ssake
Senior Registered
There have been ideas presented lately about "starseeds" and "indigo children", which to me are basically variations on the idea of an "old soul". I've written my thoughts on all this before, as someone I think would fit roughly into these categories. Always, my reaction is caution at the way such people are glorified. So it just occurred to me to briefly share an alternative viewpoint, at least as regards myself.
Over the years, I've gradually been given to understand that it's not so much that I am ahead of the bulk of society in my development--though in a sense I am. It's more accurate to say I'm in "remedial training", being held over, as it were, from the previous graduating class. That means I screwed up in some basic ways in previous lives, and instead of moving on into a society that I would fit better into, I'm here to learn some lessons I missed.
While here, rectifying my mistakes may or may not involve helping or educating people. It would depend strictly on my karma.
But the royal Catch-22 is this. I am pretty sure, looking at my karmic pattern, that egoism is one of the lessons I failed and was "kept back" for. So that's why seeing people like myself glorified to the skies as "indigo children" and such sets off major alarm bells for me.
I attended a retreat given by Baba Hari Dass back in 1974, and one of the things he said that struck me especially, was: "Never think you are old, because to God all are children, and children always play." (He would "say" something by writing it on a chalkboard, to a person over there, but it would hit home to someone else on the other side of the room who, perhaps, wouldn't have asked the question but needed to hear it. At that time I would say, in retrospect, that I had a subtle pride and identification in being an "old soul", and I needed to hear this.)
So my suggestion is that there's a balance to strike in our attitude toward old souls, indigo children, or whatever you want to call them. The first is to acknowledge the phenomenon, because you're doing them a disservice if you fail to acknowledge their gifts and their special difficulties (both). The second is right valuation and not to give them a big head, because that's one of their biggest potential pitfalls.
Steve S.
Over the years, I've gradually been given to understand that it's not so much that I am ahead of the bulk of society in my development--though in a sense I am. It's more accurate to say I'm in "remedial training", being held over, as it were, from the previous graduating class. That means I screwed up in some basic ways in previous lives, and instead of moving on into a society that I would fit better into, I'm here to learn some lessons I missed.
While here, rectifying my mistakes may or may not involve helping or educating people. It would depend strictly on my karma.
But the royal Catch-22 is this. I am pretty sure, looking at my karmic pattern, that egoism is one of the lessons I failed and was "kept back" for. So that's why seeing people like myself glorified to the skies as "indigo children" and such sets off major alarm bells for me.
I attended a retreat given by Baba Hari Dass back in 1974, and one of the things he said that struck me especially, was: "Never think you are old, because to God all are children, and children always play." (He would "say" something by writing it on a chalkboard, to a person over there, but it would hit home to someone else on the other side of the room who, perhaps, wouldn't have asked the question but needed to hear it. At that time I would say, in retrospect, that I had a subtle pride and identification in being an "old soul", and I needed to hear this.)
So my suggestion is that there's a balance to strike in our attitude toward old souls, indigo children, or whatever you want to call them. The first is to acknowledge the phenomenon, because you're doing them a disservice if you fail to acknowledge their gifts and their special difficulties (both). The second is right valuation and not to give them a big head, because that's one of their biggest potential pitfalls.
Steve S.
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Is there a such thing as a very young soul? I always feel like I am a baby in this world because up until my aunt taught me this past year (an I'm 19) I could not do simple things like write a check or make coffee the right way. I literally have NO COMMON SENSE. I am learning how to drive and I am terrible at it. I always forget which way to turn the wheel when backing out, I can't remember which pedel is the brake and which is the gas... All of my friends tell me that it is easy and that they can't believe that I'm having a hard time of it. 
