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smirkymonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 08:28 PM
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Are you an Indigo Adult?
Edited on Wed Jan-26-05 09:14 PM by smirkymonkey
Notice, you must have almost all or all 25 of these symptoms to be considered an indigo adult.

http://www.metagifted.org/topics/metagifted/indigo/adultIndigos/areYouAnAdultIndigo.html

Indigo Adult Characteristics

Are intelligent, though may not have had top grades.

Are very creative and enjoy making things.

Always need to know WHY, especially why they are being asked to do something.

Had disgust and perhaps loathing for much of the required and repetitious work in school.

Were rebellious in school in that they refused to do homework and rejected authority of teachers, OR seriously wanted to rebel, but didn't DARE, usually due to parental pressure.

May have experienced early existential depression and feelings of helplessness. These may have ranged from sadness to utter despair. Suicidal feelings while still in high school or younger are not uncommon in the Indigo Adult.

Have difficulty in service-oriented jobs. Indigos resist authority and caste system of employment. (more....)
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LWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 08:54 PM
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1. I don't know.
I have 18 out of 25 characteristics; 21 out of 25 if you put the characteristic in a different setting than the one listed.

I do know that I am a teacher of Indigos; I've been aware of them for several years now, as both a blessing and an honor that I've been entrusted with.
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NEOBuckeye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 09:26 PM
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2. I had thought the Indigos were only now being born, or hadn't yet arrived?
Edited on Wed Jan-26-05 09:29 PM by NEOBuckeye
I guess there are a lot of views on this subject. I tend to subscribe to the idea that the Indigos won't truly enter the world until after the increasingly likely chaos, collapse and upheaval of the next 10 years. Maybe it's just because I'm part of this current up-and-coming generation, but I honestly don't see where any of my peers are emerging as revolutionaries or any of the sort that will do much to change the world. Too many of us are winding up disillusioned and disaffected, or else are simply status quo conformists (as evidenced by the November election), rather than emerging as proponents and pioneers of a genuine new direction for humankind.

The potential may yet be there for us, but I just don't see it in the current generation of youth.
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demgrrrll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 09:47 PM
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3. Weird about the watches. I do not ever wear a watch because they
Edited on Wed Jan-26-05 09:48 PM by demgrrrll
stop running. I thought it was strange and wondered if other people had the same problem.
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dbt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 09:57 AM
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11. Hey, demgrrrll, I got the watch problem, too!
This is the first time I've heard of anyone else who experienced the same thing: they stop running for me! Doesn't matter if they're electrical or spring-wound, they stop. I have given up wearing them.

And what about rings? I cannot wear them because they expand to where they will not stay on my fingers!

How about we start a freak show?

:hi:
dbt
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Pathwalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 11:16 AM
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13. Does anyone else 'cause' street lights to go out?
Edited on Thu Jan-27-05 11:16 AM by Notorious Bohemian
This has happened to me too many times, for too long to be mere coincidence - my hubby calls me a street light killer because they go out if I sit under them. I have noticed that this happens more regularly if I am in certain 'moods'. I once played with a certain light, and scared myself - it seemed to obey me.

I have all those characterisitics, so I guess I am one - what exactly IS an Indigo adult? At least 2 of my sons fit this too, but not to the level I do.
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Love Bug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-28-05 04:45 PM
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30. Causing street lights to go out is a form of telekenesis
I do this all the time, especially if I'm not grounded. I set off a car alarm once, too.
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Desertrose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 11:45 AM
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16. haven't been able to wear a watch since I was 12
they just quit...take em off leave em on the dressser & they're fine...put em on...they stop...doen't matter what kind...wind up or digital.....

Hey dbt- guess we are more "related" than we thought LOL

:hug:DR
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dbt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-29-05 06:36 AM
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37. DR, this IS getting a little spooky!
The good news is: it's too late to be scared anymore!

:hug:
dbt

PS: How many fingers am I holding up? (This is not a trick question.)
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Desertrose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 11:36 PM
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49. wellll...... sometimes spooky is a good thing....
right ?:)

I keep getting three.....??

:hi::hug::loveya::loveya:
DR
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Me. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-28-05 01:08 AM
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26. The Electrical Thing Blew Me Away
I never connected the dots
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-29-05 11:04 PM
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41. I've had the same problems with watches
since I was a kid. After awhile I just gave up wearing the darn things.

