Indigo children
by CarolineIn your mind you have capacity to form
And transmit thought energy far beyond the norm
(the Carpenters)
My classically smirky friend Genghis directed me to the blog of a former classmate of ours at Beloit College, wherein this person describes a new-age (Genghis says it newage, rhymes with “sewage”) belief in angel therapy and the rise of indigo and crystal children. That was a few days ago.
But before dismissing anything out of hand I decided to read up on some of these theories. Admittedly, I am biased, in that I love tellurian logic and do not love religion or spirituality.
The truth about so-called “indigo children” is even more depressing than I expected, basically an elaborate rationale for A.D.D. Yes, I agree that this disorder is overdiagnosed. I’m not totally certain I believe in A.D.D. or A.D.H.D. at all, and if I might borrow Michael Savage’s insanely misguided, insensitive comment on autism:
“In 99 percent of the cases, it’s a brat who hasn’t been told to cut the act out.” (Slate, reacting to Savage, asks how we really diagnose autism.)
Indigos are described in the vaguest terms, to the point where I and most everyone I know could self-diagnose. People clinging to this designation sound pathetic and desperate, as evidenced by this “special report” from a Houston television network, in which parents bow down before their seemingly misbehaving children.
Your kid is bossy and impatient? Your kid does not play with others or respond well to authority? Sure, send him or her to a “self-directed” alternative school. Seriously, I can’t even believe this is a real discussion. Parents of America: Your undisciplined children represent a sea change in American parenting, not the next step of humankind’s evolution.
There’s a decidedly smug tone to all of this documentation, as if the rest of the world is missing out on the obvious truth, most pointed at “skeptics” who don’t believe indigo children are an evolutionary step. What all of these supporters forget is that evolution does take place over thousands or millions of years, that there’s virtually no way for a ten- or twenty-year gap to create a new kind of human unless that kind is radiated for the worse by a Chernobyl-style disaster.
It all reminds me of this Ellen DeGeneres bit from her book The Funny Thing Is:
no responses“Earthspirit said, ‘You need some wheatgrass juice.’
“‘Wheatgrass juice! Do I need a sprout wrap too?’
“And Earthspirit said, ‘Your aura’s brown.’ And I said, ‘Your aura’s brown! What a stupid thing to say to me!’”