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Hello! I've been inactive for a bit, although I would like to take a survey on tulpas for an upcoming project of mine.

 

1. How long have you had a tulpa?

2. On a scale of one to ten, how conscious does a tulpa appear?

3. What is your spiritual and/or religious school? (if applicable)

4. How do you prefer to think of tulpas? As in, how they work, whether or not they're actually conscious, et cetera.

Yes, I could find these answers elsewhere on the site but I would like to hear from living, breathing humans.

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1. How long have you had a tulpa?

 

Starting on day 96.

 

2. On a scale of one to ten, how conscious does a tulpa appear?

 

Varies depending on development and situation, but I'd give a vocal, active tulpa a 9.5.

 

3. What is your spiritual and/or religious school? (if applicable)

 

Atheist, but open minded. (Agnostic I guess?)

 

4. How do you prefer to think of tulpas? As in, how they work, whether or not they're actually conscious, et cetera.

 

Solid, separate conscious created from a feedback loop that starts when you trick your brain into interpreting it's own gibberish as another mind, which then develops into an actual other mind with practice.

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1. How long have you had a tulpa?

I've had 16-Volte since February of 2013.

 

2. On a scale of one to ten, how conscious does a tulpa appear?

I'd give a fully developed tulpa an easy 9 or 10.

 

3. What is your spiritual and/or religious school? (if applicable)

Born and raised as a Christian, but I am an agnostic atheist now.

 

4. How do you prefer to think of tulpas? As in, how they work, whether or not they're actually conscious, et cetera.

I say they are completely psychological, and absolutely science based. I don't believe they are anything supernatural, but a product of the amazing thing known as the human brain.

Call me Gabi. Tulpamancer since February 16th, 2013. reddeadrebel on the IRC.

Call me 16-Volte. I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride!

 

Message me on tumblr!

 

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1. How long have you had a tulpa?

 

I'm on Day 29 of working with Quill.

 

2. On a scale of one to ten, how conscious does a tulpa appear?

 

Quill would be at a three right now given we're new to this. However, I would give him (and any tulpa) a 10 once they're fully vocal and sentient.

 

3. What is your spiritual and/or religious school?

 

Pagan (relatively agnostic, but with Pagan leanings)

 

4. How do you prefer to think of tulpas? As in, how they work, whether or not they're actually conscious, et cetera.

 

I think of them as entities that have been willed into being. They're entirely sentient with their own thoughts, emotions, mental workings, etc. I see them no different as a physical human being albeit without a body.

Tulpa Information

 

[align=center]Name: Quill

Sex: Male

Form: Human

Stage: Visualization

 

Arawn's Progress Report[/align]

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1. How long have you had a tulpa?

 

Since October of 2012.

 

2. On a scale of one to ten, how conscious does a tulpa appear?

 

Depends, in reality, about 6/10

 

In lucid dreams, 10/10

 

In vivid-non lucid dreams 10/10

 

3. What is your spiritual and/or religious school? (if applicable)

 

Had an upbringing of a Christian family, but questioned the logic with religion at an early age in naive ways, but eventually indulged myself into the label of Agnostic atheist.

 

 

4. How do you prefer to think of tulpas? As in, how they work, whether or not they're actually conscious, et cetera.

 

I prefer to think of tulpas as an expansion of myself, just as how I recorded my dreams (non-lucid and lucid) and saw that dream characters can have the same or higher degrees of sentience and/or sapience that tulpa can develop through time and having faith in them. I see them as my own proof that my faith in them and continuing to manage how I experience this life and the people around me. I see them initially starting out as me engaging with thought-energy to make a thought-form, and into someone that I would value and want to grow with in the long run.

 

Their existence is my desire to become the potential that I want to be and much more, and to have a steady reminder to myself that this is how I feel I can use the experience as a coping mechanism to delegate the many burdens and responsibilities that comes with steadily aging into adulthood and beyond. I also see this experience with tulpa as indulging and truly embracing the joys of having this all happen in the privacy of my own mind. Because of this, because I can become a progressively evolving individual mentally, emotionally, etc., I am more focused on seeing this experience for my own sake rather than focusing too much on the collective opinions of others (but learning and considering them, but not holding onto them as absolute truth). I see this as learning how to love myself and being self-responsible for myself and having the mechanisms and ambitions to learn more about the realms of my minds to further my wish to just be happy.

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1. How long have you had a tulpa?

23 days XD

 

2. On a scale of one to ten, how conscious does a tulpa appear?

Probably 10, but for me only about maybe 7 cuz im pretty new at this.

 

3. What is your spiritual and/or religious school? (if applicable)

Does solipsism count? If not, I believe in a God.

 

4. How do you prefer to think of tulpas? As in, how they work, whether or not they're actually conscious, et cetera.

They're conscious and they're their own person, they just don't have a materialistic body and share it with the host.

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|Alix|

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1. I do not have a tulpa as the definition is used on this site, but I have expiremented with tulpa-like techniques, spliting the mind and the illusion of self for years. Many of them were fairly standard excersizes at the monastery.

2. I take issue wih the word conciousness in this question, since conciousness, whether tulpa or human, is an illusion. Being that the word appearence is in there, and I believe all that exists of human conciousness is an illusion, then yes, I believe tulpa can fully imitate the appearence of human conciousness, 10/10

3. Very similiar to a Buddhist of the Theravada variety, but the monastery I studied at was Gelugpa Vajrahana. I do not believe in spirituality or the supernatural in any form.

4. I believe in tulpa exactly as we were taught about them at the monastery. Tulpa do not truely exist, it is an illusion of the mind to demonstrate that the self is not a real entity, and one's mind can contain many other illusions of self, both with and without the appearence of subjectivity. (So looking as pieces of the mind hat appear to control themselves.) Though, this was what they called dopplegangers. Tulpa means an entity you percieve which doesn't exist, like an imagined lotus flower that appears as real as the rest of reality to your sight, smell, touch, but only exists within your mind. A piece of the mind could be granted control over action of this thougtform, and given the illusion of not belonging to your conception of self so as to appear as a concious entity independantly acting. That is the tulpas here, a doppleganger.

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1. How long have you had a tulpa?

About 10 years

 

2. On a scale of one to ten, how conscious does a tulpa appear?

TEN OUTTA TEN! *double thumbs up*

 

3. What is your spiritual and/or religious school? (if applicable)

Nietzchean Collective Will Theory, with a bit of homebrew philosophy thrown in

 

4. How do you prefer to think of tulpas? As in, how they work, whether or not they're actually conscious, et cetera.

I think of them as stemming from the unconscious. It is the part of the mind from where they are formed, and it is where they return when they are dissipated. Just from what my girls have told me, it seems they go to the unconscious whenever their forms are destroyed (i.e. through "death").

"Science isn't about why, science is about why not?" -Cave Johnson

Tulpae: Luna, Elise, Naomi

My progress report

 

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1. A little over a week, but I have had him as an imaginary friend, daemon, and many other things when I was younger. Bringing him back is hard, especially with him being dormant for so long.

 

2. 2 or 3/10, although he was probably a 7/10 back a few years ago.

 

3. The concept of gods or an afterlife does not interest me, since I am alive and the living should focus on living. Any philosophy I develop on that will be based on my own life experiences, not what any book or person tells me. I will not believe or disbelieve, I am neutral.

 

4. I like to think of him as an independent, extended personification of the parts of my personality that I do not express. He is a part of me, but he isn't truly me. Kind of like how my hair is MY hair, coming from MY body, but it's not ME. I suppose most people don't think of tulpae that way, but I can't think of him as anything else. If souls/spirits/what you like exist, he is probably half of mine.

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