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smirkymonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 10:08 PM
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4. On this particular site, the author states that Indigos are now
being born at an increasing rate, however Indigo adults do exist in decreasing percentages along the age scale. Here is what she has to say about it:

"Do Adult Indigos exist? YES!!! They did not just start coming at rates of 90% of the incoming population in 1992. I believe there have always been some Indigos, the amount of which has only increased through the last 50 years or so. My guess on percentages is that Indigos make up approximately 15-25% of 20-30 year olds, 10-15% of 30-40 yr olds, 5-10% of 40-50 yr olds and 0-5% prior to that time. That's MY opinion, not a fact. Some of us are here to pave the way for today's massive influx of Indigo energy, to break down some barriers and to be advocates and support systems for these children."
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LWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 08:14 AM
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8. The Indigos are here.
I'm told that the "Crystal Children" are now being born. I don't know enough about that to really speak to it.

I'm an elementary school teacher; I can tell you that there are definitely children who are noticeably different than the norm for their age. Of course, that's always true. If you weren't looking for the characteristics of the "Indigo," you might not notice it.

I have a group of about 15 children that I have now taught for 3 years; 3 of them for 4 years in a row. That is unheard of in a public elementary school, yet somehow these kids and I keep winding up together. Several of them are indigos. One stands out so clearly from the rest that I've wondered if she is an early "crystal."

Some of the kids who I've had for the traditional one year are indigos as well; I don't know them as well as those that have grown up in my classroom, though.
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smirkymonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-28-05 05:23 PM
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33. I think my nephew is one - he's 3
but he is a very interesting child. Seems to react to things that the rest of us don't percieve. I don't see him that often due to geography, but I adore him and feel that I must "protect" him somehow. He's different, and I feel that I understand him.

He's absolutely adorable, but his parents are often confused by his behavior. I'm not, I feel like I get him completely.

One of the interesting things he does is when people mention that someone or a animal died, he will ask, "What did they die in to?". He has done this a number of times now. I think next time I will ask him more about it now that his vocabulary is getting a bit better.
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Desertrose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 12:05 PM
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18. Hi LWolf...I'm not surprised....
:hug:
I think that is one of the reasons so many adult Indigos are around...to prepare the way for more Indigos and the Crystal kids....

What an awesome thing for those kids to have you as their teacher...and for you to get so many of them in your classes.....no coincidences there I'd say. :)


I ended up with 24 characteristics....(had to deal with the rage one early on in life...you know how it is with Aries tempers, right?)

:loveya::hug:
DR
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LWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-28-05 08:23 AM
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27. Aries tempers?
I've noticed that a time or two. ;-)

I love being an Aries.

Interestingly, the vast majority of family members and people in my life have been Libras; they all pile on their end of the scale at the opposite side to balance all my Aries energy.

I agree that there are no coincidences. I have worked to cut a smooth trail for them, and they have taught me so much.

Here's another interesting tidbit.

I had them for 2 years, then sent them on to another teacher, and because of a grade level change, got them back for the 3rd time just this year. So we had a year off between the 2nd and 3rd year, except for 3 of them.

The teacher they had last year? They drove her crazy. She recognized all of the wonderful things I said about them, but just couldn't deal with the reality that they don't march in line with the rest. That they question, that they assume that their ideas and ways of doing things are just as valid as the adult's, that they drift off course to follow their own interests and ideas. That they enjoy arguing and making their points, and are not intimidated by the age of the person they are debating. That they expect that it is ok to point out discrepancies or errors on the teacher's part.

She is not alone; very few teachers want to deal with these kids. We've been lucky to "find" each other.
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Pallas180 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 10:34 PM
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48. teachers for years have shut down the intuitive children - shamefully
so many more would be functioning so much better if they hadn't tried to cookie cut every child...conform to the usual, to their normal...
detrimental for the development of people like us....

I remember "the little people" telling me that Christopher Columbus was not the first to discover America, it was Magellan....so I told that to the teacher, who scowled and yelled and shook me.

Well I wasn't supposed to know that in that year class yet...

what a horrible thing for a child to go through.

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wovenpaint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 10:08 PM
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5. Well, this explains alot!
This is very interesting-I have 23 of the 25 characteristics!
yeah, when I get disturbed/upset, all kinds of electrical troubles occur.
I believe that my children are Indigo also! They were born in early to mid-eighties. We all tend to be able to "communicate" w/each other.
Hmmm. thanks for giving me something to think about.
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Dover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-05 10:13 PM
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6. INDIGO.......the movie.
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LWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 08:17 AM
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9. Showing at a church in my community this Sunday
at a church of religious science.

