When I first heard about tulpa years ago, I started to get worried that my anime obsession meant I had tulpas in my head! |
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Apparently we're not talking about the same thing when we say self awareness. |
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When I first heard about tulpa years ago, I started to get worried that my anime obsession meant I had tulpas in my head! |
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Great post, thanks for sharing. At the end does starving them work? I understand that there have to be walls, and limitations. But in the end is there some part of you in it that you can't just lock away in a dark room forever, that you have to integrate with the rest of you and do something positive with? I'm not trying to imply this, I'm really asking, because I'm not sure. Tentatively, it seems to me that the spirits have to have a proper place in the scheme of things, its just become distorted somehow, like a small child who becomes boss of the house when raised by weak willed grandparents. |
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Equanimity, compassion. mercy and, if you feel up to it, love is the ultimate balm for the open heart. They're just like muscles which, after having not been flexed for a long time, become emaciated. Adopting a practice specifically for the development of loving-kindness like metta, or another self-forgiveness discipline is the best way to 'keep one's nose clean', so to speak, in highly sympathetic states of being. well-developed skill in concentration always helps too, since thought-forms depend almost entirely on how much attention they can attract from you, being able to easily move one's concentrated awareness from one object of meditation to another without 'getting stuck' is a great ally. |
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Firstly, I have a Tulpa, and still consider the metaphysical theories of Tulpa creation and their abilities to be false. A Tulpa is a psychological phenomenon that can sometimes be accidentally created, but in most cases have to be created on purpose. You can ask us anything and we will do our best to answer. However you can find more detailed information about the creation process and their abilities at Tulpa.info |
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'Psychological phenomenon' seems to imply that your tulpa doesn't do stuff like speak to other people or mess with electronic equipment. Mine started demonstrating that sort of thing about two years ago, at the same time it started talking to me less. Now it's no longer with me, at least not in a tulpa-like manner. My impression was that it existed for a purpose, and it would have been unhealthy for it to persist after that purpose was completed. |
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Basically when I say psychological, I mean that the Tulpa cannot interact with the world around you in any way, beyond using its hosts body to do so. We have a member on the Tulpa.info forums who is trying to see if having a Tulpa would affect the results of a brain scan (EEG, MRI, or similar), but even that is as of yet inconclusive. We see such instances as, for example, if you walked past your TV and it turned off seemingly by itself, as being your Tulpa manipulating external sensory input. This has been proven possible; not only can you fool your brain into seeing your Tulpa in the real world, there have been people whose Tulpa helped them to turn the sky red. |
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Right, to verify that your tulpa can turn a TV off, you'd need another impartial witness, and you'd need to do it more than once, to establish a pattern. |
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Alright then. I'm not the best at interpreting what she has to say, but let's go ahead and experiment. Give me your tulpa's name and I'll see if mine has anything to say about it. |
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Alright then, make of this what you will.... |
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For about three years my 'tulpa' or whatever it was would push well developed thoughts fairly strongly into my mind. Last night I was aware at that level, but the other active mind wasn't doing that. I was just passive, helpless, and ignorant, out of my element. For about the past year its as if I'm supposed to fly the plane now, but I don't have any idea how, no muscles in that area. |
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I've always been bothered by ideas that require belief to work because of their inherent unverifiable nature; there is no possible objective view because the viewer becomes part of the situation. (There's an interesting resonance there with quantum effects and the absurdity of the observer having the effect on the situation.) There's just so little you can delve into with that sort of idea because if you try to take it apart, it stops working. We're not on a sufficiently high level to see how these things work. (They do work, but whether it's a spiritual effect, a hallucination, undiscovered psychological effects, undiscovered psi, effects of observation on the universe, I cannot say.) This is what has always made Inner Sanctum problematic to me. I cannot force myself to believe anymore. In theory the idea that the belief then causes the effect is quite logical (see yourself somewhere, and then you'll eventually be that, due to a whole host of psychological effects) but depression makes it difficult for one, and things that are well outside the physical sphere I still have a problem with, for two. |
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Originally Posted by Taosaur
I've read good and bad things about them. What's the worst that could happen? |
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It seems to me that the character of a tulpa would tend to reflect the thought that produces it. So if it happens relatively naturally, and you don't go into weird contortions trying produce it, then it shouldn't be much of a problem. Of course it will tend to have whatever deranged characteristics you already have, but that's a similar kind of problem tulpa or no tulpa. |
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Hey what happened to your thread about bullshit? I signed int o reply to it and it's fucking locked |
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Oh how unfortunate. You should probably avoid drinking while posting on public forums. Miscommunication and public displays of intentional vulnerability should never be something to strive for in a community setting. |
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Actually, the brain is very plastic and can change easily. It wouldn't be that far-fetched for it to give itself a chemical imbalance. Also, no one really knows exactly why schizophrenia happens. Often, on psych med commercials and stuff, you hear the phrase "chemical imbalance" but really, that's an oversimplification by the pharmaceutical company who makes said drug. In reality, scientist are almost entirely unsure of what causes schizophrenia, whether it be a chemical imbalance, a problem with neuronal oscilation, a brain deformity, et cetera. |
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Some tulpas, in some circumstances, can cause audial hallucinations. I agree with everything else you said though. |
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