Indigo Adults: Understanding Who You Are and What You Can Become
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Indigo Adults: Understanding Who You Are and What You Can Become
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Overview
- Unusual sensitivities?
- Feelings of being separate or misunderstood?
- Frustrations and dissatisfactions with the "normal" world?
- A deep feeling, thinking, and introspective nature?
- A driving need to contribute to creating a better world?
- A powerful longing for something more?
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781601630674 |
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| Publisher: | Red Wheel/Weiser |
| Publication date: | 05/01/2009 |
| Edition description: | First Edition |
| Pages: | 240 |
| Sales rank: | 523,788 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.20(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.60(d) |
About the Author
Ritama Davidson is a gifted energy worker and international seminar leader whose unique sensitivity allows her to accurately diagnose and guide people on the path of inner development. She is the co-founder of Essence Training and has been a dancer, choreographer and practitioner of Shiatsu massage and body-oriented therapy. Together they run the Essence Training Institute, an Inner Work School. They live in the Caribbean.
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CHAPTER 1
What Are Indigo Souls?
What are Indigo Souls?
Why is the Indigo phenomenon happening?
To understand Indigo Souls it is helpful to know a little about astrological cycles — the "bigger picture" of unfolding time.
We are all intimately familiar with astrology: the rhythms of day and night, and the cycle of the seasons — the phases of life created by the movement of the celestial bodies. The seasons particularly exemplify the essence of astrology: growth, flowering, decay, and quiescence.
This seasonal cycle is broken down into 12 phases of development, with each phase being represented as one of the zodiacal signs. The cycle starts with the sign Aries — the first day of spring — representing beginnings, birth, and emergence. The cycle then progresses around the zodiac through Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, and so forth, to end with the sign of Pisces, representing ending, completion, and return.
There is an even larger cycle at work than the yearly seasonal cycle, called the Great Year. It is formed by the precession of the equinoxes, and creates a cycle of 25,920 years. Because of complex celestial mechanics, the first day of spring, the spring equinox, slowly moves backward (precession) around the zodiac by one astrological sign every 2,160 years. This 2,160-year period we call an age (the Age of Pisces, the Age of Aquarius, and so forth).
About 2,000 years ago the first day of spring was aligned with the meeting point of Aries and Pisces. This meeting point is called a cusp. (This is an approximate beginning point. The exact degree of the beginnings of the signs is not known. The cusp period lasts a couple hundred years.) Since then, the first day of spring has been moving backward through the sign of Pisces. It is for this reason that the past 2,000 years is referred to as the Piscean Age.
Why is this important? The best analogy is to imagine the signs of the zodiac as celestial lenses, with each lens having a particular coloring. When the Earth is aligned with a particular lens — for example, Pisces — then the energies of Pisces flow into the Earth sphere. To help understand how these energy streams affect the Earth, think of the full moon. When we are under a full moon, it affects the waters of the planet and we have our highest tides. The full moon affects us personally, too. Sometimes we can't sleep well, or our emotions are stimulated. In a similar way the energies of an astrological age influence our planet and our psyches.
Each age creates its own "mood." It brings to the foreground certain archetypal images, beliefs, and paradigms, and stimulates certain chakras within the human energy field with their corresponding thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. The energies of an age are an immensely powerful force shaping our lives in countless ways: the psychology of the peoples of that age, the form of religion and spirituality, the structure of society, and the very fabric of civilization.
Let's look at some examples. The Arian Age (the age that came before Pisces, approximately 2160 BC–0) was characterized by the sign Aries (the ram) and the planet Mars. Aries carries the energies of assertion, initiation, expansion, will, and war. It is associated with and stimulates some of the qualities of the first or base chakra — aggression — and some of the qualities of the third or solar plexus chakra — domination, power, and conquest. (The word chakra comes from Sanskrit and is used to refer to one of the seven energy centers within the human energy system. We will use both chakra and center throughout the book to describe these energetic vortexes.) The Arian Age was an age of empire, war, and expansion. It was dominated by Mars, the god of war, and the symbol for male virility. The energies of an age are exemplified in its symbols and myths. Some of the gods of the Arian Age were the warlike Marduk of Babylon and the wrathful Yahweh of the Old Testament. The development of the Roman Kingdom (753 BC) exemplifies the energies of this period.
We are most familiar with the Piscean energies of the last 2,000 years, as our current civilization and psyche are still so highly influenced by them. The birth of Christianity is the "event" that ushered in the Piscean Age and has colored this past 2,000 years. The symbol of the sign Pisces is the fish. The two tails of the fish were the early symbol of Christianity. And the Christ, suffering for humanity on the cross, is a powerful symbol of the Piscean themes of sacrifice, suffering, redemption, and transcendence.
