All language subtitles for Inside the Strange, Psychic World of Indigo Children

without thinking just say I am color X

what color do you think you are some a

creamy orange a creamy orange white like

you might have had your walls in the

late 90s we are going to do your aura

photo we find more often than not people

will actually get the color right we

have a sense of who we are now way let's

see what happens put your hands on these

plates feels a little bit like the

electric chair it is there's little a

little danger here okay here we go an

aura is a colored band that some people

say they can see around a human body

showing its spiritual state you can see

them but I found a man called Eric sage

who said he had a camera that could do

just that it seemed like an odd job

looking at people's auras every day a

bit awkward to be stepping in on

something so private but I supposed Eric

was the professional I could

gynecologist or such that's pretty good

this is tinder gold right here

when I was four I had many visions of

meeting God meaning you people indigo

children astral beings sent to guide us

all to a higher plane or hyper children

running around with untreated a Dede how

can you tell if your child is gifted or

has a disorder some parents and even

some doctors believe that a number of

children today are gifted with psychic

powers they call them indigo children

the term has been around since the 1970s

coined by psychologists and medium Nancy

on tap who claims she'd noticed a sharp

uptick in the number of babies born with

indigo coloured horrors but it was in

the 90s that the phenomenon took up in

the mainstream thanks to the book the

indigo children the new kids have

arrived my husband and wife team Lee

Carol and Jan Tobin

say here in indigo um and somebody comes

up to you and asks you a question about

their life and you can tell them what it

was and how it happened

they entered all of our homes Oprah

featured them documentaries exposed them

and all across America thousands of

parents refused to swallow their kids

ADHD medicine rejecting medical

diagnoses in favor of declaring their

kids as indigo I think it's a stab at

trying to apply more positive label to

these children rather than the more

pejorative terms like ADHD many of the

kids who were raised in its shadows and

now adults do they still see it as their

glorious destiny or as something much

less benign

Indigo's had to build an

NDA real quick I've come to America to

see how brightly the Indigo movements

aura is still shining my journey began

in New York where I was in Sheepshead

Bay to meet a full-blown adult indigo

it's been hard to put a definition on

what exactly indigo is the indigo is our

a leaderless group but Edward man I'm

about to meet is at least the leader of

the New York City indigo meetup group so

perhaps he'll have some ideas Edward

claimed to be on an intense spiritual

journey which was in part why his

apartment contains no furniture he first

diagnosed himself in to go over a decade

earlier after an online test

hello Edward I'm Gavin come over from

England to search about indigo children

I gather you're the boss of the NYC

meetup group for Indigo's yes I'm the

founder so what are the key indicator

eights highly psychic or intuitive

many of them will give about of healing

other people whether emotionally or

energetically or physically none

confirmative to anything from school to

parents to jobs that is why many of them

out of place they just plain simple

different there is no label to it it's

not a DD or ADHD it's just a different

vibrational energetic whole type of of a

person the whole notion of way of indigo

so the whole idea is pretty much to

change the way of the world in every

aspect what are you here to do

differently my spiritual journey to help

people to bring the change individually

as well as on a group level their own

spiritual waking conscious awakening and

change all the patterns you acquired one

lifetime after another um could you

perhaps read my past lives I will need

to shut my eyes for a moment to give an

answer for that

Edward didn't seem to be getting any

information about my past life was that

the psychics protected boredom threshold

kicking in even I wasn't sure so okay so

it's very interesting first of all I am

not getting any information about your

past life but still some information

came through that I was told to relate

to you okay and then of the information

actually first of all you are an Anita

go yourself you are an Indian I am and

integrate yourself first of all second

of all it's easy so find your core find

what moves you and makes your soul in

your heart sing and do that you will be

able to bring a lot of changes in beauty

to this world in your own way okay well

and on that I bomb bombshell this is

Gavin Haynes indigo signing off with the

agri-tower chomsky indigo issue very

nice meeting brother Edwards message to

find what moves me was inspiring but as

what moved me was cockfighting and the

