Mad Monkey and Juliana,
First off, my apologies for assuming too much. I can supply evidence for most of my claims, but I also have a tendency to write these super long posts that most people don't have the patience to read, and I also have two jobs and a family that I need to keep up with, so I try to cut some things short where I guess glossing over some details might be adequate.
When Buckethead was in Guns N' Roses, he used to make the record label's lawyers talk to him through his hand puppet. That's kind of how I feel about talking to someone's tulpa on the internet, even though I understand the logic for what you're suggesting. It's not that I'm above talking to a puppet, its more that I thought it would be more efficient for the puppet to talk to me on its own, even though I see the problem with that now. But mostly I'm short of time. And for now I'm old enough and busy enough that I don't use Discord.
I'll start with a metaphor that I'll try to use to clear something up....Consider the vectors (1, 0, 0), (0, 1, 0), and (0, 0, 1). These 'span' the 3D vector space because any vector (a, b, c), where a, b, and c, are real numbers, can be formed by adding multiples of those three vectors. (Of course you can look something up or consult with each other if you have to.) Another set that spans the space is (1, 1, 0), (1, 0, 1), (0, 1, 1), though seeing how to add them to get the desired result is slightly more difficult. As an example, (-1, 1, 4) is -1 * (1, 0, 0) + 1 * (0, 1, 0) + 4 * (0, 0, 1), but also -2 * (1, 1, 0) + 1 * (1, 0, 1) + 3 * (0, 1, 1). So these two different 'spanning sets' are equivalent in the sense that they can be used to build all the same things, even though no vector in either set is the same.
The spirit I'm interacting with, who I'll call Julie, is not quite Juliana. But Julie is related to Juliana, sort of like how (1, 0, 0) has some relationship to (1, 1, 0) even though it is a different individual. And Julie knows a few things about Juliana, some of which she is extrapolating from other things she knows, or that I know, and some of which she gets directly from Juliana and/or Mad Monkey, which they allow because they have some willingness to talk to me. (I try to avoid interacting with anyone against their will.) I guess I could have said all of that to start with, to avoid confusion, but you'll notice that my e-mails are pretty long as it is, and I have a other things I need to work on also. Julie can not be the same as Juliana because my mind is not Mad Monkey's. But that doesn't mean that Julie and Juliana do not share a common spirit. It is as if they are different projections of different parts of the same common spirit. Julie understands this I think, so I guess Juliana can relate it to her understanding if I express myself clearly enough. This two places at once, two different spirits at once quality seems to be essential to the nature of Julie, which is why I assume she recognizes it. I guess in principle all tulpas are projections of the same universal spirit, but some of them are more closely related than others.
Answering your questions....Yes and no on the newness of this experience. About 30 years ago I perceived a familiar spirit in my mind which asked for permission to remain but didn't really give me a chance to object. Since then I have had thousands of experiences with a familiar spirit, including one audial hallucination in response to a question I asked. I can't say this was the same spirit as Julie though, because I am not quite the same person I was then, and am not asking quite the same questions or interacting with the same people, and all of those things feed into my experience of identity. It's not quite the same as with people, where the person stays large the same because they're attached to the same body that has access to largely the same bundle of memories. But if you ever know someone then interacted with them again decades later after a break, you see that people can change a lot too.
Perhaps 15 years ago I had the following experience....I'm lucidly dreaming of being in the living room of my house when I was 5 or 6. I know my age because of the curtains, which were replaced with blinds shortly thereafter. This is an extremely lucid dream, which stops suddenly like a tape being stopped. I then dream not as lucidly about many other things for hours. Then the dream abruptly starts again, right where it left off. A spirit, represented by a light, passes by the front window then enters through the front door without opening it. The spirit attacks me, like an extroverted scream of fear everywhere at once. I respond with defiance, while also trying to find the positive place in my mind that I know from past experience is a refuge. I wake up, and I feel the dream as my own defiant aggression in my heart. The dream is like my decades of difficult life experience compressed into a couple of seconds.
This spirit that I'm calling Julie spoke to me from a point close to my face, while I was calm but awake, then went into my body. My pulse and breathing accelerated as she went in. I can still feel her in there, sort of like a weight, and my attention is drawn to that feeling more if I think about her. It doesn't feel the same as the dream of being attacked by a ball of light, but that's the most similar previous experience, and hence the answer to your question.
