Posted by Meindert Arends on March 25, 2012 at 12:49am in Crystal Children
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Audiences interrupt my talks with vigorous applause when I suggest that using labels like
"Indigo" to categorize today's children causes more harm than good. And this happens almost
everywhere I travel. Because the applause is getting steadily louder, I feel compelled to speak on
this issue.
The new children have been variously described of late as Indigos (because of the supposed color
of their auras), Star Kids (because of their purported origination from other worlds), Crystals
(because some say they are highly developed), and so forth. None of these claims hold up to the
degree that they are made when subjected to objective research, whether via scientific
observation or by the study of mystical/esoteric traditions or through a summary of visionary
revelations.
Professionals in the field of child development and education, parents, even the kids themselves,
are having problems with the idea that certain character traits are the sole province of special
youngsters when, in fact, the vast majority of today's children match those same traits - without
evidencing anything like a purple aura, or being a hybrid from another planet, or possessing
"god-like" wisdom. Being supersensitive, confident, highly intelligent, unusually creative,
nonconformist, extraordinarily psychic and spiritually aware, impatient, empathic, able to heal or
aid others in significant ways, abstracting at young ages, spatial learners, great at problemsolving
yet difficult to parent or educate - these characteristics and many more are typical to the
broad span of today's youth worldwide and has been since around 1982.
Present-day school systems were not designed to educate these children, nor are teachers
prepared to handle their "differences." Chief among these "differences" is the surprising array of
what some people call "learning disorders." The therapeutic crowd, having finally caught on that
labels don't work, simply refers to such youngsters as "quirky kids" with "quirks." Annimac (an
Australian life coach and futurist) noted that these children actually "multi-code" from "multichannels."
The kids themselves just laugh and say: "We're reordered, not disordered."
The labeling fad so popular now began in the late seventies when several psychics started talking
about the numbers of children they saw who had purple auras. They named them "Indigos." This
was followed in 1999 by the success of Lee Carroll's and Jan Tober's book, The Indigo Children:
The New Kids Have Arrived (Hay House, Carlsbad, CA). Their success spawned a cottageindustry
of books, tapes, toys, clothes, and gadgets, which ballooned out-of-portion by media
hype used to promote the idea of "world indigo day" and "indigo revolution" so indigo films
would sell. Currently, it is almost impossible to get a book published about the uniqueness of our
newest generation without the word "indigo" in the title. This happened to me with my book
Beyond the Indigo Children (Inner Traditions/Bear, Rochester, VT), and with Edgar Cayce on the
Indigo Children by Peggy Day and Susan Gale - when it is well-known that Cayce never said a
thing about "indigos."
I believe that most of the people who started this craze meant well. They were psychically gifted
people who noticed something unusual about the children around them and claimed that what
they were seeing was widespread. What was widespread were the traits and characteristics they
saw, not the aura color of indigo. The result was an incomplete model that confuses even the
most sincere.
Unfortunately, well meaning is not enough to validate observations, especially one as important
as what I suspect is happening here - a quantum leap in the evolution of the human species. More
research is needed - much more. Terming the latest in scientific findings as proof that "Indigos"
have arrived is an exaggeration of truth, not an honoring of it. What served initially to alert the
general population about the very real fact that today's children are indeed different, is now a
hindrance. This is why so many audiences are applauding when I invite them to drop the labels
and just call our children "new" because they are.
Actually, Edgar Cayce's readings are a good place to start a brief exploration of esoteric
wisdoms. In one reading, for instance, he targeted the years 1998 to 2010 as the period when the
Fifth Root Race, our next evolutionary advancement as a species, would be fully underway.
Mystical traditions (loosely referred to as "mystery school teachings"), mention the altering of the
lifestream whereby new "waves" of souls can come forth. The term "root race" is an old one,
going back to ancient Vedic teachings, and refers to species-wide, evolutionary mutations, our
gene pool as humans. . . not to genetic subgroups. These traditions have it that there are seven
major root races in God's Plan to perfect human form on Earth, and that each advancement occurs
during major cyclic changes in the earthplane. The Fifth Root Race, the one over-spreading the
globe now, is associated with the vibratory frequency of blue (in these teachings, indigo is
associated with the Sixth Root Race).
Each calendar-keeping measure or legendary prediction adhered to by native peoples, including
Mayan Calendar interpretations, indicates that the Fifth World (fifth cosmic cycle) is well
underway and that the human species not only is moving into its fifth "wave" of existence - but is
accelerating or ascending into higher and more refined aspects of this wave. According to the
research I have done, Fifth Root Race types of people started showing up during the time of Jesus
(a few rare souls), were more numerous with each historical renaissance, came in greater
numbers from the mid-1800s through 1920 or so, then pushed forward rather noticeably between
the 1960s and 1970s. Yet it wasn't until around 1982 that the flood-tide of today began (a major
cycle in fulfillment) True Indigos or Sixth Root Race types piggy-backed the Blues in the 1800s
and have been entering the earthplane ever since - in enough numbers to spice the mix - but not
in the massive numbers of births that some people claim (give them another couple hundred years
or so).
We are told that there have always been a scattering of advanced beings alive on Earth who, like
"spark-plugs," either uplifted humankind or demonstrated new ideas of what is possible. In that
sense, all seven root races, perhaps others besides, have intermingled the cyclic time periods of
great change on Earth. Each root race, as tradition has it, changes the body type, intelligence
level, spiritual awareness, and creative capacity present in the human family. And it's happening
now. Our new children, irrespective of aura colors or what they seem representative of, are
challenging us in ways we've never been challenged before.
I invite all of you to make room for this notion in your mind and in your life, at least to the extent
that you free our children from the exclusivity of the categories they have been boxed into. Toss
the labels. Our kids don't need them. What they need are guidance, discipline, lots of love, and
parents wise enough to listen before assuming anything.
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P. M. H. Atwater, L.H.D. is one of the original researchers in the field of near-death studies,
having begun her work in 1978. To date, she has published seven books on her findings and
countless papers and articles. Throughout her work, she noticed a similarity between children
who were near-death experiencers and children who were simply born that way - with the same
differences and enhancements that near-death kids displayed after their episode. She wrote
Beyond the Indigo Children: The New Children and the Coming of the Fifth World to pass on
what she discovered. The addendum to the book is located on http://www.pmhatwater.com .