You mentioned ‘’organic.

Organic is essential. I can’t tell you the difference this makes. Again, this is empirical research; it’s not based on a large study. But there’s a softening that happens when you get pesticides out of your diet. We become gentler. Pesticides have the energy of death in them. And we can do things like say grace at the table. It doesn’t have to be about religion, but it calms and quiets the family before dinner.

What about the parents who are going absolutely nuts? I even know of a whole family with four kids, and they are all on Ritalin.

Ritalin is a Band-Aid approach to a long-term problem. So what is this family going to do, stay on Ritalin the rest of their lives? There’s no medical doctor I’ve ever talked to who would want that as a treatment protocol. The goal is always to reduce the medication and eventually get off of it. And so there is no cure-all or panacea that I’ve found, but there are three main areas of change that can make a big difference. First, holistic behavioral steps, like honesty with the children, and perseverance. Secondly, creative and exercise outlets. These change the neurochemistry. We have studies that show that twenty minutes of aerobic exercise increases serotonin more than Prozac does. So exercise has a calming effect. And, finally, clean up the diet. We find that these three steps, as pat as they sound, provide enough benefit to where the child becomes manageable.

The older Indigo kids are now twenty-three years old. So we have no idea yet how these children will be as adults.

That’s just the thing. Again, this is esoteric metaphysics now. But our contention is that these are children whose missions are to be adults at this very crucial time, 2011-2013—the shift when we become a more telepathic society and less dependent on verbal communication. The human mind is naturally telepathic and these new children are more in tune with their telepathy. They are extremely intuitive.

When we become a more telepathic society, then we will not be able to lie to one another, right? And when that happens, this is literally the beginning of the new age of peace. The institutions that are built on lies or have lies in their foundations will necessarily fall or have to be quickly reshuffled as we learn from the Indigo Children to be less tolerant of dishonesty and to stop lying to ourselves and to each other.

It’s going to create a tremendous shift in our society. Government, legal, educational, media and medical institutions all will be forced to have integrity. That’s the mission of these children—to usher in the new age of integrity. My spiritual advisers have told me that this was actually supposed to be our generation’s mission, and we slacked. We became scared and apathetic. A lot of us started that way and tried to clean up Washington, D.C. We had the intention, but it seemed overwhelming and we gave up. Well, these children won’t give up. That’s part of the aggressiveness you’ve seen in them; they have this ‘’rebel without a cause’’ energy, a James Dean type of edge. This is a very positive trait of theirs, but we’re seeing that when it’s not supported or understood it becomes violent.

But how does this pattern of violence happen?

Well this, in my opinion, is a positive characteristic that these children have, this sense of indignation at something that needs to be fixed. They have more energy, a little like the flower children in the ’60s who really, I believe, were effective at stopping the Vietnam War. They have that kind of fire burning in them, to eradicate dishonesty and lack of integrity. But that characteristic is kind of bastardized and goes in the wrong direction. That’s when you see cases like Columbine occurring, children aggressing each other—a positive characteristic gone very wrong.

And we’re seeing this a lot.

This is esoteric, again, but I absolutely think that music played a part in Columbine. These are sensitive children, and diet is not only what we eat but what we hear and what’s around us. I absolutely do think that violent computer games and very dark music can deeply affect these children.

So they come in sensitive but maybe without high consciousness?

They do have high consciousness, but are so sensitive they become vulnerable to media or other influences that don’t have that. I’m sure you’ve seen these computer games. They’re very antisocial and absolutely heartless, with killing for the sake of numbers and points. How can we say that doesn’t affect our children?

And none of us want to be prudes. You know, we want to be ‘’cool parents, accepting. A lot of it comes back to two parents working. They don’t have time to monitor their children’s viewing habits and who they are hanging out with — but they must. They absolutely must be involved. I mean, I’m as busy as anyone, yet I have daily interactions with my sons. I know who their friends are, even though they are grown now. I’ve simply made it a point to be very, very involved in their lives. So I know from personal experience that where there is a will, there is a way. A parent can do this. I was able to do this with my kids, to switch their diet, to teach them spiritual practices, such as meditation and prayer, and to be very aware of what they are doing and talk to them about it.