Request for Ideas for Creating a Tulpa e-Book

[glitchthe3rd]

Don't worry, if I were to do something like that, you would all either be flown to a central location, or mailed your materials and asked to take some kind of online questionnaire (which would be much cheaper). That's just proper research tbh.

[HumbleGlow]

Any research study I ran would probably be a privately funded venture, and running tests with an fMRI machine or similar technology is extremely expensive. Probably at first it'd be something relatively cheap like testing the effects of antipsychotics on tulpaforcers vs. non-forcers, or comparing the cognitive capabilities of these two groups.

 

The problem with comparing hosts vs. non-hosts is that the host criterion is a strong bias that correlates with e.g. education level or INTJ-ness (if that is a word).

[glitchthe3rd]

 

The problem with comparing hosts vs. non-hosts is that the host criterion is a strong bias that correlates with e.g. education level or INTJ-ness (if that is a word).

 

Evidence?

[ChristianKl]

How does one get a brain-scan for the sake of research? Can you just walk into a hospital and say:

"Hey guys, I'm curious about something going on in my head, can I get a scan and look at what's going on? Just for curiosities sake and all."

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or...what?

You probably don't make progress that way. You could buy brain scanes in a hospital but it would be expensive and unlikely helpful.

 

The proper way would be to go to the psychology behavior of an university and tell them about how cool Tupla's happens to be. Sooner or later on of the professors will tell you: "Proof it".

 

Then you say: "I and a few friends have Tulpa's, if you want to run any experiements we volunteer as subjects".

Then the professor thinks about a study. He runs the study and then publishes it as a scientific paper.

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[CreativeMind]

Forgive me, I'm not using the requested format, as there is only one thing I can think of (other than what has already been mentioned) that I really think people should be aware of before they decide to commit to becoming a tulpamancer.

 

Explain how the bond between a tulpa and host is so completely different than any human/human relationship. Maybe after your explanation, you could have a few testimonials from people with diverse host/tulpa relationships explaining in their own words what their relationship means to them and what it is like.

 

For example: The dynamics my tulpa and I share (he is a wise protector who helps slow me down, we love eachother very much), is much different than the dynamics between Cyber-D and his tulpa (more family based, a different type of relationship, but I am sure they love each other just as much). Getting 'personal' with different types of host/tulpa relationships would probably open some eyes as to not only how extreme these relationships are, but that the possibilities of different dynamics are virtually endless.

 

Having an idea of the possibilities as well as giving people something to think about in regards to their own tulpa, I'm sure would improve existing relationships as well as help those who have not yet created a tulpa develop a better understanding of how 'serious' this is. It's important to understand that the dynamics of each relationship is different, but they all (all healthy host/tulpa relationships) contain such a unique type of bond.

 

I would also recommend including (although this isn't as necessary), that it is best for both host and tulpa for the first tulpa to be completely sentient/independent before deciding whether or not to create another tulpa as it can change the dynamics of the relationship as well as how much time can be spent with each individually. It works for some, but for some it's not the best idea. My tulpa, Mathias for example, would probably be very upset with me if I decided to create another tulpa without being able to discuss it with him first.

 

Opinions?

[Linkzelda]

Yeah, I think that's a good start, since I'm sure one of the biggest challenges any host and tulpa have with each other is how they express themselves in different types of relationships. When we're treating them as sentient, we may or may not encroach some concepts from parenthood where we would want the best for the tulpa (just like a parent would want the best for their child). After the host and the tulpa get to know each other more, it can branch off into a similar experience of having a sibling or even just a son or daughter, and usually if it's like that, it becomes something challenging if sexual tendencies start to occur.

 

Usually the initial stages involves some elements of parenthood, best friend, partner in crime, etc. and then can branch off into many other relationships, but the bond can go back and forth between them. And with tulpa that are usually more open-minded in breaking the boundaries of how we theorize gender, sexuality, and such, at some point the bond between them cannot be restricted to such simple lifestyles (unless both are perfectly fine with having that).

 

Because one simple example that might cause some ethical concern is when a host treats the tulpa as if they were their own child, and both might start harboring sexual feelings as their interaction and bond progresses, and the word "sex" that gets mentioned in this forum is already something people would eye someone over and try to put up defenses on their own belief without for once being a bit more mature and honest about it.

 

Although, there can be many ways where to start off something, and the most reasonable way for me personally would be to start out with what one would consider a tulpa a "tulpa," (and all the mechanics and existential aspects we apply to them), and then it can branch off anywhere. But it would have to be something that's updated constantly, and several people, like you've stated, would have to pitch in and give their own testimonials and other forms of anecdotal evidence.

 

I find more mature and honest opinions and discussions on the tulpa reddit than on this forum in general because of the little brigades here with members trying to find who's "attentionwhoring," or some petty concern on who's using their "badges" too much, and all sorts of trivial things that makes tulpa.info look like some child playground where Billy doesn't get to go on the swing because he's not cool enough for it, because he's "attentionwhoring" too much. And the irony with that is that people who look for people that are attentionwhoring are actually the ones wanting more attention because the other person is getting attention from random strangers on the Internet. Plot twist!

 

Anyway before I get too off-topic, the e-book or series of e-books for that matter would obviously have to be fused at some point since one or even two members can't handle all of the concepts that can be generalized enough for most people. It would just be an on-going "we're getting there" type of progress with learning, theorizing, and explaining anything important that comes with this tulpa experience.

[CreativeMind]

I agree. My only concern with the forum in general is how we must look sometimes to the 'outsiders'. I'm happy that I knew a good bit about 'tulpa' before stepping in here, who knows what I would've seen first? I'm very happy that there are those here who take it seriously though, I've been able to converse with a few really intelligent people thanks to these forums.

 

Anyways, if there is anything at all that I can do to help with said project, please let me know, I'll do whatever I can.

[Kaz with a K]

What if we just published a PR of someone who got very far with their Tulpa? Like, maybe edit it a little bit to make it read-easy, but just make it a guide from experience.

[CreativeMind]

What if we just published a PR of someone who got very far with their Tulpa? Like, maybe edit it a little bit to make it read-easy, but just make it a guide from experience.

 

I think that this could be a very interesting idea. Perhaps instead of one PR, we can pick a handful of the most talented tulpamancers, and take the more notable 'snippets' from their reports and place them in relation to their discussed topic? I think it'd be hard to just pick one.