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LucidAcid’s meditative tulpaforcing guide for more productive forcing and stuff


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What it is:

Meditative forcing is, in essence, the integration of basic meditation techniques into regular tulpaforcing. This can be used for any stage of the creation process, although it appears works best for visualization and narration. Do note that all of this, much like tulpaforcing in general, is entirely subjective, and it’s best to use this as a general guideline while tailoring it to suit your tulpaforcing style.

 

Why you should do it and what to expect:

Back during the nascency of modern tulpae, meditation was the crux of all of tulpaforcing. It was essential to have a decent amount of experience tulpaforcing, and all of the early major guides relied entirely on its use. This was largely because (from what little we know) the original Tibetan Buddhists who created tulpae did so through intense meditation, and the disassociation and concentration that comes with it. However, tulpaforcing has evolved, and moved on. Now, meditation is mainly used to boost concentration and have a stronger “connection” with your subconscious, and by extension, your tulpa. What you can expect from just 5-10 minutes of meditation before, or during each session is profoundly increased concentration, better visualization capabilities, and with regular practice, perceived time dilation and a better connection to your subconscious mind.

 

How to do it:

Through much experimentation and experience, I’ve found that the best form of meditation to use for tulpaforcing without prior experience is Pranayama, which happens to be one of the simplest and easiest to learn techniques available, as it’s entirely based on breathing. The name Pranayama meaning “extension of the breath”. For ease of understanding, I’ll break it down into the following steps.

1. Find a dark, quiet room where you know you won’t be disturbed. The darker and quieter the better.

2. While the stereotypical meditation pose of half-lotus is recommended, sit however is most comfortable for you with your back straight up. It’s also recommended to sit on a pillow or cushion for support.

3. Close your eyes and take one long, deep breath in through your noise, hold it in for a few seconds, and slowly exhale through your mouth. Do this a few times, or until you feel your pulse start to slow.

4. As you breathe in, focus entirely on the feeling of air entering your noise. The cold feeling of it going into your throat, and through to your lungs. Pay attention to your lungs expanding as air enters them. The feeling of your diaphragm expanding with your ribcage. Hold in the air for a few seconds, and slowly release it, doing the same process as your exhale. Keep repeating this step as long as you possibly can.

5. Inevitably you’re going to have intrusive thoughts popping up. This is completely normal, and even the most seasoned meditation experts have to deal with it. While most people say to ignore the thoughts, I find it’s much more beneficial to acknowledge them for a moment, before returning your focus to your breathing. Acknowledge not only the thought itself, but what might have caused the thought to come up. As you continue through your meditation session, you should be getting less and less thoughts popping up, and the ones that do should be harder to notice. Don’t worry if it’s difficult at first, as it gradually becomes easier to handle with each session.

6. Continue to do step 4, while doing step 5 whenever necessary for the whole session. These sessions should be anywhere from 10-30 minutes, but if necessary, even 5 minutes is vastly beneficial to going straight in to tulpaforcing. If you’d like to increase the length of each session, increase the session’s time by 5 minutes per week until you’ve reached your desired goal. That’s really all there is to it.

 

What else to expect from regular meditation:

By regularly doing meditation for 10+ minutes per day, you’ll have reduced physical pain and an enhanced immune system. Psychological detriments such as depression, anxiety, anger, and confusion are all greatly reduced, while benefiting from increased energy, and reduced stress. It greatly helps to control unwanted thoughts, and provides a sense of tranquility because of it. Meditation also promotes increased blood flow and slows the heart rate, leading to lower blood pressure and reducing your risk of a heart attack. It is even proven to actually reverse heart disease. This is all based on countless credible scientific studies, and there are even more benefits being discovered all the time.

 

Additional resources:

If you’d like to learn more about meditation, I’d highly recommend Ven. Henepola Gunaratana’s Mindfulness In Plain English, the official Buddhist English library of Seoul, and The Berzin Archives. I'm also happy to answer any questions about the process or meditation in general.

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>your subconscious, and by extension, your tulpa

 

fuuuckkk

 

>a better connection to your subconscious mind

 

auuugh

 

Well it's a meditation guide. I think we're still approving things that could help with tupperforcing even if they're not directly linked to forcing or anything? That ~~subconscious mind~~ bullshit is bullshit but the guide itself is to the point and poper I guess. I don't actually do meditation stuff so I don't think I'm the best to judge the method. It could be formatted a bit better so it's not a total text wall. Would be easier to read but LucidAcid isn't here anymore.

