#tulpamancers

https://www.reddit.com/r/Tulpas/comments/1ctltgl/ama_with_dr_michael_lifshitz_and_dr_tanya/l4cti78/

hello! so I researched very lightly on Dr. Lifshitz as I'm getting ready for school so please correct me if im wrong but I couldn't find any actual documentation on his studies!

Although he seems to be a reliable person reddit and other Social media like Tumblr is not a reliable source and therefore cannot be used as evidence!

please cross reference and look through official documents! no therapists goes onto Reddit to decide whether something is real or not!

also as tulpamancy is a spiritual belief and NOT a physical affliction so i don't believe it would effect you in a way that would show on an MRI scan like DID!

also also if tulpamancy isn't a mental disorder why are you referencing a psychologist to prove it's existence?

Been meaning to make a post about my Tulpamancy guide since I started this blog, but decided to wait until more people were around to see it.

People come to me for Tulpamancy advice on things like how to get started, how to switch, and so on. Since I began learning and practicing Tulpamancy, I have been working periodically on this 45+ page guide over the course of nearly two years now. 

Currently, there are 30 sections covering a large amount of topics and advice for nearly every one including a definitions section. The guide even utilizes the outline so that users can easily access each section with ease (and without having to scroll down for ages).

Any constructive criticism on any section of the guide is encouraged and appreciated since I want to constantly improve this guide to better serve people looking to get into the practice or if other Tulpamancers want advice on how to improve on certain Tulpamancy skills.

In addition, this guide is on the sidebar on my blog and has been since I made this blog, but I also wanted to make this for mobile users who aren’t able to view the entire blog.

I hope this guide works well! Link: Tulpamancy: Guide Into the Strange and Wonderful

I used to be very into spirituality—looking into crystals, myself, discovering layers of me that have been buried under years of defensive walls and fear. But I never liked rules, so I winged the entire process. Much like any spiritual blogger I found online, I discovered that the real me is in the East of Europe (I won't state the actual countries ahead, sorry!), far in the future, waiting for me to catch up as I break free from all the strings leading me back to my home country, a place of terror, fear, and judgement. That’s what the country is to me; it’s nothing else. The family there that I once looked up to is buried (not actually—metaphorically, all is well), the safety I once needed as a child was never there to begin with; nails sprout from the open arms that had once enveloped me with love, burying deep into me with their rusty, sharp tips. I now find myself somewhere else, a person who’s actively growing, even outgrowing past behaviors I learned.

When I picked up spirituality in April, I thought it’d benefit me during my exams, the most stressful period of my teenage years. And it did, my intuition grew stronger, and I passed my exams with flying colors. But it wasn’t just this that I found within me—fortune, luck, and ways to expand it—but a figure, one that I met only a few times, but he left such an impact on me. Aghar, a fire dragon who showed himself to me during some of my meditations. Our meeting was intentional, as I searched for a spiritual figure that would resemble my kin—a dragon, somebody to talk to—and one meeting turned into a few, until we lost contact for a while.

I’m in a different place now. I was too ambitious with my meditation before, and while winging it worked for a while, it soon turned into exhausting sessions that always failed. I haven’t seen Aghar for a long time, until today, when I invited him into our wonderland while enjoying the company of Heather and Warden. He came to me like he always did before, forming from pure smoke, ash, and burning fire, letting out a trembling roar that rumbled through my bones, before settling down on the grass, tired and unamused as usual. Last time I saw him, he seemed exhausted, but curious to lead me around in his personal place. Our headspace slightly resembles his own, so perhaps he found himself at home for those twenty minutes of our meditation.

We noticed that Aghar doesn’t understand us, and talking with gestures didn’t lead us far. I offered him food as the first sign to tell him to stay, and another time, we entwined our talons for a moment.

For now, however, I wish to keep him around, whether he learns how to speak human, or simply speaks tulpish to me. I do not want to “make him a tulpa,” or classify him as an NPC that isn’t aware. Now that he is here, and I have easier access to him, I want to find out what we can do to integrate him better. But my main question is… was this real? Or just a figment of my imagination? As far as I know, Aghar sprouted from purely intuitive feelings that aren’t bound to my imagination. But he’s here now, in our wonderland, which is determined by controlled imagination, so what will happen next?

I’ve believed that everything I am (including me being otherkin primarily) is purely psychological, but Warden and now Aghar are of spiritual origin, and we still have to find out what that means and if it can even work. Then again, Warden has been with me for a long time, so, it clearly works in some way.