Unique Tulpae?

[Lone Wolf]

This is going to be a rather hard question to answer I would believe so maybe...

 

Being that each tulpa is unique to their host and so forth. For those host who chose to let their tulpa primarily decide for itself what it wanted: personality-wise, form, and etc. how does the tulpa begin to choose for itself these things? Is it the initial belief that yes my tulpa is already there with me the first starting points of creation? Also why the word tulpa? That word simply to categorize something that is valuable to you and is real and special to you? Seeing that Tulpa are just as unique as their hosts and the like?

 

Just some random questions and pondering about those topics.

[Guest Anonymous]

It is my personal opinion that "letting the tulpa decide" is simply allowing your own unconscious mind to design the tulpa. It is pretty much the same thing. A tulpa is driven by part of your own unconscious mind. In short, a tulpa decides to be what you unconsciously decide it is going to be. There are many who might disagree with me on that, but it seems like the simplest explanation. What drives your dreams while you sleep? What forms the images and the dream personas you meet while dreaming?

 

As far as the word tulpa is concerned, I prefer not to use it for my thoughtform Melian at all. There are too many set beliefs and expectations associated with the term "tulpa".

[Nyx]

My tulpa pretty much made all those decisions himself, including his own name. I never would have guessed that the huge shadow that had been hanging around me for years would choose to become a spooky 7-8ft tall shapeshifting humanoid alien, but I’m rolling with it. He doesn’t claim to have any reason for his choices other than, “This is who I am.” Mistgod’s theory is something that I have often considered using to explain this, as Jack’s initial creation was not my conscious choice in the first place. I know several people in real life who would think he is an inter-dimensional being if I describe him and also mention the fact that he just showed up out of nowhere one day, but I’m highly skeptical of that interpretation. Jack himself seems to agree that he is a product of the unconscious.

 

As for the term “tulpa”, it’s the closest concept I can find that reflects my current understanding of his existence. I don’t use it to refer to my relationship with him.

[Dav_Edward]

My tulpa started as an odd sort of imaginary friend. It at firdt didn't talk and just followed me around. I made very little or no effort to control it and it evolved slowly on its own.

Although not deliberate at the time, my mindset even as a young kid was imaginary beings are real, just other people can't see or touch them. So I didn't try to claim it or control it as it was a 'person'.

I suppose that might be how my tulpa, Solaria became autonomous so quickly. It grew with me and just like how I would find things interesting and what I was exposed to changed me, in turn it's different exposure through me changed it to be different.

Tulpas might have access to your memories, even from your perspective, but eventually even the smallest differences in life experiences stack up.

Think of the twin scenario how so often twins split off to be so different even when raised identically.

[Guest Anonymous]

My gut feeling is that you will find most tulpamancers had a tendency to have imaginary friends as children and treated them as more real than the average person would. That certainly is true of authors who experience literary characters with the illusion of independent agency, according to the research that I read on it. It makes sense that you will develop a tulpa more easily if you have a history of imagining in that way.

[wingsorsomething]

That certainly is true of authors who experience literary characters with the illusion of independent agency, according to the research that I read on it. It makes sense that you will develop a tulpa more easily if you have a history of imagining in that way.

 

This is how I was going to explain it. Have you ever written a story about a fictional character, and even after making up a complete personality for them, they start to do and say things that surprise even you? It's kind of the same idea.

[Guest Anonymous]

I have never had it happen with a literary character, as in a character from a written story. However, in many ways Melian is very much a character from an imagination story. She was born from extreme day dreams that were fashioned like episodes in a TV show, complete with plots, theme music and rolling credits. That is why we identify with Illusion of Independent Agency characters and soulbonds so much.

 

That really is very cool!

[Nyx]

 

This is how I was going to explain it. Have you ever written a story about a fictional character, and even after making up a complete personality for them, they start to do and say things that surprise even you? It's kind of the same idea.

 

This has happened to me several times over the years. One in particular deviated so much that I ended up tossing the original story out because she would look over my shoulder, give me a dubious look, and say, "No way I would do that." Now she's a proto-tulpa.