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As I mentioned in my Phantom Tail Syndrome thread, I'm writing an essay for english class. My topic is "The Tulpa Effect, Tulpae, and Phantom Limb Syndrome". However, Google has betrayed me, as the Tulpa Effect has been linked to Slenderman, so the influx of Slendy pages has totally buried anything particularly legitimate. Can anyone give me links to good sources on these topics, as well as books on them? We need something like 30 sources, because research papers in high school have stupid limiting factors like that.

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I don't know how your high school works, but I think if you got feedback from the users (i.e., you used the threads here as your reference and asked what you needed on the IRC) you could say it's real, field investigation, and that the source is real people feedback. Usually, this would be more meaningful than using an already existing work for your essay, but that depends on your teacher, obviously.

 

As for books and the like, there's not much on the matter, sadly.

 

Anyway, when that happens in google, imput the following in the search field: "tulpa effect -slender -slenderman". This should eliminate anything with the words slender and slenderman... also, using "" around a word/group of words forces google to search exactly for that, and not slight variations (in this case, tulpa effect results into tulpa affect sometimes).

 

I wish you luck in finding those resources.

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Last time I tried to find any real resources about tulpae outside this community and its counterparts on Tumblr and 4chan, I failed to find much. Nearly everything is either creepypasta, portrayed negatively, or claims things that are clearly not possible; usually all three.

 

This is what drove me back to 4chan and then here after it was made, when I first found out about tulpae.

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Please don't write "tulpae" in an essay, that's not English.

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Magic and Mystery in Tibet is the only book I know of that references tulpas, I've seen it mentioned around here a couple of times. It was written by Alexandra David-Neel about her travels to Tibet and whatever strange phenomena she encountered there.

 

For the record, I haven't read it, and compiled this post within minutes; feel free to correct me on anything.

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Go to respective Wikipedia articles and copy the citations from them. I'd have to agree with Sands though; your English teacher would probably laugh at you for putting 'tulpae'. You should at least go full fag and do 'tulpæ' if you want to use one of those.

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Please don't write "tulpae" in an essay, that's not English.

This.

Use "tulpas" as the (correct English) plural form.

Otherwise, you will surely lose marks.


FYI teachers hate Wikipedia.

It's not that they hate it, but they do hate it if you use it extensively. (They don't mind if you use it, but you shouldn’t rely on it)

If Wikipedia is the only website you list, they will shit all over you.

I think it's just because it makes research "too easy" that information from multiple sources is already compiled in one place.

I usually follow the links listed in the references of the Wikipedia article and list the ones with relevant information as resources in my bibliography as well.

 

Also, you should interview some members of the community over Skype or IRC.

(I'd even be up for it if you can find a time that works for me - or just pm me a complete set of questions to fill in.

I'm not very far along, but I'm willing to share what I know and my opinions.)

You could also interview random people to get their opinions on the topic.

Ask some personal information (name, age, gender) for validity reasons, and for the rest ask questions related to your topic.

I'm sure it counts points for actually speaking to someone who has a tulpa.

(Maybe avoid the bronies - I'm not sure it will make a good impression.)

 

You could try to hunt down documentaries as well, or even cite Pleeb's radio interview as a resource.

 

When I was at school, they were not as worried about the amount of resources as they were the variety of media through which they were obtained. (Some Internet + Some Books + Field Investigation, etc.)

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