I'll be there.
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SouthPasadenaDem Donating Member (171 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 12:45 AM
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7. Heavens, yes
but I always thought it was simply the result of having an overabundance of planets (five) in Aquarius. And you know how bizarre we Aquarians can be.
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hippiechick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 09:50 AM
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10. I think HippieKid is an Indigo
... she fits the description perfectly, and check out these eyes ...

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DemExpat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 10:34 AM
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12. Yes to 24 out of the 25 characteristics...
Edited on Thu Jan-27-05 10:35 AM by DemExpat
I have never noticed that electrical influence....

:kick:

As a child, my practical, Republican, hard-nosed Dad always told me to "come down to earth" !!!!
No, thanks, not to your world....:nuke:

DemEx
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Mandate My Ass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-28-05 06:50 PM
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35. Me too! every one except the electrical
Wow! I've never filled out a questionnaire where I felt someone was looking into my soul and described everything about me that I don't "volunteer" to others because I feel they haven't experienced or wouldn't understand.

I wonder if that's an Indigo trait as well.
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tanyev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 11:40 AM
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14. Never heard of Indigo kids/adults before today.
I saw a mention of it in a thread somewhere else, made a mental note to do some research, a little later popped into this forum and saw this thread. Synchronicity, eh?

Then I got an egad! intuitive flash while blow-drying my hair. Anybody else ever get those? It's not like a vision or anything, more like two pieces of a jigsaw coming together. Two (or more) seemingly unrelated pieces of information that just kind of run into each other in my mind. Certainly I sometimes get 2+2=5, or else there is no way to ever prove that my intuition was correct. But I know if anybody will respect my "flashes", it's the people in this forum.

Remember the hullabaloo about the Bush mental health screening plans? It's kind of died down now, but I suspect the plan hasn't gone away.

http://www.narpa.org/screening.htm
Bush launches controversial mental health plan

President Bush announced on 26 July that his administration has begun implementing the recommendations of the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health to "improve mental health services and support for people of all ages with mental illness" through comprehensive screening.

The plan states that schools are in a "key position" to screen the "52 million students and six million adults who work at the schools" and includes recommendations for screening preschool children (19 June, p 1458).

Mr Bush's announcement comes after new reports showing that increasing numbers of toddlers and children are being prescribed amphetamines, anti-depressants, and antipsychotic drugs. Concern that widespread screening will only increase the number of young people taking drugs has triggered criticism of the plan.


This never made sense to me because who in their right mind believes that the Bush Administration is genuinely concerned about our mental health? They are trying to cut every other social program, but they are willing to spend a lot of money on this? Some critics charged that the reason behind it is to enrich the drug companies. That may be the motive, but what if they are also looking for something? Children, especially, and adults who do not fit the "moldable" profile of their ideal society? Indigos? Medicate them before they start disrupting the status quo?

Please tell me I just had my blow-dryer on too high a setting. :tinfoilhat:

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Desertrose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 11:57 AM
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17. I don't think it was your hairdryer.....I wish
I think they are searching out anyone who does not easily fall into line & drink the tasty Koolaid...and us Indigos..well, we won't go down without a fight.

Maybe thats why more adult Indigos are waking up...to save the younger Indigos & Crystal kids......

it is scary how much this dark cabal knows and uses the information agains us...brings me back to the "Book of Life" - we have other threads here & the author Michael Sharp posts here as well. It pretty much tells the truth about how & what is going on....

http://www.michaelsharp.org/books/bookoflife/

btw tanyev :hi: I totally respect your flashes...I get them too...part of my way of being as a matter of fact I'd be lost without 'em :)

DR
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tanyev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 10:59 PM
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25. Thanks for the link.
I will definitely check it out. I peeked into one of the Ascension threads a while back, but it was kind of like walking into a movie halfway through--looked interesting, but I couldn't really figure out what was going on.

:hi:
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DemExpat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 01:18 PM
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20. tanyev.....I take it as a "given" that this is indeed what they are up to
....but probably not consciously....they just don't want "misfit" people costing society/the government more money is their motive imo.

This never made sense to me because who in their right mind believes that the Bush Administration is genuinely concerned about our mental health? ....................... Children, especially, and adults who do not fit the "moldable" profile of their ideal society? Indigos? Medicate them before they start disrupting the status quo?

