Indigo children, according to the New Age pseudoscientific concept, are children who are believed to have special, unusual, and sometimes supernatural traits or abilities. This idea is based on a concept developed in the 1970s by Nancy Ann Tappe and further developed by Lee Carroll and Jan Tober. The concept of indigo children gained popular interest by publishing a series of books in the late 1990s and releasing several films in the next decade. Books, conferences and related materials have been made around belief in the idea of ​​indigo children and their nature and abilities. Interpretations of this belief range from being the next stage in human evolution, in some cases having paranormal abilities such as telepathy, with the belief that they are more empathic and creative than their peers.
Although there is no scientific research that gives credibility to the existence of indigo children or their properties, this phenomenon appeals to some parents whose children have been diagnosed with learning disabilities and parents are trying to believe that their children are special. Critics consider this a way for parents to avoid considering pediatric care or psychiatric diagnosis. The list of traits used to describe children has also been criticized for being vague enough to apply to almost everyone, a form of the Forer effect.
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Origins
The term "indigo child" originated with self-described parapsychologist and psychologist Nancy Ann Tappe, who developed the concept in the 1970s. In 1982 Tappe published a comb-bound that he developed and reissued in paperback in 1986 as Understanding Your Life Thru Color . In these works Tappe introduces the concept of "life color", defined in Understanding Your Life Through Color as "the single color of the aura that remains constant in most people from the cradle to the grave." The concept of "life color" was popularized nationally by Tappe's student Barbara Bowers, who published What's Your Aura Color: The Spectrum of Personality for Understanding and Growth in 1989, and by Bowers student Pamala Oslie, published < i> Living Color: What Color in Your Aura Revealed in 1991.
Tappe states that during the late 1960s and early 1970s he began to notice that many children are born with indigo auras (or, in their terminology, with indigo as their "life color"). The idea was later popularized by the 1998 book Indigo Children: New Children Have Arrived , written by husband and wife self-help professors Lee Carroll and Jan Tober.
In 2002, the first international conference on indigo children was held in Hawaii, drawing 600 attendees, and there were subsequent conferences in Florida, Oregon, and elsewhere. Several films have been produced on the subject, including two films by New Age writer James Twyman: feature film 2003 Indigo and documentary 2006 The Indigo Evolution .
Sarah W. Whedon stated in a 2009 article in Nova Religio that the social construction of indigo children is a response to the "real American childhood crisis" in the form of increased youth violence and attention deficit diagnoses. interference disorder hyperactivity disorder deficit and attention. Whedon believes parents label their children as "indigo" to provide alternative explanations for inappropriate behavior of their children from ADD and ADHD.
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Claimed characteristic
Descriptions of indigo children include that they are:
- Empathize, curious, and strong-willed
- Often considered by friends and family as strange
- Have a clear understanding of the definition of self and purpose
- Show a strong innate unconscious spirituality from childhood (which, however, does not necessarily imply a direct interest in spiritual or religious fields)
- Have strong feelings of right, or deserve to be here
Other alleged features include:
- High intelligence intelligence
- Clear intuitive capabilities
- Resistance to the rigid and control-based authority paradigm
According to Tober and Carroll, indigo children can function poorly in conventional schools because of their rejection of rigid authority, they become smarter or more mature spiritually than their teachers, and their lack of response to discipline based on guilt, fear, or manipulation.
According to research psychologist Russell Barkley, the New Age movement has not produced empirical evidence about the existence of indigo children, since the traits most often associated with them so closely aligned with the Forer effect - are so vague that they can describe almost everyone. Many critics see the concept of indigo children consisting of very common traits, false diagnoses that are an alternative to medical diagnosis, with a lack of science or studies to support it.
Indigo as an alternative to diagnosis
Retired philosophy professor and skeptic Robert Todd Carroll notes that many commentators on the indigo phenomenon are various qualifications and expertise, and parents may prefer to label their child indigo as an alternative diagnosis that implies poor parenting, narcissistic parenting, damage, or mental illness. This is a belief echoed by academic psychologists. Some mental health experts are concerned that labeling an annoying child as "indigo" can delay the correct diagnosis and treatment that may help the child or see the parenting style that may be causing the behavior. Others have suggested that many characteristics of indigo children can be more interpreted as simple displeasure and awareness.
