Rainbow, Crystal and Indigo Children

[Travis Sanders]

Here are some excerpts of writings by Dr. Doreen Virtue contributed by Travis Sanders, a former Spiritual Advisor on the message board (he had a forum called, Ask Travis), which describe aspects of Rainbow, Crystal and Indigo children. Thanks. --Kassandra


Meet the Rainbow Children!
They are the embodiment of our divinity and the example of our potential. The Rainbow Children have never lived on this planet before, and they’re going straight to the Crystal Children as their moms and dads. These children are entirely fearless of everybody. They’re little avatars who are all about service. These are children who are only here to give—Rainbow Children are already at their spiritual peak.

Then, there’s the Crystal Children.
The first thing that most people notice about them is their eyes—large, penetrating and wise beyond their years. The Crystal Children’s eyes lock on and hypnotize you, while you realize your soul is being laid bare for these children to see. Perhaps you've noticed this special new "breed" of children rapidly populating our planet. They are happy, delightful and forgiving. This generation of new lightworkers, roughly ages 0 through 7, are like no previous generation. Ideal in many ways, Crystal Children are the pointers for where humanity is headed . . . and it's a good direction!

The older children (approximately ages 7 through 25), are called "Indigo Children."
They share some characteristics with the Crystal Children. Both generations are highly sensitive and psychic, and have important life purposes. The main difference is their temperament. Indigos have a warrior spirit, because their collective purpose is to mash down old systems that no longer serve us. They are here to quash government, educational and legal systems that lack integrity. To accomplish this end, they need tempers and fiery determination.

Those adults who resist change and who value conformity may misunderstand the Indigos. They are often mislabeled with the psychiatric diagnoses of Attention Deficit with Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) or Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). Sadly, when they’re medicated, The Indigos often lose their beautiful sensitivity, spiritual gifts and warrior energy. I wrote about the Indigos at length in my book, The Care and Feeding of Indigo Children. I also recommend The Indigo Children and An Indigo Celebration, two other Hay House books written by Lee Carroll and Jan Tober.

In contrast, the Crystal Children are blissful and even-tempered. Sure, they may have tantrums occasionally, but these children are largely forgiving and easy-going. The Crystals are the generation who benefit from the Indigos' trailblazing. First, the Indigo Children lead with a machete, cutting down anything that lacks integrity. Then the Crystal Children follow the cleared path, into a safer and more secure world. And now, the fearless Rainbow Children are pure givers ready to fulfill our needs.

The terms "Indigo," "Crystal" and “Rainbow” were given to these three generations, because they most accurately describe their aura colors and energy patterns.
Indigo Children have a lot of indigo blue in their auras. This is the color of the "third eye chakra," which is an energy center inside the head located between the two eyebrows. This chakra regulates clairvoyance, or the ability to see energy, visions and spirits.

Many of the Indigo Children are clairvoyant. The Crystal Children have opalescent auras, with beautiful multicolors in pastel hues. This generation also shows a fascination for crystals and rocks. The Rainbow Children radiate rainbow energy, the kind that we were created with, to instill within us health and balance.

Indigo Children can sense dishonesty, like a dog can sense fear. Indigos know when they're being lied to, patronized, or manipulated. And since their collective purpose is to usher us into a new world of integrity, the Indigos' inner lie detectors are integral. As mentioned before, this warrior spirit is threatening to some adults. And the Indigos are unable to conform to dysfunctional situations at home, work, or school.

They don't have the ability to dissociate from their feelings and pretend like everything's okay . . . unless they’re medicated or sedated.

Crystal Children's innate spiritual gifts are also misunderstood.
Specifically, Crystal Children have telepathic abilities that lead them to talk later in life. In the new world, we will all be much more aware of our intuitive thoughts and feelings. We won't rely so much upon the spoken or written word. Communication will be faster, more direct and more honest, because it will be mind-to-mind. Already, increasing numbers of us are getting in touch with our psychic abilities. Our interest in the paranormal is at an all-time high, accompanied by books, television shows and movies on the topic.

So, it's not surprising that the generation following the Indigos are incredibly telepathic. Many of the Crystal Children have delayed speech patterns, and it's not uncommon for them to wait until they're 3 or 4 years old to begin speaking. But parents tell me that they have no trouble communicating with their silent children. Far from it!

The parents engage in mind-to-mind communication with their Crystal Children. And the Crystals use a combination of telepathy, self-fashioned sign language and sounds (including song) to get their point across.

