A Flight From Rationality, Unmitigated Gal or

Unadulterated Dogshit!

August 27, 2000

Ever heard of Indigo Children? If you haven't, I guarantee that you soon will be hearing more about them. These children are supposed to be something new and different, people who come into the world with a distinct and different set of "psychological attributes," they have higher self-esteem, integrity, etc.

Well let me tell you all that if you buy into any of this, you will be falling for one of the biggest oldest lies ever concocted; the so called secret knowledge of the colored rays of creativity, most of it derived from flaky Vedanta and other New Age mumbo jumbo that goes right back to Mme. Helena Blavatsky and Alice A. Bailey, whom among other things promoted a rabidly anti-Semitic, fascist philosophy of the inevitable conquest of the world through a set of strange ideas called Theosophy.

If you are a true skeptic, as I am, your yellow lights will go off on your rational dashboard when you hear that the authors of a lot of this poop about indigo children derive it from "channeling." That's right, these people believe they are being passed messages from beings in another dimension. Usually people who claim that they are receiving messages are poor deluded souls who have no better higher purpose to their lives and so must have "special messages" from others. It is no surprise that many of these people are ordinary housewives, poor women and others on the fringes of society, occasionally shiftless men. What's new is that since it has become socially "fashionable" to channel, as some celebrities claim to have received special information from unseen informants, many of the new channelers have seemingly respectable positions and advanced degrees. These people should know better. But on closer examination, one notes that many of these PhD's are in soft sciences, most in psychology. Don't believe any of them!

Yes, I realize that when we sleep we all dream, and some of our dreams may seem very real. Some of us hear voices in our heads. But there is no reason to think that all of these voices are "good" or honest. Many are more often deceitful and downright evil. A died in the wool philosophical materialist would naturally have to conclude that all such people were in some sense "mentally ill," while most of us on the street would just say they "aren't playing with a full deck." Common sense, which isn't so common, must exclude all such "information" as inherently bogus.

Nevertheless, and because the string pullers want it so, there will be much media coverage of these supposedly "new" children being born around the world. Everyone will "eat this shit up" and its effects will be spread throughout our educational systems, popular magazines, talk radio, the Internet, books on parenting, etc. until everyone accepts it as real, even though intelligence in the general population has a randomness to it that is oddly similar to what these kooks call the indigo children phenomenon.

The first thing to notice is that the propounders of this new brand of old kook philosophy are aiming their darts directly at parents, specifically at their right to hold arbitrary authority over their children. Nowadays, added to the mix we have already in place all sorts of "favored" and "approved" ideas that all have a basis in classical socialist ideology, all piped to us through the media for years over TV, movies, etc. chief among these fallacies is the notion that all people are supposedly equal, or have a right to equality. Therefore it follows that children and adults should be equal. It also follows that those who do not believe in this idea deserve to be punished. And they will find ways to punish those who step out of line. As I've said elsewhere, equality has never ever existed nor will it ever exist unless we become a species as engineered as the bees and share a hive mentality. There are those out there who would want this. They certainly don't believe in equality.

By their somewhat self-serving definitions, I am an indigo child! I was born with an uncanny memory for people, places and things. I could read people, and still can, pretty well, had very high self esteem right from the start, which saved me a lot of grief, because I grew up having to endure a terrible onslaught against me simply because I was physically different. I soaked up knowledge like a sponge, always interacted with adults as if I was one of them, expected respect from them and usually got it. What's the difference? I am nearly fifty years old!

When I was going to school, and yes it was public school, in California, during the 50's and 60's, they had programs for "gifted" children. I saw right through these as special playtimes for the sons (and rarely the daughters) of the doctors, lawyers and scientists who lived in the neighborhood; programs designed to foster the same supposedly genetically transmitted skills as their parents had, skills that were "favored" by the society at the time, which was geared for competition with the Russians. What America needed then were more physicists to build bigger rockets and more powerful bombs that we all hoped would never be used. I thought at the time, as I still do now, that there was something basically wrong with all this, that what our society really needed then as now were more artists of all kinds but especially more musicians, classical music musicians of course.

I happened to be, and still am, a legally blind person, not blind enough not to see at all, but not sighted enough to drive a car. I guarantee that few of the teachers at any of the schools I attended had any comprehension of what I was really capable of doing if given the proper resources. Such is always the waste of human talent. It is still being wasted. The fault is not that we have yet to recognize a new breed of child that is coming into the world to displace the other, obsolete by comparison, people who are already here. And make no mistake, that is the not so subtle message. Move aside you non indigo people, you antiques on the evolutionary ladder...

If you don't know already, I'll remind you that I am deeply skeptical of evolution. No, I'll say it more bluntly. It's bunk! There's not a single uncontestable shred of solid science to support it. But it happens to be the basis of the current physical paradigm simply because those who propounded it wanted any excuse whatsoever to be freed of any arbitrary authority. Sound familiar? Do we see a pattern yet?

Don't be fooled. Your child may be smart, may have high self esteem, may have come into this world with skills and abilities you don't think you've ever seen before in any member of your family. Don't rush to the conclusion that you have an indigo child. If you do, you'll have to buy their "step aside" bullshit and give up your authority as a parent.

Don't drug your child if he or she is being disruptive in school. If social services tries to take your child away because you wont give them Ridolin or Prozac, take your child out of school, find another school for them, do anything you can to give your child a chance to develop their natural intelligence. Is there something wrong with the notion that some drugs like marijuana are bad while others like Ridolin and Prozac are good? I know, it's a stupid question.

If you are stupider than your child, as most of these parents happen to be, start by admitting it, but never give up your authority. If you are inept at using your parental authority with one of these children, believe me they'll know it. I knew it. People who are really smart know when stupid people are doing stupid things. They aren't going to be fooled. So stop trying to fool them. But don't give up your authority.

Much of the indigo child literature spotlights respect. Most people don't know that respect is more basic than love. You may not like everyone, or love everyone, but you certainly owe everyone your respect, even if they happen to be children, maybe even especially if they are children. If you don't know what respect is, maybe you haven't been shown any in a long time. It's a basic courtesy that allows other people the right and space to be themselves.

Funny isn't it. Someone with an advanced degree in a bogus pseudo science is able to publish a book that says that if your child is more intelligent than you are, you must recognize them as a "next step in human evolution" and therefore relinquish your parental authority, when all that is necessary is to behave with respect toward your child, while insisting that when required they do what you say.

The poop sifters will be believed and deceived by many, because the stage sets have already been built over at least the last 150 years. I wonder if any of the "indigo children" will recognize that they are the targets of flattery designed to do exactly the opposite of what's being presented as their bright future?

"be seeing you..."

The Polar Bear