It is never popular when I bring this up but the Indigo Children concept is a marketing trick mixed in with a lot of delusion. It is easy to understand and people always like to think that they have the worlds most special children but things like this only serve to build up the ego and the false sense of self.
The whole story and source of the Indigo Children is painfully weak and that fact HAS to be more important to people. They are called Indigo do to what is supposed to be a dominate Indigo color in their auras giving them deep insights of the nature of reality while playing video games and listening to their iPods. Indigo sounds far cooler of a color then lets say the blue, red or green children of which are also colors in the rainbow. When this wasn't enough they came out with the crystal children as the 'even more special children' and again this is totally full of BS. If you do any research on it and have any level of discernment it will become clear that the only proof that exist of this is if you flat out want to believe it. There is more evidence that Santa Claus exists then that of the Indigo or Crystal Children.
In the past there was the star children, walk-ins and countless others of the so called chosen ones that are here to save the day. Apparently, at the look of things now they failed and if today's kids are the savior generation we are beyond screwed. All this really does is distract kids from a real spiritual foundation, not that the common alternatives are much better, but this simply empowers the ego with a false sense of entitlement and a huge delusion of specialness of which only the ego could embrace.
Awakening is about letting the ego go, more or less, and becoming fully aware of the eternal now in a very simplified concept. If you feel special in any way you are NOT enlightened but all to often kids are taught that whatever they feel is truth... is, and while this may seem fine on the surface, it has a deep price on the other side. These kids need to learn that all beings have this same potential and that if they feel gifted then they need to put that energy into becoming fully awakened and not just lost into ego and a false sense of entitlement.
People may be born with more ability for art then others but others can learn to be very good if the desire is there through training. However, both through learning can become far better then if they are left to learn everything about art all over again and on their own. Many well intentioned people look for the so called Indigo/Crystal Children and want to teach them but lets face facts and stop hiding in political correctness that usually this more like the blind leading the blind. I don't have a solution to this but I firmly believe that a fantasy that only serves the ego that has become a new age mainstream concept causes much more harm then good.
While there may be a shift of people with more capacity to be awakened the indigo fantasy has NOTHING to do with any of it. Once more there is NO evidence regarding Indigo/Crystal Children and this is marketing bonanza filled with suddenly detailed experts in a field that no one can challenge them.
This is a huge bubble burst for many and usually people reject the concept and react harshly at these kinds of comments regarding Indigo/Crystal Children. This is usually because people have some part of their ego invested into the concept in that is has become a part of their sense of self. To those of you who might feel uncomfortable with this and don't like what you are reading please note that you do not need some fantasy to be a special and insightful person with greater awareness. Simply, you have to only be yourself but seek the truth and dare I suggest to seek the truth even if it is not what you want it to be. Perhaps you are more prone to awaken but if so it still takes serious and real effort and no you are not entitled to anything... no one is.
Perhaps spirituality is like a skill in art or music in that some people have a natural edge or inclination and perhaps you are that type of person. I am that type of person, so I can relate, but that does not mean that what I 'feel' is true. The gut feelings that most of us govern our spiritual selves with may 'help' guide us but as long as we are filtering reality through our ego's even our 'gut' feelings will no doubt be distorted. It is not that we should ignore this but rather keep in mind that with the egoic mind we are looking at the world though colored glasses.
The core issue is that it rewards the person for simply being instead of doing.
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