The trouble comes about when the Crystals are judged by medical and educational personnel as having "abnormal" speaking patterns. It's no coincidence that as the number of Crystals are born, the number of diagnoses for autism is at a record high.

It's true that the Crystal Children are different from other generations.
But why do we need to pathologize these differences? If these children are successfully communicating at home, and the parents aren't reporting any problems . . . then why try to make it a problem?

The diagnostic criterion for autism is quite clear. It states that the autistic person lives in his or her own world, and is disconnected from other people. The autistic person doesn't talk because of an indifference to communicating with others.

Crystal Children are quite the opposite. They’re among the most connected, communicative, caring and cuddly of any generation. They are also quite philosophical and spiritually gifted. And they display an unprecedented level of kindness and sensitivity to this world. Crystal Children spontaneously hug and care for people in need. An autistic person wouldn't do that!

In my book, The Care and Feeding of Indigo Children, I wrote that ADHD should stand for Attention Dialed into a Higher Dimension. This would more accurately describe that generation. In the same vein, Crystal Children don't warrant a label of autism. They aren't autistic, they're AWE-tistic!

These children are worthy of awe, not labels of dysfunction. If anything is dysfunctional, it's the systems that aren't accommodating the continuing evolution of the human species. If we shame these children with labels, or medicate them into submission, we will have undermined a heaven-sent gift. We will crush a civilization before it has time to take roots. Fortunately, there are many positive solutions and alternatives. And the same heaven that sent us the Crystal Children can assist those of us who are advocates for these children.

I first began noticing the Crystal Children during my travels around the world, giving workshops about the angels. I noticed their eyes and magnetic personalities. I held mental conversations with the children, and could clearly hear them answer my questions in mind. I’d watch them smile in response to my mentally sent compliments. These kids hear my thoughts! I realized.

Over the next few years, I interviewed children and parents for my book, The Care and Feeding of Indigo Children. I've always been fascinated with finding patterns among human behavior. Although we're all as unique as snowflakes, the snowflakes share commonalities. With the Indigo Children, I found the traits described earlier. With the Crystal Children, my research took even more interesting twists and turns.

Whenever I met them, I found myself falling in love with each young Crystal Child.
Their hearts were as open and loving as any angel with whom I'd interacted. I found them unguarded and unpretentious. I'd go to sleep thinking about these children, and wake up with volumes of information given to me by the spirit world (or perhaps by the Crystal Children themselves) while I slept.

Each morning, I'd wake up knowing more about the Crystal Children than I'd previously known the evening before! I began lecturing about the Crystal Children and found my audiences very receptive. Many of them were parents, grandparents, or teachers of these special youngsters. They instantly recognized their child's characteristics as I described them.

I asked audience members and subscribers of my newsletter to complete a questionnaire about their Crystal Children. Within one day of my putting out that request, I received hundreds of replies. For my book The Crystal Children, I reviewed hundreds of pages of stories submitted to me by people who were raising and teaching these remarkable children. As I reviewed the survey results, two things happened. First, I felt my heart swell with love and gratitude. Just reading the stories was like being in the presence of mighty angels! I felt ecstatically high by these amazing youngsters' presence on our planet, and also reassured about our collective future. God wouldn't have sent this special breed of humans to earth, were we on our last leg as a civilization or planet.

Just like humans have evolved from ape-like postures, the Crystal Children are concrete evidence that we're progressing in evolution.
Secondly, I found crystal clear patterns among each survey respondent. I read dozens of similar stories about the Crystals and their relationships to animals, plants, rocks and the elderly, for instance. I poured over many stories with eerily similar accounts about children telepathically communicating with their parents . . . while eschewing verbal communication.

Many parents told me, "I never could relate to the descriptions of Indigo Children. My youngster seemed different. But the Crystal Child description was one that perfectly described my child!" Most parents reported a happy relationship with their Crystal Child marked with very few problems. I heard from parents and grandparents around the globe as they described their Crystal as "an angel," "the love of my life," "a true joy," and so on. I noticed that not only were the Crystal Children highly spiritually sensitive, but so were their parents. The souls of Crystal Children were obviously selecting parents who could raise them in a spiritually nurturing environment. Occasionally, I met children who came through parents who were spiritually unaware. In these cases, their grandparents were highly evolved lightworkers who helped to protect and hone the child's spiritual knowledge and gifts. Most people told me that their Crystal Child was a profound spiritual teacher, who taught parents a great deal about being an exceptionally loving and kind person.

