CNN: Report On Indigo Child

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A New Jersey child claims she can see angels and chats with those who see them, too. CNN's Gary Tuchman reports (November 15)

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Transcript:

Now here's a question for you, have you ever wondered if your child is gifted with psychic powers? Many children say they are, actually. In fact, there is a name for them, they are called Indigo Children.

But as CNN's Gary Tuchman reports, others say Indigos aren't gifted at all, they're actually suffering from a disorder.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

SANDIE BERSHAD, INDIGO CHILD: Paula (ph), what is your problem? At 14 years of age, you go through a really rebellious time, and that's what...

GARY TUCHMAN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Through the lens on her computer's camera, 17-year-old Sandie Bershad communicates with friends across the world.

S. BERSHAD: That's Eric (ph). He is from Sweden.

TUCHMAN: But from her bedroom on the Jersey Shore, Sandie says she is wired into another universe, a sort of supernatural super highway.

(on camera): Your dead grandmother visited you last night in your bedroom? And what did she say to you?

S. BERSHAD: Just to say hello, that she loves me, that kind of thing. She usually just comes to visit. Her energy is very, like, nice, like, healing.

TUCHMAN (voice-over): Sandie, who spends a lot of her time on the beach, believes that guiding spirits surround her.

(on camera): So right now you see angels?

S. BERSHAD: Yes.

TUCHMAN: And where are they?

S. BERSHAD: They're over here.

TUCHMAN: Over here?

S. BERSHAD: Yes.

TUCHMAN: Like near my shoulder?

S. BERSHAD: Yes.

TUCHMAN (voice-over): It may sound like science fiction, but a growing network of believers say these types of visions are fact. Teens, like Sandie, claim they're part of a special generation born after 1978 known as Indigo Children for the deep blue auras that psychics say they see around them. Indigo Children have high IQs and tend to be rebellious and oversensitive. They're often also said to share special gifts, heightened intuition and psychic abilities.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She is one of them, isn't she.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Excuse me?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: An Indigo, like my son.

TUCHMAN: In recent years, the Indigo phenomenon has made its way into movies, books, Web sites and even to the therapist's office.

JULIE ROSENSHEIN, PSYCHOTHERAPIST: They will say, I've heard that you deal with Indigo Children or children who are highly sensitive. Can you help me with my child?

You think? I don't know.

TUCHMAN: Psychotherapist Julie Rosenshein says parents seek her help with kids they believe are Indigos, many of whom have trouble socializing and paying attention in school.

ROSENSHEIN: Usually I'll get an e-mail that will say my child is having meltdowns, she can't sleep at night. She says that she sees things in her room. Can you help me?

TUCHMAN (on camera): And what do you say?

ROSENSHEIN: I usually say, wow, you're seeing something at night? Do you know that sometimes angels visit at night? And their eyes will sometimes cloud up with tears even maybe because it's the first time that anybody really affirmed for them that what they saw was not crazy, did not make them crazy.

TOM BERSHAD, FATHER: They're not really sure exactly what... TUCHMAN: Sandie's parents, Tom and Marjorie Bershad, say from an early age their daughter was highly intuitive and overly sensitive and has never liked to be touched.

(on camera): Do you believe she sees dead people and angels?

T. BERSHAD: I believe that she sees something. What it is, I don't know. But I believe that she's definitely seeing something.

TUCHMAN: Are there ever times, Sandie, where you wish you were just like the more typical kids and didn't have any of these kinds of visions or spirits or anything like that?

S. BERSHAD: No, life wouldn't be interesting then.

TUCHMAN (voice-over): Sandie says she is less depressed and doing better in school since discovering her Indigo roots. But skeptics warn that being Indigo may really mean just having a colorful imagination or Attention Deficit Disorder.

DR. DAVID STEIN, AUTHOR, "STOP MEDICATING, START PARENTING": You take highly misbehaving children, and who are very, very bright, many of them are, and call them as Indigo Children, and I think it's a stab at trying to apply a more positive label to these children rather than the more pejorative terms like ADHD or Oppositional Defiant Disorder.

TUCHMAN (on camera): Marjorie, when a doctor says there's no such thing as Indigo Children, it's just a label that parents are putting on kids who have ADD or some other condition...

MARJORIE BERSHAD, MOTHER: I disagree. In my heart of hearts, I disagree. I've seen too many things.

DR. TRENT NICHOLS, GASTROENTEROLOGIST: OK. Well, come on back.

TUCHMAN (voice-over): Dr. Trent Nichols is a gastroenterologist in Pennsylvania who treats children for extreme food sensitivities. He believes that up to 3 percent of those he sees are Indigo Kids.

