I'm going to be posting a 'reel' i made for my last girlfriend who was indigo. among other things.

you guys are in for a treat.

This is the sort of crap I grew up with. Right down to the tuning forks.

EvilHomer, time to out you. You're an indigo child, aren't you!

Probably. Mom didn't really go in for the whole "auras" thing (mostly on the grounds that "real" auras are ever-changing and can't tell you much about long-term behavior, because DUH), but indigo children are defined in such a way that basically any reasonably intelligent kid growing up in a New Age household will fit the bill. And even if the kid in question doesn't fit the bill, any New Age aura-reader worth his correspondence degree will be more than happy to say otherwise if and when said kid's parents express an interest in indigos.

It's like the aura photographer in the first minute says; his clients are usually "right".

"At sixteen, I became a full-blown Intuitive"

Fuck me, that's something else I haven't heard in awhile. If you've never met an Intuitive before, then New Age Week is going to be a wild fucking ride.

New age week sounds great. Growing up I knew only one kid who's family was heavily new age. Back then I just associated new age with Pure Moods.

You probably knew more, Cena, just weren't aware of it! Depending on where they live, New Agers can be pretty hush-hush about the kind of crap they get into. Memories of the burning times, despite being completely imaginary, still haunt their communities.

I showed a neighborhood kid my family's ceremonial altar a grand total of one time. My asshole stepfather "persuaded" me never to do that again, on the grounds that our neighbors might, quote, "burn down our trailer if they find out about any of this".

Now I am picturing a young evilhomer with a terminal case of metal hair sacrificing a squirrel to Baal.

I knew some people who were neighbors of a relative of mine who were heavily into New Age and indigo child stuff. The dad was a shaggy beardo who popped Percocets like they were Tic-Tacs and claimed to have been, among other things an ex-Army Special Forces operative, and a bodyguard for Jerry Garcia and that his whole life had been turned around by "the lights coming out of the mountain", whatever that meant.

According to him his two severely ADHD early-teen children were "indigo" and his son wanted to be a professional cryptozoologist. The dad seriously asked a friend of my relative who had been visiting if she could help his son with his career in cryptozoology - apparently because she worked at a natural history museum.

There were no animal sacrifices in our household; yes, in addition to the tuning forks, we had a small cauldron and a ceremonial dagger (an 'athame', as Wiccan fluffbunny posers called them; I thought it was a letter-opener for the longest time), but all of our animals died *naturally*, of untreated diseases. Mom believed in ahimsa (dharmic nonviolence) and as such wouldn't kill anything; spiders, mosquitoes, earthworms. She wouldn't even put our sick pets to sleep.

I did have some pretty badass metal hair, however.

Since I moved to Providence it's felt like a social liability to NOT be in to that stuff.

Sounds like you've never convinced anyone the Word of the Aeon is "watersports" before.

Yeah, but most of these people are too self-centered to want to go out and pass stupid laws.

It's a mixed bag. I know some of you guys grew up in evangelical households, and as such, this video is probably a major culture shock for you. But really, New Agers - when they're not waving tuning forks in your face or magically transforming themselves into panthers - they're not THAT bad.

Evilhomer is mostly right.

Isn't there a good overlap between new agers and antivaxxers? (and homeopathists)

t Solro: Yes, but they mostly try to convince others not to vaccinate, not ban vaccinations outright, as far as I've heard.

Thats still pretty bad, considering they force it on their kids

"I pretty much refused medication."

I haven't met an anti-vaxxer yet. I've definitely met too many otherwise decent New Age types who've recently fallen for Iron John type bullshit, though.

Homeopathy is too mainstream to be a New Age red flag anymore, it just means you shop at Whole Foods by preference rather than convenience or necessity. I'm pretty sure "homeopathic" doesn't even mean "homeopathic" anymore, it just means "unregulated dietary supplement." There's plenty of "homeopathic" stuff being sold everywhere that actually has ingredients other than water in it, which means pretty much by definition it isn't homeopathic.

Yeah, OZ has a good point. One of the most important things outsiders should understand about the New Age movement is, that there are no rules in the New Age movement. No common texts, no standards for research, and no universally agreed-upon definitions. There are as many definitions for words in the New Age movement as there are individuals within the New Age movement; "homeopathic medicine" is just as likely to be a generic buzzword as it is to be used in it's 'proper' sense, i.e. plain water diluted to the point where there is virtually nothing left of the active ingredients, particularly nowadays, when the "homeopathic = healing" meme has entered the broader public conscience.

Tree Hugger is definitely into new age stuff. Did MLP get it right?

Cena - Sort of. She's more of a hippie than a New Ager (there's a lot of overlap, but they are not necessarily the same things) and so far, the writers haven't develop Tree Hugger's character all that much. Still, I see no reason to doubt Tree's New Age streetcred, especially since she's know to practice auditory therapy (I put an auditory therapy video in the hopper earlier today)!

I'm pretty sure Lotus the Spa Pony is a New Ager, too. Rarity and Maud probably dabble in crystal energy healing - although Maud's is probably also a fan of left-hand occultism (which is usually frowned upon by New Agers, at least in public).

That's only the case if your alpha channel display options are left on their default settings, and what Indigo would be that mundane??

To my knowledge, rock star David Bowie was the first person to show the beneficial effect upon the aura from insufflation of copious quantities of cocaine hydrochloride, as shown in this Kirlian slide dated April, 1975.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yvw0U-bRXw

I liked the conversation about sugared ice tea. It's sweet tea you dorks.

I'm sorry, I've just been informed that there is a specific amount of holistic dentistry that will change that, but first the dentistry it has to be diluted in water.

Yours.

Dentists Against Flouride

I also knew two girls who talked to trees and rivers and such while I was at Ole Miss. One of them manage to graduate with a degree in biology and actually sought proper psychiatric help.

The other is a semi-homeless ex pastry chef who roams the streets of Portland, OR on her bicycle accusing people who stare at her of assault and photographing them with her iPhone. She often posts about being stalked by random men and assaulted in public places like grocery stores and Wal-Marts.

Sire, is there a reason why the second girl you mentioned hasn't yet appeared on this site?