In a world that has lost touch with its soul, the indigo child is here as a light-bearer, path forger, and paradigm shifter.
Although the concept of indigo children originated in the 1970’s, there have been groups of individuals all through the ages whose mission and purpose have been to awaken humanity.
If you’re an old soul who feels a strong and profound urge to create change in society, you are likely an indigo child.
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What is an Indigo Child?
Also referred to as a crystal or star child, an indigo child is a person who has come into this world destined to create change and spiritually awaken humanity. Indigo children are considered to be freethinkers with profound insight into the human condition and an ability to see the truth clearly. As spiritually gifted old souls, indigo children find it hard to fit into mainstream society and often become misunderstood, rejected, or misdiagnosed and medicated. The indigo child is also thought to possess strong intuition and varying spiritual gifts such as the ability to communicate with spirit guides or see visions.
Truth and Deception
The primary role of the indigo child seems to revolve around exposing truth and deception. From a young age, indigo children are able to see through the illusions, half-truths, and falsehood rife in society. To their parents and teachers, they may seem like overly inquisitive, headstrong, and even obnoxious children. As precocious truth tellers, child and adult indigos can’t help but see through the bullshit facades of other people and expose them. This desire to bring the truth to light seems to be written into the indigo child’s DNA.
Enlightened teacher Jiddu Krishnamurti sums up the indigo child’s philosophy when he writes,
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Many people criticize the indigo child concept as being one that can be misused by parents seeking to make their children look special, particularly if they have special needs. Others claim that signs of being an indigo child are so vague they can apply to anyone (this is called the Forer effect).
While it is true that the indigo child label can be misused, just as any label can, the true signs of an indigo child are so specific that they cannot be widely applied to every person. As I just mentioned above, indigo children are obsessed with finding the truth – this cannot be said of every person or every child. Every rule, belief, structure, and institution will be questioned and ruthlessly challenged by the indigo child – this trait is truly unusual and extraordinary.
It is also common for people to criticize the indigo child label as being delusional. While all labels and concepts used to describe the ego are illusory constructs of the mind, finding a sense of affinity with the indigo child label is extremely beneficial. Identifying with this label helps us to develop self-understanding and acceptance, which are important elements of spiritual growth.
Indigo Children Who Are Misdiagnosed
It is common for the indigo child to be misdiagnosed with behavioral issues such as ADD, ADHD, and other mood disorders. Because of their headstrong and freethinking nature, such children are often feared, misunderstood, and therefore medicated at young ages. Unfortunately, medications such as Ritalin and Adderall often end up numbing the indigo child and causing them to lose contact with their intuitive capacities and truth-seeking nature.
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17 Signs of an Indigo Child
Are you an indigo child? Perhaps your children are indigos? Below I have included a list of seventeen authentic signs.
I have omitted typical signs often mentioned on other websites like “sense of entitlement” and “feeling special and like you should be revered” because these, to me, represent narcissism or unhealthy parenting styles more than genuine indigo child signs.
If you possess more than half of these traits, you’re likely an indigo child:
1. You are strong willed
You are a passionate person who will do anything it takes to accomplish your goals or dreams. Even if other people criticize or don’t support you, you still keep going no matter what.
2. You’re an old soul
You feel as though you’ve lived many lifetimes, and possess a wisdom that others your age don’t yet have. As a child, you may have behaved like an old man or woman, and as an adult, you have a deeply spiritual and philosophical outlook on life.
3. You’re a freethinker
No idea or belief is too holy for you to dissect or reject. You prefer to think for yourself rather than blindly following the crowd. As an indigo child, questioning is everything to you.
4. You’re a headstrong nonconformist
As a child or teenager, you may have been thought of as “naughty,” “obnoxious,” disobedient, and contrarian. As an adult, you still cannot stand being boxed in or controlled by others. As a headstrong nonconformist, you prefer to find your own truth and forge your own path.
5. You’re a passionate truth-seeker
Truth, to you, is of primary importance. You are always seeking to distinguish truth and reality from lies and deception. When you are around others, you can immediately tell when someone is lying or hiding something. Although the truth hurts, you honor it above all else. You would prefer to suffer from the truth than be happy believing lies.
6. You’re perceptive and intelligent
You can see and understand things about humanity and life that most other people don’t perceive. Your keen perception allows you to discover the truth about the human condition, and how to ultimately help.
