I don't know if I buy into this indigo child thing, but your idea is one that has been discussed and written about. Strieber's fictional 'Majestic' uses this idea extensively (and negatively.)
Obviously western societies these days are extremely rationalistic and it's no stretch to claim most ‘scientists’ reject religious beliefs outright as being backward, simplistic, and even stupid. No wonder, considering what organized religion did to the world, especially fundamentalism (in all its forms). Millions died, all for the wrong reasons. That kind of religious belief that insisted on blatant untruths, needed to be rejected. However, I must say that rationalistic science has done no better in terms of our behavior to each other. Dr. Mengeles comes to mind.
But I wonder sometimes if we haven’t thrown the baby out with the bath water here. Understand that as a young child of five or six I remember learning about the beliefs of Christianity and declaring the equivalent of “This is bull shit.” By the time I was eleven I was convinced it was absolute and utter nonsense. I learned to keep my beliefs to myself and fortunately had a mother who was very good at passive resistance when it came to attending church or Sunday school. Thanks, Mom!
It’s only in my later years that I have come to revisit the issue and wonder if there is not something to it. I don’t mean the superficialities, the catechisms, or the beliefs that God looks just like me. I mean the idea that there is more to ourselves than just this physical reality and that at a very basic level, religion does have it right. We are multi-dimensional beings stifled in this dimension by the veil of forgetfulness that makes it nearly impossible for us to know the truth.
However, I also have a faith in science being able to explain Reality (the capital-R kind) completely. That science as a whole rejects these religious notions right now is simply a matter of not having gotten there yet. Newton would have rejected charmed quarks as well. That the Randis of the world loudly debunk anything resembling religious or paranormal thought is just as ignorant and idiotic as fundamentalist preachers like Falwell railing in the opposite direction. I see them as peas in a pod, brothers united in extremism.
The cutting edge of theoretical physics is very interesting these days. I do not pretend to understand it, brane theory, or holography, and I’m not saying the 11-dimensions of super string theory are equivalent to the kind of inter-dimensions suggested by religion, but, just as on the religious side, I feel there is something there. The next big breakthrough, as in an Einstein-type breakthrough, is going to be when physics ‘discovers’ the same dimensions religion is talking about. That will, of course, be awesome for our species. It will change everything.
Why do I think this will happen? Because it already has. ‘They’ have done it and ‘they’ understand, whomever they are. I don’t think any one piece of evidence, whether it is UFO-related or paranormal, says much of anything. It can all be pretty well debunked by someone determined. But as a whole, the body of evidence experienced by millions personally, would suggest that this is the case. We have a tremendous amount of anecdotal evidence which is rejected as a matter of course. I have no idea of what Reality really is, but I suggest this general outline is probably more or less correct.
I do not think that when we are in a position to be aware of the next level of Reality that we will be indulging ourselves in heaping scorn upon the James Randis and Carl Sagans of the word walking the streets in humiliation for being so completely wrong. I suggest that we are very ignorant of who we are, and at the next level we will discover that was their job and role to play, even as we had ours, and that things do fit together as they should. Nor is the next level the last. We are likely many levels from enlightenment.
I’m not sure I like this game we’re in, by the way. In fact, I kinda think it sucks. It looks to me like it is totalitarian and manipulative, and from my level of ignorance, I don’t want to play it any more. Perhaps at another level I will discover that “I” agreed to all this with enthusiasm and gusto. If so, I withdraw my consent. If I were forced into it, I pledge my resistance. It’s still all bull shit, no matter how you cut it.
