The term indigo children originates from the 1986 book Understanding Your Life Thru Color, by
Nancy Ann Tappe, a synesthete and intuitive, who as a synesthete perceives color and tastes shapes. She wrote that during the mid 1960s she began noticing that many children were being born with indigo life colors. Currently, Tappe has estimated that 90% of people age 14 to 25 have "indigo life colors" on Tappe's website.
The idea of indigo children was later popularized by the 1998 book
The Indigo Children: The New Kids Have Arrived, written by the husband-and-wife team of
Lee Carroll and
Jan Tober.
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Nancy Ann Tappe was talking about auras in her book.
Originally an audio engineer,[Lee]
Carroll began to channel communications which he claimed originated from a being from a higher dimension called
Kryon in 1989. He describes Kryon as a disembodied entity of a different order than human, who has "been with the Earth since the beginning". The information he publishes, both printed and online, is intended to help humans "ascend to a higher vibrational level".
Carroll has authored three books on what he terms Indigo children, a new generation of children he says represents an evolution in human consciousness, and eleven books of channellings from Kryon.
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In 2003/2004 I worked at a spiritual bookstore which had all nine of the Kyron books at that time and the two most popular Indigo Children books:
The Indigo Children: The New Kids Have Arrived by Lee Carroll/Jan Tober and
The Care and Feeding of Indigo Children by Doreen Virtue. I read them all.
The Kyron books have contradictions on the dates when Indigo Children were supposed to begin appearing, as well as what their collective purpose is.
The Indigo Children books make some claims which are difficult to fathom and decipher.
During this time, I also knew a group of Indigo Children roughly aged 14 to 22/23. Thoughsome of them were very intuitive, most were relatively normal adolescents and 20-somethings, and there was a cross-section of Introverts and Extraverts among them, though I would say that there may have been a higher percentage of Introverts than in the general population.
They were all into alternative healing methods, astral travel, psychic awareness, etc. I did the astro-charts of a few and didn't find anything extraordinary in their charts, anymore than I have found in clients or the individuals whose charts I have seen here.
I have also met both types of parents of Indigo Children, those who believe their children are and those who don't.
The Indigo has four distinct personality patterns. Tappe's definition of these patterns are 1)The Artist, 2)The Conceptualist, 3)The Humanist, 4) The Catalyst.
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Do these sound familiar?
I'm not passing judgment of any kind, only giving my observations and experience of those claiming to be Indigo, and from the materials from books and websites I've read.
Currently, I have no opinion one way or the other.
Here are some of the more popular Indigo sites:
http://www.indigochild.com/
http://www.metagifted.org/topics/metagifted/indigo/
http://www.kryon.com/
http://www.nancyanntappe.com/
Doreen Virtue's site