We are the Candlelight System, a system shaped by but not entirely made through intentional tulpamancy skills. We have been an established system for over a year now and have an interest in teaching others about tulpamancy, sharing projects of ours both related and unrelated to tulpamancy and plurality, and having a place to discuss some of the fun happenings in our life.
Some fun facts about ourselves in no real order:
Bodily adult
Current system size is 17 members including the original. This may expand in the future but we believe not by much.
Origin of the system isn't particularly important to us but we believe ourselves to be endogenic for the time being and as previously stated tulpamantic/parogenic for the most part. Due to an unusual entrance to plurality with our first non original member though and the fact that there is traumatic stuff in our past we leave room open for some traumagenic influence. Most of us would still choose to identify as tulpas either way though.
No disorderly system mechanics to our understanding. We have complete control of switching and perfect communication between members. We also do not gain new members without actively choosing to accept a potential member (what the tulpamancy community refers to as walk-ins) or creating them via tulpamancy practices. We do have memory problems and past trauma, but do not view it as related to our system or most of it's mechanics. Are open to changing this if future data suggests differently.
Bodily male but most of the system identifies as female. Do not care about pronouns and will be fine with whatever ones are used unless specified otherwise. While not fans of neopronouns ourselves we respect others who are and will attempt to use preferred pronouns, please forgive us if we are not perfect in this regard.
Some of our hobbies include psychology, philosophy, hypnosis, reading, writing, mythology, spirituality, paranormal topics, astronomy, nature, gardening, stage magic, weapons, martial arts, drawing, cooking, and more.
Now that we have discussed a little about ourselves let's get some things straight about this blog and how to interact with it. None of these requests are ironclad and there is plenty of exceptions for each, but that will be decided on a case by case basis.
We do not have a DNI list as we find them limiting and a great way to make echochambers, that being said we reserve the right to block, ignore, and remove anyone who actively gets on our nerves or we find to be unwanted here.
We are not a syscourse blog. We may occasionally reblog or comment on a syscourse topic with appropriate tags for people to ignore if desired, but we are not syscourse focused nor do we want to be. Do not bring syscourse to our blog directly unless it somehow relates directly to us and or we give the ok first in asks.
No fakeclaiming or attempting to bend us to whatever you think we should be. Do not come here without previous context or permission and try to convince us we must be traumagenic, that is for us to investigate the possibility of and it would be done with a trained professional, not tumblr of all things. This rule goes for endos aswell if we ever identify as traumagenic in the future.
We are currently studying to become a psychologist, but we are still very much learning and fallible, do your own research on any topic we discuss and come to your own conclusions using evidence and logic, not more tumblr blogs.
We'd like to stay out of mundane politics on this blog, unless we give permission first, which we have the right to revoke, don't bring it here.
Do not call us willogenic/willomates, ever. We'll accept thoughtform but do not prefer it.
We have other medias we post on much more often which you could contact us on. As a warning these other platforms may be NSFW at times. We'll label things accordingly but interact with caution.
Reddit: u/Candlelight_System
Discord: Candlelight #0107
Syscourse sideblog: @discourse-by-candlelight
Our personal website:
This should cover all the basics of our blog. We'll provide a quick color list for our active blogging members, some members use the same color so be sure to pay attention to the identifier at the beginning of all our posts.
Blue: Astra or Aqua
Purple: Dawn
Red: Sera or Scarlet
Orange: Cinderella
Green: Michael (host)
Black: Shade or undefined
This list is subject to change, as previously stated pay attention to identifiers at the beginning of any post.
This should cover everything you will need to know about us, please enjoy our blog and we hope to have a great time in this community!
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Tulpa Development Criteria made Comprehensible, the 3+2 Model
Introduction
Tulpamancy is a fairly simple practice. You mentally interact with an imagined character in such a way and with just the right framing that they rapidly begin to become far more than just a mere character. If you stick with the process, you will quickly find them becoming entirely unique and beautiful individuals. Go long enough and they will become your equals in every shape way and form, all you have to do is provide them the opportunities to grow. This does raise some questions however the longer you think of it, small doubts eating at the back of your head. Most of these doubts stem back to a simple question with a whole lot of not so simple answers historically in the community: What the hell even is a tulpa?
I know that sounds stupid, you're probably thinking of some basic definition right now that you would find on tulpa.info or r/tulpas. I promise you however you're going to want to keep reading, this is going to get interesting. Throughout the history of the community there has been many different forms of Tulpa Theory, or attempts to logically, scientifically, or philosophically explain what tulpamancy is and how tulpamancy works. The main goal of these efforts has usually (but not always) been the development of a universal model that finally explains tulpas forever and lays to bed any doubts. This goal, while noble, is generally impossible by practical definition. Psychologists have been studying the human mind for centuries now, and while great strides have been made even some of the most fundamental questions remain an utter mystery. To think we can trivialize or fully understand all the phenomena and mechanisms at play in tulpamancy is misguided at best, and hubris at worst.