If you do read the book Desertrose suggests by Michael Sharp, then I guarantee that you will be having many many more of those flashes of insight! At least it started an avalanche for me.....:D

:hi:

DemEx


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Desertrose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 01:57 PM
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21. Hi DemEx...how ya doin?
Hope everything is going great on your side of the globe these days :hug::loveya:

Hmmmm...I wonder how many Indigos are also "loners", ya know??? We certainly didn't always fit in all that well with others of our generation.

:hi: DR :hug:
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DemExpat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 02:38 PM
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22. Hi, dear DR....
Actually I am picking up signs of "counter-activity" going on in European intellectual, political and popular cultures that stem me rather optimistic.
Now, if others in the world can counteract what the US power elite is trying to force on the world - is another question.

They do seem to be quite invincible, don't they????

But I feel positive about half of the voting American population, and most of European ideals/ideas.

:loveya: :hug:

:hi:

DemEx
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smirkymonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-28-05 05:31 PM
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34. Hi DemExpat!
:hi: How are you? I would be interested to hear more about the "counter-activity" going on in European circles that you speak of.

You can PM me if you don't want to respond in this thread or whatever suits you. I am very interested though. I really lost all hope after the election and went into a severe depression, but maybe there is a silver lining in all this.

Maybe these pockets of new thinking and "counter-activity" will be the catalysts for greater change in society? I am starting to feel that the evil in this world is being countered by positive forces for the first time in a very long while.
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DemExpat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 04:28 PM
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46. Hi, smirkymonkey!
Just one article (sent to me as Email) that gives me some hope (political/economical).....from my Democrats Abroad Email listings.
:hi:
DemEx



From the Financial Times:

Hello Democrats,

Michael Lind's piece in today's Financial Times is worth sober consideration. In my opinion, it's a good rather than a bad thing that the rest of the world is adjusting to Bush's inanities by organizing itself without subservience to the U.S.: the silver lining in the storm cloud.

Arthur
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

How the US became the world's dispensable nation
By Michael Lind, FT.com January 25 2005

In a second inaugural address tinged with evangelical zeal, George W. Bush declared: "Today, America speaks anew to the peoples of the world." The peoples of the world, however, do not seem to be listening. A new world order is indeed emerging - but its architecture is being drafted in Asia and Europe, at meetings to which Americans have not been invited.

Consider Asean Plus Three (APT), which unites the member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations with China, Japan and South Korea. This group could become the world's largest trade bloc, dwarfing the European Union and North American Free Trade Association. The deepening ties of the APT member states are a big diplomatic defeat for the US, which hoped to use the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation forum to limit the growth of Asian economic regionalism at American expense. In the same way, recent moves by South American countries to bolster an economic community represent a clear rejection of US aims to dominate a western-hemisphere free-trade zone.

Consider, as well, the EU's rapid progress towards military independence. American protests failed to prevent the EU establishing its own military planning agency, independent of the Nato alliance (and thus of Washington). Europe is building up its own rapid reaction force. And, despite US resistance, the EU is developing Galileo, its own satellite network, which will break the monopoly of the US global positioning satellite system.

The participation of China in Europe's Galileo project has alarmed the US military. But China shares an interest with other aspiring space powers in preventing American control of space for military and commercial uses. Even while collaborating with Europe on Galileo, China is partnering Brazil to launch satellites. And in an unprecedented move, China recently agreed to host Russian forces for joint Russo-Chinese military exercises.

The US is being sidelined even in the area that Mr Bush identified in last week's address as America's mission: the promotion of democracy and human rights. The EU has devoted far more resources to consolidating democracy in post-communist Europe than has the US. By contrast, under Mr Bush the US hypocritically uses the promotion of democracy as the rationale for campaigns against states it opposes for strategic reasons. Washington denounces tyranny in Iran but tolerates it in Pakistan. In Iraq, the goal of democratisation was invoked only after the invasion, which was justified earlier by claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and was collaborating with al-Qaeda.

Nor is American democracy a shining example to mankind. The present one-party rule in the US has been produced in part by the artificial redrawing of political districts to favour Republicans. The role of money in American politics continues to grow. America's judges - many of whom will be appointed by Mr Bush - increasingly behave as partisan political activists in black robes. America's antiquated winner-take-all electoral system has been abandoned by many other democracies for more inclusive versions of proportional representation.

