Alright, another awesome question the answer to which is simple. Crystal children don’t “come” from anywhere.

Well, that’s not quite true.

Crystal children come from the union of male and female in the wondrous act of sexual union. When you have sex, a little spermy gets released and goes swimming up the channel to find an egg which it can partner with to create a new life.  Nine months after the consummation of that partnership, a new child is born–and that is where crystal children come from.

Now when a new child is born, they are almost always born in a healthy, fully functioning physical body (or physical unit as I like to say). Whether you realize it or not, the physical unit (your body) is an incredibly sophisticated “manifestation vehicle” with insane amounts of potential allowing it to be and do just about anything you want it to do. In an ideal world, with ideal “growing conditions,” there really is no limit. The problem though is that on this earth we don’t often reach our full potential. The reason for that is two fold. On the one hand, when the child is born the physical unit is so undeveloped and immature that the baby cannot even wipe its own bum much less feed and take care of itself. In order to reach its full potential, the new born infant needs a proper development context.  Basically it needs a loving and nurturing place to grow and develop. It needs a healthy home environment, a healthy school environment, a healthy economic environment, a healthy political environment, and a healthy social environment. If a child can have all these things, that is if a child has a proper development environment, then and only then does it develop into a healthy and fully functioning “crystal child.”

Now of course if you are reading these words you have probably already been told that crystal children are the “new kids” on the block. They are the “next step” in the evolution of the species or a special dispensation from God or whatever, but none of that is true. The truth is, indigo children and crystal children are not new at all. The truth is, babies are always born with the potential to develop into Indigo and Crystal children. The problem is, only up until very recently has the social and economic environment on this earth healed enough to provide the conditions that allow for even a glimmering of “crystal spirituality” to emerge in the children of this earth.

It is true.

While I am one of the biggest spiritual critics of our current world situation, nevertheless if you compare what we (and by “we” I mean the people of this planet) are like now to what we were like 100 or even 200 years ago you’ll see, there has been improvement. The levels of physical, sexual, social, and even spiritual oppression have declined markedly to the point where families with relatively healthy relationships, living in environments where the school systems are not overly repressive, and under conditions where the basic physical and emotional needs of the child are met with a certain degree of adequacy, can raise functioning (if not totally healthy) Indigos and Crystals. A hundred years ago, that wouldn’t have been possible because a hundred years ago (even fifty years ago) we all experienced profound repression of our bodies energy systems.

Of course,I wouldn’t want to make too much of the improved conditions on this earth. The fact of the matter, children still experience massive amounts of repression in all parts of the world and what’s worse, even if they survive childhood with glimmerings of crystal spirituality, once they reach “adulthood” any progress that they have made is often erased by the toxic social and work conditions they face in the so-called “real world.” Put another way, by the time we are all in our thirties and forties a huge percentage of us are so mucked that we need to be drugged up on anti-depressants and other pharmaceuticals just to stay normal. So even if we started out as crystals, and even if we were nurtured to partial expression of our full potential, nevertheless we are eventually beaten down by the societies that we live in.

And that is where crystal children come from. They come from shiny, sparkly, infants born happy and giggly into this world, they emerge when nutured properly, and then they go away as they reach adulthood and the requirements of the “real world” force them to step back into the depressing gray existence of “normal” life.

Now, you’ll notice a significant difference between this account of where crystal children come from, and most of the others you’ve probably read. If you pause and think about it for a moment, most of the other accounts of crystal and indigo children don’t really provide much of an explanation. When they tell you that crystals and indigos are the “next evolutionary step” or that they are part of some evolutionary or spiritual shift, this seems like a good explanation, and it sounds all scientific (especially when they drop the word “evolution” every few sentences) but it’s not. Not only is saying “its’ evolution” not an explanation (what exactly does that mean, after all, and how and why is it happening), but it’s scientifically wrong.  If you ask a typical biologist about evolution they will tell you that even rapid evolutionary shifts work over a period of thousands of years. There is simply no such thing as inter-generational evolutionary leaps. The typical explanation of crystal and indigo child is therefore a profound misunderstanding of evolutionary theory. It only sounds reasonable to our ears because the people who offer this explanation are relying (consciously or not) on a general ignorance of evolutionary principles in order to provide you a line that makes it look like they understand when they really don’t.

These are harsh words I know, but we are dealing with our children here so it is important you spend some time thinking about this. If you want to nurture the crystal potential of your children properly you have to know how to do that. And saying “it is evolution” provides you with no more than an excuse to do nothing and wait.

Right?

If we give into the “it is evolution” line of thinking, there isn’t any incentive to learn or do anything.–we just have to sit back and wait for “the magic” to happen. And if you do that (wait I mean) I can pretty much guarantee that your crystals and indigos will eventually be absorbed (perhaps with some seriously negative psychological and mental consequences) into the “normal” world just like everyone else. And you want to avoid that. So consider this alternate explanation. Rather than viewing the whole process as the magical outcome of evolutionary exigency, see it as something that we (and by “we” I mean all adults on this world) have control over.  Better yet, see it as something that we have responsibility for and that only happens when we take action! If we want to nurture our crystal and indigo children, if we want to protect them from the toxic effects of “normal” reality, we need to know what to do and we need to act on that.

And besides, the whole “it is evolution” shtick really isn’t as positive as it first appears. For one thing, chalking it up to evolution creates a brand new judgmental “hierarchy” based on your “level” of spirituality with rainbows at the top, crystals and indigos in the middle, and everyone else (including the parents) on the bottom.  Does that sound right to you? Don’t you think we have enough judgment and hierarchy in this world without adding another horrible layer to that toxic soup? Personally, I think so. In fact personally, I don’t think hierarchy is compatible with Indigo or Crystal children at all (they tend to see everyone as part of the same “family” of Spirit) so in a way using the concept of evolution to set up a hierarchy is immediately suspect. Why would somebody organize our thinking about crystal spirituality by using an exclusive hierarchy? Seems kinda fishy if you ask me.For another thing (and I’ve already alluded to this), chalking it up to evolution disempowers the parents. If it’s evolution then it becomes easy to think that there is really nothing we can do but get out of the way. Personally, I think that’s absolutely wrong and rather than encouraging us to disconnect from the process what we need is an explanation that encourages us to connect and take control of the process. Children are like flowers in a lot of ways. If you drop a flower seed in a desert, and don’t give it any love and attention, it doesn’t grow and even if it does, it will grow stunted and withered. It is the same with our children, you can pretend that you do not have to do anything and leave it at that your precious Indigos and Crystals will experience nothing but difficulty.

So what do you?

Well, the first thing you can do is enhance your own understanding of spirituality and this world. The bottom line is, if you want to help your crystals and indigos, you need to educate yourself and we can help with that. I am going to post several of the spiritual books that I have written for free on this website and you can peruse those. There’s no risk and you don’t have to read them, but give them a shot. We strongly believe that enhancing your own spiritual understanding and practice with some authentic spirituality will help you understand and serve your crystal and indigo children better.  I’ve also written some children’s books that provide some foundational messages that, if you deliver often (i.e. read and reinforce) can provide a strong foundation (even “armor coating”) for your crystal and indigo children. Finally, as this site grows, we’ll also post some articles providing information and guidance on how to approach the discipline, parenting, and education of your crystal children. Put these all together and we hope to provide you with sensible, grounded, practical, and accurate advice on how to nurture the crystal child within us all!

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