Hiya :) We saw mentions of "parogens" in your pinned post, and we view you as generally knowledgable about plural topics. Do you happen to know what the differences are between the terms tulpamancy, parogenic, and willogenic? Were the latter two coined to avoid negative discourse around the word "tulpa"? Is willogenic an umbrella term, or are they all distinct experiences with specific differences? We've been curious and kind of theorizing for a while now but never properly looked into it.
Tulpa is the oldest term, about fifteen years old now, and includes intentional and unintentional creations, usually as the result of repeated interactions and often meditation. It is most often a course from starting as a singlet and gaining one or more headmates. There's a lot of host centrist views commonly found in tulpa circles which we really don't like, it's almost always seen as psychological in origin instead of metaphysical or spiritual, and there's a strong culture of practice and growing in skills in vocality and independence.
Parogen was created as an alternative term to tulpa for (usually intentional) creation and due to the perceived cultural appropriation of the term tulpa. While most of ours aren't intentionally created, we do use this term because we're uncomfortable with the term tulpa - not because of appropriation concerns, but because the word tulpar is an extremely vulgar term in the main language of our paracosm. And while we didn't know what we were doing would create a headmate for most of ours, we did intentionally put effort into clearer vocality, cofronting, possession, imposition, and switching. Some people use parogen as an umbrella term for all kinds of created headmates, but we don't.
Willomancy is meant to be entirely separate from tulpamancy, and is more often used to create or stabilize headmates in preexisting systems than it is to create a system from scratch as a singlet.
They are, to us, three very similar approaches to very similar end results. But regardless, outside of tulpa communities, we prefer the term parogen for ourselves.
