Indigo Children

Maynard James Keenan's latest side project, Puscifer released their first album this week. I of course proceeded to download a few of the tracks off of Limewire. I fell in love with this song which was titled "Indigo Children."

It was much softer than any of MJK's other work. And the guitar and drum beats seemed kind of dull. Still I thought, well, he is trying something new. Maybe he just threw this one together without the normal depth and thinking process he usually puts into his work.

But then the voice wasnt quite right...it seemed platonic. If you can use the word platonic to describe a voice...

So, I looked up the lyrics to "Indigo Children". The song I had been playing over and over wasn't Puscifer at all. It was a band called Living Syndication and the song is actually called "Something More".

AHAH!

MKJ hasnt gone completely soft.

However, the song lyrics from "Something More"

A rented house can hold
no home
No memories
You're brought up proud
but you can't run from
your family tree
You're spending all this
time alone
it's them or me..

seemed to to fit with the definition of an indigo child. Or at least it did in my mind.

An indigo child is a child who is percieved as having paranormal abilities. Namely reading minds. However, it happens these children are just more intuitive to those around them and their feelings and thoughts. These indigo children are often raised by New Age parents who dote on their children's "abilities". So there is a battle over whether these children really are special or are just doted on by their parents so much that the children grow up believing they have super powers.

The educational/scientific community seems to suggest that Indigo Children are nothing more than children with undiagnosed of misdiagnosed ADHD. As Indigo Children exhibit many of the same characteristics of those children with ADHD. The Indigo child is prone to depression and antisocial behavior. New Agers say this is because of their highly attuned perception to the environment around them. Hell, I think children in general are very highly attuned to the emotions and feelings of situations around them.

Indigo Children is a very interesting concept and reminds me of the little boy in The Sixth Sense.

But back to the "Something More" lyrics. If this Indigo Child idea really is something that New Age parents push on their kid, then I can see how the child would grow up believing they are really something special because of their doting parents. Then they are forced to leave home and join "the real world" where being proud of being able to read minds is only going to get them labeled as crazy. They are then forced to live in even more isolation than when they were a child. This isolation leads to depression, anger, and then resentment onto the family they were raised by for raising them to feel as if they were special.