Does any one have any experience or knowledge about crystal or indigo children?
And, what does a black aura mean on a person?
(This is for my friend who is sitting right here and apparently cannot type this herself.)
If you hadn’t thrown in the New Age-y aura thingie, I’d have assumed that “indigo” was some new type of drug and went hand-in-hand with crystal (meth), and told you that crystal kids were folks using crystal meth and whatever drug that indigo thing is.
Now, of course, I have to throw that hypothesis out of the window with the “black aura” (ooh, scary!) addition… Grrr…
Oh, Jebus…
Here is an “Indigo Children” website. Apparently it’s a very spiritually-conscious, New Age-y, aura-seeing way of saying, simply, “gifted”. I’m assuming that it’s from the “fact” that their auras show a lot of deep blue/violet to those who think they can see such things.
Here, from the same site, is an article “channeled” by the author on Crystal Children, who are apparently the Saviors of Our World ™…
Indigo kids are a new spiritual type of child who need special types of parenting. It is really quite sickmaking the whole thing.
http://www.psykids.net/ is a charming introduction to the whole theory. the books are a laugh as well.
My bad…on further reading, it is apparently a distinction that makes absolutely no distinction except by age. ALL children born since 1992 are apparently “indigo children” to these folks.
Well, there’s this Skeptic’s Dictionary entry; “indigo” refers to the colour of their auras. To sum it up, indigo children are supposed to be wilful and nonconformist, and may have been diagnosed with ADD/ADHD. Crystal children are the generation after indigos. I think if I read any more of this I’ll OD on saccharine and light.
My kids are spiritually aware “Indigo children” … wait a sec… Dammit! … They’re just playing with the Easter egg dye again.
See also
After googling and reading a bit, I found this interesting excerpt on this page:
Why yes, they DO fit someone I know. This is a dead-on description of “Calvin and Hobbes.” Conceived pre-1992. Which, by the way, was such a well-loved comic partly because nearly everybody saw a bit of themselves in this kid.
Then there’s the sections about superhuman DNA. I’m not even going to touch that.
Some people needed a paranormal new-agey way to explain “why my kid is soooo special.” No, Mrs. Teacher, Jimmy hasn’t been doing his math problems, but he’s an Indigo and homework is beneath him. And don’t try to discipline him, he doesn’t handle authority well. (Of course, the idea that up to 90% of children under 10 are Indigo kinda gives the lie to the “special” part.) Ugh.
This was my reaction to that list, as well. “Indigo children” sound pretty much like ALL children have throughout history before the mores and customs of their particular society have been imprinted on them. The only difference between children prior to 1992 and children since is that more parents are adopting parenting styles that allow children to retain their real personalities instead of requiring them to subsume them into “normality” or conformity.
In other words, it’s not the kids that are different, it’s the parents. And that ain’t “mystical” or “spiritual” at all.
Shhhh…what’s that sound?
Yep, it’s P.T. Barnum laughing his ass off.
I have it from a good source that a black aura is very bad – it means that the person is near death. Dark grey is not much better.
Hey, thanks for such a fast turn around!
My friend is a teacher and had a parent bring up the " My child is an Indigo Child" on her and also said that this child mentioned she saw a black aura around this one particular very problematic child.
So I showed her this place, hoping to lure her in with the crack that is here and you dopers did not let me down. It is hard, is it not, to try to explain this place to Outsiders?
Astro, your line about egg dye I think was just what she needed to possibly suck her in deeper and sell her soul to this place.
Back in my day we called those kids “brats”.
…and if they decide to play baseball, and can run fast but not hit well, the coach may signal them to take a bunt and try to run it out to get to first successfully. This technique, of course, is called… 
So, all children born after 1994 are badly behaved brats?
Well, okay, I’m with you on that.
My local paper recently published an article about a local woman who believes her child to be an Indigo Child. One way we know he’s Indigo: When he was small, she reports, and someone told him “No” he would fall down screaming, because he just couldn’t tolerate his freedom being restricted. Very sensitive, apparently.
My child was that sensitive, once. I worked very hard to DEsensitize him, using both punishment-reward techniques as well as aversion therapy. It worked remarkably well, considering how very sensitive his little pysche was.
I SO want to develop a line of teeshirts and bumper stickers that say things like “I’m SO Indigo” and “My kid is Indigoer than your kid.” Heh.
Heh. I so want to get a t-shirt that says
Auggh. Just what we need: yet another excuse for badly-behaved kids. :smack:
I haven’t yet gotten over the last wave of excuses.
I still call them “brats”. Just back then, we parents thought it was something bad. These days some parents can’t admit their kids are brats, so they have to make them “special”. Which means these poor kids will never develop into caring adults, because their parents will believe they are a new step in evolution and treat them like little gods, who will become little despots. I caught a few minutes of “SuperNanny” the other night, and the 4-year-old twins featured must be “indigoes”.
I fear for the world.
A friend of mine has two young boys. She and her husband aren’t into to discipline too much. The boys, especially the older one, would act up in school. She took him to a pediatrician who told her just what she wanted to hear: “Your son has an attention deficit disorder, so I’m going to have you pump him full of drugs and that will solve your problem.”
Guess what? It didn’t help one iota. As the other boy got older (both are under the age of 7), he, too, developed the same problem. Off to the doctor for more drugs.
Again, no change.
She then took them to another doctor who was more interested in helping the boys than his wallet. After much deep discussion on the subject of discipline, he told her, “Your sons don’t need drugs, they need discipline and routine. The longer you wait, the worse it’ll get.”
One year later: the boys are off the drugs and now have a more structured home life filled with rules and boundaries every child needs. They are now well-behaved in school (and elsewhere).
I’m sure they’d be Indigo children or whatever else New Age crap these charlatans can come up with.