Indigo Children: The Issue of Control    

By Daniel Jacob

Indigo Children: The Issue of Control    

Property rights

Many adults today tend to think of children as possessions. The court system certainly doesn't help that situation, either. We reason that, since we have the "moral responsibility" to feed and house these young people, and the legal power to make decisions for them, our children must be beholden to every rule and ordinance we choose to concoct.

As one parent put it: "My house, my rules." However, if the child lives there, is it not his house as well? Just because someone is unable to financially contribute to the maintenance and upkeep of the place, isn't he still a contributing force to that household? Isn't her job, her specialty, simply being the resident child?

In a symbolic sense, children are little mirrors for their parents. They are the embodiment of certain aspects of those parents' personality and aspiration, which desired to be reborn into the world. They are passion and curiosity, freshly directed towards desires and goals that may have been forgotten or laid aside in the older folks' pursuit of security and/or social standing.

Many adults overlook this important insight. Instead of getting out of the way, and drinking in the energy of their children's joy and fresh discovery of life, parents try to force these kids into behavioral molds, patterns for living that do not reflect their own intuitive core.

The artificial personality construct, which many parents seek to install, tends to suppress the clear reflection that their children bring concerning the parents' shadow self - their own hidden issues. Instead of seeing that reflection in their little ones, resistant parents become busy about the task of breaking or distorting the mirror. On some level, children realize this and they either learn to resist the whole business or they accept the teaching, thereby losing their individual souls.

In the ancient Celtic traditions, such an adapted child is referred to as a "changeling". He is the shell of a human being - a body that is functioning and living in the world, with no child left inside. Ancient legend dictates, that the souls of changelings go to live in the realm of the Fae (the Faery Kingdom), where they remain forever, unless they are invited to come back in and bring that body back to life. In our own literature, these changelings are analogous to the "Lost Boys" of Never-Never Land.

While the family unit continues to deteriorate within our society, more and more couples find themselves in divorce court, seeking to sort out the details of jangled lives. Among the many "items" that go on the bargaining table - along with the boat, the time-share condominium, and the antique china that belonged to Aunt Minnie - are the shining faces and blossoming potential of minor children who live in that household.

As James Taylor's song goes, recounting the sorrows and wistfulness of family break-ups: "She gets the house and the garden, he gets the boys and the van." That's about the size of it. Control. Authority. And the money goes round and round, and the lawyers get fatter and fatter. If fact, in many instances, it is actually the lawyers who end up with the house and garden, is it not?

In this series, we wish to paint a picture - to begin to construct a vision. How we will get there is secondary, at this point, to actually learning where we need to get. First things first. In the next two installments, we will speak about "The Imagine Nation" in detail. We will see what the ideal world may look like, if it was designed from the viewpoint of a Star Child.

Your continued input and feedback is appreciated, and I do love hearing from you! As the energy on the planet continues to rise, more and more of what we will be discussing as theory will congeal itself into actual physical reality. So it will be, so has it always been.

By Daniel Jacob

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See also: Indigo Children, What is Indigo Children, Parenting Indigo Children, Adult Indigo, Indigo Children Channeling)