Explaining to others you're an indigo...

Zen · #1 (**permalink**) 12-27-2006, 04:14 PM

Hi! Wasn't sure where to post this? But how have people explained to parents, relations or friends that they are an indigo?

I'm from an average family with a non-spiritual background so I have discovered that I'm an indigo by chance. I can't say I know anybody who is indigo either. If there are others who were/are in a similar situation, how have you explained the indigo concept and that you are one? Or do you keep it quiet? Would like to hear of any experiences.

moonchild · #2 (**permalink**) 12-27-2006, 07:58 PM

hiya zen,
been thinking about your question for a while, i've generaly noticed that that some people just don't want to hear it/ know it, and to me simply seem to be not ready for it. so with them i keep quiet. with my mother for instance i wouldn't know where to start, she is a beautiful woman, and as far as i'm conserned a gifted and light being, but when ever i bring up the subject she looks at me with the same eye's she did when i came home with a purple hair cut or new metal in my face... the "grow up" face, or "what am i going to do with you stop being silly face".
so... generaly when i sence someone isn't ready to hear/know i keep quiet.
funny thing is lately while keeping quiet, i feel i some how eminate even stronger (if that makes any sence), and i seem to meet more and more moonchildren (indigo's). that immideatly become my new best friends.
maybe it has to do with where i'm living now (around taos, new mexico).
i'm also having trouble introducing the subject to my roommates! a young married couple. but instead of plain telling them and trying to explane (which hasn't been working, i sence i lose them quickly in conversation), i try to show them.
i try to comunicate with them through ways other then speach, to help realize that while useing the feeilngs that they call love and compation (big words), as comunication tools they might understand and realize much more than they do. and in the prossess learn to comunicate with me and other moonchildren (indigos), or anybody for that matter. i generaly feel that when i am fully present (if that makes sence), things tend to be clearer and to move faster.
it's taking time... small steps.... mybe soon a big breakthrough...

Zen · #3 (**permalink**) 12-29-2006, 11:12 AM

Wow, great reply, thank you!

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Originally Posted by moonchild

...funny thing is lately while keeping quiet, i feel i some how eminate even stronger (if that makes any sence)...

Yep, I can relate to this. For all the years I've felt like an odd one out, maybe now I'm starting to realise it's actually because of a greater cause?

CuteGothPirate · #4 (**permalink**) 12-29-2006, 07:01 PM

I try not to tell anyone, unless I'm drunk, then I try to tell everyone (that gets me in trouble). Most of the time I use my *talents* to try and convince people the existance of Fate and God, and the connection in all things. And if they already believe in that, I get them to pray, or to talk to God openly. I show up, I help them out, they try to give me money or things, and I tell them to talk to God or Pray, or go back to church, and remind them that Angels exist. And then I just... disappear.

itzamna · #5 (**permalink**) 12-30-2006, 01:51 AM

nobody knows it about me(i don't know yet if i am!). although my best friend has an indigo cousin and believes in these things i don't dare and don't wish to tell anyone about this. in my weird and low-level country someone has to remain "silent", otherwise many times many people laugh at him or even reject him.. LOL!

Thomas12 · #6 (**permalink**) 12-30-2006, 02:25 AM

If you change things to the better you will be recognized and you can be silent in it. There is no need to tell. This is not everyones mission. Words can can not express the inner being, you do not have to label yourself.......it just confuses others....

loveismyreligion · #7 (**permalink**) 01-14-2007, 05:20 PM

honestly, no.

i havent spoken to any family or friends/acquaintances about this whole thing. i havent felt the need really. [[shrugs]]

Bunneh · #8 (**permalink**) 01-16-2007, 07:56 AM

I've been very lucky, I have grown up in a very alternative spiritual family. My mother is a phenomenal lightworker who has channelled for years. Her gift was initially opened when she joined a spiritual group called Subud in the 1960s, which involves opening the person up to their higher self and the worship or their creator... very beautiful.
Myself and my brother are indigos, it is interesting we are the two youngest, and were both born after our parents were opened in Subud. We are both born on the 22nd which is a master number, and have both had very similar typical indigo/lightworker/starseed journeys. Our two elder brothers born pre-subud are both very different from us, and they are both born on the 3rd of the month.... interesting I think.
I'm being long winded.... Ummmmm so what I was getting at is that within a certain part of the family unit I can be quite free with this information. With the outside world, i don't go out there waving the indigo banner, but if people start to speak of similar experiences, I will share with them the indigo phenomenon....
I have to admit I haven't met many people I would recognise as indigos.. and having taught in schools it saddened me that I recognised maybe two children as being indigo/rainbow/crystal kids. I hope there is more out there than what I am seeing *fingers crossed*.

indigostars · #9 (**permalink**) 01-19-2007, 12:00 PM

My dad was the one who introduced me to the concept so my parents are supportive and realize that I am "different."

...friends are a different story. I told my best friend, and she basically thought I was crazy. I told my other best friend, and he looked into it, did some research, and it turns out, he might be an Indigo too. It's great. We share experiences, thoughts, beliefs, everything.

