Examples of Tulpae in History and Literature

[Phi]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulpa#In_popular_culture

 

>String theory

Every time.

[Pleeb]

Thanks for the resources, guys. I'm also hoping to find more things then the instances of imaginary friends, etc.

 

Ideally, I'd like to find some historic references to what other cultures called 'tulpae' -- the best example is the Native American Animal Spirit Guides -- the Native American would go into the forest for an extended period of time to seek out his animal spirit guide; eventually, it would manifest itself to him, and be his companion throughout life.

 

I'm sure there are examples of things happening in other cultures. The Chinese and the Egyptians also had/have Spirit Guides, iirc; it would be nice to find some information on that; I may look it up.

 

It's interesting that you mentioned prayer, et al. There's actually an article in the Links section of the website you may be interested in reading.

 

You should be careful about whether you claim some of those as being tulpae or not though. Could be that Socrates was just framing his own counter-arguments as another person for the sake of writing his internal dialogue down in a simpler format. Unless you dig up something conclusive, there's really no way to know, although it's still a possibility.

 

Goldsmith has done a bit more research into it then I have (I'm thinking about writing an article on this though, so I'll collaborate with him, get his sources).

 

Though, if you want something more conclusive, Socrates has described the daemon as something that would speak to him as a 'voice' and let him know when he would be doing something wrong, and would give him advice since childhood.

 

There's an interesting paper that I've dug up here, if you're interested: http://daemonpage.com/socrates-daimon.php

 

Though I'll try to find some better sources.

[justanotherguest]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pu_Songling

Though his stories may seem very fictional, I think they originate from reality. Think about these ages when remembering whole library word by word was a must have for an educated man, and there were no TV or Internet to entertain our imagination, knowledge was limited and beliefs were not. Such kind of setting is very welcoming for tulpa-like phenomena in my opinion. And some of his stories which focus on monks I see as an example of psychological manipulations rather tales about magic.

[Nikodemos]

After some research on ancient Finnish religions, I have found references to tulpas in the form of Luontos.

 

Basically, a Luonto is a guardian angel of sorts that everyone has except children. They'd help you on physical and mental tasks, and they could do more depending on the willpower of the guardian angel's target. The wise, old people of the village communities(ŝhamans of sorts) would have such great willpower they could communicate with a Luonto, using spells and exorcising. Luontos would bring information from the Tuonela, the afterlife and help the village people cure diseases.

 

I already talked to Pleeb about it, and I could link you the article about Luontos. Although I'm fairly certain you don't speak Finnish.

[Lacquer]

http://tulpa.info/forums/Thread-Tulpas-and-tulpa-like-things-in-the-media

[Guest MegaBusta]

Any specific reason for bumping a thread to link it to another thread that links back to this thread?

[Lacquer]

The post in the other thread was to add content to that thread by linking to the examples here, and the post in this thread is to show that this thread is being used. I think that was my rationale. Looking back, it was dumb.

[glitchthe3rd]

Philemon from Carl Jung's Red Book, in case he hasn't been mentioned.