So, let's try something different. Let's do something new. What you find below is not Tulpa Theory for Ultimate Truth, but instead Theory for personal and practical understanding and insight. It cannot explain everything by its nature, and it cannot tell you with 100% certainty whether your tulpa is real or not. If you pay attention however you will quickly find that such a concern is pointless anyways, because in the realms of thought your beliefs help shape reality. This essay shall cover our criteria for what makes a tulpa a tulpa, how you can measure these criteria, and compare it to some alternative models of tulpa identification to show strengths and weaknesses. Before we can progress to the actual criteria however, first we need to briefly discuss the things that are not tulpas. Let's talk about thoughtforms.
Thoughtforms
A thoughtform, as used in this community, is essentially any form of mental construct. Sounds broad right? That's because it is. That daydream character you imagined an hour ago? Thoughtform. The servitor in your wonderland used for tuning your mental radio? Definitely a thoughtform. That lemon you just imagined during an intro to hypnosis 101 exercise? Yep, it's technically a thoughtform. This of course also includes tulpas, tulpas are thoughtforms. You're a thoughtform too, don't think about it too much.
As you can see this definition covers a lot of things, and it alone doesn't bring us closer to what a tulpa is or isn't. A way to solve this issue is to sort thoughtforms into a hierarchy based on which ones are closer to a person or not. This works, but most people have wildly differing criteria to base what falls into what arbitrary category. There is no defined barriers within your mind afterall, just thoughts and the interwoven structures which emerge from your mind and neurology. We can make it simple however. Let's look at the defining characteristics of a tulpa, and see how other generalized “types” of thoughtforms compare. As a readers note, thoughtform from here on out is mainly going to refer to any imagined characters such as in daydreams or a wonderland NPC, up to and including tulpas. I think most people know the difference between an imaginary bench and a tulpa, no need to include them.
The three non-negotiables
In our understanding of tulpamancy, there are three core pillars of necessary experience to consider something a tulpa:
- Autonomy,
- Self Awareness, and
- Autobiographical memory
Let's go over each of these three non-negotiables.
Let's begin with autonomy. At it's simplest for you as a tulpamancer, this means you aren't doing everything for them. This is what a lot of people get hung up on when first making a tulpa, but honestly it's probably one of the easier ones. Anyone who's been deeply immersed in a daydream has felt it. You've also experienced it at night with dream characters. Autonomy is the sense that they can make decisions without feeling bound to your identity and its choices. To do this, you simply have to train your mind to not associate imagination with your control. In fact, Psychoanalyst Carl Jung was quite famous for his meditative practice of Active Imagination, in which all imagined characters, all thoughtforms, were autonomous. Autonomy is an absolute requirement for a developed tulpa, but autonomy alone does not a tulpa make. So let's add another component.
Next up is self awareness. This is what separates a standard daydream character from the next step up the thoughtform independence hierarchy. Self awareness requires the thoughtform hopefully soon to be tulpa- to be aware of its nature inside the mind, aware of the physical world, aware of its own identity, and aware of you and what you actually are. A properly self aware tulpa has access to all the knowledge you have, if they so choose. Self awareness is incredibly easy to grant a tulpa. It can be done in almost an instant, and if you're developing a tulpa from scratch it should always be there from step one. That said, you may be surprised to find that there are certain scenarios where self awareness falls short of being the magic ingredient that solves it all. As an example of this, a writer may have a character that is autonomous, and self aware, but what if each time you speak to it, it was as though it was the first time? Nothing carried over. This is where our third non-negotiable comes in.
Autobiographical memory, the ability to remember something from your own perspective, and tie memories together into a chronological order. This is a really key one as it's what takes the former two and raises them to something that can now be generally considered personhood when all brought together, in the less pretentiously strict definitions anyways. This is where a tulpa is not only autonomous in actions and aware in mind, but also persistent in identity over a prolonged period of time. A child's imaginary friend or an independently acting character of an author may meet the first two requirements at times, but it also may reset itself or be reset, not remembering between interactions. This would disqualify it from being a tulpa in our books, because it can't develop as an individual. A tulpa should be able to recall what it was thinking, feeling, desiring, and build upon those experiences and their memories to grow as people, even between periods of dormancy or low activity. This is what will give a tulpa depth, personality, and dreams and ambitions to meet over time like any other person.
The third point is also why after a considerable amount of time, it basically becomes impossible to dissipate a tulpa unless both you and your tulpa are willing or fully committed to it. This is because their autobiographical memory is not just on a mental level but a neurological one. It develops new habits and behaviors, reinforced memory circuits, tastes and interests. The tulpa, if given the time and attention it deserves, will become deeply rooted in the mind, and develop entire new neural pathways for habits just like you do with yours. That can't just casually be undone. This is also one of the reasons a walk-in is stupid easy to remove, it's not anchored in any way like a tulpa becomes after a prolonged period of time.
