Starseeds

Introduction

Some spiritualists believe that they are not normal. They don't just believe that they are not normal, but they 'know' it. Such people believe that they were born onto Earth with a spiritual mission to fulfill. They believe that they are not REALLY from this world. They believe that they are "starseeds".

What are starseeds?

"Starseeds" is the term that refers to "indigo children", "rainbow children", "system busters" and "crystal children". These particular labels refer to people born within a particular time period, who are believed by proponents of the "starseed" idea to have been born onto Earth with a spiritual mission. According to http://www.drboylan.com/strkidsigns.html,  starseed children '... display skills, such as: telepathy (mental communication), precognition (knowing the future), telekinesis (moving objects by mental concentration), clairvoyance/remote viewing (mentally seeing things distant in space or time), "downloading" information (from off-planet consciousnesses), cross-species communication, penetrating intuitiveness (just "knowing" something without being told), affecting electrical devices (e.g., devices turn on or blow out as the kid goes by), remote-influencing others (telepathically), inter-dimensional viewing, aura-reading (learning about another's health, intentions, etc. by observing the energy field surrounding them), psychic diagnosis ("reading" the person's energy field fluctuations), psychic or bioenergetic healing (transferring helpful energy to a person), invisibility work (making self "invisible" (mentally), teleportation (moving self or object from one locale to another by mental effort), levitation (rising from the ground by mental effort), mental influencing (telepathically causing another to "feel" like doing something the Star Kid wants) , earth energy adjustment work, time dilation or contraction (causing events, trips, etc. to take longer or shorter time than ordinary), pre-sensitivity to earthquakes or human disasters like car crashes, interdimensional awareness, astral (out-of-body) travel, channeling (serving as a conduit for a person not present to speak through), shared consciousness (with a Star Visitor guide), operating in close mental connection with their Star Visitor guides, and physically summoning and connecting with one's Star-Visitor and other guardians.'

Rainbow children

 According to http://www.starchildren.info/rainbow.html,  "The rainbow children are the third generation of special children that have come to help humanity evolve. Different from the Indigo and Crystal children, Rainbow children have a few more interesting characteristics. The Rainbow children are generally born in the year 2000 and above. In some cases, there might also be a few scouts that came to earth before 2000. The few Rainbow children that are here today are born from early Crystal scouts that were born in the 1980’s." 

   Furthermore, "As many people might have experienced it, the Rainbow children bring joy and harmony to their families. Unlike the Indigo and Crystal children, the Rainbow child is born to smile, which is accompanied by their huge hearts that are full of forgiveness.
The Rainbow child generally recovers from the state of negative emotion quickly. This is also an important key that they hold, emotional mastery. Rainbow children are psychic and have the ability to read people’s feelings. This gift is usually revealed, as they grow older.
Rainbow Children are psychic. Beyond this and perhaps more so, they have strong wills and strong personalities. Their gifts do not stop there. They are known to be natural healers and instant manifesters. It is said that whatever they need or desire they can instantly manifest.
As would be expected, they have a connection to color. In fact they resonate with the colors around them. They are drawn to color, colorful surroundings and brightly colored clothes. Their energy is expressed in other ways too, as they are high-energy children. Their enthusiasm is demonstrated in their creativity. The Rainbow children are thought to be the builders of the New World, using Divine will."

Indigo children

According to http://www.angeltherapy.com/article1.php, Indigo children  "...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." Furthermore, Indigo children refers to such children of approximate "...ages 7 through 25".

Discussion

Indigo children are children who are said to possess extraordinary supernatural powers. In order to identify such children, questionnaires or quizes about the personality of the child are normally answered. These diagnostic questionnaires work through cold reading, because they comprise of vague, general statements which could equally apply to anyone - and so the attributes which diagnose the children as being "starseeds" may be mere attributes that most children have an are not linked in any way or are uniquely significant for children that are so-called "starseeds": "indigo" children and adults, "rainbow children" or"crystal children". Interestingly, the attributes that may make indigo children and the like seem unorthodox as compared to 'normal' children are attributes which autistic children may tend to show - more that children without autism. For example, the idea that the children "think differently", or that they have an extremely good imagination, or that they daydream a lot or mix reality with their inner world, and similar attributes. Of course, the person trying to determine whether their child is an Indigo or not may be biased and so they may wrongly believe that their child fits the criteria of Indigos more than they actually do. 

