However, if you want a trip down a rabbit hole, what this is talking about is essentially a tulpa.
Now, I’m not saying one way or another that tulpas have any use, or even that they’re anything that represents anything that matters outside of the self. But it is a practice that people engage in, so it isn’t totally fake, no matter what the opinion about it beyond that is.
Same, it just so happened while i was in a creative writing class in college and in my final paper i took wild left turn and went on a rant about how Christians who think god or jesus talk to them actually just have tulpas. It was supposed to be a paper about a poem by langston hughes…
Tulpas my beloved. When I was a kid I believed that all supernatural/religious deities were real based on some degree of human belief. This was definitely heavily informed by Rick Riordan though lol
I was the same! I think it was the Egyptian inspired series where one of the characters asked about what happens when people who don’t believe in anything die. Even though I don’t remember the exact answer, the feeling of oblivion has stuck with me ever since.
I’d still like to believe that all the gods are actually having a giant battle for supremacy though lol.
The first rule of dabbling with Tulpas is DO NOT dabble with Tulpas.
The second rule of dabbling with Tulpas is that everything they say and do is a lie and a trick. If there are any benevolent entities out there,.they will never, ever engage with you.
The third rule of tulpamancy is that the word “tulpa” is culturally appropriated - the modern use of the word has very little in common with the Buddhist tradition, especially in why it’s done and what sorts of system members are created. The new, culturally sensitive word is parogen. It means “intentionally created”.
Further terminology:
Endogenic system - a head with multiple people in it that was created by its own actions
Traumagenic system - a head with multiple people in it that was created by trauma. Often DID or OSDD
Headmate - someone who lives in the same head as you
Introject - a headmate whose identity is based on an external source such as a character
Fictive - a headmate based on a fictional character. May or may not believe they’re truly the same person as in the media, for any philosophical opinion on what “the same person” means.
Autosexual and imaginary
However, if you want a trip down a rabbit hole, what this is talking about is essentially a tulpa.
Now, I’m not saying one way or another that tulpas have any use, or even that they’re anything that represents anything that matters outside of the self. But it is a practice that people engage in, so it isn’t totally fake, no matter what the opinion about it beyond that is.
> be a brony
> remembers that tulpas exist
[TRAUMA INTENSIFIES]
That said, Jackie Chan tulpa will always be hilarious
Jfc, that’s a ride that needs to be charged for
I think the barrier to entry needs to be higher.
I went down this rabbit hole years ago. I’m 100% convinced God is a tulpa.
Same, it just so happened while i was in a creative writing class in college and in my final paper i took wild left turn and went on a rant about how Christians who think god or jesus talk to them actually just have tulpas. It was supposed to be a paper about a poem by langston hughes…
I got a C.
Tulpas my beloved. When I was a kid I believed that all supernatural/religious deities were real based on some degree of human belief. This was definitely heavily informed by Rick Riordan though lol
I was the same! I think it was the Egyptian inspired series where one of the characters asked about what happens when people who don’t believe in anything die. Even though I don’t remember the exact answer, the feeling of oblivion has stuck with me ever since.
I’d still like to believe that all the gods are actually having a giant battle for supremacy though lol.
Not Terry Pratchett’s Small Gods?
REAL! I loved his system for them being powered by belief
The first rule of dabbling with Tulpas is DO NOT dabble with Tulpas.
The second rule of dabbling with Tulpas is that everything they say and do is a lie and a trick. If there are any benevolent entities out there,.they will never, ever engage with you.
The third rule of tulpamancy is that the word “tulpa” is culturally appropriated - the modern use of the word has very little in common with the Buddhist tradition, especially in why it’s done and what sorts of system members are created. The new, culturally sensitive word is parogen. It means “intentionally created”.
Further terminology:
Endogenic system - a head with multiple people in it that was created by its own actions
Traumagenic system - a head with multiple people in it that was created by trauma. Often DID or OSDD
Headmate - someone who lives in the same head as you
Introject - a headmate whose identity is based on an external source such as a character
Fictive - a headmate based on a fictional character. May or may not believe they’re truly the same person as in the media, for any philosophical opinion on what “the same person” means.
hivemind - a head with multiple drones in it, who have rights
Actually, it’s the opposite. A hivemind is one identity shared across multiple bodies.
You’re probably thinking of a Unitian, https://pluralpedia.org/w/Unitian
Heavy Star Maker vibes