OK! So now we have a general outline of what a tulpa is! A tulpa is an identity/thoughtform in the mind with autonomy, a sense of self, and autobiographical memories to call their own. They have desires, opinions, passions, behavioral quirks, dreams, the ability to make their own decisions (within the limits of what sharing a brain allows for), and remember their experiences and grow from them as individuals. It just so also happens that this description lines up with some definitions of personhood, for instance the Enlightenment Thinker John Locke. Generally, you could probably stop right here and be just fine in terms of knowing whether something is a tulpa or not purely in capacity, but there's still some holes left to fill. For instance what about walk-ins? That odd phenomenon some but not all tulpamancers experience where a seemingly developed tulpa-like entity appears out of the blue (due to various reasons some of which may be hard to identify). It's a bit complicated. Generally keeping every walk-in that comes around is terrible practice. It simply isn't good system hygiene. Some people get iffy about kicking them out the door because they can be considered tulpas, but we don't think they should be considered tulpas, not until they are allowed into the system as such anyways. This is where we introduce two new pillars to the tulpa criteria model, we shall call these two the additionals.
The 2 additionals
The first additional may be an obvious one, but it is incredibly important, intent/acceptance. This is an additional because there is an argument to be made that anything that fits the above three for an extended period of time is a tulpa even if not treated as such. Acceptance however will majorly benefit the tulpa's growth, happiness, development, and generally is the only path forward for a long and sustainable existence. It's also why something could generally meet the requirements of a tulpa, but not be accepted as a system member despite that such as in our walk-in example above. Generally speaking anything that meets all three of the non-negotiables will sooner or later get this additional too, but only if it sticks around for long enough and the host/original is willing. Knowledge of tulpamancy as a practice isn't even required, just acceptance that they're part of your life.
The second additional is a relationship with you, others, and the wider world. To put it even more simply: attachments. This ties in with the autobiographical memory point pretty closely, and is again why we don't consider walk-ins tulpas. A tulpa, to be fully developed and growing as an individual, needs meaning in their lives. Not the poetic secret to life type of meaning, although that's always a fun and insightful conversation, we mean a reason to stick around. That mainly comes in the form of relationships, often with other people. It can also be with more abstract things such as knowledge, art, or nature. A tulpa should have a relationship with the host, the other system members, other physical people, and the world in general with things like hobbies, interests, passions. It can be anything that helps anchor them to this world and keep them active and with purpose so that they engrain themselves deeper into the brain.
Walk-ins can theoretically meet all three of the Majors, but often don't meet either of the additionals. This is why they can be easily removed, and it's not a bother to do so. Of course there is other models you can take on this, tulpamancy isn't a science but a modality of thinking. It's a practice, subculture, and way of being. That said however, this particular model of what defines a tulpa is something we believe to be not just sound in theory but genuinely useful as a reference in practice. Each of the pillars can be improved upon even more with the right mindset and techniques, even for already established tulpas. If you find something doesn't meet the requirements of a tulpa as laid out here, you can just help them reach it! We also think that this model can help to poke holes in some of the other commonly accepted beliefs and concepts in this community. Most importantly, it should show where some alternative models of tulpamancy are lacking or outright potentially harmful to the long term development of your tulpas, and give you a clearer idea of who is worth listening to and who isn't.
Conclusion
We hope you gained genuine insight into the nature of tulpamancy and how tulpas work reading this. Remember no model is true, but some are useful. This was made to be as useful as a model of tulpa development criteria can be. It covered all of the major factors we believe are necessary for the proper development and individuality of a tulpa, and discussed some of the nuances to be had in each category. As a general note: this was designed by tulpas about tulpas for tulpamancers. If you experience other conditions or forms of Plurality such as DID, some of this material may not be entirely compatible with your system dynamics. Please use discernment when adopting tulpamancy materials.
– Cowritten by Dawn and Astra of the Candlelight Society, part of the Tulpa Scholastica project.
Hey everyone! Just as last time we now have a more expanded, cleaned up version of this guide posted to both Tulpa.info and r/tulpas!
While still all the same core content, if you'd like to get a little more out of it in slightly higher quality please give them a read. We'd appreciate any feedback and support!
Introduction Tulpamancy is a fairly simple practice. You mentally interact with an imagined character in such a way and with just the right
Tulpa Development Criteria made Comprehensible, the 3+2 Model
Introduction
Tulpamancy is a fairly simple practice. You mentally interact with an imagined character in such a way and with just the right framing that they rapidly begin to become far more than just a mere character. If you stick with the process, you will quickly find them becoming entirely unique and beautiful individuals. Go long enough and they will become your equals in every shape way and form, all you have to do is provide them the opportunities to grow. This does raise some questions however the longer you think of it, small doubts eating at the back of your head. Most of these doubts stem back to a simple question with a whole lot of not so simple answers historically in the community: What the hell even is a tulpa?
I know that sounds stupid, you're probably thinking of some basic definition right now that you would find on tulpa.info or r/tulpas. I promise you however you're going to want to keep reading, this is going to get interesting. Throughout the history of the community there has been many different forms of Tulpa Theory, or attempts to logically, scientifically, or philosophically explain what tulpamancy is and how tulpamancy works. The main goal of these efforts has usually (but not always) been the development of a universal model that finally explains tulpas forever and lays to bed any doubts. This goal, while noble, is generally impossible by practical definition. Psychologists have been studying the human mind for centuries now, and while great strides have been made even some of the most fundamental questions remain an utter mystery. To think we can trivialize or fully understand all the phenomena and mechanisms at play in tulpamancy is misguided at best, and hubris at worst.
