Life
Purpose:
Personal & Global
by Doreen Virtue, Ph.D.
 Every individual has a Life Purpose. This
is the mission that you agreed to prior to your
incarnation. There are two parts to your
Purpose: a personal one and a global one. Your
personal Purpose involves a particular
characteristic that you’re trying to develop in
this life, such as patience or compassion. Your
global Purpose involves discovering, developing,
and using your natural talents and interests to
help other people and the planet.
Some people have a Purpose that just affects a few,
while others are spiritually contracted to help thousands of
people. Just like in an orchestra, every player is equally
important. The piccolo player and the first violinist are both
crucial to the music’s orchestration.
In the same way, God and the world are counting on you
to remember and work on your Life Purpose. Deep down, you
probably know that you’re here to make the world a better
place. If you feel that you’re not doing so, your inner self
begins to nudge you. This nudging can take the form of anxiety
or a sense of time urgency. If you ignore the inner nudging,
you may begin to feel empty or depressed. If you believe that
others are blocking your urgings, you may blame them and feel
angry or ripped off. If you feel unqualified to help the
world, you may collapse into low self-esteem.
Each person has a global Life Purpose and a personal
mission. The global mission is the overarching, or
umbrella-like Purpose that you’re engaged in. Your personal
mission is the specific form that your Life Purpose is to
take.
Indigo Children all share a similar global Life Purpose:
to help usher in the New Age of Peace.
("The Indigo Child is
a boy or girl who displays a new and unusual
set of psychological attributes, revealing a
pattern of behavior generally undocumented
before. This pattern has singularly unique
factors that call for parents and teachers to
change their treatment and upbringing of these
kids to assist them in achieving balance and
harmony in their lives, and to help them avoid
frustration."
-- Lee Carroll & Jan Tober
The Indigo Children
Here’s how Hunter Zinkle, a 21-year-old Indigo Child,
puts it,
"I know that my purpose is to help the human existence
run a little smoother. I try to do my best with everyone I
come in contact with, to help their lives seem a little easier
and less convoluted. With a lot of my friendships, I feel like
I’m opening the flower of life for them. With other friends,
it seems like I’m their guide to life."
Hunter is a happy and well-adjusted Indigo Child because
he knows his Purpose and is actively working on it. He knows
that you don’t have to wait until you get paid money for your
Purpose before you begin working on it.
In the following section, I’ll delve into the spiritual
and scientific principles behind one’s Life Purpose. Then
we’ll take steps so that your Indigo Children can more
specifically discover what their personal mission entails.
Helping your children understand what their mission is
helps them fill up the emptiness that comes from feeling like
they don’t matter. Most Indigos have received plenty of
messages that they’re "weird," "don’t fit it," "are
disordered," "are bad," "lazy," "not really trying," or
"crazy." Their self-esteem has taken a real beating by the
time they reach adolescence. Yet, despite this form of abuse
perpetrated by teachers, parents, and/or other school kids,
Indigos still feel compelled to help others. What they need,
usually, is some guidance on how to channel their altruism.
The Roots of the Indigo Child’s Purpose
The role of Indigo Children in the world today has
ancient roots. It begins with a land called "Lemuria," which
once existed in the Pacific Rim. The Hawaiian islands are
remnants of Lemuria, which was a lush, tropical paradise. The
Lemurians ate the tropical fruit that grew naturally on the
islands without having to worry about getting food each day.
Perhaps because the people didn’t have to compete for their
sustenance, the people were peaceful and loving, and they
communicated telepathically with each other.
Intuitively, the Lemurians got the message that their
land was sinking. They quietly and peacefully began walking
westward to the regions that now form the Pacific coast of
North America. Others went to higher ground, to the area that
is now occupied by the islands of Hawaii. Because they
followed their inner guidance, the Lemurians escaped the mass
deaths precipitated by Earth changes.
The Lemurians continued their peaceful existence as
natives on the islands — the areas now known as Canada, the
United States, and Mexico. When settlers from Europe arrived,
they began teaching the generations descended from Lemurians
some new and unnatural skills, which included relying on
spoken and written language instead of nonverbal
communication, eating processed foods, inhumanely raising and
slaughtering animals, and basing their spirituality on
externals such as a separated God, religious rules, and
ancient texts. As the Lemurians adapted these unnatural
practices, they lost many of their spiritual abilities.
