Ein deutsches Tulpa-Blog

Okay, here goes:

@mordecai-and-i - Their blog is pretty new, but the tulpa’s been around for awhile now. The two of them are both quite interested in how things actually work when it comes to tulpas, and they’ve posted some interesting content on that.

@fordaplot - Run by a host who’s quite interested in reaching a better understanding of tulpas from a scientific perspective. There’s some pretty interesting content here.

@peacewithinlove - Their blog isn’t strictly tulpa-related, but they’ve been active members of the community for some years now. They’re quite knowledgeable and do post advice from time to time.

@eccentric-battalion - These guys seem pretty knowledgeable as well, and they also post a fair amount of positivity while being pretty down-to-earth about it.

@temnodontosaur - A newer host working on creating a tulpa. We often follow new progress blogs when they pop up so that we can offer advice or support to newbies when needed, but I’m including him in this list because there’s also quite a bit of amusing on-topic shitposting on his blog. His sense of humor makes his blog worth checking out even if you don’t typically follow newbies.

@aurum-parea - Another progress log, this time from the host of a larger system that’s been around awhile. She only posts progress logs, not resources or other informational posts, but her updates tend to be pretty interesting.

@ask-siouxsie - An ask blog run by a tulpa. Informational, no, but certainly amusing.

@tulpainfo-blog - Previously the official blog of tulpa.info, run by Pleeb himself. His blog is no longer active, as real-life issues came up that forced him to step back from running the community, but the blog still exists as an archive from the earlier days.

@chupitulpa and @whatisatulpa-blog1 - Two more older and now-inactive blogs, run by Goopi and Bluesleeve, respectively (though I’m not entirely sure if Goopi’s blog has been abandoned or if he just updates very infrequently; he’s still active elsewhere in the community). They’ve both been around since the early days and have offered quite a bit of useful advice in the past, which is still available on their blogs. (Keep in mind, though, that Bluesleeve’s views on tulpa sentience and independence are fairly controversial; what’s generally accepted as fact nowadays was still viewed with skepticism by much of the community back then.)

@soulbondinghelp - An informational/advice blog for soulbonders. Some of the things they post aren’t relevant to tulpas, but, due to the amount of similarity between tulpas and soulbonds, a lot of their content is fairly relevant.

@headmatesfaq and @non-trauma-headspace - These two blogs offer information and advice for plurality in general. They both support tulpas and have the occasional tulpa-specific post (though not frequently). The former also often posts traumagenic-specific content, but I don’t see that as a reason to not follow because I think it’s important to understand the ways other types of systems work differently from ours, y’know?

@cambriancrew and @greysdawn - Two plural systems of differing origins who both have involvement in the tulpa community. Cambrian Crew are a median system who also have tulpas, and greysdawn… I don’t remember if they actually have tulpas or just previously mistook alters for tulpas, but they have been quite involved with the tulpa community. Both systems tend to be quite involved in the syscourse, so be warned if you’d rather avoid that, but they certainly know what they’re talking about and how to handle it maturely.

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Now, as a final note, with this many blogs to list and my general forgetfulness - I’ve probably missed someone who should be listed here. If anyone else reading this feels that I’ve missed someone who deserves to make it onto this list, just say so. Even if that person is yourself. I’ll give promos.

I mean, sometimes when I’m bored I imagine I’m talking to like, 2D from Gorillaz, or one of my own oc’s, but that doesn’t mean I think they’re tulpas. Let me make this clear, Tulpas are basically your own way of dealing with stress, loneliness, etc. They don’t actually exist. Obviously. When you’re stressed, lonely, sad, frightened, etc., you want to talk to someone. That’s what I think Tulpas really are. They aren’t sentient beings in your head, you just want to believe that they are. That’s why I call insanity. I mean, like I said, sometimes I imagine that I’m talking to a fictional character, because it makes me feel better. Especially when I can’t spend time with people who are close to me. That doesn’t mean I think that they’re beings that live in my head that have their own lives, I mean, they’re fictional!

But there’s a big difference between the ones we imagine, and the ones who are tulpas.

To explain how, I’d like you to do a little thought experiment.

Imagine, just for a moment, that you are telepathic.

If you could actually communicate with other people using just your mind, how would you determine the difference between imagining what people are thinking, and actually hearing them think?

Ponder that for a moment.

So, for starters, when imagining, you are in total control. Even when you pretend that you don’t. You can cut off the conversation at any time. Change topics. Alter what the imagined person said. Go back rewind and unsay something that you said that felt unsatisfactory. You can change what the imagined person feels or thinks or believes with just a push of your mind.

If you have a good imagination, you can even forget that you’re imagining. You can even imagine that imaginary person pushing back at your attempts to change their mind.

You can’t do that with a real person.

You start being able to actually talk to people telepathically - in this little thought experiment here - and you’re not going to be in control of what they think or feel. Try and they’ll fight you on it. You try and rewind the conversation, they’re not going to just forget and roll with it - they’re going to remember. Just like you can’t always predict what a real person physically says, you won’t be able to predict what they think at you either. They’ll surprise you. Argue with you from their own perspective. Remember things you don’t.

And that’s what it’s like to have a tulpa in your head.

They don’t have a separate physical body, sure. They use the same brain you do.

But with an imagined person, YOU are doing all the thinking for them. You’re in control.

Tulpas do all their own thinking. They control their own selves. They have a will of their own. You can’t force them to say what you want to hear, can’t make them feel what you want them to feel. You push them, they’ll push back - whether you want them to or not. (And if you push too much, you’ll probably upset them and then have to talk it out and apologize.)