So, let's try something different. Let's do something new. What you find below is not Tulpa Theory for Ultimate Truth, but instead Theory for personal and practical understanding and insight. It cannot explain everything by its nature, and it cannot tell you with 100% certainty whether your tulpa is real or not. If you pay attention however you will quickly find that such a concern is pointless anyways, because in the realms of thought your beliefs help shape reality. This essay shall cover our criteria for what makes a tulpa a tulpa, how you can measure these criteria, and compare it to some alternative models of tulpa identification to show strengths and weaknesses. Before we can progress to the actual criteria however, first we need to briefly discuss the things that are not tulpas. Let's talk about thoughtforms.
Thoughtforms
A thoughtform, as used in this community, is essentially any form of mental construct. Sounds broad right? That's because it is. That daydream character you imagined an hour ago? Thoughtform. The servitor in your wonderland used for tuning your mental radio? Definitely a thoughtform. That lemon you just imagined during an intro to hypnosis 101 exercise? Yep, it's technically a thoughtform. This of course also includes tulpas, tulpas are thoughtforms. You're a thoughtform too, don't think about it too much.
As you can see this definition covers a lot of things, and it alone doesn't bring us closer to what a tulpa is or isn't. A way to solve this issue is to sort thoughtforms into a hierarchy based on which ones are closer to a person or not. This works, but most people have wildly differing criteria to base what falls into what arbitrary category. There is no defined barriers within your mind afterall, just thoughts and the interwoven structures which emerge from your mind and neurology. We can make it simple however. Let's look at the defining characteristics of a tulpa, and see how other generalized “types” of thoughtforms compare. As a readers note, thoughtform from here on out is mainly going to refer to any imagined characters such as in daydreams or a wonderland NPC, up to and including tulpas. I think most people know the difference between an imaginary bench and a tulpa, no need to include them.
The three non-negotiables
In our understanding of tulpamancy, there are three core pillars of necessary experience to consider something a tulpa:
- Autonomy,
- Self Awareness, and
- Autobiographical memory
Let's go over each of these three non-negotiables.
Let's begin with autonomy. At it's simplest for you as a tulpamancer, this means you aren't doing everything for them. This is what a lot of people get hung up on when first making a tulpa, but honestly it's probably one of the easier ones. Anyone who's been deeply immersed in a daydream has felt it. You've also experienced it at night with dream characters. Autonomy is the sense that they can make decisions without feeling bound to your identity and its choices. To do this, you simply have to train your mind to not associate imagination with your control. In fact, Psychoanalyst Carl Jung was quite famous for his meditative practice of Active Imagination, in which all imagined characters, all thoughtforms, were autonomous. Autonomy is an absolute requirement for a developed tulpa, but autonomy alone does not a tulpa make. So let's add another component.
Next up is self awareness. This is what separates a standard daydream character from the next step up the thoughtform independence hierarchy. Self awareness requires the thoughtform hopefully soon to be tulpa- to be aware of its nature inside the mind, aware of the physical world, aware of its own identity, and aware of you and what you actually are. A properly self aware tulpa has access to all the knowledge you have, if they so choose. Self awareness is incredibly easy to grant a tulpa. It can be done in almost an instant, and if you're developing a tulpa from scratch it should always be there from step one. That said, you may be surprised to find that there are certain scenarios where self awareness falls short of being the magic ingredient that solves it all. As an example of this, a writer may have a character that is autonomous, and self aware, but what if each time you speak to it, it was as though it was the first time? Nothing carried over. This is where our third non-negotiable comes in.
Autobiographical memory, the ability to remember something from your own perspective, and tie memories together into a chronological order. This is a really key one as it's what takes the former two and raises them to something that can now be generally considered personhood when all brought together, in the less pretentiously strict definitions anyways. This is where a tulpa is not only autonomous in actions and aware in mind, but also persistent in identity over a prolonged period of time. A child's imaginary friend or an independently acting character of an author may meet the first two requirements at times, but it also may reset itself or be reset, not remembering between interactions. This would disqualify it from being a tulpa in our books, because it can't develop as an individual. A tulpa should be able to recall what it was thinking, feeling, desiring, and build upon those experiences and their memories to grow as people, even between periods of dormancy or low activity. This is what will give a tulpa depth, personality, and dreams and ambitions to meet over time like any other person.
The third point is also why after a considerable amount of time, it basically becomes impossible to dissipate a tulpa unless both you and your tulpa are willing or fully committed to it. This is because their autobiographical memory is not just on a mental level but a neurological one. It develops new habits and behaviors, reinforced memory circuits, tastes and interests. The tulpa, if given the time and attention it deserves, will become deeply rooted in the mind, and develop entire new neural pathways for habits just like you do with yours. That can't just casually be undone. This is also one of the reasons a walk-in is stupid easy to remove, it's not anchored in any way like a tulpa becomes after a prolonged period of time.
