Useful reads for tulpamancers

[Guest Anonymous]

As I haven't seen this kind of thread around I thought it might be useful to make one.

 

Here you can post any reading material that would be worth a read for a tulpamancer. It doesn't have to be directly related to tulpas, everything that might help people, be it a book about meditation, an article about keeping concentrated on something or tips on how to stick to a schedule (for you lazy forcers out there).

 

I'll start with two books:

 

A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis by Melvin Powers

Obviously it's a book about Self-Hypnosis, which can be helpful for forcing through relaxation, visualization and other stuff (you might want to check out Linkzelda's guide on self-hypnosis to get a few ideas)

 

The Law and the Promise

A book Koomer recommended in an old tumblr post a while ago, personally I dropped it after a few pages but you might want to read it.

[Shui]

I've been collecting some here. Though I have to say, I'm about 40% of the way through The Law and the Promise, and I'm not getting anything out of it either.

[CreativeMind]

Creative Visualization by Shakti Gawain

I've just started the book, so I can't attest to the quality of the entire thing, but what I have read so far is pretty good, and it covers some topics that I feel many would find useful for tulpamancing. It's moreso to apply these things to better your life in different ways, but it may still be helpful:

 

Part 1: The Basics of Creative Visualization

Part 2: Using Creative Visualization

Part 3: Meditations and Affirmations

Part 4: Special Techniques

Part 5: Living Creatively

 

Note: Some talk of spirit guides, etc.

[Dr. Faust]

I've been collecting some here. Though I have to say, I'm about 40% of the way through The Law and the Promise, and I'm not getting anything out of it either.

 

I really enjoyed it, but I also really enjoy works like that talking about the power of the imagination.

 

Living in your imagination can just make you a happier person.

[Guest Anonymous]

I've been collecting some here. Though I have to say, I'm about 40% of the way through The Law and the Promise, and I'm not getting anything out of it either.

 

Thank you, I'll link them here if you don't mind ^^ (by the way thank you for underlining the titles, makes it a lot easier to find them)

 

 

Urban Shaman

"I found Urban Shaman by Serge Kahili King. (Incidentally, the only one of his books I'd recommend buying.) In it he describes a little bit of another book, Mastering Your Hidden Self; A Guide to the Huna Way. (Only really worth reading for one chapter, in my humble opinion.)"

 

Mastering Your Hidden Self: A Guide to the Huna Way

 

Psychic Dreamwalking: Explorations at the Edge of Self

"After Serge Kahili King, I believe I next read about wonderlands in Psychic Dreamwalking: Explorations at the Edge of Self, by Michelle Belanger, which is about shared dreams (again, much like Inception.) I wish I could quote this, but Google books won't display the relevant pages, and my own copy is in many miles away from me. She calls wonderlands "dream havens" and describes a much more in-depth process of creating them than most people here use. (Again, I wouldn't recommend her other book.)"

 

"Most recently, I found this interesting article online. This is about learning to scry, but the author describes how to create a wonderland as well. He says this was taught to US Special Forces serving in Vietnam. If you want to skip to the bit about wonderlands, just Ctrl-F and type in "Vietnam" and it'll take you to the beginning."

 

Magic and Mystery in Tibet

"First, no discussion of tulpas would be complete without mentioning Magic and Mystery in Tibet by Alexandra David-Neel, the first westerner to use the word "tulpa":"

 

Hypnosis

"Next, Hypnosis, by G. H. Estabrooks." (I believe the actual title is "Hypnotism")

 

Magical Use of Thought Forms: A Proven System of Mental & Spiritual Empowerment

"And Magical Use of Thoughtforms by Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki and J.H. Brennan. Lots of the book is interesting, and lots is connected to tulpas, although the information is thrown together a bit haphazardly. Here's one of the more relevant exerpts."

 

P.S. Thank you for linking directly to the amazon page CreativeMind ^^

It would be appreciated if future posts would stick to that, or link to Project Gutenberg if it's public domain (or whatever site you want to where you could get the book)