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The
Capuchin Monkey - Totem of the Indigo Child
by Scott Alexander King
 As
most people now know, I have a deep respect for the work of Doreen Virtue and
her husband, Steven Farmer. Late last year I was given the chance to attend Doreen’s
Angel Intuitive Course. Not being someone to discount an opportunity to deepen
my relationship with Spirit, I jumped at the chance and, today, am very pleased
that I did.
During the workshop, Doreen spoke several times of the
Indigo Children. Although I had a vague understanding of what Indigo Children
were before the course, I had never really given credence to the significance
of the occurrence. I thought it was just another label; a name offered to further
pigeon-hole our kids or a term that gave permission for the kids to act up and
for their parents to drug them into submission.
As a ‘dormant’ school teacher, I have met
many children labelled as ‘ADD’ (Attention Deficit Disorder) and
‘ADHD’ (Attention Deficit Hyper Disorder) and have had many an argument
(within the schools and out) defending these kids, because even though many
continually displayed violent ‘anti-social’ behaviour and aspects
of themselves that undeniably shunned fear-based authority, I refused to accept
that incapacitating prescription drugs were the answer. So, as you can imagine,
it came as a great shock (and relief) to find that what Doreen said not only
made sense, but actually described my observations as teacher, but more amazingly,
me (seamlessly) as a child!
At one point, Doreen asked the participants who thought
they were Indigo Children to stand up. I am quite a reserved person (believe
it or not) and so it took some courage for me to do so. I cannot tell you why
I stood up, except that the description offered by Doreen seemed to fit me like
a glove, and because of that perhaps, it lifted a huge weight off my shoulders.
Well when I stood up, Doreen looked at me and said 'I knew you were an Indigo,
Scott', and I nearly fainted with shock. ‘But how did she know?’
I wondered. Was it something I had said?
At the hands of neglectful and abusive parents, my younger sister and I endured
a lonely childhood together, locked in a world of confusion and fear. I spent
a lot of time feeling resentful as a child, but instead of displaying aggression
and insolence as a means of expressing my suppressed anger like a lot of the
kids that I had met over the years, I went within. I shut down. I was very emotional
and quiet. But Doreen knew nothing of this. So how was she able to say so confidently
that I was an Indigo? Apparently, the answer lay in the indigo-toned aura that
encircled my body. On hearing this, a penny dropped; a penny that took the form
of a Capuchin Monkey.
During my years as a teacher, my work with kids proved
very rewarding, particularly the time I got to spend with the kids labelled
as ‘trouble’. We clicked straight away, I think because I recognised
the anger they had pent up inside them; anger that, even back then, I acknowledged
as a cry for help, but anger everyone else saw as disruptive behaviour - behaviour
that had to be stopped, punished or suppressed at any cost.As a teacher, I quickly
realized that I was particularly good with the kids the system had given up
on. These were the kids diagnosed as ‘ADD’ and ‘ADHD’;
the kids the schools put up year after year with the hope that they would leave
before they graduated and become someone else’s ‘problem’.
I believe that all kids are the same inside and that
there is no such thing as a ‘bad’ kid. All kids need attention,
praise and to be made to feel special. I found that by speaking to these kids
(rather than at them), about things that interested them and in a way that showed
that what they had to say mattered, the ‘trouble’ kids were actually
more responsive than the ‘good’ kids. Most of these so-called ‘trouble’
kids craved one thing - attention - and it did not matter to most of them whether
it was positive attention or not, so long as they got some. Negative attention
was better than no attention, it seemed. So, to sit with these kids and to listen
to them share their dreams and aspirations (yes, even ‘trouble’
kids have hopes and desires) as well as their fears and concerns (emotions that
actually dominate these kid’s worlds), gave many of them permission to
speak, often for the first time, from the heart. The shock that someone was
actually taking time out just for them with no expectation, demand or pressure
was so great that they immediately opened their hearts and spilled the beans
on everything. They were so grateful for the opportunity to speak about what
was in their hearts, their perception of the world and their place within it
that their ‘tough guy’ personas shrivelled to reveal the Spiritual
Warriors they truly were.
Being able to open their hearts like that was like freeing
their souls. It gave them permission to celebrate who they were and to what
they have to offer. It allowed them space in which to demonstrate their abilities
(which often included those considered extra sensory) and to harness their Personal
Power. And now, after all these years, I realise that these kids were Indigo
Children. And why, despite my previous lack of experience with Indigo Children,
am I so sure that these kids are Indigo Children? Because I could see a small
black and white Monkey sitting on the left shoulder of each of these kids, a
Monkey that harnesses exactly the vibrational qualities of the colour Indigo
(I have since found out).