OK! So now we have a general outline of what a tulpa is! A tulpa is an identity/thoughtform in the mind with autonomy, a sense of self, and autobiographical memories to call their own. They have desires, opinions, passions, behavioral quirks, dreams, the ability to make their own decisions (within the limits of what sharing a brain allows for), and remember their experiences and grow from them as individuals. It just so also happens that this description lines up with some definitions of personhood, for instance the Enlightenment Thinker John Locke. Generally, you could probably stop right here and be just fine in terms of knowing whether something is a tulpa or not purely in capacity, but there's still some holes left to fill. For instance what about walk-ins? That odd phenomenon some but not all tulpamancers experience where a seemingly developed tulpa-like entity appears out of the blue (due to various reasons some of which may be hard to identify). It's a bit complicated. Generally keeping every walk-in that comes around is terrible practice. It simply isn't good system hygiene. Some people get iffy about kicking them out the door because they can be considered tulpas, but we don't think they should be considered tulpas, not until they are allowed into the system as such anyways. This is where we introduce two new pillars to the tulpa criteria model, we shall call these two the additionals.
The 2 additionals
The first additional may be an obvious one, but it is incredibly important, intent/acceptance. This is an additional because there is an argument to be made that anything that fits the above three for an extended period of time is a tulpa even if not treated as such. Acceptance however will majorly benefit the tulpa's growth, happiness, development, and generally is the only path forward for a long and sustainable existence. It's also why something could generally meet the requirements of a tulpa, but not be accepted as a system member despite that such as in our walk-in example above. Generally speaking anything that meets all three of the non-negotiables will sooner or later get this additional too, but only if it sticks around for long enough and the host/original is willing. Knowledge of tulpamancy as a practice isn't even required, just acceptance that they're part of your life.
The second additional is a relationship with you, others, and the wider world. To put it even more simply: attachments. This ties in with the autobiographical memory point pretty closely, and is again why we don't consider walk-ins tulpas. A tulpa, to be fully developed and growing as an individual, needs meaning in their lives. Not the poetic secret to life type of meaning, although that's always a fun and insightful conversation, we mean a reason to stick around. That mainly comes in the form of relationships, often with other people. It can also be with more abstract things such as knowledge, art, or nature. A tulpa should have a relationship with the host, the other system members, other physical people, and the world in general with things like hobbies, interests, passions. It can be anything that helps anchor them to this world and keep them active and with purpose so that they engrain themselves deeper into the brain.
Walk-ins can theoretically meet all three of the Majors, but often don't meet either of the additionals. This is why they can be easily removed, and it's not a bother to do so. Of course there is other models you can take on this, tulpamancy isn't a science but a modality of thinking. It's a practice, subculture, and way of being. That said however, this particular model of what defines a tulpa is something we believe to be not just sound in theory but genuinely useful as a reference in practice. Each of the pillars can be improved upon even more with the right mindset and techniques, even for already established tulpas. If you find something doesn't meet the requirements of a tulpa as laid out here, you can just help them reach it! We also think that this model can help to poke holes in some of the other commonly accepted beliefs and concepts in this community. Most importantly, it should show where some alternative models of tulpamancy are lacking or outright potentially harmful to the long term development of your tulpas, and give you a clearer idea of who is worth listening to and who isn't.
Conclusion
We hope you gained genuine insight into the nature of tulpamancy and how tulpas work reading this. Remember no model is true, but some are useful. This was made to be as useful as a model of tulpa development criteria can be. It covered all of the major factors we believe are necessary for the proper development and individuality of a tulpa, and discussed some of the nuances to be had in each category. As a general note: this was designed by tulpas about tulpas for tulpamancers. If you experience other conditions or forms of Plurality such as DID, some of this material may not be entirely compatible with your system dynamics. Please use discernment when adopting tulpamancy materials.
– Cowritten by Dawn and Astra of the Candlelight Society, part of the Tulpa Scholastica project.
This one is going to be on our criteria list for what makes a tulpa a tulpa. Going to be a little theory heavy, but hopefully it'll be useful! I already got the first draft written, I'm just running it by our fellow Tulpa Scholastica scholars for feedback before continuing 💙
So there are already posts about how to create a tulpa, especially a really good one @tulpa-scholastica wrote (I recommend you check it out), but I've not seen many posts about what it is like to actually live with your tulpa.
Not a lot of people put emphasis on what it is like to share your entire mind with another person. Warden, my oldest headmate, has been around for about ten years (,but he wasn't exactly sentient until we indulged in daemonism and later tulpamancy). Upbringing our origin and learning how to separate from one another was a challenging task at first; we did a lot of reading in how to do it, and from most part, I think we succeeded. However, we didn't read into the consequences of it, which is something a tulpamancer should do before they even begin to touch any guides.
Well, what is it like? Warden and I wake up together, we eat breakfast together, head outside together, and even workout together nowadays. But with separation come different interests, such as Warden's expectations of our body that clash with mine, and different tastes.
