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Podcast: You Must Be Some Kind of Therapist
Episode: 39. The Myth of the Magical Child, with Matt Osborne
Description: When Matt was 15 years old, he was told that he was an āIndigo Childā with a special āaura.ā Today, he is an atheist who attributes his most mystical experiences to rockānāroll. In this episode, we compare our observations of how quasi-mystical belief systems can rush to fill the religious voids left by our secular society, leading to magical thinking that idealizes children while neglecting their true psychosocial developmental needs. In what ways are todayās ātrans childrenā similar to the āindigo childrenā of 30 years ago?Ā This conversation covers a lot of ground. Matt assuages my ego, explaining why it...