THE NEW CHILDREN - ARE THEY REALLY INDIGOS?
By P.M.H.Atwater, L.H.D., Ph.D. (Hon.)Psychic by Crisis

Children from war-torn countries who exhibit unusual psychic abilities: It is well known in psychological/medical circles going back over a hundred years that most children who are abused, troubled, painfully shy, shell-shocked by wars and similar traumas, or suffering from neglect, become quite psychic. Typical are reports of out-of-body experiences, telepathy, being able to affect physical matter with thoughts, know the future, see and communicate with angels, disincarnates and demons. A child's natural intuitive faculty tends to expand automatically into a survival mechanism during times of crisis.

"Let us think again about what we are doing in labeling these 'new children.' I believe this is the new sub-race of individuals for which our fifth collective has been preparing. It corresponds to new growth on an old tree - the family tree."

Rev. Carol Parrish-Harra, Ph.D. Founder, Sancta Sophia Seminary Evolutionary Leap

I no longer have any doubts that humankind's long predicted quantum leap in evolution is indeed happening and on several fronts: kids being born "different;" and children "changed" - either because of an intensely powerful life event or from an encounter with the "power punch" that best describes the impact of a near-death or otherworldly experience.

Although my work in the field of near-death studies began in 1978, I have tracked the impact of consciousness transformations, especially with children, since 1966. Of my seven books containing my findings, The New Children and Near-Death Experiences compares children who had near-death experiences (kids who "changed") with those born from 1982 onward (kids who were "different" since birth). These two groups compare in ways that are both startling and unsettling. Because of this, I wrote Beyond the Indigo Children: The New Children and the Coming of the Fifth World.

I'd like to briefly address this phenomenon, at least to the extent that we can in this article. Revelations from psychics and visionaries, claims and counter-claims, sensation seekers, skeptics and investigators, are speaking out now about so-called "Indigo Children" and "Crystal Children," as well as other "categories" in the labeling of our newest citizens on planet Earth.

The New Children

The phenomenon of new children covers not only kids with unusual character traits and supposed purple or indigo colors that are said to predominate in their auras (the electromagnetic field around them), but the concept of "root races" (the basic root stock of humankind's gene pool) and what is happening overall to the human race as a species. There are many voices speaking out about this and much to consider. Some of the more well-known claims and sources for them follow.

Lee Carroll and Jan Tober, in their popular book, The Indigo Children: The New Kids Have Arrived, state that the new kids are Indigos ("Sixth Root Race" in esoteric traditions) because they have purple auras. They write of how technologically oriented the new youngsters are while at the same time being highly intuitive and creative, confident, strong, non-attached, with quick, sharp minds. Much of the information in their book comes from channeled sources through a medium, with additional comments from a few professionals and parents.

Super Psychics

Another personage is Drunvalo Melchizedek, a self-realized mystic. In an interview with him, conducted by Diane Cooper about "Children of the New Dream," he explained that there are three different types of children now emerging: those in China who are super psychics, the Indigo children, and kids born with AIDS. He describes the Chinese youngsters as "psychic beyond belief." He says they have scored 100% on every test given to them, no matter what kind of test it was or how difficult. This has puzzled their parents, who often lament, "I have a kid who knows everything ­ what do I do about this?" He reports that such children are showing up in Russia and the United States, and that these super psychics are similar to Indigo children. (A man who writes at length about the Chinese children is Paul Dong in his book, China's Super Psychics.)

DNA Difference

What excites Drunvalo the most, though, are the AIDS kids. "About 10 or 11 years ago in the U.S.," he offers as an example, "there was a baby born with AIDS. They tested him at birth and at 6 months and he tested positive for AIDS. They tested him a year later and he still tested positive. Then they didn't test him again until he was 6, and what was amazing is that this test showed that he was completely AIDS free! In fact, there was no trace that he ever had AIDS or HIV whatsoever!" He goes on to reveal that, in close monitoring by medical researchers at University of California/Los Angeles, the discovery has been made that youngsters like this particular boy exhibit a unique DNA patterning no one else has ­ 24 active codons. (In human DNA the world over, 20 of the 64 different patterns or codons are "turned on" and active, 3 operate like "stop/start" codes similar to a computer, while the rest remain inactive.) He claims that the children with 24 active codons, instead of the usual 20, have shown a resistance to disease that is quite remark-able. They seem to be immune to everything. Drunvalo believes this DNA advancement heralds "the end of disease" in that anyone, by choosing to align with 4 unity and interconnectedness, as the kids do, can achieve the same result.

James Twyman in his book, Emissary of Love, shares his own personal story of meeting an unusual child from Bulgaria and afterward discovering that he suddenly possessed psychic powers. He found that he could alter the form of matter, read people's thoughts, and even transmit images to others via pure intent. Four months later he traveled to Bulgaria and, through interactions with the same boy and those like him, he learned that just by opening up to the consciousness of these children he could hear them telepathically no matter where he was, and he could manifest abilities they said were latent within him and in everyone else. His travels not only to Bulgaria, but Bosnia and other war-torn areas on peace missions, brought him face-to-face with many of what he calls "psychic children." He has since purchased land in Oregon where he holds large retreats for members of the "Beloved Community" (what he calls those who receive his e-mailed "Letters from James Twyman"). This sampling of claims about today's youngsters necessitates that we ask the question: how much of what is being said about the new children is true and how much is fantasy?

Is It True?

Although there is no way to check every tidbit, I can comment on some of it. Children born with AIDS who recovered without a trace, even of HIV: The original tests done on AIDS babies who made the news about a decade ago have since been discredited. In rechecking protocols, physicians discovered that none of the children ever had AIDS or HIV to begin with but, rather, other conditions which were misdiagnosed. Only a few cases of unexplainable recovery exist worldwide. Hardly a trend by anyone's standards.

[This article will be continued in the next issue of this newsletter.]
P.M.H. Atwater began her work as one of the original researchers in the field of near-death studies in 1978. Since then, she has published seven books about her findings. Her latest book is Beyond the Indigo Children: The New Children and the Coming of the Fifth World. www.pmhatwater.com/