     If autistic children are diagnosed by spiritual friends or their parents as being Indigos, it may be as a consequence as a psychological need for the parents to believe that their child is special and that their autism is not a problem, but rather that the condition acts in their favour in some way. After all, it is hard for a parent to accept the diagnosis of their child as having autism, so maybe if the parent consequently discovers that actually their child was "wrongly diagnosed" as having autism - and in fact, they are NOT autistic, but are merely an Indigo child - then it is obviously a way to deal psychologically with their child having autism. 

     However, if a young person - an adult - believes that they are an Indigo, or they adopt some other label, it will give them a psychological sense of self-importance: they are an Indigo; they have a job to do: a spiritual mission to fulfil. It makes them feel more important than they actually are. 

    Indigo children, for example, are believed by advocates of the concept, to be more "psychic" than the ordinary child. That they possess extraordinary psychic ability. This would mean that their psychic abilities should in theory confound scientists in the laboratory, who are testing for psychic abilities. So theoretically, they should be tested against a "normal" child, testing their psychic ability. But psychic ability has not really been found scientifically - although there were consistent results involving psi hitting and psi missing, in which the participant guessed correctly and guessed wrongly higher and lower than chance respectively, it is purely suggestive of psi and psi ability (aka psychic ability). Also, it is difficult to test children in experiments as they may not necessarily understand or want to take part in any experiment.

    Since it is believed by some spiritualists that children are more psychic than adults, it would suggest that the Indigo child is MORE psychic than the psychic child.

  

References

http://www.drboylan.com/strkidsigns.html 

  http://www.starchildren.info/rainbow.html

http://www.angeltherapy.com/article1.php 

Kinesiology

Introduction

Kinesiology is sometimes referred to as "muscle-testing". However, although kinesiology does primarily use muscle testing, that is not just what kinesiology is about.

Kinesiology

There are different branches of kinesiology. A particular type of kinesiology is called 'systematic kinesiology'. Another kind is 'clinical kinesiology'. The latter is a more simplified version to the former. 

Systematic kinesiology

Courses

Systematic kinesiology courses can be very expensive. A practitioner course, run by the Academy of Systematic Kinesiology (ASK), which is done in London, UK, costs £10,000. If a person wishes to be systematic kinesiologist as a career, they need to be motivated to do such a course - including giving in the required homework. 

What is it?

In systematic kinesiology, a variety of muscles are "tested". The one that is used as a 'Strong Indicator Muscle' (or SIM for short) is the pectoralis major sternal muscle. There are believed to be multiple "circuits" associated with different muscles. Different muscles are links with a particular organ and muscle. Specific muscles require different "corrections". These "corrections" include the massage or rubbing of acupuncture points - referred to as "neuro-lymphatic points" (which, when rubbed, are supposed to improve the lymphatic system) and "neuro-vascular points" (when are usually held lightly and are supposed to improve the energy flow along the particular meridian. Normally these are centred on some place on the head).

Muscle-testing

Muscle-testing involves the kinesiologist applying a light pressure on a particular area of the muscle. The area the pressure is applied depends on the muscle, as what is being tested is the strength of the muscle as different muscles move or function in different directions. According to Kinesiology for Balanced Health - by Brian H Butler, p.134, the pectoralis major sternal is tested with "...the subject lying down. The arm is extended at 90 degrees to the body and to the shoulders with the elbow straight, the palm is turned outwards, pressure is against the wrist above the joint to push the arm back, and 45 degrees away from the body." If the muscle tests weak, it is interpreted to meaning that there is some blockage in the muscle's corresponding meridian circuit. Various measures may be used - for example, rubbing the neuro-lymphatic points and the neuro-vascular points, as well as "tracing" the meridian. Nutrition may also be seen to - for example, a milk thistle supplement may be muscle tested using this muscle, and if the muscle strengthens with this supplement, and is weak without the supplement being tested, then it means that the client with the weak pectoralis major sternal muscle should take the supplement in order to strengthen their muscle. 

    Bach flower remedies may also be tested using a SIM should it be found through further muscle-testing that the person needs to deal with their emotions. 

Muscles & meridians

According to Reflexology, by Joelle Peeters, p.19, meridians "...are energy pathways, along which flows the vital life force which is sometimes called qi." These meridians "are duplicated on each side of the body, with two central meridians (known as the 'governing' and 'conception' meridians) running down the front and back of the body along its central or median line." And Kinesiology, a type of alternative medicine, uses the concept of meridians in its practice. It involves testing the muscles by moving them in their natural range of motion. If the muscle is 'weak' due to an energy blockage, it will test weak by refusing to move. The kinesiologist would test the muscle by pressing on an area with a light two-finger pressure which the client must resist if they can by responding back to this. For example, with the supraspinatus muscle (which can be used as a 'strong indicator muscle'), the kinesiologist will test the supraspinatus by applying the light pressure at the client's wrist whilst they are lying down, seated or standing. The muscle is tested in its normal, 180-degree movement. If it resists the pressure, it is 'healthy' but if it doesn't, then it indicates an energy blockage. In Systematic Kinesiology, should a muscle show to be weak in this way, the relevant, associated meridian is physically traced just above the body, associated acupuncture points are held - 'neuro-vascular' points they are called - and other associated acupuncture points are physically rubbed - 'neuro-lymphatics' they are called." See also: Meridians

