Through
Indigo’s Eyes is a YA novel written by Lorna
Schultz Nicholson and is based on the real life of Intuitive Tara Taylor. Although all plots and secondary characters
are fictional, the emotions and feeling of the main character, Indigo Russell,
are taken from real life. Lorna and Tara
teamed up to write this book, thinking they could hit the fiction and
non-fiction market to help people understand what an Indigo child goes through. They are excited to be able to help everyone
understand that all children are different!
So what exactly is an Indigo child?
Lorna:
When I first started the novel, I really hadn’t given the Indigo child
much thought. Children are children, and
each and every one is different and special and I’m not someone who likes to
place a label on any child. I’m not a
fan of the “gifted” school programs either, as I think all children are
gifted. When I started working on the
novel, I did my usual character development charts, only this time I was
writing about someone real, (Tara Taylor), so I used her life to fill in the
blanks. I looked at likes and dislikes,
family life and pets and all that kind of superficial stuff, but I also went
deeper and as I did I realized that as an Indigo child she was sensitive, and
had a wisdom that was probably beyond her years. She was also intuitive, and starting at a very
early age, she could see spirits and angels and her deceased loved ones. Prone to illnesses, like ulcers, she had also
been diagnosed with ADHD, which is typical, I found out, about Indigo
children. This child also has a strong
desire to change the world. Okay, so she
made my character development work easy and I had pages and pages of
notes. Of course, once I started
writing, I also did hours of research on other Indigo children. Now, again, I’m going to reiterate that I’m
not a big believer in the “gifted” school programs, (yes, I know I might get
backlash on this), and I think that Indigo children should not be treated
differently, or labeled, or segregated, but should be accepted for their
uniqueness. Tara is unique and that
makes Indigo also unique. You’ll have to
read the book to find out more!
Tara:
Firstly, Lorna is an amazing writer and it takes a lot of “uniqueness”
on her part to be able to write a novel like this as it is not an easy task to
mix fiction and non-fiction. I agree with Lorna as the word “gifted” separates children
and every child is unique and that makes them brilliant and special just the
way they are. Indigo children was a term that was introduced when I was
19 and it helped explain why I had, and still have, so many experiences that
doctors, specialists and so forth could not really explain. It also helped shed some light on why I was
so sensitive to my surroundings to the point that my body would have physical
issues with no family history of illness. My mother used to joke and say, “If only
I had read The Indigo Children by Lee
Carroll & Jan Tober and The Care and
Feeding of the Indigo Children by Doreen Virtue, I would have gotten more
sleep when you were growing up”. Indigo
children or the Indigo child is now a title, (like boy or girl), that has
become main stream to explain to the world who these children are and why they
have these certain abilities. It is no
different, really, than saying a child is a really good singer, painter or
writer. Indigo is a quick way of describing a highly sensitive child who is affected
by energy, emotions and can see, hear, feel or know things that most people
would miss in their everyday lives. Indigos are in tune to a higher frequency
that never really shuts off, and they have constant distraction and background
noise. This book is meant to be a form of entertainment but also an outlet to
better explain what it is like to be an Indigo child. It’s possible that you
might be an indigo yourself and you just did not know it yet!
Through Indigo's Eyes can be purchased through Amazon.
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