Capuchins are small Monkeys from South America. Although
there are several species of Capuchin, the most frequently recognised is the
White-shouldered Capuchin. The Capuchin Monkey takes its name from the Capuchin
Monk, whose cowl the Monkeys' head-colouring resembles. Considered the most
intelligent of the ‘New World’ Monkeys, the Capuchin’s brain
is highly developed and quite large in proportion to the size of the animal
itself. These Monkeys are bred as aids for the physically disabled and are regularly
employed as ‘animal actors’ in Hollywood movies due to their imagination,
aptitude, self-pride, nimbleness and inquisitive personality – traits
identical to those inspired in the children they represent.
I have always seen the Capuchin Monkey with these particular
children, but as I have intuitively seen animals with all people my whole life,
I initially took little notice! I never realised the connection or the significance.
I never made the link between Indigo Children and the Monkeys I saw sitting
on the shoulders of the kids that were awakening right before my eyes. Like
all people, no kid wants to be told what to do, not without good reason, but
obviously they cannot be expected to just know what to do, either. They have
to see that we are prepared to guide them, to show them, to walk with them while
demonstrating how to live impeccable lives and how to walk in beauty. They have
to see the world as being an authentic place, where no-one is innately perfect
and where everyone experiences bouts of vulnerability. They need to be shown
how to embrace their intrinsic beauty, how to nurture it and how to present
it to the people as a true representation of their soul.
Although I endorse the acumen of the animals and the
ancient wisdom of the Earth Mother with everything I do, the vision I hold for
my future work involves integrating the knowledge I have acquired as a teacher,
parent and Indigo Child. Along with director Christian Cordeaux (of Melbourne-based
First Light Films) and others, for example, I plan to co-produce a documentary
that optimistically showcases our amazing kids, their parents and the worldwide
phenomenon that is ‘The Indigo Child’. In doing so, I hope to facilitate
greater awareness so that our kids might regain control of their lives, find
reverence for themselves within themselves and in turn, regain the global respect
that they deserve.
The kids today are not the problem, but rather, I feel,
it is the society in which we expect them to live - the society we, as their
parents and teachers, have created for them; a world that moves too fast for
us, let alone our kids; a world where our kids are beginning to look to drugs
and alcohol to slow things down. We need to unite and take responsibility for
our kids. We need to stop drugging them up so that they may fit in. We have
to rebuild society and its view of our kids by remodelling the perception we
have of one another. We have to honour our kids and begin honouring them as
the leaders of tomorrow and as the Spiritual Warriors that they are. We can
only do this, if we take responsibility for our lives and rebuild our views
and the beliefs we hold about ourselves. All kids are precious. Some of our
kids are Indigos. We must encourage them, support them and ensure they become
all that they were meant to be. If we don’t, we run the risk of missing
out on something quite miraculous, something the Capuchin Monkey has known about
for years!
Indigo children often demonstrate the following
qualities:
• They are often powerfully intuitive and psychically
aware
• They are sensitive and at one with animals and nature as a whole
• They are quite often telepathic and assume that others can hear their
thoughts (so do not assume your child is being rude just because he or she
doesn’t respond to questions or directions in an audible way)
• They are usually acutely artistic, observant, academically advanced
and socially adept … but most have difficulty demonstrating these skills
in a manner acceptable to ‘the system’
• They are not ‘ADD’ (Attention Deficit Disorder) or ‘ADHD’
(Attention Deficit Hyper Disorder) and should NOT be treated or medicated
as such … I mean, would you give your child a line of cocaine each morning
before school? Ritalin is classed by the U.S. FDTA along side Heroin and Cocaine.
Yet, there are classrooms in America where every child has Ritalin every morning.
• They should be nurtured, inspired and encouraged but not treated as
different as or better than any one else. Being an Indigo is not an excuse
to act up or intentionally buck the system
• They need, want and respect boundaries that are consistent and fair
• They look to their parents as role models and they expect them to
act as such
• They are incredibly intolerant of those who display hypocrisy, ignorance
and arrogance
• They do not respond to fear based control or disciplinary techniques
• They carry the Capuchin Monkey as their Power Aspect, Animal Spirit
Ally and Totem
© 2005, Scott Alexander King
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Scott
Alexander King is a teacher, animal
spirit intuitive and author of Animal Dreaming, a shamanic 'field
guide' that offers insight into the wisdom of over 200 indigenous and introduced
Australian animals. Scott is available for interviews, workshops and seminars.
He and his family are based in the beautiful Yarra Valley, Victoria, Australia,
as is his shop, Circle of Stones. To learn more about Scott, his work with
animals and kids or his book, Animal Dreaming, visit www.animaldreaming.com.
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