Violence has to be every parent's worst nightmare. Hearing about a shooting at your child's school and going to find your child wounded, or even more tragic, killed at the hands of another child, is something we as parents don't want to face. But if we are to be the best possible parents to our children, we cannot simply put this issue aside and hope for a non-violent future.

Nancy Ann Tappe (the first person to perceive and write about the arriving Indigos) when interviewed by Jan Tober in the book The Indigo Children (1999) stated: "These young children - every one of them I've seen thus far who kill their schoolmates or parents - have been Indigos." We cannot have the mindset in the 21st century proclaiming "this violence is not in my consciousness so it doesn't exist and will not affect me". It is real; the violence is here and it will continue.

The term Indigo child refers to a new group of metaphysical children arriving on our planet within the last approximately 25 years. The phrase, Indigo child was coined by Tappe in her book Understanding Your Life Through Color (1982) and refers to the color in these children's aura. I first heard about Indigo children from Barbra Dillenger, Msc.D. in 1987 at a transpersonal appointment when my children were identified as Indigos (a daughter born in 1975, a stepson born in 1978, and a daughter born in 1987). Indigo children are here at this point in time to make changes in public thinking, which will allow us to progress to the next level of enlightenment.

Indigo children are intelligent, creative and are not manipulated by guilt tactics (because they don't have guilt like pervious generations). Indigos have a strong sense of who they are and a strong will to let you know what they want. They balk at authority and begin with their first authority figures, their parents and then extend this outward up through the system. For example, standing still in a line has to serve a useful purpose and be explained to them, or they don't want to do it.

They will stand in line for a ride in Disneyland because they know why they are doing it and what the benefit is for them. Responding to an Indigo's question with, "just because you have to" is like waving a red flag in front of an angry bull. Indigo children need real truthful answers to their questions. They feel slighted when they are brushed off with quick, insincere answers.

These kids buck the system because instinctively they know the system is outdated and they are here to help change it. This can be frustrating because there are still rules we all have to live by in our society. Bucking the system doesn't always work for them; they end up getting in trouble. They have to learn to work from within the system to make the changes they came to make. They can't completely ignore the system and the rules even though they may want to.

Indigos do tend to be loners and can seem antisocial unless they have found other Indigos or Lightworkers to be with. If they haven't found other Indigos, they can turn inward, feeling they aren't understood. School can be difficult for them socially; much like the experiences the Lightworkers went through in school. Fortunately for the Indigo children born in the 1980's, many arrived during this time and they are able to connect with each other. The earlier Indigo children (born earlier than the 1980's) had a more difficult time coming in to open the energy and blaze the trail for the wave of kids to come.

The Indigo vibratory rate feels different than other beings currently on the planet. I believe that non-Indigo children instinctively, and probably unconsciously, feel the difference in the vibratory rate of Indigos. Different can be threatening to some people and this is why Indigo kids are bullied, teased and intimidated by other non-Indigo children. Parents have to be aware and involved with what is going on in their children's lives to be of guidance and help.

It is not important to identify and acknowledge these kids as special and/or different. Indigo children already have a difficult enough time fitting in without adding a special and different label into their lives. Labeling a child as Indigo/non-Indigo with different treatment for the two groups would result in even more anger and prejudice. (This could result in similar black/white racial issues that the United States has already had to deal with.) Indigo kids won't be the ones who have purple dyed spiked hair or the obvious extensive body piercings and tattoos. They already know that they are different, that they stand out, and don't feel the need to look different.

Indigo children aren't here just for themselves to be empowered, but to show us the importance of empowering all children, beginning at birth. It is important to realize that the Indigo children want us to treat all children as if they are special; to treat every child as if he or she is an Indigo child, to treat every child with respect, giving them choices and explanations. Yet, at the same time we must remember that they are still children.

I have found through my direct experience of dealing with my Indigo children and their friends that they are real children, with real issues to deal with. From my perspective as a parent/grandparent, these kids are very challenging, not just warm and fuzzy spiritual beings. While the esoteric intuitive information that Indigo children are Spiritual Masters, beings full of wisdom, here to teach us a new way of being is true, not all Indigo children are filled with unconditional love, tolerance and non-judgment. Parents have to teach spiritual truths and guide their children.