I don't plan on telling anyone else. I don't know anyone besides him (my second friend) who would be as open minded as you have to be to accept the idea of being an Indigo.

Xarthalas · #10 (**permalink**) 01-30-2007, 03:43 PM

I try to judge whether or not me telling someone is going to be of value to either me or the other person or both.

If it serves no purpose, then why tell, you know?
If the other person is not open to it, it's like talking to a brick wall, if you don't feel like telling, then don't.

Your instincts will flawlessly tell you whether or not someone is open to a usually new concept like this. Follow your heart.

Righteous_Morality · #11 (**permalink**) 01-30-2007, 06:52 PM

I tend to just keep to myself my own abilities, until the time comes when I need them, or when I can present them. What I would do is just start up a conversation. Ask them if they'd ever heard of the Indigo children, and then go on from there. Of course, this also depends upon the situation. If you really think they should know, then tell them, or if you want to tell them, just do it. That's what I would do. Of course, I don't feel that those that I could tell something like that would know much of what I was talking about anyway, so it wouldn't really matter.

Luckily enough, my mom is encouraging of such things like that and gives me a lot of support. My best friends somtimes touch on the subject, but I only share some things with them, depending upon how openminded they are. My grandfather especially, he marvels at some of the things that I've done without even trying, things that he has been practicing to do for years and is still unable to do them.

Well, I hope that helps. I could really only say what I would do, but I am a conversationalist and I throw things out there at the right moment depending upon the situation.

Eden_roe · #12 (**permalink**) 01-30-2007, 09:36 PM

I never really knew of the term indigo child until recently...but i have always aproached certain people about my feelings on things and find that i can put myself on their wavelength (?) and speak to them in such a way that they understand ... It's hard for me to xplain, but...I do the same thing as you

pretty much i just never knew what to call myself...just that i had to open people's minds to the fact that there is more going on than they can just "see".

jessikerlaine · #13 (**permalink**) 01-31-2007, 12:39 AM

I know that I've spooked a few people by letting things "slip" that I'm picking up from them, espcially if they're around when I'm getting tired... but then I just kind of brush it off, because if they're spooked they've probably not been having the same experiences. The only person to know aside from my hubby, my parents &sister, and a couple of friends is my best friend, who was the reason I found out I was "different" anyhow - we watched Stir of Echoes, and it hadn't occured to me that the reason the movie was scary was because not everyone "sees people," and I said something and she looked at me like I was crazy....

But she's cool now.

ocean_soul · #14 (**permalink**) 01-31-2007, 12:25 PM

Well, the term Indigo is new to me as well and my abilities never really manifested themselves until after The Great Meltdown of 2003.

After that I started to get visits from entities and stuff like that and I talked to an online friend about it (since she was into that sort of thing and my family isn't). It wasn't until months later that I tried telling my parents and sister about what I was experiencing (and more specifically about my "spirit family"). They wanted me to talk to a priest and my sister kept asking me to test my "spirit family" to make sure they weren't demons or anything, even when I told her repeatedly that they're not (they're just not human, or from this planet, or from this timeline ¬_¬).

It wasn't until much later when I told my sister that I had stopped talking to my online friend did she realize that it wasn't my "spirit family" that was giving her bad vibes, it was my online friend.

Ah well, wish I had known that sooner...

I haven't told anyone here (and by here, I mean Pittsburgh) what I've experienced, but I am able to talk to online friends about in, since many of them are pagan/agnostic/open-minded. Mostly I talk to my best friend about it, he has a much greater handle on his abilities than I do, but he doesn't consider himself Indigo.

Sarcinarious Joe! · #15 (**permalink**) 02-04-2007, 08:29 AM

Oh I find these threads so amusing. They remind me of coming out of the closet.

Anyway, when I go about explaining to people that I'm indigo I explain it like this. There's a phonomena called the indigo children. They have a set of certain abilities. I have those abilities too. The indigo phenomena is also linked with bullshit new agers, extra-planetary missions, missions from god, relations to angels, and people who identify as indigo because they want to feel special about themselves. Although there is a lot to discredit the indigo "generation" there are a collective group of people who do contain these traits. Indigo is just a name for it and names are often abused.

It's not often that I tell people I'm indigo. I told my mom a few times because I thought she would be then be able to form more informed reactions to my peculiar behavior, but she never listens to what I say. She doesn't even care when I ask her if she wants to know the meaning of life.

Certain people recognize me as indigo. Psychics and such. And though I do enjoy the recognition, it doesn't take much psychic prowess to coin me as an indigo. I wear skeleton keys around my neck and a Nikola Telsa patch on my back. Actually, it sometimes bothers me when a psychic emphasizes my creativity in a reading. My creativity is usually rendered obvious due to my appearance, and it shows a lack of creativity on the psychic's part when they resort to ego boosters about my own creativity and skim past the real point.

There are also those who recognize my energy on either a concious or subconcious level, knowing nothing of indigos, but knowing that I am different. I have a friend who is indigo/crystal. She and I both know we are indigos, but we leave it unspoken. Well not completely unspoken. We'll have conversations about the indigos and how there are a lot of self identified but false indigos out there. That's why we don't call ourselves indigo/crystal when we talk about it. We don't feel like accepting some of the faulty new age misconceptions.