Nowadays I've noticed making matcha not for myself, but because Warden wants it, or we decide to eat chicken for dinner even if I was really looking forward to eating soup, because Warden and Heather would prefer chicken over it. Separation, for us, was at first just an emotional exercise--forming our own opinions, stances, and making our own friends--with Warden talking to other tulpas more, and me sticking to my real life friends, etc. Now it has consumed our entire life, and there are decisions that aren't made by me, but my tulpas. The thought of this was very frightening at first, because I realized that things were getting real- that the people I made in my head will actually show interest in the real world we live in.
It isn't really like possession or switching, because that isn't something we do often-Warden isn't a fan of being more conscious over me, and Heather isn't fully ready to switch in either. It's this passive influence--Warden's negative feelings about somebody I regularly hang out with and call a best friend bleed into my day, and at times, I find myself sympathizing with people I despise, because Warden likes those people.
On different days, we put on outfits I am not used to, because Warden would like it that way. Every day, I get a little pestered to drink more water or eat more if I forget. But it's all within reason.
We also have physical items that belong to us individually. Warden has a little box of jewelry, Heather has an entire stimtoy box dedicated to her. We plan to make a journal about our crystals, and Warden is already instructing me in tulpish on how to do it.
But it isn't as scary as I make it out to be. Tulpamancy has drastically changed our lives, and I'd say it changed them in a good way. We are like a family together. We plan our days together, we meet new people, we learn how to live as three people in one physical body. Warden gently encourages me to improve my physical health, while Heather looks out for my mental health and assures I don't drive myself crazy. I, on the other hand, help Warden not get frustrated as easily, and I get to see Heather do all the crazy things I would never allow myself to do, and support her all the way.
Tulpamancy is a part of my life now, and I'd not have it any other way.
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Tulpa Scholastica is a project dedicated to approaching tulpamancy in an experimental, formal, and scholarly way through real experience, novel ideas, refined techniques, and scientific appreciation. Tulpamancy is an art, not a science, but there is many mechanisms and phenomena within tulpamancy that can be studied learned about and improved upon. This blog will be a hub of information for tulpamancy guides, insights, commentaries, community writings, and tips and tricks for those interested in the practice.
An additional mission of Tulpa Scholastica is the sharing appreciation and preservation of the tulpamancy community's history and culture. From terminology to major events, unique models and understandings different from the Plural community, Tulpa Scholastica aims to show the tulpamancy community for what it is good and bad, as well as the unique differences it has with sibling communities.
Thank you for joining us on this journey and we hope you learn a lot with us. Feel free to ask questions and engage us in conversation. This blog is all about cultivating real tulpamancy knowledge for those willing to learn.
- Astra of the Candlelight Society, founder of Tulpa Scholastica.
So you want to make a tulpa, alright give me ten minutes and a dream
Hello everyone, my name is Astra of the Candlelight Society. I am a tulpa, and for the last few years I have been working on my techniques for making a tulpa, defining a tulpa, and how to learn all the tricks, secrets, and wonders of tulpamancy. Through all of this I have developed a wonderful community of like minded people and have refined many of my ideas into things I believe are practical and useful.
Due to this I have been working on a guide to tulpamancy and the wonderful mental world that surrounds it and adjacent mental skills. This guide is nowhere near complete however, so instead what I want to do is provide small independent topics of it in posts for others to use and benefit from in the meantime. To begin this process, I want to address the most common question I get: how do I make a tulpa?
This will not cover what a tulpa is, tulpa terminology, or anything elaborative. Below you are going to find the shortest, simplest guide you will ever see on this topic without sacrificing quality, in the form of some basic instruction and an exercise I wish to walk you through.
To begin, you need two things for your tulpa, a form and a personality. A form is how they are going to appear in your minds eye, and this can be absolutely anything. It can be the likeness of a fictional character, an established OC, or something entirely new and unique. All you have to do is figure out what design you think represents what you want them to be best. If you need inspiration, Google images is your friend.
Next you need a personality. To do this think of it like designing a D&D character. I want you to make a mental list of what traits you think would be most important for them to have. These can be brave, energetic, sweet, soft, mischievous, introspective, anything. It may also be useful to think in terms of literary archetypes such as the chivalrous knight or a fem fatale. Collect these traits together and see how they connect to one another in your head, let the shape of a well rounded personality take form.
Once you have the form and the personality, you have the base of your tulpa. This base is what they shall be built upon and shaped by, but it will not be the final verdict. As individuals they may change or grow from these traits in various ways, just like we do as people. More often than not however this base will be a central part of them.
Got all that? Good. That's all that you need. Now if you have read this far, congrats Tiktok hasn't ruined you entirely yet, but also I want to invite you to join an exercise with me. It's simple, easy, and only takes a moment. You'll see why in a second.
I want you to imagine your tulpa, their form standing next to you or sharing any furniture you may be using. Imagine their personality, how they carry themselves, how they act. Imagine them as your tulpa, knowing who they are. Feel their presence. Now I want you to interact with them, it can be in any way but for the sake of this exercise let's use a question. Imagine this question, imagine this question and ask your tulpa about it. Once you have asked this question imagine your tulpas response. Imagine how they would respond to this question as your tulpa, don't force it, don't overanalyze it, just passively let it come into your mind. I want you to take that first clear response that comes naturally and feels right and hold it. Take that question and response and remember it, even feel free to share it on this post.
