Check out My Youtube Video on Tulpas!

[KAsym]

In my youtube channel i tell you about tulpa. All information in my video. 

 

Edited August 4, 2021 by Ranger

[Ranger]

For anyone confused by the first comment, it's just the one video on tulpas. I couldn't find any other tulpa videos on the channel.

 

Overall, the video is okay. I think there are a few key things the video doesn't explain well or gets wrong, but I can tell there was an attempt to do some research into tulpamancy. The video is interesting to me because it talks about why people want to be tulpamancers and how the Pandemic has influenced that, and it feels like a perspective I haven't heard in a little while. I think the editing is pretty good overall. Despite the pronunciation of certain words/phrases being a bit rough at times, I think your English was pretty good too. While the video is a little bit on the cheesy side, I don't think it was a big problem. As a general overview video, it does make a decent attempt to give an overview of tulpamancy and for it being 6 minutes long, I think the amount of content it was able to cover was pretty good. A more in-depth overview for tulpamancy would probably be longer, and it would allow more time for more thorough explanations.

 

I found a few important issues I would like to point out:

• Tulpamancy is not schizophrenia, sleep paralysis, alien hand syndrome, alice syndrome, or asperger's sydrome. While some practices in tulpamancy can sound like psychosis/schizophrenia (imposition) or alien hand syndrome (possession / switching), they are not disorders because the experience can be stopped, it's not as intense, and is unlikely to lead to dysfunction in everyday life. While it is an ongoing debate if people with underlying mental health conditions like anxiety and depression should practice tulpamancy in general because tulpamancy can make intrusive thoughts and harmful mindsets worse, tulpamancy does not cause any of these mental health disorders. While there is little research onto how tulpamancy and mental health go together, there is also a lack of evidence that supports tulpamancy causes mental illness.
• Given that you shared scenes from the movie Split, I need to point out that the brain is not capable of turning you into someone with superpowers. It's not clear what extend the mind has over the body. While things like placebo and depression can affect your body, you won't get magic powers or anything like that.
• While not tulpa related, space, the ocean, and the human mind have been studied by far more than a handful of people. Tulpamancy has been studied by a handful of people because of how new and obscure/weird the topic is. The reason space, the ocean, and the brain are mysterious is because there are a lot of things to learn we haven't researched or thought to investigate yet, not because there's a lack of research in the first place.

Otherwise, I noticed the following:

• Changing your voice or handwriting does not guarantee plurality. It can seem like alters are real (Cat's mother was sold by this seeing all of the different ways alters signed their names in a book), but I find this to be weak evidence of tulpamancy and very weak evidence of DID. Alters may or may not have different muscle memory, tulpas likely don't. Even if headmates did have different muscle memory, it's not relevant because a singlet can do it too. Anyone can learn how to write differently and speak in a different voice for roleplaying as a character, it's not exclusive to plural headmates. At least for tulpas, writing and speaking differently is used as a way to make them feel more secure about their identities. A tulpa can train themselves to speak and write slightly differently than their hosts, and it's not uncommon in the tulpa community to see this (typing quirks, different sentence structures, etc.). Alters may write and speak differently for similar reasons, but I can't elaborate on that too much because I'm not a doctor or an expert on DID.
• I think it could be misleading to say they are picking up Tibetan training because of how different modern tulpamancy has become. Tulpamancy and Tibetan Buddhist training are very different from one another despite the fact modern tulpamancy was loosely inspired by Tibetan Buddhism. Even the philosophy of "I" is different (you are a collection of your thoughts, opinions, beliefs, etc. vs you are a collection of behaviors and "I" is an illusion). Modern tulpamancy stemmed from Alexandra David-Néel's book Magic and Mystery in Tibet.
• I like that you mention there are creepy pastas out there but don't double down on that to scare people... in the beginning. I find it annoying when people fear monger over things in tulpamancy that are not real (some of the real parts of tulpamancy are scary enough) or don't do a good enough job explaining why tulpamancy can be genuinely concerning to pick up. I felt this was fine until the end where you say "Bingo! A real horror movie is right in your head!"
• I like that you mention there's little research on tulpamancy. This is true, there are few papers on the subject. While the Stanford Study is still ongoing, the only good academic paper(s) on tulpamancy are written by Dr. Veissière, like this one. The articles Daring to Hear Voices and Conjuring Up Your Own Gods are pretty good, but those are opinion pieces.
• You do show a lot of anime girls in the video, which is interesting to me because that's probably a better representation of tulpas in 2021 than a bunch of MLP ponies. While the image may not be the most diverse picture of the tulpa community since I believe a lot of tulpas are OCs, I think it's fair to use anime girls instead of OCs of real tulpas for privacy concerns.
• I think it's interesting you talk about how you can create a friend who is very similar to you. I don't know how common that viewpoint is, I think most people strive for making their tulpa a really separate person nowadays.

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I appreciate the effort put into making this video, despite my criticisms for it. I appreciate it when people talk about tulpamancy, and I'm always curious to see what people think about the topic.