In other areas of global moral and institutional reform, the US today is a follower rather than a leader. Human rights? Europe has banned the death penalty and torture. The US is a leading practitioner of execution. Under Mr Bush, the US has constructed an international military gulag in which the torture of suspects has frequently occurred. The international rule of law? For generations, promoting international law in collaboration with other nations was a US goal. But the neoconservatives who dominate Washington today mock the very idea of international law. The next US attorney general will be the White House counsel who scorned the Geneva Conventions as obsolete.

A decade ago, American triumphalists mocked those who argued that the world was becoming multipolar rather than unipolar. Where was the evidence of balancing against the US? they asked. Today the evidence of foreign co-operation to reduce American primacy is everywhere - from the increasing importance of regional trade blocs that exclude the US to international space projects and military exercises in which the US is conspicuous by its absence.

It is true that the US remains the only country capable of projecting military power throughout the world. But unipolarity in the military sphere, narrowly defined, is not preventing the rapid development of multipolarity in the geopolitical and economic arenas - far from it. And the other great powers, with the exception of the UK, are content to let the US waste blood and treasure on its doomed attempt at hegemony in the Middle East.

That the rest of the world is building institutions and alliances that shut out the US should come as no surprise. The view that American leaders can be trusted to use a monopoly of military and economic power for the good of humanity has never been widely shared outside the US. The trend toward multipolarity has probably been accelerated by the truculent unilateralism of the Bush administration, whose motto seems to be that of the Hollywood mogul Samuel Goldwyn: "Include me out." In recent memory, nothing could be done without the US. But today, most international institution-building of any long-term importance in global diplomacy and trade occurs without American participation.

In 1998 Madeleine Albright, then US secretary of state, said of the US: "We are the indispensable nation." By backfiring, the unilateralism of Mr Bush has proved her wrong. The US, it turns out, is a dispensable nation. Europe, China, Russia, Latin America and other regions and nations are quietly taking measures whose effect, if not sole purpose, will be to cut America down to size.

Ironically, the US, having won the cold war, is adopting the strategy that led the Soviet Union to lose it: hoping that raw military power will be sufficient to intimidate other great powers alienated by its belligerence. To compound the irony, these other great powers are drafting the blueprints for new international institutions and alliances. That is what the US did during and after the second world war.

But that was a different America, led by wise and constructive statesmen such as Dean Acheson, the secretary of state who wrote of being "present at the creation". The bullying approach of the Bush administration has ensured that the US will not be invited to take part in designing the international architecture of Europe and Asia in the 21st century. This time, the US is absent at the creation.
The writer is senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC
<http://news.ft.com/cms/s/ba2dc264-6e48-11d9-a60a-00000e2511c8.html>

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smirkymonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 06:12 PM
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47. Very interesting, however it comes as no surprise.
I think this country is going to be in for a ruuuude awakening very soon.

Maybe the indigos will have to take over by default! :)
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smirkymonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-28-05 05:10 PM
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31. You know, that's an interesting connection.
I always wondered about the "mental health" plan, knowing full well that if the Bush Administration came up with it, that it had to be sinister underneath the surface.

It never occurred to me that maybe this Administration is far more aware of these subtle trends (Indigo Kids, etc. - after all, the Reagans were heavily into astrology, and the whole Skull & Bones, Masonic, et al. aspect of those in power has a mystical element to it)and is trying to squelch the power of these children as they grow into adulthood and try to change the world.

Medicate them and keep them quiet. Nip the problem in the bud, so to speak. It wouldn't shock me, I'll tell you that. :tinfoilhat:
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hippiegranny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 11:43 AM
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15. interesting
I have about 22 of these characteristics. Never have been depressed or suicidal, though.
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Castilleja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 01:05 PM
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19. Except no watch problems N/T
N/T
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Delphinus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 08:45 PM
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23. Wow!
Edited on Thu Jan-27-05 08:49 PM by Delphinus
Sure does look like I am - there were very few things there I did NOT say yes to. Interesting. Thanks for bringing that to us!

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Delphinus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-27-05 08:46 PM
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24. oops!
Edited on Thu Jan-27-05 08:49 PM by Delphinus
double post. sorry.
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FizzFuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-28-05 11:58 AM
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28. A BIG yes to all!
:hi: Hi smirky--I was just passing through and this caught my eye--interesting!

Well, some of the yes's are bigger than others, like it's only certain streetlights that seem to pop off when I drive underneath.

Interesting; I heard about Indigos reading a lightworkers book..drat can't remember the name right this second. There wasn't a self-test like this though.

I thought all these characteristics were the fruit of a traumatic childhood-early adulthood. Well, anyway, so now what are we supposed to do with this identification?

