Many people here at ATS know that I believe Indigo Children to be a label applied to children who suffer from known and accepted socio-behavioural
conditions such as
Autism and
Asperger’s
Syndrome and whose parents are afraid of the stigma that is often associated with perceived mental illnesses and subsequently label their
children as gifted or special rather than having them labelled as damaged or crazy. This is not a statement I make lightly, having suffered from
Asperger’s Syndrome myself since childhood. After reading through this transcript, I remain convinced that Indigo Children are not the next step in
human evolution, but are simply the product of taboos concerning mental illness mixing with New Age spirituality. Allow me to go over a few points
raised by the transcript, to better illustrate my points.
They will not be born of the indigo color upon their immediate birth, but will come into their color in the months and years to pass.
This statement is somewhat contradictory, given that Indigo Children are named for the indigo colour that is believed to show up in their auras
(
Reference 1;
Reference 2) and not for the actual colour of their skin. At first I thought that perhaps the
“Celestial Advisor” was inferring that their abilities would not manifest until later in life, but then he states quite clearly that
They will be seen immediately as ordinary children, though their variation in skin color will change greatly in the coming months and years. Then they
will be recognized as being quite unusual.
Again, forgive me, but this suggests that this passage was written by a person with little understanding of the concept of Indigo Children. Certainly
for a “Celestial Advisor” to make such an error in assumption suggests a very human fallibility.
This is what you would call a spontaneous, evolutionary development from the human species. You have heard of "Homo sapiens;" these will be "Homo
spiritus," as some of your philosophers have surmised.
This too sounds as though it were written by a human, and one with a poor understanding of the process of evolution as revealed through the
archaeological record. I have stated this before, but it seems pertinent here to do so again: any future evolutionary development of the human species
will be primarily a physical one and will likely be dramatic and highly noticeable. Certainly it will involve more than a change in skin colour. As
evidence for this, consider that every previous development in human evolution has been primarily a physical development. As humans have slowly
evolved from more primitive hominids, our bodies have changed radically with each new incarnation. One only has to compare anatomically modern Homo
sapiens with our hominid predecessors to observe the differences:
The notion that a future evolutionary development would be a purely spiritual or intellectual one runs counter to what we have observed over millions
of years of human evolution. Yet the “Celestial Advisor” clearly intends us to believe that Indigo Children will represent a new incarnation of
hominid species, since he (or is it she?) refers to them as
Homo spiritus. To me, this indicates that the individual who wrote this statement
has a limited understanding of the process of human evolution, which implies that a human, and not a celestial being, wrote it.
These children will be inherently talented in this realm, with these capabilities. You have children who are literally virtuoso violinists, pianists,
composers and musicians, those who understand the physics of machines, simply innately in their own existence, without prompting or education.
The problem here is that such children have existed for thousands of years.
Child prodigies are
not uncommon throughout history and often demonstrate incredible, even breathtaking talents from a very early age. This is nothing new and clearly
predates the dates typically given for the advent of the Indigo Children. Click on the link provided for a detailed list of known child prodigies in a
variety of fields including music, art, mathematics, physics, literature and medicine. To me, this seems like a convenient way to identify evidence of
the presence of Indigo Children by utilising the concept of child prodigies. Children who have demonstrated an innate ability to understand or
comprehend often complex concepts or workings are nothing new and, whilst remarkable, clearly do not represent a new evolutionary stage of
Humanity.
Student: There has also been some thought that perhaps these children are receiving a third strand of DNA. Is that correct?
Celestial Advisor: Let us wait for it to be discovered. There is sufficient variation in your own double strand to bring about such an occurrence of
these children, without a third strand being necessary.
Interesting that the “Celestial Advisor” chooses not to answer this question which might conceivably require tangible evidence to support it. It
seems to me as though the “Celestial Advisor” is quite forthcoming when his answers do not require tangible proof to support them. This answer
suggests that when such evidence is required, he gives oracularly vague responses that are neither committing nor informative. Notice that he leaves
himself an “out” by stating that, whilst such a thing is possible, it is not necessary. However, in his previous statement he declares “Let us
wait for it to be discovered”, thus implying that this third strand is quite real.
They will be "set-asides," "set apart" much as Neanderthals were set apart from the Homo sapiens. They were very similar, but they were so
ultimately dissimilar. Yet there was a capacity for inter-marriage and for genetic transfer between them, which can occur with the Indigo children.
This again demonstrates that the individual who wrote this piece has a poor understanding of anthropology. Recent testing of mitochondrial Neanderthal
DNA has demonstrated that it is
extremely unlikely that Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, since Neanderthal and Homo sapien DNA
sequences are wholly different.
Th
is site provides an excellent summary of the findings of recent studies which demonstrate that transfer of genetic material between the two
species would have been virtually impossible.
Here is another article that
deals with these findings. This error in and of itself is not damning, but it certainly suggests that this “Celestial Advisor” is not exactly a
reliable source of information.
Once again, Aronolac, you must kindly forgive me if I seem overly harsh. It is certainly not my intention to belittle your beliefs in any way
whatsoever. But, from the factual errors presented in this statement, I am forced to conclude that whoever wrote it was lacking knowledge in a number
of areas, which suggests that it was written by a human.
[edit on 10/10/05 by Jeremiah25]