7. You are highly intuitive
Your keen perception also makes you highly intuitive. You can often intuit the best course of action as well as know things about others that are secret or hidden.
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8. You want to change the world
Deep in your heart, you feel a driving force to create positive change on this planet. As an indigo child, you know that your destiny is to be a paradigm changer/destroyer. This strong sense of purpose forms the axis of your decisions. Whatever is not aligned with your inner sense of purpose quickly dissolves in favor of soul-based decisions.
9. You’re empathetic and compassionate
You care so much about this planet and other people that it often hurts. Every time you see or hear of violence, destruction, and cruelty, you feel sorrow and anger. Your high level of empathy and compassion means that you often struggle with anxiety or depression.
10. You’re a change-making leader
Since you were little, you’ve always gravitated towards leadership. You may find it hard to work in teams or for other people and function better when you’re in charge or working for yourself. You find it difficult to obey authority, particularly when that authority is corrupt, illogical or outdated. You want to offer better, wiser, and healthier ways to live life, making you destined to be a spiritual elder.
11. You’re idealistic
You have high expectations for yourself and other people. While idealism can be a positive trait, it can also carry disadvantages such as being overly critical or demanding. Nonetheless, your idealism is what helps you to strive for the highest and do the absolute best you can for the planet.
12. You have a loner/autonomous personality
As a free spirit, you don’t like to be held down by anyone or anything. You find it difficult to be around too many people at once, and often prefer to spend time in your own company. As a lover of autonomy, you enjoy solitude and the insight it can bring.
13. You’re highly creative
Your nonconformist brain loves to express itself through art and creativity. Whether it be drawing, dancing, singing, building, painting, writing or crafting, you love creative self-expression.
14. You have a strong connection with nature and animals
As an empathic and compassionate person, you gravitate towards the natural world. You feel most at home when you’re near the ocean or surrounded by trees and animals. Nature is so pure and grounding that you find it a welcome break from the pretension of humanity.
15. You’re drawn towards spirituality over religion
To you, spirituality is falling in love with the message, and religion is loving the messenger. As an indigo child, you are drawn towards truth in its purest form – not diluted by dogma or fundamentalist teachings.
16. You struggle with boredom
Because of your sharp and inquisitive mind, you tend to struggle with routine and conventional structures. As a result of your tendency to get bored easily, you may have been misdiagnosed with ADD or ADHD as a child.
17. You are prone to experiencing existential angst
Existential anxiety and depression go far beyond usual anxiety and depression, and this is because it is more concerned with life itself than the self. As an indigo child, you tend to ask questions such as “Why do we suffer?” “What is the meaning of life?” “Why is there injustice?” “Why was I born?” Such deep philosophical questions cause you to lose interest in the meaningless pursuits carried out by the majority of humanity.
Other potential traits of indigo children include:
- Tendency towards addiction to numb feelings
- Seeking only loyal friendships
- Proud/bossy
- Fiery tempered
- More sensitive to environmental and food pollutants
- Spiritual gifts such as clairvoyance or telepathy
Tips for Indigo Children
Indigo children are here to provoke change in a time where conscious growth is more desperately needed than ever.
If you have discovered that you’re an indigo child, you might benefit from the following tips:
- To stay grounded, try practicing mindful breathing.
- Practice meditation each day.
- Practice emotional acceptance.
- Familiarize yourself with the spiritual awakening process and how it is linked to existential depression.
- Creatively express yourself and your visionary ideas. You may even like to try practices such as automatic writing to help you get in touch with your Soul.
- Regularly spend time in nature to unwind and regain balance.
Finally, if you’re still uncertain about whether you’re an indigo child or not, you can take our free indigo child test.
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Little by little, light will come to penetrate the darkness. Truth will reveal deception. Love will replace hatred. Courage will replace fear. And direct experience will replace dogma. Indigo children are the spiritual leaders, rebels, and revolutionaries of this planet. Thanks to their existence, more and more people are waking up and finding the freedom that is already here, deep within.
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So as you see; “I” have no powers. I only imagined things to escape a dark room in my mind. Then kept doing it because it was fun. Heaven for me was the grsss I was in, and the grass I had at least once played in before the dark room.
Oh that’s right. When I’d asked someone what the darkness was; they said maybe the demons in the Bible. Later when they were on drugs we were trying to imagine that together. She started trying to make herself see them while on drugs. All she saw was a shadow by a tree. The drugs made her imagine the rest.