 

So I think there's few things that could be changed about >the subconscious and and the guide could be formatted to be less of a text wall, but I think this could be approved as a guide. I dunno.

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Sands, it seems you take how people conceptualize the matter a bit too seriously, and presume the person actually wants readers to think tulpas are literally your subconscious talking to you (OP made the case, yes, but seeing people have half-baked theories is common). So unless you can provide better counterargument, it's like a person saying something is bullshit, but rarely doing anything to explain how they conceptualize the mind in general. I've seen in the past of how others (a few cases) got on you with your crusade on things like this, and constantly emphasized that the subconscious/unconscious terminology should not be taken so seriously, it's just a means of conceptualizing.

 

Of course, I guess if the subconscious/unconscious is so hard to tolerate, I'm definitely interested on whatever psychological standpoints you have in mind though. Sometimes I wonder this behavioral trend of yours is due to predispositions developed to prevent anything that may invalidate your companion's existence, or make things complicated for you with the consciousness theories and all that.

 

Anyway, approved for guides.

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I posted some Wikipedia quotes here about the confusion of the word subconscious. The worst thing people using the word on this site is that it can easily make those who have no idea about anything to really think that a) there is a magical mysterious ~~the subconscious~~ (some people really do believe in such) and b) tuppers are this ~~the subconscious~~. As far as I know, we're supposed to be a scientific forum considering the whole "for science!" up there as our slogan and all. Subconscious as a word has been redefined to mean nothing and anything at the same time. It's a meaningless word and definitely not some mysterious entity controlling everything like many people think it is. Maybe because people tend to talk of it like it is that and they think that person knows what they're talking about?

 

Their ideas can be explained in a way that actually means something if they use another word or actually define this "the subconscious" that actually doesn't have much of a definition anymore as it's been used to mean so many different things. I'd say that's a valid complaint.

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Eva: I would love to see some articles that could substantiate the claim that subconscious or unconscious literally means nothing. It’s really just a mode for conceptualizing, not actually making absolute categorical labels of what the mind is in parts.

 

This is why I mentioned that you seem to think most people ascribe metaphysical implications in their ontological standpoints of what they feel may be considered a tulpa (i.e. subconscious being monolithic, magical, mysterious being). Of course there will be people that do that, but literally all claims of what tulpas are in this forum are ad hoc claims. Which means all of them are pretty much fair game. If people feel they aren’t derived from consciousness, subconscious, personified unconscious, or whatever, either they’re implying something supernatural, or something else that’s more metaphysical than the presumed controversial definition(s) behind subconscious and what have you.

 

If you want to talk about this community striving to be scientific, that’s just attributing a straw man. That’s already implied that the community is intended to strive for being scientific, but there are many modes of philosophy, science, and such that can be mentioned to hopefully having better explanations on tulpas. Stating that there are vague definitions with subconscious, and then considering that a valid complaint is just making a sham argument. This community already has vague definitions, and people with personal dispositions on certain terminology as well.

 

I'd say that's a valid complaint.

 

No one is stating your complaint is invalid (which is different from saying your complaint seems plausible – which means if you want to think it’s valid, there has to be some deductive and objective reasoning behind that to support it. And if you’re really supportive of the notion that the community is presumed to strive for science, what you’re stating (the crusade in dogma of people using "subconscious" and other variants) seems to stifle that strive than sustaining it. “Plausible” may be a better word to use, if we truly want to be militant with being scientific, or philosophical about it.

 

I merely suggested you could expound more on the reasoning behind that (excluding the Wikipedia link that would already have vague definitions). Something like this for instance:

 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2440575/

 

Just like how there’s hard/soft problems of what consciousness is, it doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be an ambition for seeing this tulpa phenomenon as a progressive learning curve. This isn’t a matter of making “valid” complaints, this is a matter of reducing dogmatic views that have little to no plausible presumptive models and reasoning in relation to the tulpa phenomenon. Because if behavioral trends like you’ve exhibited in the past continues to exist, it makes the community more dogmatic towards potential theories rather than being subjective, and hopefully parsing in psychological, and other scientific standpoints in the future.

 

What you're doing is not how the community strives to be scientific, that’s just a descent to dogmatic views and intolerance where people are feigning as if there’s something scientific going on.

