Signs of future life...

The LA Times reported recently that humans are still evolving and evolving at 100 times the rate of historic levels, beginning with the advent of the agricultural revolution.

Which brings me to one of my favorite wacky theories... that of the indigo children, about which more than you could want to know can be found here.

I truly believe that the human species is on the cusp of something quite incredible. Considering that people in general, and particularly in the First World, are eating better and enjoying better health care than at any time in history, it makes sense that the species is near an evolutionary jump of some sort. I believe that this jump will include greater empathy even unto something that may well pass for telepathy, longer life span and greater intelligence.

Sometime in the middle late seventies I saw Timothy Leary give one of his rock-star-like performances at the University of Houston. Waxing eloquently as only he could he regaled us with the inevitability of mankind’s move into space, vastly improved intelligence through genetics and computer assistance, and the lengthening of lifespan through improvements in sanitation and medicine. Speaking in advanced hyperbolic mode he told the cheering crowd that “this is the first generation that need not die.” He summed this all up with an acronym: SMI2LE (please imagine the “2” in superscript).

SMI2LE, he told us, stood for Space Migration, Increased Intelligence and Life Extension. The first, he charged, was made inevitable by the other two factors, which are the direct result of, computer assistance aside, advances in health, nutrition and medicine.

Do you see where I’m going with this?

The logical genetic result of the incredible advances in health care, nutrition and medicine, particularly neonatal medicine, is going to be an ever increasing rate of human evolution. Hence, phenomena such as the indigo children, which are characterized by, among other things, empathy bordering on telepathy, intuitive power, a strong sense of entitlement and self-definition and a propensity to be drawn to spiritual matters and mysteries, the paranormal and the occult.

To be sure, as critics have pointed out, many of the characteristics associated with indigo children are applicable to children as a whole. But I think that is belaboring the point. Proponents of the theory of the indigo children say many have been “misdiagnosed” as having Attention Deficit with Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and also Autism.

The question I have there is, isn’t it just possible that medical and mental science is not seeing these children for what they may well be... signs of the future?