Although I will identify as indigo on things like myspace ect, it's just the same as being gay. Don't have to be too overt or covert or build an identity around it. It's a part of me, but it is not the sum of me. Indigo is sort of like a body part, like an arm. Don't have to make too much of a big deal about it, but I do appreciate it. Actually, it's sort of like a third arm, and wouldn't somebody with a third arm like to meet others with a third arm?

Bunneh · #16 (**permalink**) 02-04-2007, 10:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Sarcinarious Joe!

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The indigo phenomena is also linked with bullshit new agers, extra-planetary missions, missions from god, relations to angels, and people who identify as indigo because they want to feel special about themselves. Although there is a lot to discredit the indigo "generation" there are a collective group of people who do contain these traits. Indigo is just a name for it and names are often abused.
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We'll have conversations about the indigos and how there are a lot of self identified but false indigos out there. That's why we don't call ourselves indigo/crystal when we talk about it. We don't feel like accepting some of the faulty new age misconceptions.
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Although I will identify as indigo on things like myspace ect, it's just the same as being gay. Don't have to be too overt or covert or build an identity around it. It's a part of me, but it is not the sum of me. Indigo is sort of like a body part, like an arm. Don't have to make too much of a big deal about it, but I do appreciate it. Actually, it's sort of like a third arm, and wouldn't somebody with a third arm like to meet others with a third arm?

I completely agree! It drives me mad how people want to be spiritually cool, so they join the indigo bandwagon. There is a lot of codswallop attached to the indigo label. I came in knowing 'who' I was, but I don't really care for labels, even indigo is rather limiting in my perception. I don't tell anybody about being an 'indigo'. I will discuss it with my mother and brother who are both aware of the phenomenon, but beyond that, I don't really share my spiritual aspect with anybody. This forum is interesting because you can detect similarities with others, and detect the differences with the indigo bandwagoners. Lol.. indigos see straight through untruths.

Zen · #17 (**permalink**) 02-05-2007, 02:53 AM

Superb replies everyone!

Joe and Bunneh, you've hit the nail right on the head, thank you. One of things I find difficult is the fact I don't feel spiritual, is it automatic that an indigo should be spiritual as well? I'm not sure? Also, I'm 99% certain I'm indigo as it's the only term that's ever made any sense to me, ever, but again I'm not entirely comfortable with labelling myself in such a way. As you say, it's just a part of who you are - I didn't choose it, but it's a part of me.

And as mentioned above, being able to tell if someone is ready to understand... When I look at the people around me, I know they're not ready.

Eden_roe · #18 (**permalink**) 02-06-2007, 10:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Bunneh

I completely agree! It drives me mad how people want to be spiritually cool, so they join the indigo bandwagon. There is a lot of codswallop attached to the indigo label. I came in knowing 'who' I was, but I don't really care for labels, even indigo is rather limiting in my perception. I don't tell anybody about being an 'indigo'. I will discuss it with my mother and brother who are both aware of the phenomenon, but beyond that, I don't really share my spiritual aspect with anybody. This forum is interesting because you can detect similarities with others, and detect the differences with the indigo bandwagoners. Lol.. indigos see straight through untruths.

That's what i am saying! lol

I always just knew that was who iwas i never had a name for it...i prefer not having a name for it. It makes more sense.

Electra · #19 (**permalink**) 02-06-2007, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Zen

Hi! Wasn't sure where to post this? But how have people explained to parents, relations or friends that they are an indigo?

I'm from an average family with a non-spiritual background so I have discovered that I'm an indigo by chance. I can't say I know anybody who is indigo either. If there are others who were/are in a similar situation, how have you explained the indigo concept and that you are one? Or do you keep it quiet? Would like to hear of any experiences.

Hi Zen

I asked everyone to watch the movie Indigo and then I burst out of the closet when they were really engrossed in the long and boring beginning part and made a funny noise and said IiiiiiiiiiiiimMmmMM Heeeeereee!!!!!!!!!!

I say let's all be 1000% who WE ARE and who WE AM and get this really big sho' on the road................! Honestly I stopped worrying about what everyone else would think and decided to figure out who I AM and BE THAT all the time. To thine own self be True BLUE, no blame, no worries, no fear, just joy.

Electra · #20 (**permalink**) 02-06-2007, 01:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Bunneh

I completely agree! It drives me mad how people want to be spiritually cool, so they join the indigo bandwagon. There is a lot of codswallop attached to the indigo label. I came in knowing 'who' I was, but I don't really care for labels, even indigo is rather limiting in my perception. I don't tell anybody about being an 'indigo'. I will discuss it with my mother and brother who are both aware of the phenomenon, but beyond that, I don't really share my spiritual aspect with anybody. This forum is interesting because you can detect similarities with others, and detect the differences with the indigo bandwagoners. Lol.. indigos see straight through untruths.

Bunneh -

You stole my soul! dAMN NOW WHAT?