So my dream of Heaven is grass and trees and birds. Just like before the dark room. And after the dark room. I just pretended. Then I’d go here over and over when threatened. I feared the world.
After that I’d try to block off any bad memory the same way.
TRUTH PART 2. Right before I went to live in the darkness; I had a real life. I have stuff back there I have to block out too. But there’s one important part. A woman taught me about Heaven; God; Jesus. The light. How the light of Heaven would protect me from anything bad.
So that little light I was trying to imagine in my mind was that light from Heaven. I started trying to go thru the light to reach Heaven to escape that dark room. I couldn’t do it.
Well. I finally moved somewhere and was safer. I slowly had to learn to sleep different times. Up and out by day. Then one day a man told me about Heaven. He described it. Wow. It was similar to the one the woman described. I asked him how to go there. He said pray to Jesus and you will goto Heaven and see Jesus. He described Heaven and Jesus. There was a gate. He talked about the Holy Ghost and all that. Someone else had told me about demons, which is why he was telling me this. The lady talking about demons was high on LSD. There were no demons. I was there. She was just imagining things.
So now that I heard him I stood out where I had been dreaming of going for a year. I was in the grass by the trees listening to the birds. I used to love this back before going into the darkness of the dark room.
So I tried to focus and thought of comic books. I could do it. I looked for the light in my mind. I couldn’t find it. So I looked up at the sun. Ouch. Blinded me. I closed my eyes and there was the light. Wow. There was my path. So I concentrated and used my mind. I prayed for Jesus to accept my soul. And I left my body and entered the light.
I kept my eyes closed. Trying to imagine Heaven. All I got was the grass and trees I’d been imaging in my head. Which looked just like the ones I’d been around on earth. In other words, I was imaging what I was standing in. I was really just standing there with my eyes closed trying to imagine being there. Because I’d been doing that for a year recently. But there was no Heaven or gate. Just what I was standing in. So I imagined one. It was just like he had just described. But where was this Jesus guy? I really needed to see him. So I imagined him. He was right in front of me. I thought that’s not right. So I imagined him in front of the gate but he stood there. So I finally got it. I’d have to imagine him walking to me, and then talking to me. So he did.
Now he talked to me as I told him what the man told me he was supposed to say. I wanted to go in but he said I couldn’t go in “after” I realized the man hadn’t described what was inside.
I could go on and on. But as traumas mounted. As people hit me. As people yelled at me. I learned to try to escape to Heaven in my mind. To use the light of the glowing Jesus (important. He said he glowed. I needed to see him because I needed constant light. I feared darkness).
So this was my first trip to Heaven. All made up in my head based off things people told me, while standing beside the woods which was the same thing I imagined in Heaven.
TRUTH. The truth about me. My son tried to help me, and he did. He wanted me to unite myself, so I did. So here’s the truth about “me”. This applies only to me of course. Not to any of you. I ask your patience. I know this site is for something else. Not for this. But I need to accept the truth about myself.
I had a very traumatic childhood. Compounded by having autism.
There are all of these little pieces of me trapped in time. My timeline. My past and present. To survive I had to create an imaginary world. It’s the only way I could survive.
So as I went thru time; which is my life, I’d put up all of these walls, trying to seal off bad things and moments, so I could survive.
I’ll give a few examples, but that’s not what this is about. I was a little boy left alone every day in a dark room all alone. I couldn’t leave the room or get on anything. I had almost no food or water.
If I complained or talked, I was hit, sometimes with this big broom stick.
I had been more normal before this. But now I lived in fear and darkness. I wanted to know what was outside. I used to go out there. But all I could do was imagine being out there. Where are the birds? Where are the trees? Where is the wind?
I tried to go out there to see. This created a problem for me for the rest of my life.
This is one of the times in my timeline that I tried to mentally wrap up. I tried to wrap them in energy. All I really did was block the memory off from myself.
I never wanted to be trapped in there. Right before this I’d had some comic books read to me, & I wanted to get out. So I did like the super hero’s and got out in my mind.
But I was still sitting in the room. So in my memories, I got out and flew around without a body so I could see what was out there. Leaving that starving scared cold body inside.
Then I tried my best to block this out when I finally got out for real. The sun scared me the first time I left that house.
