I was really interested in reading through this whole thread but I couldn't get through all the off topic counter debates. Still I think I skimmed past a few good points and interesting links.
According to the basic criteria I am an Indigo child :shock: Silly me I've been thinking all this time it was just called personality??
I just don't think that the concept was invented (or well promoted anyway) during my childhood though (I was born in 1979)
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born after 1975
Simple acts, like waiting in lines, drive them crazy
They are highly sensitive individuals
(Indigo children) are angry at the state of the world
Energy like Tomy's can make teachers pull their hair out and parents throw up their hands
[b:64d8adc1a2]I must be an Indigo child!!![/color:64d8adc1a2][/b:64d8adc1a2] :shock:
I especially like this trait...
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They often see better ways of doing things, both at home and in school, which makes them seem like "system busters" (nonconforming to any system).
I have a brother that is just 10 months younger than me and when he was b@s#^d of a kid. They called it hyperactivity then. ADHD came along later.
Just take a look at the history of psychiatry, there may not be any aliens in there, but it is just as full of snake oil salesman and *bs* artists, unqualified 'experts' and faith above reasoning as anything on these pages.
Freud invented psychiatry and a huge part of his analysis and reasoning was dream interpretation and he related everything to sex. He actually endorsed and assisted in the practice of a theory that you could remove part of a person's nose in order to cure various conditions.
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If such ideas as the basis of psychiatry were being perpetuated in the name of religion or faith they would be branded a dangerous and destructive cult and anyone advocating on their behalf would likely be rewarded with a flurry of skeptic links.
Not that there is not genuine psychiatric disorders or that I sugguest it is an invalid profession but extremes of blind faith in either direction can't be a good thing.
Did anyone ever think that the rise of psychiatry diagnosing [i:64d8adc1a2]everything[/i:64d8adc1a2] as a disorder and dishing out drugs for it is probably where all this New Age ideology stems from???
BTW New Age is a total misnomer and an Americanism. Crack open a history book please. The vast majority of 'New Age' ideas are actually Vedic which are the oldest writings in the world. Being they are from India which is predominately spiritual culture they do have a spiritual foundation - but the concept that something is new therefore just made up is easily refuted and this ability to present conflicting knowledge to the current erroneous belief is a major tool of recruiters for Eastern based cults. Nearly every 'new age' idea is derived from some concept in the Vedas - astrology, witchcraft, ghosts and demons, natural therapies, UFOs, aliens, auras, visions, metaphysics etc. etc.
I wouldn't be suprised if there is some reference to a chosen generation along the lines of Indigo children in there somewhere.