Sinsull - you perfectly expressed how I feel about these unfortunate children.

One really needed to see the broadcast to understand just how sad the situation is. The kids, who clearly have one or more of a variety of well-described disorders are being ill-served by their parents who cling to the hope that their kids are the saviours of the world. I'm sure the parents must feel very special having birthed a future messiah and that may be part of the pathology in play. The sad thing is, these children are being set up for immensely difficult lives as a result of this parental delusion.

The broadcast and subsequent cited articles cited showed that parents of "Indigo children' are encouraged to keep them out of school and focus their intention on their impending careers as Messiahs. They shuttle them back and forth from one New Age guru to the next to intensify their powers and so on, often at great cost. The kids featured all had inculcated arrogance that no doubt makes it nigh impossible for them to have normal relations with other non-indigo kids (something Indigo experts advise against).

Well, that kinda rules out team sports, ballet, track or other normal running and playing doesn't it? In addition to lack of exercise, the parents are told the children always know what's best for them and that the children should be permitted to set their own routines.

I dunno. I feel it's a form of emotional abuse of those children. I have friends who have kids with similar disorders (ADD etc) and food allergies play a huge role. Their kids do so much better when they are on a very careful but healthy diet free of sugars, yeast, molds, additives etc. And, grandiosity is one of the symptoms of some of these disorders when not teated.

To me, it's all a viscious circle:
Isolation from playmates
lack of exercise
no direction over diet or activity
constant reiniforcement that they are perfect human beings destined to rule us all

Perhaps I should have put the internet jargon "J/K' for 'just kidding' after my facetious comment about their morbid obesity. Still, if they are who they say they are and the angels reveal the secrets of the universe to them.. etc etc. that was my skeptical way of saying, it appears these child emperors have no clothes.


Sinsull also caught the other big sadness in all this - that an entire class of pseudo-child professional has grown up around it to exploit the needs of these parents - all for a fee. Go to Amazon and search on the topic - there's already a subculture of 'must-have' publications for the parents of Indigos. It's so very predatory.

That CNN gave it generally favorable coverage without having any skeptics addressing these issues is even sadder. Of course, CNN has a long hisotry of buying into junk science and new-age hokum. They continue to give favorable coverage to 'facilitated communication' for autiistic and profoundly disabled children. They've doine hour long documentaries of such children who, once hooked up with a college educated 'facilitator' suddenly see an 80 point jump in their IQs and start writing poetry.

But that's a whole 'nuther thread....