Re: What are the indigos here for, and where did they come from?
I personally have known an assortment of indigos, several are nieces and nephews (although they do seem to more often be male from what I have noticed), and they aren't in anyway shape or form bullet proof, nor are they all that much wiser. Mostly they just don't seem to be vulernable to being manipulated by guilt, which is a great lesson for the rest of us. :) So in that respect, they are 'better', but most of them are so not good at being a part of a group. Hence my belief they are going to be working on issues relating to the other side of the equation.
I did think for a while I was indigo, until I actually remembered my own spirit origins (not a true human of course) after working my way back thru about 3000 years worth of the human lives I have had here. And since a lot of my spirit values are very similar to the indigos, it even more reinforces my observation that they were more likely predatory, like my species was. My spirit origin was reptilian though, were as the Indigos seem more mammal-like, perhaps something like wolves but sentient and bipedal.
And they are here because they really didn't have any choice. It was be here or go extinct from what I can see. And they really can't remember why they are here, just like the rest of us can't remember past lives very well either for the most part. Oh what a difference there would be in religious beliefs if we all could, eh?
And probably it is painful for them here, yes, but not because they are wise old souls who chose to return to 'help' us, but because they are so new to being human. The suffering would be really bad if they got stuck reincarnating in the far east. I read an article about them a while back. It spoke of a new kind of of teenager that would not come out of their rooms. The Japanese called this behavior "Epic Sulks". That is exactly how I would see an indigo surviving in that overcrowded over-enmeshed kind of environment.
So, while for some reason, people seem to want to make these people into some kind of wonderful being superior to all the rest of us, they really aren't. They are here, just like the rest of us, mucking along but maybe a bit more aware of spiritual issues just because they are so recently arrived from bodies that probably did remember past lives. :)