Perception, tulpae, existence and us

[Cawffle]

What I have found most interesting is the creation of a wonderland, and any object therein. Fourth density construction is as remarkably simple as it is permanent.

As for tulpae, however, I see them not as simple constructs but as autonomous thoughtforms given structure.

[Chupi]

I vote to move this thread out to the main boards.

 

I and others who are primarily in the psychological school of thought agree with it wholeheartedly. In fact, this thread's idea that host and tulpa are the same sort of being apart from age and having a body, fits better into the psychological ideology than it does in the metaphysical.

 

The psychological explanation I've moved toward is that a tulpa is a dissociated personality, a train of thought that has been all but separated from the host's. We are intentionally and artificially creating healthy multiplicity. As can be seen in the multiples community, all headmates (including the original consciousness, if there is just one) are often roughly equals. Some may be stronger than others, but all are certainly the same in kind.

 

A tulpa is not somehow subordinate to you, unless you make them such through beliefs. It is quite possible to even create a tulpa who is the dominant consciousness -- see both Atasco and Mena.

 

The fact that switching is possible, and that the host goes into a tulpa state while switched out, further back up that the two are very similar. The longstanding attachment to the body is about the only thing separating them -- and this can be changed with work, letting a tulpa practice using the body while the host gets more used to not having it.