Hi, Marietta-
My reply: I don’t know what special powers you are asking about?
I am referring to your OP #8.
My reply: Once again we are in agreement.
Here is the first sentence from the third post I made in this thread about the Indigo’s.
“The Indigo Children are not to be considered “superior or elite” in comparison to other humans, but rather viewed as living demonstrations of the dormant abilities that are NOW beginning to rapidly unfold among ALL HUMAN POPULATIONS.”
My point is that these abilities were not dormant. Traditional societies generally had shaman that had the capacities to soul-journey, interact with the spirit realm, heal, etc. We just recognize these things as really different now because these people have no particular role in our modern society. These traits were always in human populations, and every culture has a different way of viewing them. To make the assertions about such people that you make, with the scientific proof of DNA alterations and so forth- that is the issue for me. Without strong scientific evidence, the assertions are unfounded. It is sufficient to say that some people have greater abilities in these areas, and this is most likely to be like every other human trait- fluctuating in populations (we all have strengths and weaknesses).
I think you are going by claims made by other people not Azurite Press.
The claims that these people are hosts to Nephilim souls, that they have altered DNA, that they are other races (angelics, etc.) is the claim your OPs make, and what I am challenging. I don't challenge that people can heal or perceive beyond the 5 senses or whatever. I challenge the very elaborate, very fantastical, and very unsupported reasons why this is that your organization puts forth.
My reply: That’s not how anyone in our group views it or feel about it.
From Azurite Press, last paragraph on the page:
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Sounds an awful lot like stroking egos to me- very much a "we are so special, with a special purpose, and you are so courageous for believing in your special-ness." Sorry, but it's just what I see. I may have a lot of these traits, but I still think I'm just a human being like everyone else on the planet. I don't need complicated and unsupported histories of angelics and nephilim and feline hominids and mutated/activated DNA and so on to deal with who I am. I think part of the problem here (from my personal standpoint, aside from the claims of scientific authenticity that are not supported) is that it depends much on labels- labeling everybody and all this stuff. And labels, in my honest opinion, are virtually worthless in spiritual matters. Labels limit rather than progress. In short, I just find it (1) unsupported by evidence and (2) not very helpful to have people think they are some sort of semi-human that are being targeted by the Illuminati (ah-ha, more conspiracy theory).
Why not just stick to the basic stuff that is not only true, but supported by common sense and is actually useful? That is, that all people have gifts that can be used for love, unity, beauty, and goodness? Why separate out these or those people and come up with all this unsupported stuff?
My reply: What I am talking about is knowing things that you have never studied or heard of and then finding out that it is accurate. Also past life memories of places that you have never been to and can describe accurately.
What many people experience as knowing things they never heard of is actually their subconscious mind assimilating information that it picked up, which later is pushed into consciousness and appears to be coming from nowhere. There has been good work on the dreams of indigenous hunters, who believed animals sent them dreams to lead them to where to hunt. The studies showed that hunters were exceptionally adept at picking up subtle cues (broken branches, a bit of hair, etc.) from their environment, which they were constantly roaming each day. But this was picked up at a subconscious level. In their dreams, this information was organized and packaged in a way the conscious mind could understand it and act on it.
My point is that just because a person *feels* that they experienced things a certain way doesn't make it reality. To think so ignores the complexity of the human brain and how we perceive, store, process, and act on information.
That said, I don't think it explains everything, but neither would I call it cellular memory, as I think it has nothing whatsoever to do with our cells. I had ideas about string theory and quantum mechanics by the time I was five. I picked up on stuff going on in the world like famines by the age of two. However, science simply doesn't support that any of this stuff was in my DNA. DNA codes for what the body will produce for its growth, development and maintenance. DNA is not a memory system in the sense of recording information about other stuff. So, I think there is some other system by which this information is stored and processed that science hasn't figured out yet. Some have proposed a universal consciousness that some people tap into. Some have proposed a universal
human consciousness. Some propose it's reponsiveness to a sensitivity to energy, and thought is a form of energy. We don't know, but it is much more honest to say science doesn't have this information yet than to act like science supports something it doesn't.
I personally don't have an issue with past life memories in terms of a belief. I do have an issue of claiming scientific evidence where there is none and misusing scientific concepts to "prove" a point when there is no proof. To me, an organization that does that is manipulating the public (who generally know little about science) into thinking proof exists where it doesn't. If an organization has no peer-reviewed studies and no references, it simply isn't a scientific organization. But people know that the general public doesn't know this. They know that people in the public will accept anything that sounds intelligent and complicated, and talks about the same concepts (DNA, physics) even if it doesn't have any grounding in these sciences at all. And it is this manipulation of people that really bothers me about all sorts of organizations that claim scientific grounding but fail to live up to even the most basic tenets of scientific inquiry.
My reply: I’ve answered every question asked of me that I am physically able to answer.