In this series I will present healing tools, spiritual practices and practical steps that have been successfully used with my own Indigo children. These tools are not just for Indigo children; they are for all children on the planet now, from preschoolers right up through teenagers. I believe that we are all here on a spiritual mission perfecting our souls for God, and that we are all here to learn from each other.

In hearing about the school shootings, I knew Indigo children were pulling the triggers. The Columbine High School shooting was so horrific it caught everyone's attention. At the time my eldest daughter said to me, "Because they (Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold) were Indigos they wanted to do it, so they just did it. No remorse, no guilt, they just went ahead and shot all those people because they wanted to and felt they needed to." Indigo children don't have guilt to keep them in check and because they balk at authority they don't believe they have to follow the rules.

To keep the no guilt in balance in the Indigo children, they have to be taught spiritual and moral principles. Indigos have to be taught the laws of the universe, especially the law of cause and effect. Since they have no guilt, they have to understand that the negative energy put out will return to them magnified, just as positive energy will return magnified. They are accountable to God and they are responsible for their actions.

I hear people remark that school shootings didn't happen when we were children. The worst that happened at school when we were growing up was fistfights, bloody noses and name-calling. We would never dream of taking a gun to school to shoot other kids, it wasn't heard of. The reason we didn't have the caliber of violence seen today is because the Indigos were not here on the planet back then.

Writers in mainstream America like Jonathan Kellerman are lumping the Indigo school shooters with the psychopaths; the dark entities who are bullies, con men, stalkers, victimizers, serial killers and those who kill for thrills. I don't believe these Indigo children who have taken weapons to school to harm other children are psychopaths.

They have been bullied and teased and have an avenger attitude seeking justice for injuries inflicted on them. They aren't killing just for the thrill of killing. These kids know changes have to be made within the school system and they chose violence to make their statement, to give us a wake up call. Some of these metaphysical Indigo children are not hesitant about using violence to bring about change, and to bring us to enlightenment.

They are like a sword cutting to the truth, but a sword cuts and wounds and makes you bleed. Historically speaking, change on this planet has come about violently. In the present days, it is violence and violent acts that catch our attention and make us realize there might be a problem. So this is the method some Indigos are using to bring about enlightenment calculated from a soul level.
Indigo violence is here and it will continue, at least with this present generation of Indigo children.

We are seeing with the current Indigo violence how the school system needs to be changed and how imperative it is to address the issues of bullying and intimidation in school. As the Indigo children grow to adulthood, their agendas will move out of the school system into our other systems, our social, political and judicial systems for example. Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber, is an Indigo.

With the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 1995 he was seeking justice, vengeance against the federal government for the 70 members, (18 of which were children), of the Branch Davidson sect who died in a fire after a 51 day standoff with federal officers in Waco, Texas. Had there not been Waco, there wouldn't have been Oklahoma City. McVeigh is the oldest Indigo that I am aware of.

My oldest daughter said, "Timothy McVeigh would have had a tougher time than she did because the energy was so new and even fewer Indigos were here during the time he was growing up". Lou Michel, author of American Terrorist (the book examining the Oklahoma City bombing and the life of Timothy McVeigh) said: "We are hoping that law enforcement, teachers, psychologists read our book, because there's a thread between Timothy McVeigh and the angry young men, the angry white young men that go into high schools and elementary schools and shoot them up.

We are hoping that somebody, somewhere in America can put the equation together, and take some of this aggression out." We will see more of this violence as the Indigo children mature and grow older. We have to take action now with the newly arriving Indigos to teach them change in a non-violent manner.

In the words of my 25-year-old Indigo daughter: "So far we have avoided the catastrophic predicted earth changes by raising our consciousness and awareness. Indigo children will not need to use violence to get our attention if our consciousness and awareness is raised high enough."

Next month we will look at the spiritual lessons involved in the school shootings. The tragedies have happened and the cost is too high for us to allow anger to keep us from learning from this Indigo violence. Is there a spiritual motive lurking behind the horror of the shootings?

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Elizabeth Kirby is a businesswoman in southern California. She and her husband own and have operated a concrete contracting business for the last 17 years. Elizabeth is trained in the healing arts as an Emergency Medical Technician, Massage Technician, Sports massage, Reiki II, Subtle Touch Energy, Aromatherapy and Crystal/Gemstone Healing. She has studied and practiced metaphysics for the last 21 years.
She is currently writing a series of novels for pre-teen/early teens about a young girl swept into a magic land. The stories have underlying spiritual truths entwined into the action.
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