There are definitely societal contributions to this belief system. That said, like Carl’s Dragon, this belief may not be a belief at all since it can’t be argued against. The scientific evidence to work against belief hardly exists because there isn’t really a clear way of falsifying this belief. Even with these scientific studies that Doreen purports to go with her views, none of them give definitive proof of the existence of indigo children or more precisely that these children who exhibit these certain traits all have indigo auras. Today, ADD/ADHD is commonly spoken of on mainstream television and between parents or schools. A young girl who could have had ADD symptoms in 1975 may not have been targeted by her teachers or parents to investigate it, due to lack of knowledge it. However, one explanation of this could be that the criteria for ADD has changed or at least been more well known in the last two decades. A Washington Post article does state that there has been a significant increase in children diagnosed with ADD/ADHD – about a ten percent rise in the last 20 years. She mentions a lot about what she sees as the correlation between attention deficit issues and being spiritually evolved. It does turn out that this was a legitimate survey done by him in 1995. For example, talking about the belief that indigo children have psychic abilities, she actually cites an Ohio State sociology professor’s research – “William MacDonald at the University of Ohio found that children had the highest number of verifiable psychic experiences, compared to other age groups” (Virtue, p. To Doreen Virtue’s benefit, she did include scientific research in her book to back some of her claims. The burden of proof is on these parents and the respective authority figures of indigo children literature. It is not the responsibility of the nonbeliever to convince us that such auras exist and that there is a color trend among a particular group of children to young adults. Indigo is the color of the third-eye chakra, which deals with all other abilities beyond the ordinary – psychic intuition, clairvoyance and out-of-body experiences. The term “indigo” came from the indigo-like auras around these children, as purported by Nancy Ann Tappe. For one, that would prove that there is more beyond this Earthly plane and that souls do exist.
This claim is certainly extraordinary because if proven to be true then it would change the fabric of understanding how the universe works. If somebody checks off at least 14 of the above 17 characteristics, then that person is in fact an indigo. So what are the unique traits differentiating indigo children from their ordinary counterparts? The first chapter of Doreen’s book lays it out with a list of indigo symptoms: strong-willed, born in 1978 or later, headstrong, creative, prone to addictions, an “old soul”, intuitive or psychic, tendency to isolate, independent and proud, possesses a deep desire to help the world in a big way, wavers between low self-esteem and grandiosity, easily bored, diagnosed with ADD, prone to insomnia or nightmares, history of depression, looks for real friendships only, and easily bonds with other non-human living things (Virtue, p. Some celebrities began to use the phrase to describe themselves or their children, like Will Smith’s children for example. The concept was further developed by Lee Carroll and Jan Tober, and then gained some mainstream popularity in the 2000s by a popular psychic Doreen Virtue in her book The Care and Feeding of Indigo Children. She identified them through their indigo aura, which she observed more and more child clients having.
In the mid-70s, a supernatural idea was born from a self-proclaimed synesthete (someone who reads people’s auras to tell them of their personalities) named Nancy Ann Toppe called “indigo children.” According to her, this was a new wave of highly spiritually evolved souls reincarnating on Earth born with the purpose of starting a spiritual evolution for all humans.
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