I was an education major at the time, and well, he needed the job.

Suddenly the idea of indigo children started coming about amongst special education, teachers and even parents. And at the time I thought it was stupid.

http://www.indigochild.com

Nonetheless, more and more people started believing that it was possible for child progression to exceed the limitations of their parents to the point of telepathy. What's even more interesting is that idea of transhumanistic telepathy could quite possibly exceed our future expectations, as it's now being studied.

Anyone think this idea might disrupt and religious of humanistic qualitites? Or does it just set a new standard for the norms we're unfamiliar with?

[ST88]

These people appear to have a valid quarrel with current standards of raising children, which I share. Parents are medicating difficult children at very alarming levels. Either the children are being exposed to something that earlier generations weren't or are now not being able to direct their energies in appropriate ways. I know that when I was a kid, we would play in open fields and orchards for hours at a time -- no organized activities, just running around, maybe with a football or something, unhappy that the darkness of evening cut short the fun. Nowadays, parents are terrified of leaving their children outside unsupervised. Not without reason, but I think some have taken it to extremes and energy gets channeled in unwanted ways. Children today are not disorganized enough.

That said, the particular Indigo phenomenon is pure hogwash. Though it's nice to see parents who actually get involved with their children's education -- what a concept -- the expectation that today's children are somehow a psychic evolutionary step is ridiculous and is completely misunderstanding a) developmental psychology and b) evolution in general.

[Greatest I Am]

My family has been at work in and out of our local school district for sometime now. Mom is an intervention specialist, which is a new program started in our state, and my brother and I had interned for 6 months at some of the schools, just because I was an education major at the time, and well, he needed the job.

Suddenly the idea of indigo children started coming about amongst special education, teachers and even parents. And at the time I thought it was stupid.

http://www.indigochild.com

Nonetheless, more and more people started believing that it was possible for child progression to exceed the limitations of their parents to the point of telepathy. What's even more interesting is that idea of transhumanistic telepathy could quite possibly exceed our future expectations, as it's now being studied.

GIA wrote
Telepathy is rare in the world.
I am the only one I know who has actually done it.
I looked for others and failed.

The other attributes given to indigo children reads like a list that I would apply to 95% of the children I know.


Anyone think this idea might disrupt and religious of humanistic qualities? Or does it just set a new standard for the norms we're unfamiliar with?

I see no new standard here. It will likely fade away.

Regards
DL

[Grayven]

As a summary, here are the ten attributes that best describe this new kind of child, the Indigo Child
They come into the world with a feeling of royalty (and often act like it)

They have a feeling of "deserving to be here," and are surprised when others don't share that.
Self-worth is not a big issue. They often tell the parents "who they are."
They have difficulty with absolute authority (authority without explanation or choice).

They simply will not do certain things; for example, waiting in line is difficult for them.

They get frustrated with systems that are ritually oriented and don't require creative thought.

They often see better ways of doing things, both at home and in school, which makes them seem like "system busters" (nonconforming to any system).

They seem antisocial unless they are with their own kind. If there are no others of like consciousness around them, they often turn inward, feeling like no other human understands them. School is often extremely difficult for them socially.

They will not respond to "guilt" discipline ("Wait till your father gets home and finds out what you did").

They are not shy in letting you know what they need.

Doesn't seem all that new. How many of these apply to Tom Sawyer (that fictional indigo child)? I think at least 9

[sledheavy]

Actually it's supposed to be rather spiritual in intention. Psycholocial paradoxes, mind readings, talking down to parents, lol. It had its phase in the school districts.

YAY! you're posting on my dead topic!

[Grayven]

Actually it's supposed to be rather spiritual in intention

So by spiritual, do you mean nonexistant, or nonprovable?

[sledheavy]

Actually it's supposed to be rather spiritual in intention

So by spiritual, do you mean nonexistant, or nonprovable?

lol, I'm just under the impression that it's just an idea. The fact is the truth behind this could very well be as ST88 said. There's a whole system on wikipedia, but, eh, I'm too lazy to find it.

Something about children being super spiritual is really the general idea.

I suppose we can consider here that children are more spiritually inclined based on their level of wholesomeness. Their ideas aren't as self deluted or 'generalized' as we adults assume them to be. Only the development of situations, conditions, circumstances; that will determine the mentality and abilities of future children. But seeing that made and discribed in such a HUGE spiritual leap as what these parents discribe? Idk.