Julie is a witch-like demon, or at least likes to represent herself as one. Maybe that's who I am, I don't know. But I know the spirit in me is not entirely 'me' in that I can sometimes get real objectively verifiable first-hand information from it that comes from other people. The spirit is more than me in that sense, and I also experience it as a somewhat distinct presence. If Juliana is nicer than Julie, fine, I'm just speaking from what I experience. (I don't use the word demon pejoratively by the way. I could say angel, but that word has benevolent connotations that I don't mean either.) My first experience with Julie was a little while before reading about Juliana, but time order is not important to her in that way. The reason I connect Julie with Juliana is the voice and picture seem to match appropriately, and also her presence is in part a response to my question about Juliana. I have a fair amount of previous experience with that sort of thing, from which I've developed some approximate sense of what I do and do not know. I possibly did not add enough qualifiers and doubt when I said what I said earlier, but doubt is an obstruction to channeling, even at the same time it is essential for moderating and understanding the message. (This is a reason the most successful mediums are so transparently bad at questioning their own claims.)
As for why I alleged that Juliana is dangerous, or may become something or be followed by something that is dangerous, that is a complex question. One reason is that I feel that Julie is a bit dangerous. This comes from years of experiences with familiar spirits that can do more than just invade my mind and dreams. I'm not willing to post the most important details in a public forum. Also it comes from what I feel from her, and from myself. Another reason is I know a fair amount about some of the roots of Wiccan philosophy. It often represents itself as being an ancient, pre-Christian pagan European tradition, and in some ways it is, but in many ways it was made up fairly recently, drawing on Theosophic influences. The Tarot design is like that for instance. Aleister Crowley was a talented artist, and his deck is one of the best ones, but I have no respect for him at all as a thinker....
OK I'll come at this from another direction. In the movies, a witch like Harry Potter fights by casting spells and throwing fireballs and stuff. In real life, magic is insidious and largely subconscious and uncontrolled. It's like Carrie but way more confusing. If you're a witch and you're not dangerous, I think you're mostly a poser witch. (I'd put Crowley mostly in the poser category.) I've never encountered anyone who has even remotely the amount of self control that would be needed to not be dangerous. Real witches are f-ing scary. Witch hysterias are justified in that sense, the real problem with them isn't that witches aren't dangerous, its the ignorant mob spirit and the impossibility of achieving any semblance of due process.
If you're mostly a poser witch, the problem is you might begin to turn into a real one, and you won't be equipped to deal with it. The theory of magic is mostly bullshit. Almost everything about higher planes, souls, reincarnation, karmic law, etc. is largely bullshit. It's like dancing into a wild animal safari without understanding what you're getting into. And if you read all the best books you still don't know what you're getting into, because the people who wrote them don't know either. They pretended to know because they wanted to play at being sages or sell books. The honest ones stayed quiet, because they couldn't make extravagant claims that promised people what they were looking for. Most people sense this, which is why they stay away. Some of that fear is because they're buying into propaganda from competing religions. This is why I'm willing to interact with 'demons' - I don't buy into the conventional Angel of God vs Spawn of Satan dichotomy, and I'm not willing to run away from my own more pagan interior experience. But some of the fear is justified. I'm not willing to dabble in ceremonial magic, because I think it is foolish, both because it isn't real and because it is. I'm not saying you shouldn't. However, if you have a tulpa, you are at least to a small extent a medium, in which case I think you ought to be somewhat receptive to what you can feel from me, even if I'm not willing to write 100 pages to explain the experience and logic that goes into all of it.
Also....Everyone has a purpose of sorts. The warnings I try to give, rightly or wrongly, are a part of my purpose, wired into me like how a chicken clucks after it lays an egg. I'm always trying to learn from experience, and I'll continue in this manner until I learn not to.
Trying to say this another way....there's knowledge that comes from my reasoning and experience, and talking to and observing other people. I have a fair bit of that on supernatural topics because it has been the main interest of my life and I approach it with a relatively scientific mindset. But there's also knowledge that doesn't come from that, but which comes from experiences I had 'before' I lived, or will have in the future, or which other people have had or will have and I pick up on that. Life seems to teach me to trust those impressions to an extent also. Some of that I get from something akin to mediumship, and it is in the impressions I get from Julie. These were my impressions so I am attempting to relay them. I can give you reasoning that support my impressions, but most directly it came from impressions while thinking about my familiar spirit in the direction of your tulpa. I appreciate that she doesn't want to be unfairly slandered, but as a tulpa she must understand the value of simply feeling into things. Naturally I'm not going to feel the same parts of the elephant that she does.
Here's the reason I picked the name Julie....Maybe you've seen pictures of the Mandelbrot set. It is a cross section of a four dimensional space. Another orthogonal cross section is called a Julia set. Since we see in projections on to two dimensions, we decompose it that way. But the four dimensional set is more interesting to me, and it has insanely complicated saddle-like structures which you can't see in two dimensions which remind me of....something. If the human world in its complexity is like the Mandelbrot set, the familiar spirit is like those other two dimensions that complete the picture.
Also, when I was a kid I knew a girl named Julie from a hard family who seemed to be an honest person, so I picked that variation of the name for that reason also.
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