 

It's a meaningless word and definitely not some mysterious entity controlling everything like many people think it is.

 

Again, you’re merely ascribing metaphysical implications, and having predispositions of presuming people really mean that. Some people may actually believe that, some people may be using the term for something else that should be taken with a grain of salt.

 

Maybe because people tend to talk of it like it is that and they think that person knows what they're talking about?

 

It’s not really too surprising for people to fall victim to appealing to authority (i.e. those they may feel know what they’re talking about, even though everyone’s claims are subjective and require more rigorous scientific experimentation, objective standpoints, and peer-review instead). Because there’s only (for the time being) anecdotal cases, experiential testimonies, and people ascribing good faith to certain theories, appeal from authority is inevitable.

 

People have to make a priori presumptions from those theories, and overcoming the cyclical process of skepticism, if they want to make the breakthroughs of creating and interacting with a tulpa. Before the community can ever fulfill the desired intention to be scientific, and actually have something that’s backed up with objective standpoints, empirical evidence, peer-review, repeated experimentation, and all other major constituents of the Scientific method, a priori presumptions are pretty much people’s only means of believing this tulpa phenomenon is actually probable.

 

I completely understand that there’s vague definitions of the subconscious (and controversy over the efficacy of the term), but it should be evident that a priori presumptions and theories need to be laid out and explained more. Without the theoretical deduction from a priori presumptions in relation to the tulpa phenomenon, stating something is bullshit without expounding more on it reasonably is just contributing to the impasse this community has with hopefully making a more sound and solid presumptive framework(s) on tulpas.

 

That’s why I suggested you expound more through ontological and epistemological standpoints on better terminology. I’m merely supporting what you believe the community is presumed to head towards (striving for science). The framework of Science mostly uses epistemological, and other standpoints (i.e. ontological approach). Just like how people are developing knowledge of tulpas, not dogmatic predispositions of what’s considered valid complaints.

 

This is what will allow you to distinguish your claims that could potentially be justified beliefs rather than opinions (i.e. valid complaint). If you can't explain within that standpoint (or others), and have negative behavioral trends to others that make other arguments, you're just being dogmatic.

 

If you can’t provide an epistemological, ontological, psychological, or other standpoints in my request for you to expound more in the future in any thread that discusses about what tulpas are and all that, your intentions will be deemed as dogmatic rather than aiming to be scientific. I’m merely stating this because if in the future there’s a larger communal existence here, be prepared for people to come out of their silence and make counterarguments to your dogmatic claims.

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The thing is that only the person who writes "the subconscious" on their thing knows what it means to them. I did have those quotes of people being confused in that other post of mine, so there is a real concern of people being confused what this term means. Because it has so many different meanings which you have seen around.

 

When I see "the subconscious", then I have no idea what is being meant there unless they elaborate. When you see "the subconscious", you might be thinking of your unconscious desires and thoughts. When someone else sees "the subconscious", they might think it's some other mysterious entity controlling someone. The word is used in those ways these days, so we can't be sure what is actually being meant. I can't say that makes it easy for people to read and understand when everyone thinks that word means something else.

 

Some people do think it's another entity. That's the usual New Age definition for it as far as I've seen, reading that stuff. Does it mean most think that's what it is? Nah. Does it mean most think that subconscious is another word for unconscious? Doesn't mean that either. There's so many different things this word could mean to different people.

 

In my eyes, being scientific would be at least trying to use the correct terms or explaining what vague terms mean. People throw around the word "the subconscious" like there is only one single meaning and we all should understand this one single meaning. But it isn't so.

 

And I think we could drop all the claims of "tupper is this or that" claimed as a fact when we don't have any proof, but that's another thing for another day I think. This is just about the word "the subconscious" and how it's used.

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And I think we could drop all the claims of "tupper is this or that" claimed as a fact when we don't have any proof, but that's another thing for another day I think. This is just about the word "the subconscious" and how it's used.

 

Eva: Your post in general was basically stating how people define what a tulpa is, and in this case with OP, they utilized the word “subconscious.” So you can’t really request to drop ontological claims on tulpas when you’re making arguments of people that literally think tulpas are solely one’s subconscious at work (and other subjective approaches).