I very much feel like there is some next "mission" I am supposed to be doing, but haven't found yet. It's a frustrating feeling sometimes; but I'm a latebloomer, so maybe the time for that chapter hasn't arrived yet.....

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smirkymonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-28-05 05:18 PM
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32. Hi Fizz Fuzz!
:hi: Yes, I know exactly what you mean about having a "mission" but not knowing what it is yet. I really feel like I am "waiting for further instructions" or something. I can't really explain it, but it's like our lives up until now with all the pain & suffering has somehow been part of a plan to prepare us for what is to come.

The old structure is definitely breaking down and I think a new paradigm will be emerging at some point in the future, although I don't know the timetable. As far as the early childhood trauma - which was also part of my experience - they say that souls come into this world chosing their parents and circumstances, so maybe that explians the "symptoms".

It's interesting to ponder, although I am just starting to become open to this kind of thing. Maybe all that is going on in the world is part of the plan? :shrug:
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FizzFuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-29-05 10:47 AM
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39. hey smirky!--wow, you know what I'm talking about?
I'm glad to know I'm not alone! It makes me feel like such an underachiever. I mean, I can't really deny that I AM one, but this feeling of being in limbo, like I am capable of more, but my own personal weaknesses stop me--AND ALSO, the feeling you describe, of "waiting for further instructions". That's a good description!

Yes, about the old breaking down and a new paradigm emerging, plus, we "choose" our karma--those of us who are struggling to live with awareness, anyway--I believe that. I think it's cool that the Buddhist teacher I learn from has expressed just that, that we willingly take on our karma, and we can therefore seek to "play our part" well (disclaimer-->it's not easy! heh heh)!

I had already read about and totally agreed with this idea from reading books like Seth, Dr. Micheal Newton-Journey of Souls, and Eva Peirrakos, so it was neat to see it addressed from another totally different source. Actually, I like that all the ideas I resonated with from these and similar books are present in Buddhist teaching.

And I think we choose to affect our karma (karma on individual level, and on larger level)--every time we act consciously, wisely, every time we act with compassion, we are adding positively to the Ultimate Reality.

:hug: good to see you!
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smirkymonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-31-05 10:42 PM
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43. I hope that's the case, anyway, because otherwise I am just
an underachiever and nothing more. It wouldn't be so bad if there wasn't something deep inside of me that tells me that I have some greater purpose in this world than to just go out and earn a paycheck, but I can't shake the feeling that I am waiting to be called to something. ????

I would definitely take action if I had a definite sense of purpose, but I don't yet. I sometimes think we are being prepared and that once we are ready our true purpose, it will be revealed to us. Then again, I don't know. Maybe I am just self-destructive and lazy and I am fooling myself.

I do think that a lot of us here on this board belong to the new paradigm, if and when it comes. Do you recommend a particular book on this subject? Thanks :hug:
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loudsue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-28-05 04:16 PM
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29. All but one....
.....so 24 out of 25....I guess that makes me one, too! :hi: Since a few of the posters in this thread, that I know of, are in the "over 50/yrs. old" category (i.e., 0% to 5% Indigo adults are over 50), isn't it nice that we've come together here?

When our time comes to know what we're supposed to DO with these qualities, I'm sure we'll know it by reading DU, if nothing else!

:loveya: This place never ceases to amaze me! :loveya:

:kick::kick::kick:
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Matariki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-28-05 07:02 PM
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36. forgive my ignorance, but what does this mean?
what's the 'indigo' thing mean?

i have just about all those traits and i'm 46. well probably all. Out of body experiences from early on, i'm an artist, magician, bisexual, kinky. Can't wear a watch to save my life. My boyfriend makes me get away from his computer when i'm in a bad mood because it will crash.

But that list seems kinda general, i can't imagine there haven't always been folks like that around. You know, us weirdos, misfits and malcontents?
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smirkymonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-31-05 10:32 PM
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42. I am not really sure where the term "Indigo" comes from, but
I know that the color associated with the "third eye" chakra is indigo, so that may be it. However, there may be some other significance to the color entirely. Not really sure. :shrug:

Anybody else know more about this?
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LWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 08:31 AM
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53. It comes from some people
who noticed and documented some differences in some kids born beginning in the 80s. I don't know that it is really applicable to adults; all of the characteristics listed here have been around as long as people have been around; I don't know if their presence is really the "shift" that has been noticed in the kids. This made me want to go back and dig out my books, which, unfortunately are somewhere in the 25 crates I packed to clean my office.