Talking to them feels like talking to a real person, with all the spontaneity and misunderstandings and not always seeing eye to eye stuff and all that jazz.

Talking to an imagined person feels like puppeteering by comparison.

That brings up one last point - when you stop imagining, when you take the sock puppet off, that imagined person stops existing.

Tulpas never stop existing. Sure they can go quiet or leave you alone/give you some privacy or “sleep”, but they always Exist. They’ll interrupt you when you’re not thinking about them (once they learn to, anyway.) They’ll point things out that surprise you because you didn’t think they were paying attention then. You’ll want to drop a conversation out of boredom or frustration or whatever, they’ll keep it going because they’re still interested.

Talking with them isn’t like sitting down and mentally envisioning someone. Someone that you conjure into existence with your imagination, and when you turn your attention away they vanish.

Instead, it’s listening and talking to a second mind that, once solidly made, always exists alongside your own. And WILL always, unless you intentionally set out to destroy it.

I’ve never heard of these terms until now, and I’m close to tears.

As a result of childhood trauma (no physical abuse, but lots of mental/emotional) I invented these characters who would encourage me in rough times. All this time, I thought I was genuinely crazy. Now that I have a name for this, it gives me a sense of purpose.

Hello everyone! Today, I present a project I’ve been working on for a bit of time. Because the total runtime is over 80 minutes, it’s technically a feature-length  video series on how to train for and master switching ^^ The series was founded on my frustration that every existing switching guide seems to require a proclivity for switching, as, at the end of the day, they all just sort of say “do it.” I wanted to create a guide that not only offered an effective switching technique, but lays out a science-based process you can use to train the necessary skills.  

Give them a good home in the form of a calm and pliable mind.

Feed them only the finest attention and compassion you can afford.

Take them out for walks regularly so they can enjoy the great outdoors along with you.

Play with them every now and then to bond with them and to teach them valuable skills.

Give them the room they need to develop into their own unique individuals.

DO NOT FORCE YOUR TULPA WHILE OPERATING A MOTOR VEHICLE OR OTHER HEAVY MACHINERY.

DO NOT BREAK YOUR TULPA. YOUR TULPA DOES NOT COME WITH A MANUFACTURER’S WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.

YOUR TULPA SHOULD BE TAKEN TO YOUR LOCAL TULPA DEALERSHIP FOR A SERVICE EVERY 3 YEARS OR 10,000 HOURS OF FORCING, WHICHEVER OCCURS SOONER.

THE “NIGHT MODE” FEATURE IS AVAILABLE ON 2011-MODEL TULPAS AND NEWER. ENABLING THE PARENTAL LOCK FOR THIS FEATURE IS ADVISED. 

I have a difficult time sitting still for very long to force. I feel like I’m being lazy or that I could be doing other things when I sit and actively force. So Shadow and I came up with an alternative.

This originally started as a visualization exercise. Being a writer, I had been writing about him before he was created. So I started a new piece but it’s not a story, there is no plot. It simply starts with me alone in a small unfurnished white room, describing everything in painful detail and when I’m ready, I had him appear and explained his appearance in long drawn out detail.

From there, it’s simply us taking turns manipulating the rooms appearance and slowly turning it into a new wonderland. (If only he knew the meaning of ‘simple’) and then it will be our interactions throughout this new wonderland.

It takes much longer but some find it easier to visualize something they are reading. So when you read it back, you are forcing in a way. Or for those who visualize best when hearing a story, record yourself reading it aloud.

I had an idea that I’m pretty excited about but I’m not sure how or if it will work.

When you put some gas inside a large volume, it will spread out and, over time, distribute evenly across the entire volume (except that density is higher at the bottom because of gravity). A drop of water, on the other hand, will not spread out. The water molecules have bonds between each other that hold the drop together.

What makes the fish tank demonstration above work is that sulfur hexaflouride (SF6) is so much denser than air that it takes a long time for it to mix with the air above and around the fish tank. The demonstration is much shorter, so the SF6 exhibits fluid-like behavior on this short timescale.

The fine print: There is no clear cutoff between fluids and gases. It's a spectrum, with solids on one end (maximum organization, e.g. crystalline structures) and gases on the other end (minimum organization, i.e. each atom flies around independently). Fluids are all the things in between.

Tulpa: Not What You Think

Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to offer an opinion in the way of recourse. What term would the author prefer we use instead?

“…you do not make a tulpa of just anything, in fact arguably you can’t, because it lacks the yeshe sempa. Visualized imaginations, and thoughtforms are something else altogether, tulpas are a very specific concept in a ritual process.”

As defined, a tulpa is a very specific kind of thoughtform – an energetic shell – meant for Buddhist ritual, whereupon the Wisdom Emanation of a deity is brought into the tulpa, making it “complete.”

From the popularization and misconception perpetuated several years ago by the online communities that picked up the idea of tulpamancy, it has come to be a term used in a very different way, devoid of the ceremonial trappings the OP set out to explain. The current use of the word “tulpa” has served a great many in very positive ways, and to attempt to change the name now would be, I think, a fruitless endeavor.

That isn’t an argument against the validity of the statements made in the original post. It is perfectly valid, and referenced adequately to demonstrate that there was an error somewhere along the way. I take no issue with that.

Now, if Tibetan Buddhists were to come along and inform us they in general had an issue with our use of the term, I would be okay with not using it. As it seems from this article, though, it’s a term that most of them are either unfamiliar with or only vaguely aware of, so I can’t imagine they would take issue with it.

The brain is awesome at doing stuff automatically without your conscious intervention: For example, you never think about which muscle to move while walking. The subconscious parts of the brain do that. Same with your emotional responses, and same with tulpas.