by Doreen Virtue, Ph.D.

Author, "The Care and Feeding of Indigo Children" and the soon-to-be released,
"The Crystal Children" (Hay House, Spring 2003)

The first thing most people notice about Crystal Children is their eyes

large, penetrating, and wise beyond their years. Their eyes lock on and

hypnotize you, while you realize your soul is being laid bare for the child 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, they are the pointers for

where humanity is headed . . . and it's a good direction!

The older children (approximately age 7 through 25), called "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 firey 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 are 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 and in The Indigo

Children, written by Lee Carroll and Jan Tober (both published by Hay House).

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.
 

The terms, "Indigo" and "Crystal" were given to these two 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 multi-colors in pastel hues. This generation

also shows a fascination for crystals and rocks, as you'll read in this book.

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 are medicated or sedated.
 

Crystal Children's innate spiritual gifts are also misunderstood.

Specifically, their telepathic abilities which lead them to talk later in life.

In the new world which the Indigos are ushering in, 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 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, that 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 the children are

successfully communicating at home, and the parents aren't reporting any problems . . . then

why try to make a problem?

The diagnostic criteria 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 are 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 anyone is

dysfunctional, it's the systems that aren't accommodating the continuing

evolution of the human species. If we shame the 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 the 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 would 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.

I found myself falling in love with each young Crystal Child that I met.

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 the

children, and wake up with volumes of information given to me by the spirit

world 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 this book, I reviewed

hundreds of pages of stories submitted to me by people who are 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 felt like being in

the presence of mighty angels! I felt ecstatically high, and reassured by these

amazing youngsters' presence on our planet. I also felt 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 clear might I say 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

that 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's 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 I'd gathered from interviews and my own channelings. My publisher

said, "Well, they obviously want the book. Will you write it?" Without

hesitating, I heard myself reply, "Yes, of course I will." My book, "The

Crystal Children" will be published by Hay House very soon!