In Part One of this series I painted a portrait of a new kind of child which has gotten a lot of press attention in the last year. There are several names for these bright mavericks, but the most generally used term to describe them is Indigo Children.

Psychologists such as Jan Tober call them the hope of the world and characterize them as Masters, here to save the planet. The source I channel, Q'uo, explains their characteristics of high intelligence and low tolerance for fools as typical of those who have graduated from our earth at this time of global shift. Upon graduation, however, their first desire has been to return to earth as dual-activated beings, equipped to live in both third density, which is the Earth world as we know it, and fourth density, which is the next density or grade of learning.

Let's look at this a bit more closely, because this point is a key in grasping just what the Indigo's situation is. The Indigo has incarnated into our consensus reality and is basically a third-density being, with the heavy, chemically active body of our species. That weighty body carries with it a heavy veil which the Confederation sources call the "veil of forgetting". When we are born, we lose the memory of who we are as a soul. We lose our knowledge of how we fit into the divine plan. We forget that all things are one and that we are hurting ourselves when we hurt another being.

They have an easier time waking up to their true nature within incarnation.

Most of all, we take on the third-density emotional nature that goes with our physical body. We are highly reactive emotionally, prey to being sucked into the small and trivial world of people saying mean things, people cutting us off in traffic and similar, meaningless happenings.

The Indigo Child is stuck with the same body and emotions except for one important difference: the veiling is much thinner for Indigos. They have an easier time waking up to their true nature within incarnation. Their memories of the density of love and understanding, the density into which they have just graduated, are pretty close to the surface. They remember a better, higher path and they want to take it.

They see Earth as a place in need of adjustment. It is what they came here to do. They are mission-oriented. They are not caught by the planetary madness which drives us all, through sheer habit, to make war on each other rather than sitting down to find peaceful and unified solutions that benefit us all.

The Q'uo source describes Indigos this way in a session dated August 18, 2004: "When a person has a dual-activated body, certain things have changed for this entity. They include a thinner veiling, so that it is easier to remember preincarnative data, the ability to access psychic gifts, largely because of the lighter veiling; the tendency to be impatient with third-density structures, especially those that seem to stand in their way, and the tendency to experience difficulty in cooperating with the strictures that make the least sense to them."

It is no wonder, then, that Indigo Children tend to object to a good deal about the world that meets their eyes. However, this habit of defying the normally expected behaviors of the surrounding culture can drive parents to tears!

Q'uo, in the same session, stresses the point that these Indigos are children. They point out that "such children do not come into incarnation equipped with what might be called maturity or common sense. They do not have an instinct for right behavior. They are, as are all of the very young, self-involved, ever-questing, ever impatient and very inquisitive of knowledge, of ideas, of ways to be and masks of all kinds. They are experimenters looking for ways to express what feels right to them."