About indigo children

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

This article focuses on the issue of indigo children.

In recent years, we, residents of Russia, have heard more and more often about indigo children. The origin of this term is complex. The Internet is full of articles about indigo children, many esoteric books describe to us indigo children, children of light, pearl, diamond children and other "precious" children. The word "indigo", which means "a color in which a violet or blue-violet hue predominates," is practically absent in the language of the Russian people. I myself, being a native Russian, would hardly have understood the meaning of the word "indigo" without a dictionary or appropriate explanations. A wide variety of associations associated with indigo come to mind - India, Hindi and even the wild dog Dingo. As you can see from my primary associations, the word may be Russian, but it got into the Russian language from afar.

The word "indigo", in my opinion, is a beautiful trinket, a promoted western brand that we buy, paying, figuratively speaking, with our gold or ruble. The most interesting thing is that the media classifies almost all talented and popular children in the category of indigo children. Nika Turbina, Nadya Rusheva and Sasha Putrya are unconditionally considered indigo children of the Soviet era. As a person who professionally deals with the psyche, I am very interested in what criteria society and the press use to select Indigo children, and if there are any such criteria at all. The second question that interests me - if you believe the media reviews, then our planet is practically beginning to cover (if not already covered) the indigo epidemic! Wherever you go, everywhere we meet with unusual children who are waiting for our special attention to their person, special responsibility, and special forms of education! Is it so? The third question is: does not society run the risk of “swallowing the snag” by overly caring for the unimportant and overlooking the really important? The fourth question: has at least one state, non-state or interstate institution been created that deals with indigo children (their selection, research, training and rehabilitation of ordinary non-indigo people into society)?

I have been interested in the issue of indigo children for a long time, and I came to the conclusion that any potentially special baby should receive the honorary title of indigo child for a reason. In the psyche of such a child, the necessary qualities and characteristics must be present that make it possible to call him indigo. I will try to list these qualities and give them my subjective assessment.

The first quality widely reported in the media is "the presence of purple (or its shades) in the child's aura." Let me make a reservation right away that this criterion is very unreliable, since, firstly, not all of us see the aura, and psychics can see the aura in different ways (due to the different level of their abilities and the subjectivism of interpretations of what they saw). Secondly, the fact is known that the color of the aura is highly susceptible to changes in the psychophysical state of a person (emotional background, illness, etc.). I would not be surprised that a child with mental disabilities may very well have a purple aura (more or less often).

The second quality - "an indigo child must be wise beyond his years." This is a very important sign, but in order to appreciate it, it is necessary to observe the child in everyday life for at least two to three years. I know of a case from personal experience that a child who is promising to become an indigo, after a few years of his natural development, has become not just ordinary, but even "below average." Where his indigence has gone, one can only guess. It is important that the wisdom of the child is persistent and long lasting.

The third quality is "an indigo child must be spiritual in the popular sense of the word - caring, gentle, compassionate, responsible, sincere and considerate."As a result, an indigo child cannot be an alcoholic, a drug addict, smoke cigarettes, cut his veins and jump, for example, from a balcony in order to commit suicide.

The fourth quality is "he must be talented." Here I disagree with this common opinion. Of course, it's great if the indigo child is talented, but the lack of talent will not prevent the indigo child from being himself. Moreover, a huge number of talented children are not indigo children at all. As an example, I will cite the fate of Nika Turbina, whom the modern press calls the indigo child of the Soviet era.

Nika Turbina was born in 1974 in Yalta. They say that the girl, when she was two years old, puzzled her grandmother with the question: is there a soul? Nika suffered from severe bronchial asthma, she was afraid to fall asleep due to attacks of suffocation. At night she sat in bed, covered with pillows, breathing hoarsely and babbling something in her own language.

And then these words began to form into verses. Nika called adults and demanded: "Write!" The girl called the voice that dictated lines to her as Sound. Later in an interview, Nika confessed: "Poems come suddenly. When it hurts or is scary. It looks like childbirth. Therefore, my poems are painful."

The girl's mother demonstrated her poetic talent to the guests of Nika's grandfather, the Crimean writer Anatoly Nikanorkin. Moscow poets and writers often visited his Yalta house. When Nika was seven years old, she managed to transfer her poems to Yulian Semenov. He read it and exclaimed: "Brilliant!" At the request of Semyonov, journalists came to the Turbins. And on March 6, 1983, Nika's poems first appeared in print.