One day, I was lecturing about Crystal Children in Sydney, Australia. At the break, my publisher (who was there selling my books) said to me, "What is this book that everyone is asking me about? They're all asking to buy a Crystal Children book!"

I laughed and told him that there was no such book. I was simply reporting the data that I'd gathered from interviews and my own channelings. My publisher said, "Well, they obviously want the book. Will you write it?" Without hesitation, I heard myself reply, "Yes, of course I will." My book, "The Crystal Children" is now available at most bookstores and can also be purchased on this Website. (See Bookstore)

We also recently launched a new Website: http://www.TheCrystalChildren.com (Note the "The" before the term, "Crystal Children"). This site includes articles and a special message board for parents, grandparents, teachers and crystal children to support one another.

These children are the answers to our prayers.
The Rainbow Children are now being born as the Crystal Children become adults. And these are a few adult Crystal Children that are in their 20s now. Rainbow Children are coming about because the full spectrum of light that we need to assimilate serotonin in our body has been reduced. In other words, when we go out on a clear day with no smog and we’re out in the sunshine, we’re receiving in our body a “rainbow” through the sun waves. And that’s the way that we were created—to need rainbow energy.

As a team, we Earth angels, Lightworkers, Indigos, Crystals, Rainbows and whatever generations that God/Goddess has in store for us after that, are all here working together. We’re all here for peace. And we can do it!

[[ShadowPhoenix]]

This is really great, Travis. Good information you've got there, I wonder if I fit in one of those brackets? I know I exhibit a lot of characteristics of the indigo...but I've never been diagnosed with anything like ADD or autism, then again I've never had an assessment done.

[KaidaPyralis]

Thank you so much for this. I read it a few years ago. Is it possible for your energy to shift? I felt much more "Violet" aura than Indigo child, but reading now I'm not so sure.

Thanks for sharing. = ]

[Crowfeather]

This is really great, Travis. Good information you've got there, I wonder if I fit in one of those brackets? I know I exhibit a lot of characteristics of the indigo...but I've never been diagnosed with anything like ADD or autism, then again I've never had an assessment done.

I feel like I may have been crystal when I was younger, or indigo now? I always had comments that I must be ADHD, and I was very much like a crystal child. *scratches head* I feel I may be an Indigo, but with a spiritual block. I need to do some soul searching (and cleansing) to see.

[Rifts]

Hmm after reading up on Indigo Children, I think I might be one. I have the ADHDness, but I'm quite calm and when someone lies to me, I know. I used to take meds for my adhd, but I'm happier off 'em so I stopped. Couldn't really get a solid definition of clairvoyant...I can tell how things would feel without touching them and thats claire-something. As for being against corruptedness? http://akasha980.livejournal.com/ Theres my point. Sorry if the minor cussing offends you. Sense of belonging? I'm were I need to be all the time, or else I wouldn't be there.

So maybe, then again, Maybe not.

[Travis Sanders]

I have never been add or adhd but resonate with the indigo/crystal phenomena. Similair to the way a person born on or around the 21st of a month can have characteristics of both sun signs around them we also have "cusp children" Although I refer to myself as Indigo, I am an Indigo/crystal cusp. Cusp children have arua swings were there personality traits and charcteristics shift back and forth between crystal and indigo for weeks, months, or years at a time. Indigo children tend to have indigo, blues, and violets in their auras but despite the fact that those may be dominant colors, auras do change constantly with mood, emotion, health, and things going on in our life .

[Crowfeather]

Hmm, that is definitely food for thought. A sensitive girl at school said my aura was blue. I feel it will darken as my spiritual sensitivity grows and my blockage is dispelled. (I don't know, I've just got a feeling, intuition and all.)
I doubt I am a cusp child. I was born the 15th, and I don't think it was a swing so much as growing older.
If I decide to stop being broke anytime soon, I'll have to snag a copy of Travis' Care and Feeding book. Looks rather interesting.

[Travis Sanders]

i didnt mean that indigo/crystal cusp children were born at any particular time, just using astrological stuff as an example. =]

[Stephanie Mae]