Meridian                             Muscle

Bladder                              Sacrospinalis

Brain                                  Supraspinatus

Circulation-sex                    Gluteus medius, piriformis

Gall bladder                        Anterior deltoid

Governing                           Teres major

Heart meridian                   Subscapularis  

Kidney                               Psoas, upper trapedius

Large intestine                    Fascia lata, hamstrings,

Liver                                 Pectoralis major sternal

Lung                                  Deltoid, diaphragm

Small intestine meridian      Abdominals, quadriceps  

Spleen                               Latissimus dorsii

Stomach                           Levator scapulae, neck muscles, pectoralis major clavicular                      

Triple warmer                    Sartorius, teres minor

Explanations

A sceptical explanation for kinesiology and muscle testing is the ideomotor effect. In other words, the muscle testing weak or strong may be more down to increased or decreased effort on behalf of the client. Or it may be due to increased or decreased pressure applied by the kinesiologist - if the kinesiologist presses harder when the muscle may be a bit weak (during a bit of laziness, for example) the muscle will be more suceptible to their pressure as it is not behaving as strongly as if it was not being a bit lazy. And vice versa. 

An explanation for the "improvement" in the muscle, or for its strength or weakness is classical conditioning. Another explanation is that it is cognitive dissonance and misperception, because the muscle testing results may be perceived in particualr way as evidence to support a belief in kinesiology or bodily energy systems (meridians, acupuncture points, etc.). For example, a person may have a weak subscapularis, so the heart meridian is traced, as well as the acupuncture points being held or massaged, and nutrition checked through muscle testing. However, it had tested weak due to improper muscle testing by the kinesiologist and after the corrections have been made the muscle tests stronger, but not due to the corrections, but because the practitioner's inadvertantly testing their subject differently to how they did before when muscle tested weak - they are testing more properly after the corrections than before, and they may not be aware of this. This is not due to the corrections, but more due to inconsistant muscle testing techniques on behalf of the practitioner; it is also a mere example for illustration. Anyway, in this scenario, through cognitive dissonance the practitioner believes that the muscle tests stronger due to the corrections, but in actual fact it is testing stronger due to their better muscle-testing. This is an example of classical conditioning.

 

Classical conditioning

Introduction

Answer "Yes" or "No" the following questions - get a piece of paper to write your answers down if you need to.

 

Question                                                                                                       Yes        /       No

1.  Have you ever had tingling or goose bumps on your neck; or 

felt hot spots or cold spots all of which you took to mean that 

there was a spirit present in the room?

2   2.  Have you ever repeatedly come across butterflies or white feathers shortly 

     after the death of a loved-one, which you interpreted as meaning that they are 

    safe and being looked after by angels? 

   

3.    3. Have you ever felt warmth in your body whilst meditating with a crystal, 

   which you attributed to its “energies”? 

   

4 4. Have you ever felt relaxed or better after a Reiki treatment, which you 

   thought was due to the Reiki energy (not meditation/relaxation)? 

  

5.5. Have you ever felt warm tingling during an “energy sensing” session as someone   

   moved their hands physically above your body (without you looking), which

    you thought was due to the impact it had on your aura?

   

   6. Have you ever seen indigo-coloured orbs, and some rose-pinkorbs with your eyes 

  open, which you associated with Archangels? You associate Archangel Michael with the

   colour of indigo, so therefore interpret the indigo orbs as being a sign that he is present and 

  you associate Archangel Chamuel with the colour of pink/rose-pink, so you believe that the

   rose-pink orbs mean that Archangel Chamuel is present?

   

   7. Have you ever heard a voice in your head which you interpreted as being the voice of a 

   spirit?

  

   8. Have you ever felt a cool breeze or warmth enter your body which you associated as being

   your spirit guide being close to you?

  

   9. Have you ever done table-tipping in which you thought that the table's tipping or tilting had 

   been due to spirits being present, who harnessed the energy of you and the rest of the group to

   physically move the table?