Pisces is a water sign. Water is the element of feelings and emotions. Pisces is connected to religion and spirituality (operating through the seventh or crown chakra), the basic emotions connected to family and to our inner child (the second or sacral chakra), and the heart, connected with love and compassion (the fourth or heart chakra). The result of the Piscean influence has been to turn the focus of humanity toward love, spirituality, and the "other world" in an emotional and innocent, or childlike, way. The influence of Pisces has been a major step on the evolutionary journey of humanity. It began to shift the energies from the war-like mode of the Arian Age toward love and forgivingness, as exemplified by Jesus and his teachings. It has changed the old mode of "an eye for an eye" to a new understanding of turning the other cheek and loving your neighbor as you would love yourself.
The emotional nature of Pisces has created an emotional/devotional approach to spirit. It has emphasized feeling-based communion and the attitudes of belief and faith, rather than understanding. It is a sign of service and sacrifice, and of compassion and forgivingness, keynotes of the Christian era. But Pisces is also a sign of self-denial and personal condemnation (mea culpa), in which suffering is seen as a way to cleanse our soul, and our personal joy in this life should be sacrificed for eternal happiness in the afterworld.
The Energies of Aquarius
At this moment we are in the meeting point of Pisces and Aquarius. The energies of Aquarius are starting to penetrate the Earth. Although they are beginning to be felt, it is only a beginning, and the Piscean energies are still the dominant "note." This is for two reasons: First, we still exist in the Piscean structure of civilization, which has been built over the last 2,000 years, and second, the Piscean energies, though waning, are still flowing on to the Earth.
At the same time, we have a steadily increasing inflow of energies from Aquarius, bringing new paradigms, ways of thought, feelings, and behaviors. The cusp is a transition between the old and the new. Two ages are meeting. Both energies are present; it is a dynamic and exciting time.
What is Aquarius bringing? Some of its keynotes are freedom, progressiveness, individuality, intellectual understanding, and group consciousness. We first began to feel these Aquarian energies on the planet when the spring equinox entered the cusp between Pisces and Aquarius, roughly in the 1700s.
Every age begins with one or more keynote events that "strike the chord" of the themes and energies for that age. The formation of the United States, with its constitutional bases of freedom of speech and religion, and its structure of many individual states joined together in a common union, is one of the powerful symbols for the themes of this coming age.
Aquarius is an air sign. Air is the element of the mind. Aquarius works primarily through the third eye (the sixth chakra) at the center of the forehead. This chakra has to do with two levels of our intelligence: the analytic mind and the intuition. The increased stimulation of the third eye through the incoming Aquarian energies is awakening in humanity a new level of mental activity, understanding, and intuition into the subtle worlds.
This opening of the third eye is one of the main underlying causes of the many developments we have seen in society over the last couple of centuries. Let us emphasize this point. Imagine that the energies of an age come in and stimulate specific centers in the human psyche. The activity of these centers creates a new level of thought and behavior that then externalizes as culture and civilization. An age emerges from inside of us and then gets expressed outward.
The Industrial Revolution, then the discovery of electricity (electricity is ruled by the sign of Aquarius), and now the emergence of the Information Age are the result of the new capacities of intelligent thought that are emerging through our third eye.
This stimulation of the third eye and the mind creates a fundamentally different psychology in the Aquarian person, a psychology based upon an increased activity of the mind. We have a new level of intellectual activity, and one of its most potent manifestations is our desire to understand. Our minds are questing. We want to know. The average person in the First World can read and write, uses a computer, and lives in a world of technological and scientific marvels. We approach life not only with feeling but also with the mind. We don't believe because someone tells us to; we want information, facts, reasons, and proof. And we want the freedom to make our own informed decisions.
This capacity of intelligence is not the only capacity that is unfolding through the third eye. The third eye has two aspects, referred to as "petals." The lower petal holds the analytical mind, with its faculty of intelligent thought and reasoning. It is this petal that is responsible for the qualities of intelligence mentioned previously. The upper petal holds what is commonly called the intuition. We use the word intuition in a particular way: It refers to another sense apparatus that gives us the ability to tune to a subtle world of energy, thought, and feeling.
Most of us are familiar with the use of the word intuition in a more down-to-earth sense, like a mother's intuition, but there is another level as well. We are speaking here of a type of intuition that is connected to a higher knowing, to a spiritual type of knowledge. This type of intuition perceives in terms of larger gestalts and interrelationships that exist within and around us. It's connected to a higher mental capacity that has to do with Beingness and the Soul. It's from here that insight comes, often as an unexpected flash of clarity or illumination, and from here that genius draws its inspiration.
Another facet of this intuitive capacity is the ability to self-reflect. It is through the upper petal of the third eye that we can examine our own thoughts and feelings. This may not sound like much. Anyone can easily say, "Of course I can examine my own thoughts and feelings. I know when I'm angry, sad, or happy. What's the big deal?"
But this something more. It's the ability to look deeper into our feelings, to sense the subtle nuances, and to understand our deeper psychological motivations. We can trace what appears to be a momentary feeling back in time to our past, to our childhood upbringing, perhaps even further. We can see how this feeling or pattern may have been passed down to us from our grandparents or our great-grandparents, or perhaps even from previous incarnations. This ability to self-reflect at these depths is a new type of thinking that has only recently emerged on a widespread level. Its emergence within our psyche has given birth to the field of psychology and to the widespread interest in self-development.