films of Michael Bay perhaps I was going

to struggle to bring much joy into the

wider world the upsides are being

diagnosed indigo was that I was now part

of kind of extended family I wanted to

go meet more of my brothers and sisters

so I went to see the brand's I del who

was holistic dentist and her daughter

died Andra who was an indigo healer

hello holistic dentistry it turns out

was just like regular dentistry but with

tuning forks sending out psychic

vibrations spiritually charged crystals

for patients to hold during their root

canal

funky esoteric necklaces so not much

like regular dentistry then what does

holistic dentistry Intel holistic

dentistry entails working with materials

for the patient's height is good you

want to use dental materials that are

biocompatible therefore you don't want

to use anything that's toxic like silver

mercury fillings are very bad we also

avoid fluoride because fluoride also is

a neurotoxin diandra you are an indica

yes

at 16 I became a full-blown intuitive I

start seeing angels around people I

start seeing colors as the etheric field

the chakras on people and then I start

talking to other forms of angels

Archangels ascended masters God

goddesses etc so for me it wasn't about

separating myself or thinking that it

was weird or different it was just about

knowing there's something more and what

can I do with this gift we've written

this book enlightened indigo child so

that parents and children together can

learn what they need to do to have a

very healthy child all these kids are

being institutionalized and labeled with

some horrible mental or emotional

disease which they don't really have in

with the example of diandra which Bashir

had labeled well she was labeled as

having some sort of disability a

learning disability he as a child it was

absolutely brilliant in more ways than

one

and we have a teacher who thinks she's

got a problem okay I know my child

better than any teacher I know she

doesn't have a problem if anyone has a

problem it's the teacher in the school

system the brands offered to show me one

of the services that made their

Dentistry holistic specially made tuning

forks to detox the body and balance its

energies

the reason why we got into this was

because I had my own challenges I had

Lyme disease for eight years and when I

had it I was quite handicapped

conventional medicine said that I would

never be well and as she just closed up

my practice and go on permanent

disability and that was gone when I took

the weekend course in the tuning forks

have changed they have changed my whole

life sitting in the dentist's chair

having tuning forks waved around me felt

very luxurious was a bit like when I was

a kid and they had calming pictures of

Donald Duck on the ceiling at the

dentist

that's our you just kind of tripping

balls there yeah I Dell seem to place a

lot of weight and her daughter's

specialness and the dynamic between them

was certainly intense send Elmo's fire

of the auric field

Flemington New Jersey when we heard that

there was going to be a psychic fair at

the local elk lodge my own psychic sense

told me that we can find an indigo or

two here

well the stones have all different

properties for example we have like our

rose quartz yeah when you're looking for

love I could get a couple of them how

much are they they're three dollars a

pop bargain are you

indigo do you know any Indigo's yes I'm

an indigo are you yes how does it feel

Bob it was interesting now as an adult I

could say I was out of body and I was

more comfortable out in nature or in

solitude then I was comfortable at

school or with other kids so what did

you hear at the fair I am I'm a Shimano

which means a female healer so I'm doing

etheric surgery and armour removal which

means I scan a person's auric field to

see what structures are there that are

blocking the flow of spiritual energy

anyway sounds like very important work

and thank you very much for sure thank

you so very much not only was this a

one-stop medical Inuk for etheric

surgery the psychic fair was also full

of the usual clairvoyance gemstone

salesmen and Orick artists not the

artwork what is there something

representational here from a therapy

color healing working with colors what's

about indigo as a color which

incorporate within your palettes yeah

indigo is a very powerful color be aware

of the concept of indigo children I have

an indigo child do you I do and what is

it like to begin to go mothering is that

as a special thing well you kind of

buckle up and back and relax as best as

you can because they're always on the go

they're very knowledgeable they're very

insightful to the point where it can be

a little bit spooky sometimes how they

know things mrs. child's asked me for

some medication any points I pretty much

refused

medication okay we used sugared iced tea

um iced tea okay that has sugar because

it reverses it comes them down like if

she had a test she would get really