The first indigo kids as noted by the people who coined the phrase would be young adults now.

As far as the term itself, I believe it has to do with the chakra, and the shift is a noticeable raising of vibration among people born during that period.

Here is a link to some info from the authors of the original book:

http://kryon.com/k_37.html
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dbt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-29-05 06:47 AM
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38. I am thinking back now on the RAGE.
Oh, shite, have I EVER had the rage! I like to think I have gotten it all out of my system now, but it was a force of nature some years ago. Without going into the ghastly details, let me just say that it would become so consuming that I would begin to like it for its absolute power.

I used to refer to it as "Driving the Locomotive."

:scared:
dbt
(24 out of 25. Here, streetlight, streetlight. C'mere, boy...)
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onecent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-29-05 10:57 AM
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40. There is a good book called "The Indigo Children" by
Lee Carroll and Jan Tober. Cost $13.95 paperback form

It's been awhile since I've read it (because my son is one and his children are Indigo Children).

On back of cover

"The Indigo Child is a boy or girl who displays a new and unusual set of psychological attributes, revealing a pattern of behavior generally undocumented before. This pattern has singularly unique factors that call for parents and teachers to change their treatment and upbringing of these kids to assist them in achieving balance....etc"

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bliss_eternal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 01:20 AM
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44. I'm late to this party, but count me in!
Seems I am one too!
:)
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BelleCarolinaPeridot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 02:07 PM
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45. I fit EVERY ONE of those categories .
And I also have experienced much of what others have posted . First off , I am 24 years old . I was born in 1980 . From as far as I can remember I have had out of body experiences . I have ALWAYS felt like there is a parallel universe or another plane - and I have felt like there was an " entrance " to them , how to get to them I naturally know but my mind won't let me go over just yet . It has always been hard for me to make friends - so I am basically a loner - but at the same time people say they naturally flock to me because of my " good energy " . People tell me now that my eyes are very different than what they have seen before as well ...

I have had many psychic dreams - too freaky to the point that it scares me . I have dreamed of people dying ( I would see them in my dreams ) and then a couple of days later , they died . I have had dreams about several disasters to the point for a while I was afraid to sleep . I get visits from relatives who have passed on . I have had many lucid dreams and out of body experiences - in these dreams everything feels so real , as if this is the " true world " . I have ALWAYS felt that I am trapped in the " wrong world / universe / plane " . I call the age of 4 my " golden age " because a lot of cool intuitive out of body experiences happen to me at that time . Everything between the ages of my birth to age 5 was cool . It was when I turned 5 that I sort of lost my intuitive side - and this is because I was in a way forced to . But my " soul " knew that this was wrong so between the ages of 6 and 20 , I was not at peace with myself , I was going through an inner battle . When I turned 17 , everything starting happening all over again - I started having the dreams , I could read people's minds , I could sense things through smell . So much came back to me - because I was at the age that I could understand and accept what was happening to me .

When I was a 18 , I had a nervous breakdown that went into depression . ( But I have always had feelings of sadness and suicide -suicide because I just wanted to get back to world that I felt I belong in . ) And I really think this was some kind of way for my brain to clear my mind and my soul for my true being to FINALLY come through because ever since then I have been at peace . I am a much better thinker since that has happened .

Oh yeah I forgot about the most important thing in my life : Music . I have dealt with music since I could remember . Certain keys , certain songs put me in trance states , they bring me back to a place of calm , like to another world . I write music myself and thats the only way I know how to communicate my true emotions . Not through words but through music , that's the only way it comes out . It would be cool if I played my music to another indigo adult , and they could tell me exactly what I was feeling while listening to my music .

Watches , every single one that I have been given , they just stopped . The ring that I am wearing on my finger , somehow one day in college got out of shape and I don't know how that happened . Maybe its because I started to " wake up " in college . I have ALWAYS made electrical applicances go out of control . Even my mom has always said this . But I never knew why . When my mind goes into a state of fumbles and I get frustrated - my computer always crashed , my internet always goes out , the remote never works , - that is so weird . I leave the light off if I have to because I have always had a tendency to blow light bulbs . As a matter of fact I am sitting in the dark right now because I know I might blow the bulb .