Another aspect of the upper petal is the need to find higher meaning and significance. We live for values and purpose. We have a sophisticated worldview, a weltanschauung, in which we perceive our interrelationship with the larger whole, and we seek to find our place and make our contribution. We begin to recognize that there is a great interweaving of life — that we are not separate individuals, but are rather part of an interwoven fabric of energy. We see that each part is related to every other part and that everything affects everything else.
It is the inflowing energies of Aquarius and their stimulation of the upper petal of the third eye that is one of the primary forces creating what is commonly called the New Age movement. If you think about it, the New Age movement is the reflection of our emerging capacity to look more deeply at ourselves; our desires to know who we really are; our explorations into the subtle forces of psychology, energy, the soul, and spirit; and our awareness of our interrelationship with the larger whole.
The Indigo Soul Group
Each astrological age brings in not only the energies of that sign, which then play upon the planet, but it also brings in a specific group of souls. What this means is that there are different soul groups, and each group is aligned or associated with a particular sign. There was a soul group that was part of the Piscean Age and carried the Piscean energies. This was the group that was primarily in incarnation during the Piscean Age. Now, as the Aquarian Age comes in, we have the Aquarian energies playing upon the planet and the Aquarian soul group coming into incarnation.
The Aquarian soul group that is incarnating now has significant differences from the Piscean soul group. They have different activities in their chakras with the resultant differences in psychology, thought, feeling, and behavior.
These souls first began to incarnate in the 1700s. At that time there was only a trickle of them. They incarnated into a Piscean culture and civilization, carrying new ideas and energies that were very different than what was then the norm. In a sense these individuals seeded the Piscean culture with Aquarian energies. They were the first faint green shoots of what, over centuries, will grow into full bloom.
Indigo Soul Time Line
The Unfolding of an Age:
An age begins with an inflow of new energies. Shortly after, souls connected with that sign begin to incarnate. These souls bring new ideas and ways of living that gradually create changes in the structure and organization of society.
The Meeting of Two Ages:
As a new age starts coming in the previous age begins to wane. During this period, called the cusp, both ages are present. Two great streams of energy are meeting. It is a time of cultures in collision.
Group 1:
Indigo energies and Indigo Souls began coming onto the planet around the early 1700s. These early incarnators have the toughest job of "breaking the ice" and bringing in the first of the new energies. They have ushered in the Industrial Revolution, electricity, scientific thought, and the new ideals of liberty and freedom.
Group 2:
We are now in a culture in transition, and it is a time of sweeping change. Something new has been born within you and within the culture. This became especially obvious with the new spirit that emerged in the 1960s. But there is still much struggle as we wrestle with the outer layers of our personality and the outer establishment, both of which still carry much of the old.
We Stand Today Between Two Ages
This brings us to where we are today: We exist in the cusp period between two ages. On the one hand we have the Piscean Age, which has externalized and crystallized an entire civilization with its institutions, religions, organizations, cultures, and ways of being. And on the other hand, we have the incoming Aquarian energies and the corresponding soul group, what we are calling Indigo, coming into incarnation in greater and greater numbers and gradually unfolding what will in time become the next culture and civilization.
So we have two radically different forces at work today: an established age with a crystallized planetary culture that is in decline, and a new and very small minority of people and ideas that are the first seeds of what will become the next age. An interesting moment to be alive — and a very interesting moment if you are an Indigo Soul carrying the new energies.
It was only recently (the past 10 years or so) that the Indigo phenomena gained public attention. It began because schools and parents were noticing a growing number of children who were "different." These kids were highly individual, rebellious, and very intelligent, and didn't fit the established school system. They had unusually fast minds that moved at a different pace than that of "normal" kids (the attention deficit disorder syndrome). They had a different spirit, way of relating, and sense of who they were.
A psychic observing these children coined the name "Indigo Children" to describe them because of the indigo color in their aura. The color of the third eye is indigo. In these children the third eye is highly active, and the color indigo radiates from the third eye and colors their entire aura.
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Table of Contents
Preface,
Chapter 1 What Are Indigo Souls?,
Chapter 2 The Changing of an Age,
Chapter 3 The Nature of Indigo Souls, Part I: Freedom, Vision, Truth Sense, and the Need to Grow,
Chapter 4 The Nature of Indigo Souls, Part II: Sensitivity, Holistic Thought, Heartfulness, and the New Spirituality,
Chapter 5 The Purpose of Indigo Souls,
Chapter 6 The New Archetypes,
Chapter 7 The New Man and the New Woman,
Chapter 8 Indigos in Love,
Chapter 9 Indigo Souls and the Upper Chakras,
Chapter 10 The Big Picture,
Appendix Are You an Indigo Adult?,
Index,
About the Authors,