Parents think I'm crazy

[telephonefelix]

I told my parents about my tulpa. I even showed them a website explaining what a tulpa is and how it's not a bad thing, but I can tell that they are NOT happy, what should I do?

[MadMax]

May I ask your age?

[Slipper]

   I was in a similar spot about 10 years ago; told my parents and friends at school about the "alters" I had. My parents chalked it up to me being lonely at school and home, barely mentioning it again after a few long talks. Friends teased me for a few months, with a couple of them bringing it up every now and again but less maliciously. 

 

   Your best bet is to tone it down, let them think it is/was a phase. In a few months act embarrassed about it, try to change the topic. Talk about it in past tense after a while. I'm not sure what website you showed them, but I would be careful about posting there if you think your parents may check it out.

 

   And in the future, keep it on the downlow. I know incorporating your tulpa into your daily life sounds fun and is exciting, but it will at best be a letdown and at worst result in serious backlash. I'm sorry this happened, as I relate a lot to your position. You'll get through it and things will get back to normal if you don't double down on this.

[dashie22]

You shouldn't really give out that type of information unless asked. I wont lie about something but that doesn't mean i'm going to tell you whats inside my head unprompted. For example, I dont believe in human rights or the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but i'm not gonna give out that type of information unless someone asks me directly. Except if i'm anonymous of course

 

If you want to know why I don't believe in human rights, look into a paper written by Frank Van Dun called "Human Dignity: Reason or Desire? Natural rights verses Human rights"¹

Quote

"what must be stressed is that the UD’s doctrine of human rights is ...(not) a legacy of classical natural law theory

 

... (it is a) repudiation of everything for which classical natural law stood"

(Dun, p. 2)

 

and If you would like to know why i don't believe in civil rights, that's easy, its because I believe in freedom of association

 

But the point is you would never know this because I am aware of the taboo nature of some of the things I believe. Never lie, but also know that you don't have to be an open book on every single controversial thing that makes you stand out

 

1: 

van Dun, Frank. “Human Dignity: Reason or Desire? Natural Rights versus Human Rights.” Journal of Libertarian Studies 15, No. 4 (2001): 1–28.

[The Incans]

On 9/25/2022 at 8:31 PM, telephonefelix said:

I told my parents about my tulpa. I even showed them a website explaining what a tulpa is and how it's not a bad thing, but I can tell that they are NOT happy, what should I do?

when I was a kid no-one knew the terms Tulpa or Alters they just thought I had imaginery friends… i knew my ‘others’ were more than that but also pretended it was a phase I’d grown out of. 

 

our insiders learned to communicate telepathically with each other  and when one social host finally evolved they were disconnected from the inside so they couldn’t tell anyone.

 

Some things it seems still haven’t changed much since the 70’s/80’s regarding stigma! 

[Jim Liu]

to me, tulpas are just something to keep strictly private. I won't tell others I have a tulpa unless I'm sure that they already know the concept, have been trying on that, or already have one.

[Mesmer]

On 9/25/2022 at 1:31 PM, telephonefelix said:

I told my parents about my tulpa...

See, what you should have done is *show* your parents your tulpa. 

 

Tulpamancy is so disjointed with the sprul-pa of Tibet, but the root is still there. A monk wouldn't just make the thoughtform, they would make the palace around it and make it real to them. The point was for them to construct/ imagine a divine reality that was so real, that upon deconstructing it they'd realize this shared dream we are observing now is also an illusion. In the namthars of mahasiddhas there are stories about using spruk-pa emanations to make shelter from rain or bridges that other people could touch and see. They mastered creation in their own reality and then became able to make tulpas in this reality.

 

So keep on meditating, astral projecting, and making psi constructs of your tulpa. Eventually other people will feel its presence, have dreams about it, and then be able to see it. 

 

Them you *show* the tulpa to your parents.