Indigo Children
This post is based on a submission by reader Matthew Garland.
Summary #
Indigo Children are children with special traits, although the specifics of those traits ranges from "empathetic", "confident" to "mind reader".
It's almost the color of the Blue Man Group.
(Photo: Ken Power at Flickr)
Commentary #
According to Lee Carol, co-author of "The Indigo Children", the term was never supposed to denote anything paranormal. Rather, Nancy Ann Tappe, who coined the term, had synesthesia and associated these children with the color indigo.
Nonetheless, there is definitely an underlying argument that is completely unsubstantiated: that these children "represent a higher state of human evolution". Of course, if we take evolutionary psychology to its extreme, the children do in fact represent a higher state of human evolution (just not that much higher; probably not what the indigo folks mean).
Meta #
Reader Matthew suggests that perhaps a belief in indigo children may be related to the Forer effect and confirmation bias. What do you think?
See Also #
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Indigo children at Wikipedia for more information.
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Wikipedia Warning! at The Indigo Children for a response from Lee Carol to the Wikipedia article.