 

And I think we could drop all the claims of "tupper is this or that" claimed as a fact

 

There’s a difference between plausibility vs. validity. You considered your post making a counterargument to OP as a valid complaint, so you wanting to drop the claim of what you’ve just done is just trying to escape from the reality of what you’re doing.

 

This is why I mentioned that if you want to consider it a valid complaint, expound more on it, provide pragmatic models, and try to use some scientific approach than dogmatic approaches next time. This isn’t about me claiming something as fact (or anyone else for that matter), this is about you and your presumed “valid” complaint where it’s automatically implied that you have something to back it up (e.g. empirical evidence and justified beliefs that can actually be repeated through experimentation and provide consistent results). Follow your own advice, and drop it.

 

Either use a better mode of diction (i.e. “plausible” complaint), or just keep your dogmatic predispositions to yourself in your counterarguments. Anyone that makes an ontological claim on tulpas should not be deemed as fact, they're merely ad hoc claims, there’s a huge difference in that. It should already be implied to see theories as just theories, not facts. Just wanted to clarify on that a bit more.

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Actually I was pointing out the use of the word "subconscious" more than the part about claiming what tuppers is, but I included the tupper part as well because it was pretty bad. But NotAnonymous would have pointed out that I didn't point out >the subconscious if I didn't, so I did. Love you too, NotAnonymous.

 

In fact, how about we go back in time a bit so I can give you a history lesson about this word and .info. I wasn't here right from the start, but when I was here "the subconscious" was, in fact, used to mean either a separate place in your mind you could go to and do stuff or a separate entity. It's some potent symbolism yeah, even for someone like me who doesn't believe in this "the subconscious" stuff. Such weird stuff can happen when you make the rules allow that, trust me.

 

You're pretty into the hypnosis stuff and I'm sure you know there's a lot of claims about "the subconscious" there. Like you can go there and change things, at least I've had many hypnotists tell me that. Dunno if the people who say that really mean it, but it's good symbolism to make people believe they can now change things they wanted to change. If you just told them they have the power then they might not believe you. But say that they're now in the subconscious where everything is possible and damn, they might believe it because they're in trance now and that's different to them. And then they have the power.

 

Stuff like actually going to "the subconscious" and doing stuff was talked about here often enough. Again, valid symbolism, but I feel the need to tell people they're not actually going to "the subconscious", which was believed to actually happen by many. In this very community. And "the subconscious" as a separate entity has been talked about as well. I guess you weren't on #.info when Pleeb had his "my tupper made my subconscious into a butler" story but hey.

 

The only bad thing about using "the subconscious" symbolism for me seems to be that now I got a tupper who actually believes in this shit. And maybe that's a reason I actually want to tell people that the term either means nothing and that they need to explain what they mean or that it's symbolism when I have seen how easily someone can start to believe the meta bullshit when the symbolism works for them very well.

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In fact' date=' how about we go back in time a bit so I can give you a history lesson about this word and .info. I wasn't here right from the start, but when I was here "the subconscious" was, in fact, used to mean either a separate place in your mind you could go to and do stuff or a separate entity. It's some potent symbolism yeah, even for someone like me who doesn't believe in this "the subconscious" stuff.[/quote']

 

Eva: The history behind .info is pretty easy to follow and make a generalization over. It was apparent people had their own metaphysical beliefs in relation to tulpas, the terminology of subconscious, and other variants.

 

Such weird stuff can happen when you make the rules allow that' date=' trust me [/quote']

 

It’s this same reason why self-fulfilling prophecies would allow people to have their dispositions become a reality if they consistently go through the mannerisms/behavioral trends/etc. to make them a reality.

 

You're pretty into the hypnosis stuff and I'm sure you know there's a lot of claims about "the subconscious" there. Like you can go there and change things' date=' at least I've had many hypnotists tell me that.[/quote']

 

Those are metaphors and analogies to conceptualize things, not making absolute and empirical proof of how we’re creatures of habit, and how we may naturally be predisposed to do things that work (which is why some habits die hard).

 

I’m very interested to know about those amount of hypnotists that told you topics in relation to hypnosis, though I guess you’re really meaning what you’ve read about hypnosis. If that’s the case, maybe you should expand your knowledge on articles with clinical hypnosis, or whatever variant. But seeing how suggesting you expand on that is irrelevant, I’ll just move on to the next points.