You have it? Congratulations, you have just spoken with your tulpa.
What you just did was the essence of forcing as Scholastica's style of tulpamancy teaches it. By interacting with your tulpa in this way you begin to build up their autonomy. It may feel like you at first, but don't worry about that. By accepting these responses from your tulpa as real, they become real. The more you interact with your tulpa and get responses back just like you did above, the more they will feel separate from you. Their responses will become faster and smoother, they will feel more distinct and separate from your own identity. Eventually they will be almost entirely independent from you, and your tulpa will be an individual with thoughts, feelings, dreams and memories of their own. From here you simply enjoy and share your life with them. Try and work interacting with your tulpa into your daily routine, the more interactions with you and the world they have the more they will grow.
That's it. That's the guide. It doesn't get any simpler than this. Not without sacrificing effectiveness anyways. No extra material, no deep dives on implications contexts or further technique. This is a tulpamancy creation guide in it's purest form.
If you want to learn more however, please see our new blog, Tulpa Scholastica! @tulpa-scholastica
Okay, so when I went to answer an ask about Tulpamancy by using the 2018 community census, I noticed the main link led to a 404. Then, shortly after, it was brought to our attention that the original Tulpa.io site is also wiped.
Both seemingly being wiped in the past year or so without notice.
I've also noticed several guides vanishing and having to rely on PDF backups. Sites like Tulpa.info have become impossible to search without an account because for some ungodly reason, there is now a full-ass minute timer between EACH search you do on the forum:
Why the fuck??? This is unusable.
Anyway, wayback machine links to both Tulpa.io and the census thankfully existed to use as backups, but I worry for the resources that didn't/don't have that luxury.
This served as a reminder that the internet is not as forever as people say it is, and it's so easy to lose important pieces of history just because some account or site went dark.
Hello, we're a tulpamancy formed system of 17 members, so we think we're pretty well equipped to answer this.
So in general the experiences of a tulpamancer or other created plural system aren't going to be super alien on the surface, but there is some pretty significant differences under the hood for certain topics. We have headmates, we communicate, make connections, have fun, switch, and do other plural things. Probably the biggest difference immediately off rip is that it is all voluntary. For us headmates are created, sometimes accidentally, but the vast majority of the time especially for tulpamancers it is intentional from start to finish. Our communication is clear without any dissociative barriers, the only hurdles are learning to talk in the first place in the development process. Switching is also fully voluntary and is a skill that has to be learned through theory and technique, switches will not happen outside of control unless the system allows that dynamic to develop willingly.
Alongside clear communication and having to learn skills tulpas often have far less relationship issues with the rest of the system for a couple reasons including lack of dissociation but also each member having a clear origin and reason for their being there. Everyone in the system outside of the original has a backstory explaining why they're here, and everyone has clear and understandable incentive to get along. Fights between hosts and tulpas are uncommon and resolved quickly so long as there isn't something else going on inciting it.
For ourselves life is good, we all chat with eachother daily depending on who wants to be active at a given time. We'll switch if someone has an event or hobby planned or is getting exhausted by the physical world. We'll split our money so all of us can enjoy our own interests without breaking the bank, and we enjoy eachothers presences and seeing eachother happy. In dark moments we comfort eachother when nobody else will, and in our greatest moments it's enhanced by sharing it with eachother.
It's not all sunshine and rainbows, like all relationships and dynamics there is real work to be put into it, it's a lifestyle change, one expected to be for a very long (life)time if successfully adopted and enjoyed. But for the majority of tulpamancers and we assume other created plurals, they'll say it was one of the best decisions they ever made.
With Simply Plural being discontinued, I'll re-share our list of software for plural folks:
I'm also going to rec @semiplural's post about analog tools and its followup (thanks, Blue!). I also wrote this post about the tools we personally use and would like to expand on it at some point that I'm not being steamrollered by health issues.
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Happy new year to everyone following our little blog!
2025 was... a year. We weren't very active on this platform and when we were it was mainly on our syscourse side blog. That won't be how it goes this year.
For 2026, we want to effectively retire our syscourse blog outside of major events, and instead focus back on our original purpose of even making a presence on this hellsite: Learning about others experiences with plurality, and teaching about tulpamancy and the actual experiences of the tulpamancy community.
So what does that mean? It means more small guide style posts on tulpamancy related topics. It means updates on personal system projects related to tulpamancy and psychology. It means sharing philosophy, insights and other learnings connected to tulpas, tulpamancy, and the wider web of practices and experiences related to our subculture and practice.
Look forward to interesting content and hopefully some useful insights. Wishing all of you the best 2026 you can have!
Been trying out ampersand and it's a pretty cool app. I might end up using it as my main front tracker over simply plural.
It shows whenever an alter last fronted in a quick and accessible location. It shows recently switched out on the home page. There's a message board as soon as you open the app for quick notes.