  

   10. Have you ever heard a voice in your head that was talking intelligently to you, whilst you 

   had been trying to establish psychic communication with a dog, and you consequently believed

   that the voice had come from the dog, so therefore you believed that psychic communication

   with the dog had happened?

  

If you answered "Yes" to any or all of these statements, then you had inadvertently succumbed to classical conditioning during these such experiences. 

 So what is classical conditioning?

Hopefully, you answered all 10 questions from the above questionnaire. So what have they got to do with classical conditioning? Now, a few of these questions will be looked at. In the post, Psychology, a brief, but clear, definition of classical conditioning as given. Here it is: "Something (e.g. relaxation), which was caused by something else (e.g. meditation) is associated with having been caused by another factor (e.g. crystals) that was present, when in fact the effect (relaxation) was caused by something else (meditation) and not by another factor that happened to be present (crystals)." This is how things such as crystal healing work. It's really down to misperception. 

Analysis

Spiritual presence

With channelling, seances, haunted houses and spirits in general, there are some key physical sensations that are typically associated with the presence of spiritual entities. Question one of the questionnaire asks, "Have you ever had tingling or goose bumps on your neck; or felt hot spots or cold spots all of which you took to mean that there was a spirit present in the room?" Typical sensations thought to be as a consequence of a spirit being present are:

• physical tingling 
• goose bumps
• hot spots
• cold spots

But what if all these are due to other factors? For example, physical tingling, goose bumps and hot or cold spots are due to the bodily circulation. Furthermore, selective memory, selective attention, cognitive dissonance and belief also play a part in a person perceiving these physical sensations with the presence of a spirit (we won't go there, but check out Psychology for more information).
  In other words, the person misperceived these four physical sensations as having been caused by a spirit, when they may have been due to something completely different - the person's own circulatory system. This is an example of classical conditioning.

 Angels & signs

    Some people believe in angels. They also believe that when they repeatedly come across white feathers, it is a sign from the angels from the angelic realms that their loved-ones are safe and that they are being cared for in the spirit world by angelic beings. Similarly, some people believe that when they come across butterflies repeatedly shortly after their loved one passed away, it is a sign from that deceased person - that they are keeping an eye on those they left behind on the earth plane. Question 2 asks, " Have you ever repeatedly come across butterflies or white feathers shortly after the death of a loved-one, which you interpreted as meaning that they are safe and being looked after by angels?" 

   Of course, these events may have been down to other things. They may have been a coincidence. Or may be due to selective memory - perhaps the experiences of coming across the feathers were selectively remembered over an immense length of time, but these, like a book, were squashed together in their memory, and consequently this accumulation of such events seems more incredible or amazing than they actually were. More mundane things that occurred that were perceived to be unrelated were forgotten. Furthermore, the remembered events were seen as evidence for their beliefs, and so cognitive dissonance was involved. Reconstructive memory may also have played a part and be responsible for any exaggeration of the account. 

    

                                                                    Crystal energies

     Do crystal energies have any effect on our bodies? A number of people believe it to be so. Question 3 asks, "Have you ever felt warmth in your body whilst meditating with a crystal, which you attributed to its “energies”?" Any person who believes thatb a given crystal has a particular effect or impact on their physical body is succumbing to classical conditioning. They may just be deluding themselves. They do not perceive that warmth in their body whilst holding a crystal in meditation is actually due to their circulation (or some other mundane cause) and instead they beleive that the crystal caused the particular feeling in their body - the warmth. They may selectively forget a great deal of time before they felt the warmth, and their mind interprets the energies of the crystal as being the reason why they felt the warmth, regardless of the possibility that they may not have felt it initially, or that maybe they had felt warm prior to holding and/or meditating with the crystal. 

      Reiki

    A similar point - and question - is raised regarding the effect or impact a Reiki treatment has on a person during or after a session. Question 3 asks, "Have you ever felt relaxed or better after a Reiki treatment, which you thought was due to the Reiki energy (not meditation/relaxation)?" A Reiki healing is relaxing. But so is meditation. A person during a Reiki treatment enters a meditative - or meditative-like - state, during which they feel wonderfully relaxed. They may access memories that were previously hidden, from the depths of the subconscious mind which they believe to have been past life memories (again, we won't go into that!). However, once the treatment is finished, they feel extremely relaxed and believe that this feeling was as a result of the Reiki. Not necessarily - as already said, they entered a meditative state, so this relaxed feeling may have been caused by this meditation, not the Reiki at all. Furthermore, during this state they access "Past Life memories", which they believe was a consequence of the Reiki healing. Not so necessarily - again, it may have been due to being in meditation and not due to the Reiki at all. Again, it's another example of classical conditioning being at play.