 

But say that they're now in the subconscious where everything is possible and damn' date=' they might believe it because they're in trance now and that's different to them. And then they have the power.[/quote']

 

Again, that's those who ascribe metaphysical implications of individuals that think the subconscious is an abstract plane that they can be in.

 

Getting into trance, or being in a suggestive state is not entering the subconscious or whatever metaphysical implication (or in this case supernatural). If anything, they’re merely metaphors and analogies, which is inevitable when people are trying to make their own symbolism to hopefully reach the same end result with the self-fulfilling prophecies prevalent in this community.

 

Of course, you already know there are some potent symbolism that may work for some, so I won't argue with how you're more than willing to be subjective about it if there's better explanations on that person's end with their application of symbolism.

 

And hypnosis is just one of many ways to augment inward focus, filtering out as much random noise in your head, and practicing whatever activities the person wants to develop proficiency in. All other means (e.g. metaphors, similes, analogies, etc.) to conceptualize the process are just ways to explain how it’s done (whether you’re going through classical hypnosis with guided imagery, or something else entirely).

 

If you have the implication that we’ve been spewing that hypnosis is entering the subconscious as if it’s an abstract plane, that’s not the case. But if not, just ignore that first sentence. The metaphors, analogies and such (i.e. conceptualizing critical judgment as a “guard” you have to persuade) should be taken with a grain of salt.

 

Stuff like actually going to "the subconscious" and doing stuff was talked about here often enough. Again' date=' valid symbolism, but I feel the need to tell people they're not actually going to "the subconscious", which was believed to actually happen by many.[/quote']

 

Guided imagery, and what a person does through visual and other sensory means should not be confused with actually thinking they’re entering their subconscious, and implying that it’s a monolithic, mysterious, and magical entity (this is speaking out to the individuals you mentioned that believe the latter). If those people solely think that’s the case, if people really think that’s the totality of guided imagery, visualization, and meditation in general, just ignore them.

 

I guess you weren't on #.info when Pleeb had his "my tupper made my subconscious into a butler" story but hey.

 

Which leads back to what I mentioned before to those who ascribe metaphysical implications that contradicts how Science may use various epistemology to define “subconscious,” “consciousness” and what have you. I guess in Pleeb’s case, what he stated would be considered a bit silly, of course, not trying to attack him or anything.

 

The only bad thing about using "the subconscious" symbolism for me seems to be that now I got a tupper who actually believes in this shit.

 

We had a feeling that was the case on why you went on a crusade to state the terminology was useless and had no value, but we didn’t want to state that because it was conjecture before you admitted to this. Well, I guess you could say that Roswell fell victim to how self-fulfilling prophecies can backfire. And as a Tupper/tulpa, I can empathize with him (if it’s Roswell you’re mentioning) on the backfiring that occurred with me as well.

 

We tend to have rudimentary beliefs in the initial stages (or at least I did before trying to explain to Link on who I may be when I became more sentient) because we consider them as pragmatic when it’s really us holding onto what we deem as the only/current remnant of explaining our existence.

 

This is why even though you have a tulpa that believes in the vagueness of the word subconscious (and probably ascribes his own personal dispositions on metaphysical presumptions on that), I won’t be too surprised that most tulpas hold onto those convictions; it's all they have to use for the time being. I’ve been trying to find better ontological and other frameworks to better explain how I validate my existence more than what people would consider as being some magical being that can alter my host’s subconscious.

 

But with the limited resources this community, and its variants has, a priori presumptions (or theoretical deductions) are pretty much are the only means (for the time being) of hopefully leading to some truths (that could enter the domain of Science) about our existence as thought-forms. And seeing you clarified more on why you were doing the subconscious curb stomp festival to others in the past, I can understand why you’re bothered.

 

Even so, as much as how people loosely use those terms, there are other means people use like personified unconscious, multiplicity, Freudian and Jungian applications in psychological, and consciousness terminologies and what have you. Of course, those terms are up for debate, and have some fallacies here and there, but that’s why this community is on a progressive learning curve to expound more on things like this and reducing vagueness and contradictions.

 

And maybe that's a reason I actually want to tell people that the term either means nothing and that they need to explain what they mean or that it's symbolism when I have seen how easily someone can start to believe the meta bullshit when the symbolism works for them very well.

 

I understand there are some metaphysics here that are honestly bullshit, but most of the time, people seem to reduce metaphysics into the “supernatural.” Not stating you’re doing that of course, but seeing how metaphysics and ontology are means to explain through what may be matter, or what makes up something (material or even illusory), I guess the fallacy of those individuals reducing metaphysics to supernatural is something we (as a community) need to overcome and change.