really nervous so in the morning I would

be sure no me sugar would hike kids up

and that has the reverse effect on my

daughter not his ones upon sir thank you

very much for time good to meet you

turns out I've been treating myself as

an indigo for many years with sugared

iced tea and didn't even know it

Indigo's seem to be plugged into our

higher spiritual switchboard I began to

wonder what would happen if I dialed out

to modern psychology it was time to seek

out professional help thanks so much for

sitting down with us um why don't you

start by telling us a little bit about

your practice I'm a clinical

psychologist and I work with children

teens and adults I specialize in ADHD

one of the key symptoms of ADHD many

people know that the basic ones of lack

of focus and inattention difficulty

getting started on tasks

so that's procrastination and once you

get started on something it's very hard

to maintain effort so you kind of lose

effort and focus difficulty actually

regulating your emotions that sounds

like a lot of people I know it's not so

much the symptoms as to the severity and

what just treatments involve for ADHD

nowadays basically nowadays ritalin

adderall concerta vyvanse stimulants are

the main treatment so you very much

believe that ADHD Nadd are real things

real entities in the world these are

diagnosable conditions absolutely you

mentioned earlier a case of a woman who

came to you with child who potentially

had ADHD but she had diagnosed as indigo

and yeah taken away from you again

what happens if ADHD goes unchecked

years of undiagnosed ADHD lead to school

failure and if it's super hyperactive

maybe he can't make friends and keep

friends and year after year of failure

compounded

leads to real are pervasive and deep

shame about oneself which is the recipe

for you know depression and anxiety and

drug use and also and and possibly jail

recognizing a child with ADHD can can

draw well or horseback ride or do

something unique and supporting those

gifts is great but saying that you

without doing anything is you know are

unique and special and different than

every other child is not helpful you

think they're making mini-monsters

children who can only be isolated right

narcissists yeah yeah and that's a bad

thing

yes the older I got the more I realized

that my drawing usually is really much

better than I think it is when I just

don't judge it at all

yeah I kind of just dropped and there's

no judge on and it's just freestyle oh

this is actually the chakra test that I

took online my indigo third I was

eighty-nine percent and it was nice yeah

Seraphina was diagnosed as indigo at a

young age by her mother and she started

recognizing her extraordinary gifts were

you already interested in the idea of

indigo children was it something that

appealed to you very much so yeah very

much so I think from the time I was in

my 20s I began delving into spirituality

and the meaning of life

vibrations past lives when did you first

realize that your daughter was an indigo

Charles oh very very early on from the

moment that she was an infant the unique

way Sarafina sees the world visually um

in terms of perspective it's very

different some people feel the indigo

children I've been sent here

to open up the world a new age do you

feel you've been sent here to open up

the world to a new way I feel that I've

been sent here not only to benefit those

who know me in terms of giving advice or

having a shoulder for someone to cry on

or be able to give them a different

perspective on life but also just for me

to figure out what I'm here for and

figuring out what my journey is I find

I'm constantly learning from so each

year is just this new discovery of the

more gifts she has tell me about your

gift um I can read auras with people

that I've been living with for a while

like my mom okay my brother I always

realize like yeah she has this orange

glow about her new something that I okay

say it's orange orange you know I don't

see him what about your father's aura

um I'd say my brother's auras like a

light blue he's definitely a blue

because I find blue to be like strong

and it can kind of be cold or even

aggressive a cold blue was it any wonder

her brother was called Azure Sarafina

seemed to spend a lot of time comparing

herself to her older brother the more

she talked to him the more I sensed the

dynamic between them could be the key to

something and what was it like growing

up with an indigo sister

Seraphina is a lot more artistic and

creative than I am um and she has a very

different way of viewing things than I

do and I think I was like obviously a

large source of our confrontations and

academically schools comes it much

easier to me than it has to start via

that's not to say with lack of trying on

her part but for me it was like school

was always a second thought it was like

whatever I want to do and then sure I'll

get my days and then move on whereas for

Serafina she really had to like sit down