My point is that the claims you made, or referenced to your organization, you are unable to answer. So it becomes a matter of faith and not science, and this makes me very wary of an organization that purports to be scientifically grounded but is, in fact, not giving any of the supportive materials to its members. That seems manipulative and not useful to me.
I’ve said that I will debate with anyone who has a working knowledge of the topic. How do you debate with someone who only wants to make promote an argument and fun of the material without knowledge of the material.
I understand you aren't saying this if for everyone. Your organization, however, claims certain "truths" about properly classifying people, how these people obtained these abilities, and so forth that are not just about a personal path- they claim to have the truth about entire groups of people, including ethnic/religious groups such as the Jews. You must understand there is a distinction between following a path and making generalized unsupported statements about other human beings. One of the paths I follow is Druidry. It's not for everyone. That is fine and dandy. But if the Order of Druids I belong to put out materials that said the Jews were really this, and the Torah and Bible were corrupted, and all these people are really nephilim that are hanging out in human bodies, and people like those people have altered DNA... you see how this is extending out their belief in reference to others? Claiming a truth that is unsupported
about other people, or a broad group of people is the issue I take.
My reply: First I would suggest going back and reading the articles I posted. What kind of evidence do you want?
The organization says it is scientific.
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It says it is a science-spiritual tradition. It distinctly claims "science" several times, and you yourself in your posts have used scientific claims.
However, none of the evidence presented anywhere is scientific. If you want to argue that an organization and its claims are scientific, I ask for scientific evidence.
Scientific evidence is collected in a particular way (the scientific method provides the foundation) and is published in peer-reviewed sources (articles in peer-reviewed journals, academic presses for books). Without this type of publishing, there is no litmus test to separate out any person's claims and opinions and real science.
I can’t make you believe something you have determined you will not believe no matter what material I quote.
I will believe when I see material quoted that are real, scientific, peer-reviewed references. If you claim science as a tradition and support, then support the claims with the tradition and support of science. Or, alternatively, we can say that our claims are simply our own beliefs, without any supporting material. Which is fine- I have plenty of those. I just don't claim they are science.
Unless it comes from your little corner of learning, it is not valid to you so what is the point.
It is hardly "my little corner of learning" to ask for ANY peer-reviewed scientific reference. I'm not restricting from which field of science, or which universities, or which journals- nothing. I'm asking for ANY peer-reviewed scientific references that support the claims about DNA, nephilim, feline hominids, etc. that you claim is part of a tradition that is a science.
What I'm saying is- if you claim scientific support, then there should be SOMEWHERE in science, some support. ANYWHERE. Science is a very broad mode of inquiry with many disciplines and tons of peer-reviewed journals and presses.
You are claiming that your tradition is scientific and has scientists, yet there are no references provided anywhere in the body of scientific literature to this effect. Can you understand why people are therefore skeptical?
I have provided the material I have, Good Morning American did a segment on the Indigo Children and so did ABC new do a segment on them but unless it comes from one of your cronies, you simply will not acknowledge the validity of the source.
I would hardly call the millions of scientists around the world, in all sorts of disciplines "my cronies." Any scientist recognizes the difference between popular presses, television shows, and magazines (which have NO standards for data, analysis, or methodology) and the value of peer-reviewed sources that do have standards to uphold the integrity of the research.
I can create a website on my own that says anything, claiming scientific basis. What makes a source scientific is that it has shown, through the peer-review process, that it has methodological integrity- that data were really collected, really analyzed, and that the conclusions are not just the opinion or flight of fancy of some person but are actually based on something solid.
What I can tell you is that I can see the indigo blue auric field around these people which is where the term Indigo children came from, but can I tell you who has what DNA activated providing doctors reports, no I cannot.
Then why don't you just stick with your experience and leave out stuff for which there is no evidence? If you said this from the get-go: "I think there are people who are Indigo children and like me in ways XYZ because I see blue auras around them" I wouldn't have an argument with that. It's how you see the world, how you process the information, etc. It is claiming stuff that is based on "science" and extending this to generalizations about groups like the Jews that is the problem from a logical and scientific standpoint.
Does this mean that testing has not been don’t, NO it doesn’t. It simply means that I am no privy to these reports other than second hand.
But does this mean testing HAS been done, and proven the points of your organization? No, it doesn't. It could mean some person made something up somewhere, and you bought into it. Without any evidence, no one knows. And that is my point. Science is built on
evidence, not unsupported claims.
If you have specific questions about the Indigo children I will do my best to provide an answer but if you are wanting me to convince you, I don’t have the power or desire to do this.
I am not asking to be convinced. I am asking that if someone claims something is supported by science, that it be supported by science. If not, there is nothing wrong with simply leaving belief in the realm of belief, without proof. It is the claim that proof exists, and then none actually does, that is an issue.