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Latest News : Responses to the "Indigo Children" Fad
Posted by admin on 2008/3/22 12:50:00 (1068 reads)



In which Gary's fellow Indigo Children are given some sensible advice.

By Julia

This little exchange appeared here: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080103145955AAloOef


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Indigo child seeking advice?

Q) i am an indigo child. i dont know how to deal with all the negative energy around me and it is causing me to get sick, makes me feel tired, and stresses me out. Im not sure how to help myself absorb less of the negative energy from my surroundings whether its people or the environment. your advice is greatly appreciated .. thankyou!!!!

A) Best Answer - Chosen by Voters
The idea of Indigo children is completely fabricated. So is the idea of a literal "negative energy". Sure, you can feel tired or depressed or just "blah" about the world. We all do at times. Don't do yourself the disservice of attributing perfectly normal feelings to a supernatural source. Do so and you will waste a lot of time and energy spinning your wheels in nonsense. What's more depressing than falling for and living by some fictional New Age nonsense?


Some more sensible replies:

Quote:
A) Here's some advice. From a physicist to someone who is obviously confused. There's no such thing as 'negative energy'. I don't know who told you that, but they were either wrong or lying to you. No such thing. If you're getting sick, tired, and stressed, go talk to a doctor. You might have an iron deficiency or something. Easily fixed.

A) I can help you. The first step is to realize there is no such thing as an "Indigo child". That's a New Agey gimmick dreamed up to help parents justify their children's anti-social behavior by attributing it to psychic talents. Needless to say, no "indigos" have ever demonstrated any such talents.

What you're experiencing here is the power of suggestion. Since you've convinced yourself you're an "indigo", then you are fooling yourself into thinking you are feeling negative "energies". Everybody gets sick, tired and stressed out, and it doesn't take "negative energies" to do it.

In summary, you sound normal to me. Just forget the indigo stuff and you'll stop obsessing on "negative energy" and stressing yourself out.


On the JREF Forum "shaneasmith" claimed to be an Indigo Child with a host of paranormal talents:

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i can hear spirit clearly
speak to spirit
understand certain spiritual languages
communicate to most living things
telepathic
forsight
astral travel fluently
see into ppl souls (basicaly i can tell what the person is like and what they are capable of and outcome in future)


"Stellafane" posted this excellent response (my bolding):

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Hi shaneasmith. I hesitate to post in this thread, but you have expressed an interest in discussing the topic of Indigo children with skeptics. So I will tell you what I think -- not about you personally, because of course I do not know you, but rather about Indigo children in general.

First, let me say that I do not believe in astral projection, psychic ability, or any of the other paranormal powers it's been claimed Indigo children possess. The reason I don't is very simple: I've never seen any evidence at all that such powers exist. And it's not because I haven't looked, or am closed minded to the possibility -- indeed, I would love to believe that my soul will continue to exist after my body dies, or that I can communicate with others telepathically. Who wouldn't? But every time I examine the evidence for such things, all I ever see are parlor tricks or lucky guesses or special pleading.

Of course, that doesn't mean such powers cannot possibly exist. Paranormal abilities thus far may not be provable, but neither are they disprovable (few if any things are). But it does mean that in order to believe in them, you must do so based on something other than scientific evidence and proof. That may be fine for a lot of people, but my mind simply doesn't work that way.

As for Indigo children, please forgive me if the following comes across as blunt. I don't believe any of them have any special powers at all. Instead, what I fear is happening is that Indigo children for whatever reason feel a strong sense of superiority and entitlement that they simply have not earned. Perhaps this was born with them, perhaps it was created (or at least fed) by constant parental enablement. In any case, a sense of superiority is almost by necessity in search of a reason to exist. For some children, this reason consists of academic or athletic excellence. But those who do not enjoy such "traditional" abilities must look elsewhere to justify their superiority. So (and here comes the part that you might consider unkind) they turn to the one area where their lack of special talent cannot be disproven: the paranormal.

This, I suspect, is why those who call themselves Indigo children seek out others of their own "kind." It's hard to feel superior to children who can perform in the classroom or on the playing field as well as, or better than, you can. But among those who accept unquestioned your self-claimed, unseen, unprovable abilities, you can feel as superior as you want. You can form a sort of mutual admiration society, one in which you can look down on all the "normal" kids whose talents are limited to mundane things such as spelling and athletics and music. It must be a wonderfully supportive environment for someone who might otherwise be rather ordinary and undistinguished among his peers. And with the added bonus of parental support and indulgence, it's easy to see how a child in this situation might feel special indeed.

Well, that's it in a nutshell. Where those who believe in the phenomenon of Indigo children see young people with spectacular abilities that single them out as very special, I see indulged children of no special ability that have constructed around themselves a little fantasy world in which they can feel priviledged.


http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=61004&page=3





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Chris French Challenge To Gary Mannion
December 11th 2007,
Prof' Chris French
issued a challenge to Gary Mannion to prove his claims, the challenge was accepted. This challenge was repeated on February 4th 2008, and was accepted again.

A member of the BadPsychics site has agreed to put up £50,000
of his own money if Gary can pass a test demonstrating his abilities.

Will Gary ever actually go through with the challenge? We will keep an eye on how long it takes for him to go through with it.

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