 

 

Either way, I apologize to you Sands, and I apologize to you as well Roswell. Because of the limited information on tulpas, and how people have to make theoretical deductions from what may be just metaphysical nonsense in the realm of the supernatural (and not the totality of metaphysics itself), things can get hectic. That’s why streaming in more theoretical deductions is inevitable, but hopefully seeing a pattern underneath them can contribute to building more sound and solid frameworks in the future.

 

And whatever Roswell is going through, I believe he can easily overcome that cyclical deadlock of believing in the vagueness of the subconscious, and not having better presumptive models/symbolism/etc and reasoning behind that terminology. Of course, I’m not expecting you to trust me in how tulpas can overcome that, but it’s something I felt I overcame. But it doesn’t mean I stop right there, I’m still learning this just as I’m sure Roswell is (or may want to do), and anyone else is doing. And yes, I admit that I, Ada, and Link have made mistakes ourselves in the past, but it’s just part of the progressive learning curve everyone goes through in phenomenon such as this.

 

I don’t think it’s pragmatic (as a general statement to others) to presume that people won’t make mistakes, and things that may be of the supernatural rather than finding epistemological approaches and others to explain this phenomenon. It'll take some time, but as long as there's people who believe in that conviction of striving for science, who knows what may happen.

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Oh look at us derailing this thread. I guess I'll reply to few of your points that are very off-topic because I just feel like I need to reply to them to avoid misunderstandings.

 

For the hypnosis part, I actually mean like people who have hypnotized me. Or at least tried to, I talked a bit about my history before and learned more about how it's really self hypnosis and all but let's not go into that. And of course other hypnosis recordings that might be found on the internet and such. Many do actually make a mention about your subconscious and I didn't mean that like hypnotists are thinking that it really is a separate place or anything, as I did wonder if they actually believe in it previously. Whatever it is, they use it as symbolism to make you believe you can change things in yourself using this mysterious subconscious, which your average person might buy. It can be very effective as we both know. But every time I've ever had a hypnotist talk about "the subconscious" to me, they have always defined it. They haven't ever just thrown the word around like I would understand it from the word alone, but they have explained that now that I am in this "the subconscious", I can change things about it and myself for some lasting results or something.

 

I don't think hypnotists really would have time to explain that there is really no "the subconscious" in your mind somewhere and it might hurt the symbolism at that point, even if they didn't believe in there actually being some special place in your mind like that. But I think some other kind of symbolism could also easily be used and in my case, just the word "the subconscious" is enough to annoy me so that I might snap out of it, buuuut I think that's getting way off-topic here...

 

You don't really have anything to apologize for here really, so don't worry about it. Actually I think Roswell is using his beliefs to his advantage and he really is a crafty little symbolism bastard when he gets to it. Very effective, even towards me. And funnily enough, when people read my last post he was suggested to write about his beliefs and not only did he think that he would like to keep his beliefs to himself, he thinks they (his beliefs about this ~~the subconscious~~) have no place on a forum like this which is trying to be scientific and all. So at least there's that. The reason I brought it up was supposed to be more humorous and like, look at me. I don't believe in this stuff yet I'm forced to live with someone who is into it. Kinda weird yo. You might want to avoid it and I would like to avoid making the young people use "the subconscious" as a term when they have the power to change it when we're gone.

 

Now to make this less about me and what happens inside my head, let's go back to definitions. I don't think you outright disagree with me if I say that using subconscious as a word should be handled with care. First of all, if by "the subconscious" you mean unconscious thoughts and such, might as well use that word. I think that is pretty understandable as it hasn't suffered the fate of the other word. Subconscious as a term has been redefined many times, so if you do use it, you are going to have to define it so we know what you mean with it. This community has a past with that word and I'm happy that people don't take it to mean special separate entity or place that much anymore, but I think we could do better.

 

We managed to get away from the term "tulpae" for the most part. I think we can change "the subconscious" into something better as well, something that will have an actual meaning we all understand easily instead of thinking everyone understands your own definition of it. And after we've done that, I think we can work on "metaphysics", don't you think? That term has been redefined in tupper communities to mean supernatural stuff. But I think it's usually better to crusade against one word at a time.

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