Relationship to attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
Many children labeled indigo by their parents were diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and Tober and Carroll's Book The Indigo Children linked the concept with ADHD diagnosis. David Cohen points out that labeling indigo children is an alternative diagnosis that implies mental illness, which may be of interest to many parents. Cohen has stated, "The view in medicine is that ADHD is flawed.This is a nuisance If you are a parent, the idea of ​​'gifted' is much more interesting than the idea of ​​distraction." Linking the concept of indigo children with dislike for the use of Ritalin to control ADHD, Robert Todd Carroll states "Hype and hysteria close to the use of Ritalin have contributed to the atmosphere that allows a book like Indigo Children to be taken seriously.Given the choice, who does not want believe their children are privileged and chosen for some high-level mission rather than that they have brain disorders? "Stephen Hinshaw, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, stated that concerns about child overmedicalization are legitimate but even gifted children with ADHD learns better with more structure than less, even if the initial structure causes difficulties. Many are labeled as indigo children or have been educated at home. Many children labeled as indigo children have identical identification criteria with children who have experienced parental parenting rearing, and are considered to have been emotionally abused.
A study in 2011 suggested parents of children with ADHD who labeled their children as "indigos" could see problem behavior as ADHD symbols to be more positive and experience less frustration and disappointment, although they still experienced more many negative emotions and conflicts than parents of children without diagnosis.
Relationship with autism
Crystal children, a concept related to indigo children, have been linked by autism researcher Mitzi Waltz to the autistic spectrum. Proponents categorize the symptoms of autism as telepathic powers, and attempt to "conceptualize the autistic characteristics associated with them as part of a positive identity". Waltz stated that there may be a danger attached to this belief, which causes parents to deny interference, avoid proven care and spend a lot of money on unhelpful interventions. Waltz states that "Parents can also transmit belief systems to self-inflicting, confusing, or potentially daunting children".
Commercialization
The concept of indigo children has been criticized for lacking about children and their needs, and more about the profits to be made by experts in sales of books and videos as well as profitable counseling sessions, summer camps, conferences and lectures.
Discussion as a new religious movement
Nancy Ann Tappe initially noted that one type of Indigo child ("interdimensional child"), although seen as a bully, is expected to lead a new religious movement.
A pagan writer, Lorna Tedder, anecdotally notes that every pagan woman she knows who has or will have a child believes that their child is an Indigo child.
S. Zohreh Kermani states that "Despite their problems with authority, uncontrolled temperaments, and arrogant ego, Indigo Children many of the ideal offspring of pagan parent: sensitive, paranormal, and strong-willed", but also noted this concept is less about the psychic child. the ability of parents' wishes and desires themselves to "differ from the less developed masses."
Daniel Kline, in an essay entitled "New Children: Indigo Children and New Age Heritage", notes that the magical belief that innocent children are equal to spiritual forces has existed for centuries, and that the indigo child's movement is rooted in the religion of science-based scientific rejection. In particular, he claims that Nancy Ann Tappe obtained some of his ideas from Charles Webster Leadbeater (his main innovation is emphasizing the relationship between children and indigo colors), and that New Age adoption of the concept is a reaction to the diagnosis of ADD. , ADHD, and autism. Kline also discusses how Carroll and Tober have tried to distance themselves from religious beliefs about indigo children to maintain conceptual control (even repeating previous assertions about auras), and how skeptics and New Agers alike create rhetorical appeals to science (despite rejection the latter) to legitimize their ideological beliefs about the existence of indigo children.
At the Cambridge University Idea Festival 2014, anthropologist Beth Singler discusses how the term indigo child functions as a new religious movement, along with Jediism. Singler's work focuses on the Indigo movement as part of an overall discussion about "wider moral panic around children, parents, diagnosis of conditions such as ADHD and autism and conspiracy theories about Big Pharma and vaccinations."
See also
- Indigo Era (economy)
- Neurodiversity
References
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