and you know contain her attention on

the one topic at hand do you have any

interest in that sort of esoteric realm

ooh into vibrations crystals those sorts

of things

that completely honest that that just

grated I wait okay I thought I want to

hear that it makes you what it makes me

like it makes me laugh almost like it's

like it's a joke the significance of her

being some type of like I don't know

like yeah okay

like I understand she's a unique

individual but like to put a label on

that it's like as an indigo child I am

not really you know if there's gonna be

like a new wave where they lead our our

world or civilize I get her their

creativity I maybe I don't know but

probably not probably not know okay I

think they'd have trouble with their

shopping list you know just yeah things

done as yo was right as an indigo I did

have a great deal of trouble with my own

shopping list but then taking over the

world is frankly a completely different

skill set in a world of online auto

diagnoses quizzes indigo is long since

spread its tentacles outside of the

realms of psychic fairs to the hip-hop

community together with the likes of Pro

era and Flatbush zombies the

underachievers are popularizers of an

esoteric rap phenomenon some called

beast coast preaching the gospel of

indigo through their music I went to New

York's Webster Hall for their homecoming

show so what the in the girls

out in the building I'm here real quick

I said where my in The

Gazette

Oh Oh

bishop are going for you guys I don't

think I'll be everywhere I'm never in

there for you guys made me pop my those

United generation I don't think that boy

to succeed but in the past two years or

three years it was trying to do it

passionately we've come far I mean what

do you think of the link between a DD

and indigo do you think there is a case

for the counter-argument that like some

kids diagnosis into go when they should

be on medication I don't believe in ADHD

um cuz when I was younger I was like

smart but I was like very uh bad in

class like mushy Vyas

so I'm they wanted to put me on ritalin

in like a dural thank God for my mom she

was like no way doing that I seen

that they kept telling kids that they

had ADHD a lot of kids on my generation

test I do research on you online thanks

to the internet I came across indigo so

then I just went on a mission from the

then for me telling as many kids like yo

you're not hyperactive you're probably

indigo that's where it all started so

they like that diagnosis indigo yeah but

is everyone you know Hindi go is that

like a kind of a blanket statement mean

what percentage of your finest indigo

ever you are yeah everyone is everyone

okay it's because of the power of the

internet right

it's linking us up in a way that we've

never been able to link her before the

indigo she became the universal

conscience that's like my religion and

what I believe in that's pretty much

saying that God is the combination of

every single living thing on the planet

but the problem is that to be out

country lines are divided by economic

class and weight class and intelligence

and color and race and culture and

religion and all these other ways are

dividing us we lose we lose track of the

connection that really keeps us together

hearing us a talk about this global

lattice of weirdos and creatives he was

hooking up was as powerful a vision of

culture as I'd heard in quite some time

indigo I know he was a special kid as

the night wore on indigo and branding

mixed easily I did also wonder what

indigo was doing to their health because

I've never seen so many medical

marijuana prescription was in my life

around 1:00 a.m. is it decided to teach

me a funky new hip-hop dance called the

elephant my standing had fallen sharply

within the rap community since I'd

failed to learn how to dougie so it

seemed a chance worth taking

I felt really bad spinning the string

but then as an indigo I knew he'd

forgive me that's how it works right

I'm at the end of my quest I'm exhausted

my aura is just a pool of muddy brown

cosmic sweat dripped around me I've been

promised a series of Golden Gods but

overall I can't say I've been overly

convinced by the extrasensory powers of

the people I've met

overall indigo seems to be a catch-all

for a range of new-age experiences

talking to angels color therapy

sensitivity to others these have all

been around for hundreds of years

why is indigo happening now because

people need it like any religion

Indigo's externalize a higher power

which then validates their own sense of

internal specialness that's not always a

problem the more I've interacted with

the Indigo tribe the more I've come to

see them as an important rebuttal to the

idea that medicating anyone can solve

their problems some people just are

different they learn differently they

think unconventionally we're all told

we're special it's just when some people

are told they're more special than

others that the awkwardness starts to

creep in