Renaming "Tulpa" (and other tulpa terminologies)

[Lacquer]

EDIT: I edited the title, because this thread should have a wider focus than just "tulpa".

 

Since "tulpa" sounds like some New Age foot cleansing meditation thing, it's a little weird to call what we're doing "tulpa". There is also the issue of the fact that we stole the word and changed its meaning, so anyone from the outside looking at this would think of it being a magical being made by buddhists.

 

If we were to make up a brand new word for this, what would it be? It couldn't be thoughtform, since that is an English direct translation of tulpa. It couldn't be something like mindbuddy or brainfriend, because those echo imaginary friends, of which tulpas are a subset, but they are much, much more that traditional imaginary friends. It shouldn't be something occult sounding, as that has a similar negative connotation as the Buddhist and New Age stuff. It shouldn't be words like "headmate" or "daemon", because those are already in use by other communities, and what we use should be unique to us. It shouldn't be an already-established psychological word, because it'd be already in use (although I think that doing some prefix/root word/suffix work with psychologial words could yield a good word for this).

 

Of course, this whole thing is pretty much a non-issue, but it might be useful to come up with an alternate word for "tulpa".

 

This thing right here has a list of psych word parts. It'll probably prove to be useful

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Ideomorph and Psychomorph kind of act like Thoughtform, so those are ideas.

[Guest Anonymous]

Tupper.

[Sands]

Tupperware.

[Guest MegaBusta]

A Brainpiece.

[KingJick]

I'm okay with tulpa, to be honest. Does it wholly matter that much? Words do not make the man, and a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, after all.

 

Keep tulpa. It works for me.

[QB2]

Tupperware.

[Guest EnnervateIndustries]

If you're trying to compress the concept of a tulpa and all of the associated ideas (possession, imposition, independence, etc.) into a single word using medicine/psychology-speak, you're going to have a very difficult time of it. I'd say it's fine as it is, but I understand how you could see it as a little off-putting, though not to the extent you have described.

[Lacquer]

I'm okay with tulpa, to be honest. Does it wholly matter that much? Words do not make the man, and a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, after all.

 

Keep tulpa. It works for me.

If you're trying to compress the concept of a tulpa and all of the associated ideas (possession, imposition, independence, etc.) into a single word using medicine/psychology-speak, you're going to have a very difficult time of it. I'd say it's fine as it is, but I understand how you could see it as a little off-putting, though not to the extent you have described.

 

Read:

Of course, this whole thing is pretty much a non-issue, but it might be useful to come up with an alternate word for "tulpa".

 

I know that "tulpa" is a perfectly good word (pluralization issues notwithstanding). I was inspired when I heard someone in the IRC saying how he calls his tulpa the "second consciousness", because he hates the word "tulpa" for all the New Age-ish reasons I posted.

 

 

Also, I had a momentary delusion of grandeur about official research being done on tulpas, but being deterred by the name and the connotation surrounding it.

 

[Vos]

Tupperware.

[Guest Anonymous]

Have any ideas yourself?