I find this whole topic interesting . These are things that I have wondered about my whole entire life . I too feel like I am " waiting " for something - like there is a plan for something and I just don't know what it is but I am just expecting something to happen . What it is exactly , I don't know but I know I have to do something . Ooh this is so cool ! I feel as though I have been " waking up " ( anybody else feel like this ? ) and I am have waiting for a while now , but I feel like the wait will be over soon . Who knows ? But I am going to keep on reading this topic because its very interesting .
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tlcandie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 11:56 PM
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50. I think I fit this category too... I read it a while ago, but I didn't
Edited on Wed Feb-02-05 12:00 AM by tlcandie
want to just jump in in case I wasn't! :+ I can wear watches, BUT my aunt always looks forward to me visiting because her clocks all start working! :+

I'm 49 this month and I'm STILL WAITING on what I'm suppose to do! :+ Talk about feeling lazy, of no use, just a lump on a log taking up space and air.... :cry:

My early years aren't happier times for me. There were some happy times, but there was a LOT of emotional crap I had to get rid of and did when I had a bit of a nervous breakdown in my mid to late 30s. Then I found massage school, Seattle, the northwest and well, life changed like 180 degrees for me!

I'm still waiting and I wish I had just half the kewl stuff I've read here! What some way neato-o peeps here!! :grouphug:

With that said, I think this sums up how I've come to terms with my spirituality and soul self and feeling of suspension..

Ok, So I'm an Indigo, NOW What?

With all of these ideas, the first step is to accept yourself. To find your own light and make it brighter and brighter. Allow yourself to be happy and whole. By doing this alone, you will have changed the world.

http://www.metagifted.org/topics/metagifted/indigo/adultIndigos/nowWhat.html
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Pathwalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-02-05 01:04 PM
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51. Waaaaa! I tried to dye my curtains navy blue -
but they turned out...INDIGO! x(

I can't get this thread out of my mind, and now THIS! UGH!

You'd think ELEVEN packages of NAVY BLUE dye would be enough to turn a gigantic piece of linen deep, dark blue, but no! IT'S INDIGO!

I get this feeling I need to study this subject more - whatdoya think?

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tlcandie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-02-05 05:24 PM
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52. Use a bit 'o black dye?
:+
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 10:20 AM
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54. hmmm maybe headed that way, but am blocked by all my red
overlays.

In other words, I've let myself be stymied.
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tlcandie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 06:08 PM
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55. Move out of that red state!!!
:+
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the Princess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-05 06:47 PM
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56. 25 out of 25
Spot on!

Freaky - what does that mean??
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 06:45 PM
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57. I fit most of those characteristics. But I don't think so.
Until digital watches were invented, I could never wear one of the wind up types. My parents gave me a lovely Longines gold watch when I graduated from high school. I could never wear it because it stopped after awhile or wouldn't keep the right time. Yet when I took it to the repair shop it would run just fine for the watch repairer. I took to keeping in on my dresser where it would keep perfect time until I decided to wear it again.

One of my more embarassing college experiences was when the alarm on a clock I kept in purse to get to classes in time was accidentally set and went off in the middle of one of my classes.

Since I am to be sixty-five years old soon, I don't consider myself to be one of the indigo children but maybe a mock up model for the future ones. :-)
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wildhorses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 07:38 AM
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58. Indigo Adults
Thank you for posting this website. 25/25 ....I did not know there was a "name" for it.
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emcguffie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 04:23 PM
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59. I don't have the electrical thing.
But everything else. Although I am not good at using my intuition. If I pay attention to it, I freeze up and become paranoid. But if I'm relaxed and follow it unthinkingly, it's right.

Once I was about to cut myself, accidentally, I mean, and I saw it in my head right before I did it. I was pulling two nested glass candles apart, Passover candles that were stuck together. And they broke and I cut my fingers, one pretty badly -- nicked an artery and it would not stop bleeding, and I had to get it sewn up. I should have paid attention to the picture in my head. I saw it happen, then it happened.

But being a Capricorn I think I am paranoid enough that I cannot trust my intuition.

I'm pretty sure my daughter is an Indigo child. Completely disinterested in what she isn't interested in and inspired about what she is interested in.

Off the subject, when I was a kid, we had a bout of poltergeist. I have three brothers. We lived in a rented house at the time that had a billards room in the basement. Sometimes the balls would fly around and bang into the walls, but nobody would be in the room. You couldn't go down there when it was happening. At the time, someone told us it had something to do with a "disturbed adolescent" living in the house. We figured it was one of my brothers. It was not a stable environment, so we were all a little bit "disturbed".

Anyone know anything about Poltergeist? (Sorry, I got off on a tangent there.)
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