I have all the characteristics of an Indigo Child, born 4-27-84. I seem to always know when I'm being lied to, and to this day I have not been fooled. My husband always jokes with me that I better dip into my happy juice when we are about to go out and I have had a bad day, I've never been able to hide my feelings or pretend to feel a certain way. I know I have physic abilities, because I always know before anything happens, unfortunately I do not get to thoroughly enjoy surprises. I detailed dreams of deaths that are accidental, violent or self induced. When I really want something to turn out a certain way, it always turns out the way I was hoping it to. For some reason spirits are attracted to me, they show up and never speak or ask for anything, but just cry. I also have had more than my share of freak accidents, but I always emerge without a paper cut sized scratch on me. For ex: my friend rolled her truck (I was passenger) 2 months ago, I wasn't wearing a seat belt (only because we were just driving on her acreage), she broke her left leg and had cuts all over, but I didn't even have a sore muscle. I am also very good with animals, I have been searching out injured animals (anything from sparrows to cows) since I was about 7 years old and taking care of them until they were healed enough to go back to their homes. All of the women on my mom's side have had the dreams and spirit encounters, so I have always felt that this is just how I was born, nothing I can do about it, but up until I just read this post, I had no idea what everything else was about.
Thanks for the insight!

[searching]

this is great - as a parent with 2 kids- previously i thought I knew my daughter was an indigo child (born 1994) and my son was a crystal child (born 1997)<<although he was diagnosed ADHD, and he definetly has lived up to that diagnosis, he was always even tempered and although he was hyper, there was still a strong calmness to him, he had a confindence as a young child, but as he has gotten older, he has an onerieness about him that I did not expect, he is struggling with what seems to be that he is trying to define himself. << I am struggling with how to help him.

At different times both have shown some strong spiritual connections, whether it was speaking to ghosts or knowing when there was going to be a catastrophic event or that there was going to be a loss in the family. When I finally put 2 and 2 together and started researching info, I was amazed and some of it explained my own beliefs (that seemed to come from no-where) -- I have tried to keep my children open to what is around them and their gifts, but as they have gotten older, my daughter is still pretty receptive to some things, but my son is way over in a different field - however recently he has been getting into watching ghost hunters and other things, but he is unnerved by it AND he was the one talking to folks on the other side. At the time he didnt have a fear of ghosts even though there was some scary things going on. - Now I am getting side tracked Anything I can read that helps me help my children I think is great, I have a friend who is going through some similar things with her daughter and we both are grateful when we come across info. Any info and direction is always wonderful. Even just reading about what others have gone through.

[canobiecrazy]

I have several characteristics of an Indigo Child...

I was diagnosed with both ADD and an autistic spectrum disorder (Aspbergers)

I have some psychic abilities as Ive often known things my parents knew before they ever said anything about it.

A Qi Gong expert I practice with says that I have a "powerful energy field"

I saw ghosts/spirits up until I was 10, not like a TV show but I heard people walking on the stairs and heard, and in one case saw forms in my room.

A family friend who is Wiccan says that I have a "Positive Aura"

Born in the time frame.

[Miripet97]

This has always been an interesting subject for me, I'll deffinately be sure to find one of your books! My parents would be very interested in it, I think, as both of them have in thier lives exhibited some of these characteristics.

[DarkWaterfall]

I understand some of what you are saying, however, I have to correct you about a point when it comes to Autism Spectrum Disorders. Please keep in mind that I am VERY literal, lol. I really mean no harm. I, as someone on the Autistic Spectrum with (unmedicated) ADD, just want to be properly represent, but can very much be over-analyzing!

There ARE some autistics that do randomly hug people. It's also very common and pretty much ubiquitous that autistics have very heightened sense, sometimes to the point where it is unbearable. For me, it can be very painful for me to be out in public because of a physical sensitivity to noise. Others it's an emotional overwhelming feeling. There are autistics, specifically Aspergers, who desperately want to be part of the world but find communicating difficult. The world doesn't understand us. I do agree that we, all on the Autistic Spectrum, can certainly be Indigos or Crystals. I certainly relate!

[DarkWaterfall]

I understand some of what you are saying, however, I have to correct you about a point when it comes to Autism Spectrum Disorders. Please keep in mind that I am VERY literal, lol. I really mean no harm. I, as someone on the Autistic Spectrum with (unmedicated) ADD, just want to be properly represent, but can very much be over-analyzing!

There ARE some autistics that do randomly hug people. It's also very common and pretty much ubiquitous that autistics have very heightened sense, sometimes to the point where it is unbearable. For me, it can be very painful for me to be out in public because of a physical sensitivity to noise. Others it's an emotional overwhelming feeling. There are autistics, specifically Aspergers, who desperately want to be part of the world but find communicating difficult. The world doesn't understand us. I do agree that we, all on the Autistic Spectrum, can certainly be Indigos or Crystals. I certainly relate!

Oh I also wanted to add that many people describe Aspergers and High Functioning Autistics as more evolved humans!

[MoonCat]

So no one older than 25 can be included in these categories?