It was really one room in the dark with no lights on by day, and one pitch black room by night. That scared me after a bug crawled on me in the dark. And after I heard something in the floor. I screamed each time. She came in with a light. What was it? I told her. She said it was just a bug and later a mouse. I got hit, so the hitting was worse than the animal.
So I found a way. By day I set in the one room and slept. By night I stayed awake in the pitch black. Ready to quietly knock off the bug, and straining to hear the mouse.
So darkness became my enemy. Day brought the light. The light was safety, and would save me from the dark. I couldn’t get her light in there without pain.
So I thought of those comic books. I tried to make that light from the daytime enter there. That didn’t work. I tried to make my own light. That didn’t work. So I imagined a very tiny light inside of me. That was my secret light. As long as I had it; and stayed awake all night, I could fight off the darkness that threatened me.
I was the bringer of light that darkness feared.
HOW TO REACH THE FIFTH DIMENSION. You calm your mind by reaching the fourth dimension first. Then you look at different you’s in your time line.
You want to be the you that you should have been.
So you try to focus on different parts of you in the time line. Maybe two. Maybe three. Maybe all of them.
You focus on all of them at once. Then they are all there at once. You are combined. You don’t have a split mind.
Someone very wise just taught me that.
See I stopped in time because I just couldn’t go any farther forward. So there’s all these parts of me back there that had traumatic moments.
To protect myself from pain I couldn’t exist here. I had to exist elsewhere.
So reality would pull me into a very painful moment I didn’t want to experience, then I’d go back out to somewhere else.
Now I can pull little parts of me into present me. But I can’t combine them all yet. I’ll have to practice.
A very wise man indeed.
HOW TO REACH THE FOURTH DIMENSION. I was taught how to take my mind to the fourth dimension. You stare forward. Try to look to your left and your right at the same time.
I used my peripheral vision to do that. Then I used my mind to see behind me.
Suddenly I could see it all at once. All around me.
Then I’m moved each eye separately back. When they met in the middle, I was in the fourth dimension. It calmed me. I was now focused as one.
A wise man taught me that. Much smarter than me. I’ll have to practice this. Maybe it will help some of you.
My son just called me. For the first time in over a year I am calm.
Love and hope.
Love is calming your mind to love another.
Hope is hoping someone calms their mind to love you back.
I can call down lightning. Pass thru objects. Transport. Levitate. Leave my shell. Harness power and use it. Levitate objects. Go back and forth in time short distances. Change time slightly.
I thought I lost my powers when I came back. I thought I was done. Then I was called back. These shells die. They act very surprised when their machines think your dead. Then you set up and walk off. I left this shell for too long. Damaged it. But I was lead back so I’m trying to figure out why. I knew what I was supposed to do on my mission. I don’t have a mission this time. So what do I do? I thought my powers were gone. Then I passed thru an object and scared one of them. I’m not supposed to have powers anymore I thought. So what was that. Residual power? I don’t want to suddenly call down lightning because I thought I couldn’t do that anymore.
I tried to test to see if I still have power. I don’t seem to.
So I’ve busied myself with trying to do the job of those they call indigo children, but I’m not good at that. I’m not one of them. I wonder. How many like me exist. I used to think I may be the only one here. There is so vast.
This shell is so damaged. Hard to use. Am I the only one like me here? I’ve only met the ones they call indigo children.
I’m trying to help one of them that doesn’t know they are loved.
I seem to feel their pain now.
I thought I was done. Now I see the loss I left. I can’t seem to undo it.
I didn’t feel these things on my mission. All this sorrow. I now know why they cry. I always felt happiness. Now I feel sorrow. Had I known that would happen I may not have come back.
I’m so lonely.
As I learned to control my powers I’d pass thru objects and jump short distances. I’m losing control. Isn’t it odd when you lose focus and pass thru a wall.
I genuinely now think I may be one. I’ve always been told I’m older and wiser than my age. Over life that came to a halt as life does. Also I had a brain tumour in 2016 which I didn’t know about until literally 4-5 days before it was thankfully removed. I now believe I am one have done the test and despite me being a father of 3 thankfully now believe it is my mission to or at least to get other to open that sphynx mentioned by Boris, the one people call the Russian Martian. After diving deeper into his story and others like the 1999 interview with a reptilian woman. I believe all of this needs a lot more of a look into. Hopefully I can set these things in motion.