1st Edition

The Indigo Children New Age Experimentation with Self and Science

By Beth Singler Copyright 2018
220 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

The Indigo Child concept is a contemporary New Age redefinition of self. Indigo Children are described in their primary literature as a spiritually, psychically, and genetically advanced generation. Born from the early 1980s, the Indigo Children are thought to be here to usher in a new golden age by changing the world’s current social paradigm. However, as they are "paradigm busters", they also... Read more

1 The Indigo Child; 2 Locating the Indigo Children; 3 The Parental Account of the Indigo Child; 4 Diagnosis and Healing; 5 An Indigo Prophecy of the New Age; 6 Reception, Transmission, and Parody; 7 The Indigo Race; 8 Conclusions

Biography

Beth Singler is a Post-Doctoral researcher at the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion at the University of Cambridge, where she is using digital and non-digital ethnographic methods to consider contemporary developments in Artificial Intelligence and robotics and their implications for both human identity and for the continuation of religious ideas and narratives. The Indigo Children: New Age Experimentation with Self and Science continues her research into 21st Century New Religious Movements, and other areas on which she has been published include Jediism, Scientology, Paganism, and the Pro-Ana movement.