The world became more unnaturally based. Soon, science
began doubting spirituality and related gifts. "Anything that
you can’t touch, see, or measure doesn’t exist!" science
proclaimed. Spirituality became an industrialized business in
the form of organized religions, and some of them lost touch
with their original spiritual bases and instead focused on
controlling the masses. One of the largest organized religions
even put people to death if they acted outside of church
rules.
The fear of death or ostracism made many people comply
with religious authority. They surrendered their own ability
to talk to God, and instead relied on high-ranking members of
their church or temple as their avenue for receiving Divine
messages. The religious leaders said that God was angry and
vengeful, and that the people must follow His rules or suffer
the punishment. So, they naturally complied.
From time to time, though, spiritual renaissances would
occur. In the last days of the 20th century, many people
opened themselves up to spiritual and/or religious concepts.
Some of this behavior was sparked by a fear that the year 2000
was a time of spiritual reckoning, or the prophesied "Second
Coming." Many people attending my workshops at that time told
me, "I don’t really believe that the year 2000 will bring
about the apocalypse, but I’m getting my spiritual life in
order just in case."
Fortunately, many scientists embarked on a study of
spirituality and related topics during that time. Research on
the effect of prayer on healing poured in from every leading
university, and the studies tended to show positive
correlations between the two concepts.
Quantum physicists also started to delve into the role
of human consciousness and how it affected matter. For
instance, these scientists discovered that whatever a person
is thinking while peering through an electronic microscope
affects the motion of the electrons under that device.
Psychic Abilities & Telepathy
Other scientists began doing research on humans’ psychic
abilities. Nearly everyone has a story to tell of some psychic
phenomenon that has occurred in their life that they can’t
explain. Well, one scientist named Daryl Bem decided that all
of the studies conducted on telepathy up to that point had
been faulty. For one thing, the previous scientists were
prejudiced in favor of proving psychic abilities, and their
beliefs unfairly influenced the study outcomes, Bem said. A
Ph.D. in engineering at Cornell University in New York, Bem
decided to create the most tightly controlled study on
telepathy ever done in order to disprove the notion of psychic
abilities.
So, between 1983 and 1989, Bem took 240 randomly
selected Cornell students and put them in two soundproof,
isolated rooms. He asked one group of students to look at
random pictures and to mentally project these images to the
students in the other room. The other students were instructed
to reveal whatever mental pictures they "saw," and researchers
would compare those mental pictures to those that the other
group was "sending" to them. Bem fully expected that his study
would show no correlation between the pictures that were sent
and those that were mentally received.
He was surprised when the results showed a statistically
significant correlation between the pictures sent and
received! So, Bem conducted the entire experiment again, using
different students. But again, the results showed that the
mental pictures "received" by the students matched the ones
that had been sent from across campus. Bem conducted the
experiment 11 times before conceding that there was
significant evidence to support the existence of telepathy.
Other pioneering scientists who are helping us accept
telepathy and other spiritual gifts as "normal "human
behaviors," include Dr. Dean Radin, formerly with the
University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Radin has conducted a number
of studies showing the invisible thread that connects us all,
and which allows us to telepathically communicate with other
people.
One of the most fascinating studies conducted by Radin
involved two men who didn’t know each other. One man (Man A)
had a blood pressure monitor on him. The other man (Man B) was
in a separate room, out of earshot. Man B was told to think a
loving thought about Man A. At that exact moment, Man A
immediately registered a drop in blood pressure. Then, Man B
was told to think an angry thought about Man A. Immediately,
Man A’s blood pressure soared, although he had no idea of the
basis for the experiment. His mind wasn’t consciously aware
that Man B was thinking loving or angry thoughts about him,
but his body knew. This same experiment was replicated, with
the same results (using heart rate instead of blood pressure,
though) in Japan.
So, telepathy may be a form of nonverbal communication
based on the body’s inner ears. Apparently, our body is
sensitive to thought waves, although our conscious mind often
tunes them out.
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Indigo Children, by Doreen Virtue, Ph.D. It is reprinted with
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Doreen
Virtue, Ph.D. is a spiritual doctor of psychology who gives workshops
across the country on intuition, spiritual healing, and manifestation.
Dr. Virtue is a frequent guest on such talk shows such as Oprah,
Geraldo, and Sally Jessy Raphael. Her articles have appeared in dozens
of popular magazines and she is a contributing editor for Complete
Woman. Her website is