There’s tons of easily discovered information on the web about it.
I’m not sure the Tulpa-crowed would agree with this, but I think a non-esoteric example of Tulpas in everyday life is how some religious people say that God really speaks and appears to them. The “learning process” and stuff seem pretty similar—the only difference I can see is that in the case of Tulpas it is commonly acknowledged that the phenomenon is imaginary.
Come to think of it, that’s probably a really good method for creating Tulpas quickly—building off a real or fictional character for whom you already have a relatively sophisticated mental model. It’s probably also important that you are predisposed to take seriously the notion that this thing might actually be an agent which interacts with you...which might be why God works so well, and why the Tulpa-crowed keeps insisting that Tulpas are “real” in the sense that they carry moral weight. It’s an imagination-belief driven phenomenon.
It might also illustrate some of the “dangers” - for example, some people who grew up with notions of the angry sort of God might always feel guilty about certain “sinful” things which they might not intellectually feel are bad.
I’ve also heard claims of people who gain extra abilities / parallel processing / “reminders” with Tulpas....basically, stuff that they couldn’t do on their own. I don’t really believe that this is possible, and if this were demonstrated to me I would need to update my model of the phenomenon. To the tupla-community’s credit, they seem willing to test the belief.
a non-esoteric example of Tulpas in everyday life is how some religious people say that God really speaks and appears to them. The “learning process” and stuff seem pretty similar—the only difference I can see is that in the case of Tulpas it is commonly acknowledged that the phenomenon is imaginary.
There’s tons of easily discovered information on the web about it.
I’m not sure the Tulpa-crowed would agree with this, but I think a non-esoteric example of Tulpas in everyday life is how some religious people say that God really speaks and appears to them. The “learning process” and stuff seem pretty similar—the only difference I can see is that in the case of Tulpas it is commonly acknowledged that the phenomenon is imaginary.
Come to think of it, that’s probably a really good method for creating Tulpas quickly—building off a real or fictional character for whom you already have a relatively sophisticated mental model. It’s probably also important that you are predisposed to take seriously the notion that this thing might actually be an agent which interacts with you...which might be why God works so well, and why the Tulpa-crowed keeps insisting that Tulpas are “real” in the sense that they carry moral weight. It’s an imagination-belief driven phenomenon.
It might also illustrate some of the “dangers” - for example, some people who grew up with notions of the angry sort of God might always feel guilty about certain “sinful” things which they might not intellectually feel are bad.
I’ve also heard claims of people who gain extra abilities / parallel processing / “reminders” with Tulpas....basically, stuff that they couldn’t do on their own. I don’t really believe that this is possible, and if this were demonstrated to me I would need to update my model of the phenomenon. To the tupla-community’s credit, they seem willing to test the belief.
Very good! A psychologist who studies evangelicals recognized it as the same phenomenon.
There is pretty good empirical evidence against the parallel-processing idea now.