Month: May 2007

Anyway… with all the time on the long vacation (grin) I did get a book on Indigos, at my brother’s bookstore and although some of the things in the book were fascinating and kept me reading, some of it seemd to completely contradict things that were said earlier. (Extremely early language development vs late verbal development, very “heart-centered” vs head-heavy computer wizards, ability to control emotions vs total inability to control emotions…) It also scared me that nearly all Indigos seem to have really bad developmental problems, my own, ADD and ADHD being the least concern, more seriously Autism, and “…virtually all of the children who murder parents or classmates (Columbine, Virginia Tech…) are Indigos…”.

According to my nature I also did a little research on the sceptical side. Wikipedia turned out to be a good start, I read several newspaper and other articles about the phenomenon, one of them Indigo: the Color of Money by Lorie Anderson at Skepticreport.com. The articles were interesting, but full of very anectotal evidence, just like the book, and even more generalisations. Fact is, that there are some very looney, money-hungry people out there, waiting to take advantage of people – I suppose though this is possible in every religious, spiritual or new age discipline or group (coming to think of it also in Web Design and Computer Consulting :-). Another thing to consider, the articles said was, most kids who claim Indigo status either have New-Age parents or read a lot of Harry Potter and the like. And the medical and pharmaceutical community (and the terrorized teachers maybe) chimed in, it would be irresponsible to withhold Ritalin or other vital drugs from the poor children, just because parents thought they might be Indigos.

Nobody dealt with my favorite question though: If now 80% of all children are born Indigos, and no Indigos were born before 1980 or so and one of their key-features is that they (most of them) remember past lives (mostly here on earth I suppose?) what were they before they became Indigos? Magentas and Fuchsias I read went out of style at the turn of the past century – did they then turn Indigo in their next incarnation ;-) ? OK I’ll now stop being sarcastic, but some parts are just too weird… among it also the the Kryon stuff, no I am not exactly sure how Kyron is related to the Indigos, but I followed links on Indigo sites and kept ending on his Website and refused to read there (nice Flash design though on the menu).

* So yesterday Leilany pointed up at the Austrian starry night sky, and said “Dady, HOME, Dady…” just kidding…, while she really did say that, I assume she was talking about Andy, going home in an airplane (but who knows) . Now seriously: On one of her particularly bad days, about 3 weeks before we left Hawaii for our big trip, a coughing, sniffling, teething Leilani sat on the kitchen floor, cried and repeatetly told me she wanted to go home – other home (“andere”, as she said it then). It did give me chills, because of her intensity, insistance and seriousnes.

**Another one of the strange things on a lighter note – Leilani found a syringe (without a needle, clean and for orally medicating a cat) that looked like one of the old mercury thermometers, because of the scale and the small tip – she put the correct end under her shirt in her armpit to take her temperature, made us all laugh, until we realized that these type of thermometers had gone out of fashion 20 years ago. We then told her what it was and she went on to vaccinate all of us, including Lara the dog and her toyhorse, so we’d never get sick again.