NICHOLS: I think we are seeing children that really seem to be way advanced for their years or sensitive to certain things, or sensitive about other things in their environment. And I see this in some of my patients now. I don't think we saw it before. I don't remember it 30 years ago doing that, because I've been a physician since '69.

TUCHMAN (on camera): So you think something is going on here?

NICHOLS: Yes, I think something, but it is hard to say what.

TUCHMAN: So the claims of people that these could be a special group, Indigo Children, can't be rejected out of hand?

NICHOLS: Right.

NANCY STEPHENS, AURA PHOTOGRAPHS: Inhale. Exhale. TUCHMAN (voice-over): Psychics claim that Indigo Children have indigo-colored energy fields or auras around them.

STEPHENS: Smile. Good. OK.

TUCHMAN: We asked a woman who claims she could take pictures of your aura to come to the Bershad's home and snap some shots of Sandie and me with her so-called aura camera.

STEPHENS: That's the center of your being. And you do have transformation coming in.

TUCHMAN: In my photograph, there was a little indigo color. But in Sandie's, indigo dominated the picture. So are Indigos really the next step in human evolution as many believe or suggest? If you have any doubts, Sandie says, just ask her angels.

S. BERSHAD: They want the world and we want the world to know that we are here and we are here to help and that they want everyone to become more aware of Indigos, to get used to it.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

COSTELLO: That was CNN's Gary Tuchman reporting.

Experts say the Indigo behavior exists mostly in children born in the last 10 years.

Modified text size for easier readability ~Sowelu

[knowthis]

Sad to see that the special abilities of these children are still being misdiagnosed and misattributed to a form of mental illness rather than being the miraculous gift that they are. However, it's also interesting to see it being reported on in a mainstream venue. This kind of media exposure will hopefully lead to new and improved education of the public on this pressing subject. Understanding of NDE's has evolved over the years in a similar way. What was once dismissed as being a "hallucination" or visions of an "over-active imagination" are today more widely accepted than ever as being true, spiritual, out of body experiences by practitioners in the medical field. Quantum physics has also done wonders to help invoke a new unexpected marriage between science and spirituality. Thanks to movies like What The Bleep?!?! and books like The Field: The Quest For The Secret Force Of The Universe we're seeing the two areas of study uniting in a most profound way. Progress is being made in leaps and bounds and the old-fashioned indoctrinations of Western society are thankfully starting to deplete.

[Cherubtree]

Dear Family:
It was great to see the Indigo kids on GMA today...I wish they were on there a bit longer...:-)
Love,
Spirit

[Sowelu]

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[LilliHart]

The irony is that these kids are the CRYSTAL GENE kids mostly and not even the Indigos. They are an entirely different breed. I know in my former homeopathic practice over the last 20 or so years I have treated literally 100's and 100's of misdiagnosed, drugged out, alienated Indigos. So many of them are already grown up, like my own two...and like me for heaven's sake. I am an Indigo and I'm almost 55...I was so anxious I just had to come early...LOL. Bet there's a couple of other old fart Indigos on this list with me? :-)

[Sowelu]

HERE! ;D

[Cherubtree]

Hi Dear One:
I feel I am an early "Crystal" transplant also...
Love,
Spirit

[LilliHart]

Oh well Sowelu, I KNOW you are and OLD FART indigo! have known that since we "met". LOL. Someone had to lay the groundwork for these young whipper snappers. On good days it's almost fun to be old or at least older. name some advantages to being older:

don't have to shave legs any more...thyroid problem took care of hair falling out! LOL

don't have to color hair on head to hide the gray...thyroid probelm took care of that gray hair falling out there too!

being fat...middle aged woman are invisible anyway so no one notices if we are fat or not, LOL

don't have to hide being smart or being an indigo.... 1. because middle aged woman are invisible and 2. because everyone knows i'm so peculiar they don't notice me any way which takes me back to #1. HAHA

old people aren't expected to move fast, aren't expected to drive fast, aren't expected to be able to see well especially at night, yada, yada.

getting older is great because the society gives us a wide berth on supposedly having so many different and peculiar traits we get away with murder.

OK, I'm going now.

[Sowelu]

Well so SEE? There's a bright side to EVERYTHING!

Thank god you found it, I was falling fast!

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LOL! Good Humor SowelU!
I agree the Indogos and the crystal are tow different breeds...maybe we can come up what difference is betrween the two. What about the New Ones? Then we have those that are coming in under the Aqua ray...Hum....looks like all the races are gathering, Hehehehe! I wonder what the outcome will be?