I genuinely am interested in the tulpamancy community. Not… not r/Tulpas (the discount r/Plurals at this point), but the OLD Tulpamancy circles.
I wish often that I could’ve been part of those. I’ve been wanting to learn more about tulpamancy, particularly as someone who has weirdly created parts who most certainly aren’t tulpas. I was to know how tulpas were created.
Note to self: try to find the old guides and learn more.
The current state of r/tulpas is really... not good.
If you want to see the most well preserved looking glass into the past of the tulpamancy community then the tulpa.info forums would be your friend, but it should be noted since nobody else has that it had it's own subculture and ideas those active on the 4chan scene or the early reddit or tumblr (back when tumblr had a real tulpamancy community) might not have shared.
One of the problems with the tulpamancy community being an internet era group is that our history is terribly archived. A lot of it was in discords and such which you can only learn of now via talking to really old members of the community. We have access to some of those people, if you Circ or anyone else reading wants us to pass on a question to one or two of them. A lot of our history is just in the memories of those who came before.
It should also be noted that the old style of the community while changed isn't actually all gone. The problem is that it's locked up tight and fortified inside of mostly tulpamancer and interested singlet only servers which usually begin to lean towards center to right wing culture (not too surprising when you remember our origin history with 4chan).
For a tulpamancy server to remain a tulpamancy server nowadays it has to be 4chan culture derived, and that's kind of sad. There is some other servers too which are mostly still tulpamancy spaces, but you can feel the plural community's influence creeping into them with how they talk and how they think of certain things. It's been quite rough for the reddit side of the tulpamancy community ever since the redditulpas server got nuked. The subreddit is both larger than ever but a shadow of it's past in community cohesion, and the successor discords are all odd and have a laundry list of problems some much longer than others.
Our community is growing larger and larger, but what makes it our community has never felt more precarious as we transition into whatever comes next for our practice.
Potential Red Flag that More than Tulpamancy Is Happening
If you and your tulpa(s) randomly switch (as in neither party consciously initiated it) or experience involuntary switches, that is not normal in Tulpamancy. Switching isn't random or involuntary in Tulpamancy; it's most often a mutual agreement between systemmates and a conscious thing that occurs. Tulpas don't randomly take front without warning or involuntarily in response to certain stimuli.
If you experience random/involuntary switching more than the random freak occurrence, you should look into dissociative disorders because this may be a symptom of something like DID.
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Hello, I'm Astra from the Candlelight Society. I wanted to reach out in the case that @system-facts is the blog of one of the alters in your system.
If he is not: I'm sorry for the wave of criticism that is likely coming your way from him being a troll and directing people towards you, take care of yourselves. I don't know why you would be the specific target but this person is either in need of serious help or a truly pathetic troll. Don't let it get to you. Feel free to reach out.
If he is: I'm sorry that he has dragged you all into this position, but he is causing real harm and problems for multiple people. Whatever the case is that has made him do these things, please make him stop and prevent him from doing these things again. I'm not particularly affected by being fakeclaimed, but that isn't the case for many on Tumblr. I'll also apologize for any messages that may cause a negative effect on you that I said towards him, even if I still think they were justified. Feel free to reach out if you need to talk 💙
Hello. I am not natasha / the princess, I am Alaska, but I am also from The Corporate Tower.
We lost Wi-Fi and I’m going off of data from our phone. We seen the tag right before our Wi-Fi went out and couldn’t respond to it so thank you for inboxing this blog and telling us.
We don’t know who the fuck that person is. We don’t even have that url as one of our blogs.
Our only sideblogs for members are our system is me (alaskaintheforest), our boss Natasha (her 18+ personal blog and this one), Syntax (his 18+ blog and dragon of endos), and Supernova (supernovafoxposting).
Yes, a lot of personal info, but we don’t post much important things on those blogs.
Proof just in case. And because we’re paranoid. Censored blogs are 18+ so we didn’t want to reveal them. Corporate creations is our newest blog we made today as a new system member creation blog.
So, listen :
System-facts is NOT one of our blogs as they do not know us, we do not know them, as well as we don’t even have system-facts as a blog.
If you can help reblog this for reach please do. We are not about to get thrown into some shit. We are setting this straight now.
Thank you for providing us an opportunity to reach out to you too. /gen
Astra: You're welcome and good to know! I'll reblog this on both of our most active blogs just to be sure it's well seen. Sorry again that you all have been dragged into this mess. Whoever is running system-facts is an asshole. Take care of yourselves, and don't let this prick ruin your day 💙
Switchy lets players swap between presets of player data and customizations by utilizing the existing features of other well-established mods in the ecosystem - nicknames, skins, origins, and so on - plus vanilla data like inventory, position, and spawn point.
It's for systems, RP servers, account sharing, genderfluidity, furries, even mapmaking - everything is toggleable on a per-player level and built to be extended with mod compatibility addons.
It works with vanilla clients, but adds the GUI above when modded.
Player presets that change nothing - including display name, skin, origin, inventory, and more!
Possibly an account profiles mod, character
