by feenx 35 Replies latest jw friends
I believe in it. I read the book years ago, and gave it to somebody else to read, so I don't have it in my library anymore.
I do think, however, that some people took the term and hyped it up and turned it into a cottage industry, so to speak.
True indigos are real, but now it has become a FAD to say your child is an Indigo.....So the seed of truth has gotten hidden
among all the fashionable books and articles written about it.
Terry.....Thank you for your beautiful post!!! (((hugs)))
Now this is really interesting, reading about the concept on Wikipedia:
"The term Indigo children originates from the 1982 book 'Understanding Your Life Through Color,' by Nancy Ann Tappe. Tappe, a synesthete and psychic, claimed to possess the ability to perceive people's auras. She wrote that during the late 1970s she began noticing that many children were being born with "indigo" auras."
Now, I am both autistic (Asperger's) and a synesthete, and I have long suspected that the seeing of auras is a form of synesthesia. It provides a very natural explanation that accommodates the apparent facts that (1) perceiving auras is a REAL EXPERIENCE for those who see them, and (2) the lack of evidence that the auras have a PHYSICAL REALITY (pseudoscientic claims notwithstanding). I have been struck by the phenomenology between seeing auras and synesthesia; in a sense, I see auras, but not with people but with sounds, music, numbers, and letters (rarely emotions, when I am highly emotional). I don't know whether it really is the case here, but my gut suspicion is that Tappe has a form of synesthesia that allows her to perceive other people's behavior and/or emotional display in color. Maybe that is where the "indigo" concept originated, and then it took a life of its own as a social phenomenon within the New Age movement.
Leolaia
Have you read "The Man Who Tasted Shapes" by Richard E. Cytowic, M.D. This book caught my eye years
ago because all my life I have "heard" colors in names. That sounds strange and when I was a kid, I just assumed
everybody did. Later, when I would say things like, "He has a green name," or "She has a white name with flecks of
pink in it," people thought that strange. I read this book and discovered that my "condition", though unusual, is not
by itself. It's called synesthesia.
Cool, another synesthete on the board! :) When I went to a conference many years ago, I discovered that two people I knew already had synesthesia as well. It's just not the kind of thing that comes up in conversation. Yeah, I have that book, in addition to a few others. Here is a post I wrote a few years ago on my synesthesia:
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/114668/1.ashx
Also, you may be interested to know that F. H. Robison, one of the Watchtower directors imprisoned with Rutherford in 1918, was also a synesthete -- as he wrote a flurry of articles in the Golden Age about it. Here is a volume that republishes his articles:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1411687752/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
Quite fascinating that he turned his synesthesia into religious doctrine.
I've heard of Indigo Girls.
Very interesting...
I see numbers in colour. When I worked at the bank and counted money regularly, I used to know which hundred I was counting by its colour (first hundred - white, second hundred - straw yellow with the consistency of scratchy straw, third - royal blue with silver flecks, etc.)
I also see auras.
I didn't realise that the seeing of auras could be related to synesthesia.
Sirona
Interesting. Also my mom sees auras and her niece has synesthesia and of course I have synesthesia. Unfortunately, we wouldn't know for sure about a link unless there is a valid scientific study on the relationship between the two, but I think it's a strong possibility.
first autistic child I had would be accompanying me down to the nearest casino for some card counting action.........if we came back skint....he would be dragged down to the orphanage by his ear
Interesting. Also my mom sees auras and her niece has synesthesia and of course I have synesthesia. Unfortunately, we wouldn't know for sure about a link unless there is a valid scientific study on the relationship between the two, but I think it's a strong possibility.
My little granddaughter evidently has a bit of synesthesia. I first realized it when she was looking around my flower beds and named a flower Lola. I asked her why she named it that and she said because its color is the same color as the name Lola. Then I questioned her about other names and she had a color for each one. Fascinating. Let me also mention that she is way above average for her age and has used four syllable words since she was three. There are other amazing things about her, but you all would just think I was a proud bragging grandma if I went on about her.
the one "indigo" child i ever met was hardly notable or memorable save the fact his mother was WAY out on the fringe..... anything new age was gospel to her
other than that i dont know enough to have anything other than an uninformed opinion that anything is possible.... maybe
i do want to add that i have seen several documentaries on synesthesia, and while i can, in a state of relaxed concentration see auras ( people, animals, plants), i do not have an involuntary and automatic capacity and i cannot recall ever having seen it in relation to abstract concepts.... i have tried to describe what i see to others by referring to the aurora borealis..... same colours and shimmering opalescence.....