The nine-year-old schoolgirl met Yevgeny Yevtushenko, who contributed to the girl's "career" in poetry. He helped organize her trips around the country, performances at poetry evenings. She was called "poetic Mozart". In 1984, thanks to Yevtushenko, a collection of Nika's poems "Draft" was released, and the Melodiya company released a disc with her poems. The Soviet Children's Fund gave Nika a personal scholarship; her work has been translated into twelve languages.

Nika was sold out in the cities of the Union, Italy, and the USA. In Venice, at the "Land and Poets" festival, Turbina was awarded the prestigious prize in the field of art - "Golden Lion". The 12-year-old girl became the second, after Anna Akhmatova, Russian poetess to receive this award.

In the late 80s, Nika experienced her first creative crisis. Perestroika was in full swing in the country, the girl's mother got married for the second time. Nika was looking for herself: in 1989, she played the role of a difficult girl with tuberculosis in the film It Was by the Sea, agreed to a candid photo session in Playboy. In the mid-90s, she "thundered" with a scandalous interview, in which she stated that Yevtushenko had betrayed her, and later took the offensive words back, explaining them with youthful maximalism.

"If a person is not a complete idiot, he occasionally has depression. Sometimes you just want to leave, close the door behind you and send everyone to hell," Turbina said. She fought loneliness in her own way: she ran away from home, drank sleeping pills, cut veins. To assert herself, at the age of 16 she entered into a civil marriage with a 76-year-old professor from Switzerland, Italian by birth.

The relationship did not last long - Nika returned to Moscow, where almost no one remembered about the "poetic Mozart". She met her first love and, inspired, entered VGIK, where she studied with the daughter of Alexander Galich Alena, who became her friend. Despite desperate attempts to pull out Turbina, she was expelled for poor performance from the first year.

After breaking up with her beloved, Nika drank heavily, found a new man, a businessman, but the relationship with him did not last long - he placed her in a psychiatric clinic, from which Alena Galich helped her get out. On May 15, 1997, Nika jumped off the balcony. Her both forearms were broken, her pelvic bones were crushed, her vertebra was badly damaged. “At first I even regretted that I was still alive: I endured so much pain, so much disappointment in people … And then I began to appreciate myself, I realized that I can still do something,” the girl admitted.

Nika underwent twelve operations, she was given an Elizarov apparatus and was taught to walk again. She again became popular - after the tragic incident, journalists remembered the poetess. But she needed a person behind whom she would be like a stone wall … Alas, this was not found. On May 11, 2002, Nika again threw herself from the balcony of the fifth floor. She died at the age of 27.

For eight days, Nika's body lay in the morgue of the Sklifosovsky Institute, unidentified by anyone. Earlier, the poetess asked to be cremated - friends said goodbye to her right in the hospital, thinking that the cremation would take place there. But the crematorium was not there, and the workers took the last journey to Turbina, angry because they were not paid extra for additional work.

Later, Alena Galich made sure that Nika was buried in the church and buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery, opposite the grave of Igor Talkov. What Nika was always afraid of and from what she fled - loneliness - haunted her even after her death.

As you can see from this plot, Nika did not have most of the qualities of an indigo child, but had only one quality - this is talent. She, like many talented children, became a kind of hostage to the values of her era, lived in suffering and died alone, in the prime of her years.

Fifth quality - “an indigo child should not be limited only by his spirituality and morality. He, in fact, should be a representative of a new coming more perfect civilization. That is why real indigo children are the true reformers of our aging world globally. All of them are worried about the fate of the planet Earth (problems of man-made disasters, social, political and environmental crises and ways to solve them). Many Indigo children are pioneers, innovators in certain branches of science. But being innovative isn't necessary. Spiritual, psychological reforming of Indigo children is much more important.

The sixth quality - "an indigo child must be strange, somewhat introverted and autistic, or, conversely, extroverted and demonstrative, which will certainly lead to problems of his interaction with society." Here I can only partially agree with this opinion. Of course, unusually developed intelligence, rich intuition and special supersensible experience cannot help but make these children extraordinary. But the more vulnerable such a child is, the less indigo he is. I am convinced that indigence is a phenomenon that, in its pure form, should not bring personal suffering and psychological vulnerability to a child. But obviously we have many options for unsuccessful indigo, that is, those children whose psyche is unstable, but has the potential traits of an indigo child. Remember how in the movie "Aliens" with Sigourney Weaver, the more or less successful results of cloning Ripley with an Alien were shown? An indigo child suffering from self-misunderstanding, misunderstanding from others, needs exactly the same psychotherapeutic help and support as an ordinary child. To some extent, helping an indigo child in terms of psychotherapy will be even more difficult than an ordinary patient, because the indigo psyche is full of mysteries and secrets.

Kaminskaya Elizaveta Viktorovna, psychotherapist.